In view of the appeal by the prime minister to all citizens to donate generously to the PMNRF to help relief and rehabilitation operations, 12 banks have been authorised to receive such donations.
They are State Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Dena Bank, Syndicate Bank, Corporation Bank, Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, Punjab National Bank, Indian Bank, Allahabad Bank and Citi Bank.
The spokesman said the donations could be made by cheque or draft in the name of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund and sent to the Prime Minister's Office, South Block, New Delhi-110001.
The nationalised banks will not charge any commission on preparation of draft in favour of PMNRF.
Contributions could also be sent through money orders with no commission chargeable, the spokesman said adding that the contributions to PMNRF have been notified for 100% deduction from taxable income under section 80 (G) of the Income Tax Act.
Dec 30, 2004
Singapore : how it is
Sitting in office looking out of the widow..and its raining cats and dogs i thought of dropping a mail and then the very next question was whom should i write and then what should i write about.So I changed my plans and thought about writing for my blog and then i decided i will blog this mail itself.
So what should i talk about..SINGAPORE
Singapore is like my second home now..i can't believe at times that am out of touch with people, missing india and may be missing my home..
I don't know..some years ago i used to say i will go to NUS for studies and i used to be obsessed about it and then I didn't even think that I would really c singapore this warly in my life especially when I am not studying.
This is a land of living. Though i have not seen much but still there is a lot in this land which makes u feel at home.
Firstly the INDIAN food is available at every nook and corner of Singapore. So u need not worry about food at all. All am confused about all the time is how mucj does a dollar mean? Is it one singaporean version of indian rupee or something else..I don't know I can't understand. The purchasing power is more than that of indian version of one dollar.
Am confused but I don't worry about that.
So what should i talk about..SINGAPORE
Singapore is like my second home now..i can't believe at times that am out of touch with people, missing india and may be missing my home..
I don't know..some years ago i used to say i will go to NUS for studies and i used to be obsessed about it and then I didn't even think that I would really c singapore this warly in my life especially when I am not studying.
This is a land of living. Though i have not seen much but still there is a lot in this land which makes u feel at home.
Firstly the INDIAN food is available at every nook and corner of Singapore. So u need not worry about food at all. All am confused about all the time is how mucj does a dollar mean? Is it one singaporean version of indian rupee or something else..I don't know I can't understand. The purchasing power is more than that of indian version of one dollar.
Am confused but I don't worry about that.
Dec 14, 2004
adios
Just by chance i moved to singapore from india :D
the company shifted me to this place n now all of a sudden am away in a foreign land which is foreign yet a lot indian...though a bit clean
The maiden flight was superb. bangalore looks beautiful and the singapore's changi is one of the best airport's in the world..no doubt about it.
Food which is the global concern for the indians does not exist here...its all indian food scattered all across the place n u dun need to worry about it at all
have some task to do so will countinue this later
this time i have sneaked from the luch time...:D
the company shifted me to this place n now all of a sudden am away in a foreign land which is foreign yet a lot indian...though a bit clean
The maiden flight was superb. bangalore looks beautiful and the singapore's changi is one of the best airport's in the world..no doubt about it.
Food which is the global concern for the indians does not exist here...its all indian food scattered all across the place n u dun need to worry about it at all
have some task to do so will countinue this later
this time i have sneaked from the luch time...:D
Nov 5, 2004
this is superb.....
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE BEER DRINKER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed.
Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery
and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they
might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to
myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come
true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
~ Jack Handy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the
morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
~ Henny Young! man
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."
~ Stephen Wright
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When
we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to
heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
~ Brian O'Rourke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is
beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the
wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
~ Dave Barry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BEER: HELPING UGLY PEOPLE HAVE SEX SINCE 3! 000 B.C.!!!
~ "Unknown"
~~~~~~~~~~~~! ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a
can!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And saving the best for last, as explained by Cliff Clavin, of Cheers.
One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory
to his buddy Norm Here's how it went:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd
All i can say is I agree in totality c:)
myTune:Brave New World(Cover,Iron Maiden)
myMood:uppish c:)
justOneLine:Who shall accompany me to STYX when TOKAS is not in Bangalore?....."the biggest concern"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed.
Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery
and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they
might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to
myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come
true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
~ Jack Handy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the
morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
~ Henny Young! man
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."
~ Stephen Wright
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When
we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to
heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
~ Brian O'Rourke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~ Benjamin Franklin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is
beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the
wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
~ Dave Barry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BEER: HELPING UGLY PEOPLE HAVE SEX SINCE 3! 000 B.C.!!!
~ "Unknown"
~~~~~~~~~~~~! ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a
can!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And saving the best for last, as explained by Cliff Clavin, of Cheers.
One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory
to his buddy Norm Here's how it went:
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd
All i can say is I agree in totality c:)
myTune:Brave New World(Cover,Iron Maiden)
myMood:uppish c:)
justOneLine:Who shall accompany me to STYX when TOKAS is not in Bangalore?....."the biggest concern"
can't even blog these days
Suddenly have become so busy that can't even find time to blog these days....
A lot happened after I came back from the trip...TOKAS left for hyderabad last week..ITS been one WEEK now..n not a single drop of alcohol has dripped down my throat..u call it beer u call it watever..btw since i came to bangalore i have stopped having hard drinks...n the big question is Who would be accompanying me to STYX ...when it matters the most..on FRIDAYS...
A lot happened after I came back from the trip...TOKAS left for hyderabad last week..ITS been one WEEK now..n not a single drop of alcohol has dripped down my throat..u call it beer u call it watever..btw since i came to bangalore i have stopped having hard drinks...n the big question is Who would be accompanying me to STYX ...when it matters the most..on FRIDAYS...
Oct 26, 2004
wat a GR8 weekend...
it all beagan before i knew..n then it awept my feet off...no am not talking about love but the great experience I had with friends and family in the holidaying...in the state of karnataka....Lovely BEACHES, Exotic Cusine---South indian n north indian both--,Wine, Beers, grass, liquor.....can't describe wat it feels....TIME OF LIFE
Left banglore on thrusday nite with avinash and tokas n took n a sleeper bus straight to Mangalore. The journey was kewl n i slept like a little kid...to wake up just in time to get down at 7 am in Mangalore. Headed for the LADY HILL's HIS GRACE apartment to meet VENU..the guy i had heard about but never met...wow wat a place it was a penthouse on the 8th floor....with the view of the Mangalore city n sea in front...kewl...smoked grass in the morning..watched movie, had breakfast cooked by POORAN from Tanakpur...and headed for the LIQUID LOUNGE.
Liqour flowed for free n then CHIMPU joined us. Took a car on rent and then headed for the suratkal beach with loads of beer in the boot. SURATKAL beach had only 6 people ..only us..sat there on the sand...went inside the sea..it was dark with a light house over our head..n boozed...went to BITTU's dabha for snacks n tea n bought more beers and came back to home.
Next morning was dizzy..n decided to go to UDUPI to join didi who was already there wiht jiju kids n ranjan in UDUPI....n went to MALPI beach straight a way.Avi n tokas left later on saturday night while i was travleing to MURUDEHWAR.
Wow what a beautiful sight it was on way...sea on one side of the road and backwaters on the other...the drive was lovely,,fantabulous. Reached murudeshwar at around 9pm to find out that the place was surrounded on three sides by sea..an our hotel balconi was just facing the sea and a rock beach and a normal beach.
Went to the beach and stayed there with RANJAN for hours...wee hours in the morning..people were boozing, driving in the sea..it was really fun to c them andb there. Came backa at around 2 AM to come n sleep.
Next day went to Murudeshwar temple...n wat aq beautiful place it is..sea on three sides..its so beautiful...lush green island...n beautiful sea...came back from temple in some three four hours and went for the beach....the beach ain't the greatest of all...
Started journey back to UDUPI and on way went to MOOKAMBIKA temple....wat a beautifule temple...wish i could upload the video clips here.
(To Be countinued.......)
Left banglore on thrusday nite with avinash and tokas n took n a sleeper bus straight to Mangalore. The journey was kewl n i slept like a little kid...to wake up just in time to get down at 7 am in Mangalore. Headed for the LADY HILL's HIS GRACE apartment to meet VENU..the guy i had heard about but never met...wow wat a place it was a penthouse on the 8th floor....with the view of the Mangalore city n sea in front...kewl...smoked grass in the morning..watched movie, had breakfast cooked by POORAN from Tanakpur...and headed for the LIQUID LOUNGE.
Liqour flowed for free n then CHIMPU joined us. Took a car on rent and then headed for the suratkal beach with loads of beer in the boot. SURATKAL beach had only 6 people ..only us..sat there on the sand...went inside the sea..it was dark with a light house over our head..n boozed...went to BITTU's dabha for snacks n tea n bought more beers and came back to home.
Next morning was dizzy..n decided to go to UDUPI to join didi who was already there wiht jiju kids n ranjan in UDUPI....n went to MALPI beach straight a way.Avi n tokas left later on saturday night while i was travleing to MURUDEHWAR.
Wow what a beautiful sight it was on way...sea on one side of the road and backwaters on the other...the drive was lovely,,fantabulous. Reached murudeshwar at around 9pm to find out that the place was surrounded on three sides by sea..an our hotel balconi was just facing the sea and a rock beach and a normal beach.
Went to the beach and stayed there with RANJAN for hours...wee hours in the morning..people were boozing, driving in the sea..it was really fun to c them andb there. Came backa at around 2 AM to come n sleep.
Next day went to Murudeshwar temple...n wat aq beautiful place it is..sea on three sides..its so beautiful...lush green island...n beautiful sea...came back from temple in some three four hours and went for the beach....the beach ain't the greatest of all...
Started journey back to UDUPI and on way went to MOOKAMBIKA temple....wat a beautifule temple...wish i could upload the video clips here.
(To Be countinued.......)
Oct 19, 2004
BOYZ TOYZ
While browsing thru the latest gizmos on www.endgadget.com went beserk....
I need all these !! every product is better than the others n all u need is less than $300 to buy a mp3 player, a fm radio tuner, voice recorder n lots of stuff...5gb players are available for as cheap as 150 bucks.
I think i shall prepare a wish list someday and put it here....somewhere...
I need all these !! every product is better than the others n all u need is less than $300 to buy a mp3 player, a fm radio tuner, voice recorder n lots of stuff...5gb players are available for as cheap as 150 bucks.
I think i shall prepare a wish list someday and put it here....somewhere...
Oct 18, 2004
hey NAVRATRI is in
the festival of gods is here......n am fasting hard to keep my weight under control..he he..isn't it nice to fast in the god's name. Mama will feel bad when she reads this. I won't say that an atheist, but latelty it has been a journey into belief that we don't need GODS...or atleast I don't need a GOD right now.
rest went for a freak out with avinash and tokas. Bangalore is gr8 when it comes to pubs n STYX still remains high on the priority list with soo gud music...n ambience that no other pub can match n this time it was spl coz avi was also there with us...from STYX we walked out to mgroad then brigade to some restaurant that serves some very good lip-smacking fast food.
from there went out to FORMUM, McDonalds have opened up a new resturant there, and guess what bangaloreans had lined up outside it. WHATS IF THERE WAS NO McDONALDS there!! I was shocked..people were waiting to get in...it was a height of craziness...Bought somebooks from LANDMARK ...its a gud habbit to read thats what tokas says...
And gudluck is pourin on me...met another old timer from school..yup after so many years..first it was NOOR (after 9 yrs)and then AARTI..what should I call this Lady Luck smiling..whatever its fun to be back with friends. BTW Aarti is the longest stnding friend am in touch with...;-)
myTune:Buddha Beats-III( Dinner)\Track 13.mp3
myMood:Am Happy..:-)
justOneLine: My voice has grown hoarsse and manly over years..GALA KHARAB HAI KYA ..yeh kehta hai purane dost...;-)..what caused this..hormones..n yesterday nite screaming at STYX and fag...i guess
rest went for a freak out with avinash and tokas. Bangalore is gr8 when it comes to pubs n STYX still remains high on the priority list with soo gud music...n ambience that no other pub can match n this time it was spl coz avi was also there with us...from STYX we walked out to mgroad then brigade to some restaurant that serves some very good lip-smacking fast food.
from there went out to FORMUM, McDonalds have opened up a new resturant there, and guess what bangaloreans had lined up outside it. WHATS IF THERE WAS NO McDONALDS there!! I was shocked..people were waiting to get in...it was a height of craziness...Bought somebooks from LANDMARK ...its a gud habbit to read thats what tokas says...
And gudluck is pourin on me...met another old timer from school..yup after so many years..first it was NOOR (after 9 yrs)and then AARTI..what should I call this Lady Luck smiling..whatever its fun to be back with friends. BTW Aarti is the longest stnding friend am in touch with...;-)
myTune:Buddha Beats-III( Dinner)\Track 13.mp3
myMood:Am Happy..:-)
justOneLine: My voice has grown hoarsse and manly over years..GALA KHARAB HAI KYA ..yeh kehta hai purane dost...;-)..what caused this..hormones..n yesterday nite screaming at STYX and fag...i guess
Oct 15, 2004
kal ki rat...;-) YESTERDAY'S NIGHT
THIS IS THE MAIL I WROTE TO THE FRIENDS IN THE MORNING AS FIRST THING.....
gud morning everyone
in the headlines today....
BANGALORE MEIN FLOODS CLAIM MANY VEHICLES LIFE--Mr. DEPENDABLE COMES FOR RESCUE
--from horse's mouth
Kal ki baarish mein ek nale ke sameep hum pahuche jo ki road ke neeche se behta hai lekin..hume dekh kar usme ufaan aa gaya..aur hum kamar tak paani mein khade the..aur humari bechari kinetic honda aadhi paani mein thi.
Mauke ki nazaquat ko dekhte huye jab hum ghar aur office se kareeb 7-7 km dur the..hum ne road kahu ya nala, jo bhi hai pe paidal chalna shuru kiya....aur kareeb 2 km paani mein poore bheegete huye gaye chalte gaye....phir humne mr.dependable ko phone lagaya.....aur EUREKA
Woh hume bacha ke le gaye ek mechanic ke paas...jisne humara kinetic theek kar diya..is beech humne thand se bachne ke liye bangalore ka poora lutf lete huyi, ek bacardi ka large mara....aur kareeb 1 hr ke mehnat ke baad humara vahan sahi hua
Akkhir keshu bhai ...sab jagah dependable hai..bangalore ho ya kanpur...
aaj auto se aana pada hai office....thakaan se chur chur hun..aur baaki aaj se vrat chalu hai is liye ...niramish bhojan aur sura-pan bandh..
JAI MATA KI
dobi
This was the first experience of the helpnessness man faces against the nature's forces. We have to agree that whatever we claim and take pride of is nothing when pittied against the Mother Nature
myTune: HINDI MUSIC- Phalguni Pathak's Mujhe Kuch Hone Laga
myMood:Wish Some One Close Was Online
Just One Sentense: yesterday's night was poori FILMI.
gud morning everyone
in the headlines today....
BANGALORE MEIN FLOODS CLAIM MANY VEHICLES LIFE--Mr. DEPENDABLE COMES FOR RESCUE
--from horse's mouth
Kal ki baarish mein ek nale ke sameep hum pahuche jo ki road ke neeche se behta hai lekin..hume dekh kar usme ufaan aa gaya..aur hum kamar tak paani mein khade the..aur humari bechari kinetic honda aadhi paani mein thi.
Mauke ki nazaquat ko dekhte huye jab hum ghar aur office se kareeb 7-7 km dur the..hum ne road kahu ya nala, jo bhi hai pe paidal chalna shuru kiya....aur kareeb 2 km paani mein poore bheegete huye gaye chalte gaye....phir humne mr.dependable ko phone lagaya.....aur EUREKA
Woh hume bacha ke le gaye ek mechanic ke paas...jisne humara kinetic theek kar diya..is beech humne thand se bachne ke liye bangalore ka poora lutf lete huyi, ek bacardi ka large mara....aur kareeb 1 hr ke mehnat ke baad humara vahan sahi hua
Akkhir keshu bhai ...sab jagah dependable hai..bangalore ho ya kanpur...
aaj auto se aana pada hai office....thakaan se chur chur hun..aur baaki aaj se vrat chalu hai is liye ...niramish bhojan aur sura-pan bandh..
JAI MATA KI
dobi
This was the first experience of the helpnessness man faces against the nature's forces. We have to agree that whatever we claim and take pride of is nothing when pittied against the Mother Nature
myTune: HINDI MUSIC- Phalguni Pathak's Mujhe Kuch Hone Laga
myMood:Wish Some One Close Was Online
Just One Sentense: yesterday's night was poori FILMI.
Oct 9, 2004
finally ....all but one
"well a lot can happen over a cup of coffee" may b is a way to more business for coffee day , but there is something really special in the cup of coffee.
Today finally almost all but one thing has been settled..i have got a computer a cute little machine..kind of i had in my lab..and am now on to a project that means am today onwards a part of a team that has a lot at stake.
I hereby fell happy as i write that i shall be working in the retail domain...in a team thats trying to creat what not many people have done..am happy to b a part of a team that being in a service company is doing a product.
Rest yesterday night bloody mary shook my entire existence after the beer mugs and the cool gud music of STYX made me go crazy like it does everytime u go out with tokas...
Its a saturday am in office...couldn't catch much sleep and there will b a mad rush on bangalore roads when i go out...n i think i should now its almost time to leave.
cya blog cya till monday....
myTune: No music playing..musically blank..but engel ramnstien(did i spell it right..not very sure).
myMood : Normal ..tired a bit
justOneLine:wish I could sleep here!!
Today finally almost all but one thing has been settled..i have got a computer a cute little machine..kind of i had in my lab..and am now on to a project that means am today onwards a part of a team that has a lot at stake.
I hereby fell happy as i write that i shall be working in the retail domain...in a team thats trying to creat what not many people have done..am happy to b a part of a team that being in a service company is doing a product.
Rest yesterday night bloody mary shook my entire existence after the beer mugs and the cool gud music of STYX made me go crazy like it does everytime u go out with tokas...
Its a saturday am in office...couldn't catch much sleep and there will b a mad rush on bangalore roads when i go out...n i think i should now its almost time to leave.
cya blog cya till monday....
myTune: No music playing..musically blank..but engel ramnstien(did i spell it right..not very sure).
myMood : Normal ..tired a bit
justOneLine:wish I could sleep here!!
Oct 6, 2004
gud morning blog
when I rose from bed at the regular (later than when I should had) time, the first thought in the morning was "Why do we need to go to office day after day?" And then dee(my sister) replied that don't worry you have some holidays lined up next...and what i said was I don't need any holidays to break the habbit!.
The first thing i did was to put some music on!! n the last nights celebration of music countinued with BuddhaBar in the morning and guess what..its still playing...i am listening to the same album in the office..TRANCE is the genre of the day.
Moment I opened up my official mailbox ...VIOLA...there was a mail from shail..she made my day...what a pleasure is it to read a mail from your beloved ones as the first thing in the morning...
One more thing last evening recieved a mail that said we have been allocated to a project..and then in the morning heard the news that we have a induction lecture today..gud news..WE R NO MORE BENCHED. so guys out there who are on bench don't worry this too shall pass !!
myTune:Solitude (Artist- Karunesh)(Buddha Bar III(Dreams))
myMood:white shade of happy ;-)
justOneLine:are people appreciating this music am playing ??
The first thing i did was to put some music on!! n the last nights celebration of music countinued with BuddhaBar in the morning and guess what..its still playing...i am listening to the same album in the office..TRANCE is the genre of the day.
Moment I opened up my official mailbox ...VIOLA...there was a mail from shail..she made my day...what a pleasure is it to read a mail from your beloved ones as the first thing in the morning...
One more thing last evening recieved a mail that said we have been allocated to a project..and then in the morning heard the news that we have a induction lecture today..gud news..WE R NO MORE BENCHED. so guys out there who are on bench don't worry this too shall pass !!
myTune:Solitude (Artist- Karunesh)(Buddha Bar III(Dreams))
myMood:white shade of happy ;-)
justOneLine:are people appreciating this music am playing ??
Oct 5, 2004
pink floyd...i need more
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends sorrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever"
and if by any chance u think this ain't great read the following from the song coming back to life
"While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life"
i run out of words while speaking about them and what follows is more admiration for the talent of roger waters,david gilmour, nick mason, richard wright and roger barett.....am listening and listening all over again
myTune: Coming Back To Life (Pink Floyd, Album: THE DIVISION BELL , 1994)
myMood: :-) :-}
JustOneLine: Pink floyd...they were phenomenonal..simply superb
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends sorrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever"
and if by any chance u think this ain't great read the following from the song coming back to life
"While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life"
i run out of words while speaking about them and what follows is more admiration for the talent of roger waters,david gilmour, nick mason, richard wright and roger barett.....am listening and listening all over again
myTune: Coming Back To Life (Pink Floyd, Album: THE DIVISION BELL , 1994)
myMood: :-) :-}
JustOneLine: Pink floyd...they were phenomenonal..simply superb
vArohan @ vMOksha
this guy met me only some months ago n we used to have lunck together for some months...god knows wat now when he has opted for ERP n i am into java...but it was gud company dude..i hope this countinues nitin for some time to come...and the following is the snap at DD's pantry...JOY is really a joy of life
When we all are in to projects things shall change and won't be this way ne more..n thanks Saurabh for these snaps
dj dobi is back
hey the DJ is back in town...even if there is no audience to listen to my songs.I am a self styled Dj with all but one audience for sure.
So the songs for this beautiful morning are by the legends of rock PINK FLOYD and the album is called pulse. The best songs in the cd which every one can appreciate easily are High Hopes and the my another favourite in the album is Where Were You. PINK FLOYD undoubtedly are the great showmakers of rock.
When the tempo is right its time to make room for the contemporarty legends of metal. The musicians of our time, kings of power guitars and power drums, the kings of rock who had always shunned drugs and promoted booze...for those who still can't guess am talking about METALLICA. And the next song I play is NOTING ELSE MATTERS, and after this I shall silently shift to UNFORGIVEN II.
By the way I forgot to mention that today is "METALLICA DAY --the joy of being becnhed".
So the songs for this beautiful morning are by the legends of rock PINK FLOYD and the album is called pulse. The best songs in the cd which every one can appreciate easily are High Hopes and the my another favourite in the album is Where Were You. PINK FLOYD undoubtedly are the great showmakers of rock.
When the tempo is right its time to make room for the contemporarty legends of metal. The musicians of our time, kings of power guitars and power drums, the kings of rock who had always shunned drugs and promoted booze...for those who still can't guess am talking about METALLICA. And the next song I play is NOTING ELSE MATTERS, and after this I shall silently shift to UNFORGIVEN II.
By the way I forgot to mention that today is "METALLICA DAY --the joy of being becnhed".
another dAy on beNch
I joke about it day in and day out..I talk about it I tell friends that its true. When the Indian IT Industry is on a high, when its boom for the IT Professionals we are on BENCH. There was an immediate requirement in the project I was supposed to join yesterday, but I am yet to join. As a fresh out of college guy this doesn't mean much to me, but the only concern is the fact Why the hell is the organization blowing away money by not allocating us to the respective projects.
Its not like that my company does it intentionally, its what happens in every damn company today. Its not that its done cause we don't have experience but even experienced people are on bench. And if I calculate the wasted man hours and not only me but any guy with a bit of appreciation for finance and money can calculate the loss. Especially when there are many projects which are suffering cause of the insufficient manpower availability....Any ways to all friends and foes benched..All I can say is enjoy this is a time to celebrate and pity as well..I am choosing the first one cause nobody cares if I brood..So why shouldn't I celebrate....:-))
Its not like that my company does it intentionally, its what happens in every damn company today. Its not that its done cause we don't have experience but even experienced people are on bench. And if I calculate the wasted man hours and not only me but any guy with a bit of appreciation for finance and money can calculate the loss. Especially when there are many projects which are suffering cause of the insufficient manpower availability....Any ways to all friends and foes benched..All I can say is enjoy this is a time to celebrate and pity as well..I am choosing the first one cause nobody cares if I brood..So why shouldn't I celebrate....:-))
Oct 4, 2004
Am Institutionalized now.......i know I am
yes, believe me I am...the price was paid by me and i didn't even knew when !!
It was a fraud..and when i realised that it was, thousands of litres of water had flown down the holy ganges...the last nail on the coffin was the realization of the fact that damage was irrepairable. The process was irreversible.
Do you remeber why did the old man who had a small canary (who commited sucide later) in the movie Shawshank Redeption die? The only reason why he died was because after all his life in the prison, he could not adopt to life outside. He was INSTITUTIONALIZED.
Similar is what i feel today. When there is not much to do, I can't find anything to indulge in. Am looking for work but can't find any. What adds to the pain is the realization that my first preference is to somehow remain busy. Music, booze, alcohol , chat, even this blogging are mere indulgences, what all this gives me is an escape from my self. An escape from self.
Axl Rose sang "We all need sometime, on our own, everybody needs some time on his own" but I really wonder why? When you get the time alone..its more painful than the realization that u need some time....
I am looking for something which shall make me feel happy..contended, and its truly ironical because i know nothing can really hold for me..for some time. Especially when i know happiness can't come from something...nothing can give me wat am looking for ..these are all indulgences mere indulgences.
We are somehow trying to find a way to spend our lifetime.And this makes me to think that when the final destination is death...y are we resisitng..wasting our lives in indulagances ..which are material...so material so very phoney..empty...am confused ..may be i pretend that I am .
And when i look at my peers i wonder do they know? I wonder are they in the mad rush as well? Are they happy ....really HAPPY or there is no happiness...they are just gud actors....
It was a fraud..and when i realised that it was, thousands of litres of water had flown down the holy ganges...the last nail on the coffin was the realization of the fact that damage was irrepairable. The process was irreversible.
Do you remeber why did the old man who had a small canary (who commited sucide later) in the movie Shawshank Redeption die? The only reason why he died was because after all his life in the prison, he could not adopt to life outside. He was INSTITUTIONALIZED.
Similar is what i feel today. When there is not much to do, I can't find anything to indulge in. Am looking for work but can't find any. What adds to the pain is the realization that my first preference is to somehow remain busy. Music, booze, alcohol , chat, even this blogging are mere indulgences, what all this gives me is an escape from my self. An escape from self.
Axl Rose sang "We all need sometime, on our own, everybody needs some time on his own" but I really wonder why? When you get the time alone..its more painful than the realization that u need some time....
I am looking for something which shall make me feel happy..contended, and its truly ironical because i know nothing can really hold for me..for some time. Especially when i know happiness can't come from something...nothing can give me wat am looking for ..these are all indulgences mere indulgences.
We are somehow trying to find a way to spend our lifetime.And this makes me to think that when the final destination is death...y are we resisitng..wasting our lives in indulagances ..which are material...so material so very phoney..empty...am confused ..may be i pretend that I am .
And when i look at my peers i wonder do they know? I wonder are they in the mad rush as well? Are they happy ....really HAPPY or there is no happiness...they are just gud actors....
Sep 30, 2004
mm music day..countinues
Black Sabaath almost died when OZZY was out. Was listening to albums called HEADLESS CROSS and DE-HUMANISER but there was no punch.TONY MARTIN could never and can never stand against the brilliance of OZZY.
The headless cross can be more closely related to a more pop oriented rock. It lacks the punch, its too soft ....too soft and the album is a wasted time...i shall rate the album on a scale of 5 ar 1 not more than that. The irony is with the kind of lyrics, the soft music seems misfit. If some death group picks up these lyrics, they can produce the right blend of the lyrics and the music. Too much of melody for ears used to listening to heavy metal stuff.
The music day celebrations countinues
The headless cross can be more closely related to a more pop oriented rock. It lacks the punch, its too soft ....too soft and the album is a wasted time...i shall rate the album on a scale of 5 ar 1 not more than that. The irony is with the kind of lyrics, the soft music seems misfit. If some death group picks up these lyrics, they can produce the right blend of the lyrics and the music. Too much of melody for ears used to listening to heavy metal stuff.
The music day celebrations countinues
MUSIC DAY...TODAY
Had the worst experience in STYX..my fav pub in bangalore..the DJ experimented all evening n wat all we could appreciate was our old metallica and he literally tested our patience with almost pop kind of music till 10:15pm..our patience broke n we walked out
the only gud song was the painkiller n not by the death but the judas priest oiginal.
Styx made me regret the decision to visit on a weekday.
So i decided to compensate today...am in control the DJ today n i shall play all day today..all day yes all day...
this one hour will be dedicated to the black sabbath dehumaniser's After All (The Dead) ...n i opened up the show with hallowed be thy name by cardle fo filth.....
am looking forward to a gr8 day ahead.......am ROCKING n rocking hard
the only gud song was the painkiller n not by the death but the judas priest oiginal.
Styx made me regret the decision to visit on a weekday.
So i decided to compensate today...am in control the DJ today n i shall play all day today..all day yes all day...
this one hour will be dedicated to the black sabbath dehumaniser's After All (The Dead) ...n i opened up the show with hallowed be thy name by cardle fo filth.....
am looking forward to a gr8 day ahead.......am ROCKING n rocking hard
Sep 17, 2004
more DEATH pouring on me....
DEATH and more DEATH has been pouring on me.
Bangalore has its influence on the life of bangaloreans, especiall those who have moved to this "pub" (not as public as /var/ftp/pub) city. And with a little over one month that i had spent in bangalore, my music taste has been heavily influenced by the STYX DJ's.
Lots of new bands which were lesser known to me had become like one of the few I love right now. Except for the legendary METALLICA that plays at STYX and PANTERA all had been new for me.
Guess what i suggest....if u have been listening to the same music for years now...or have not experimented enough..can listed to a bit of heavy music...go and spend an eveing at STYX@MGRoad
the truth about TAJ ---how true is the truth ?
This thing has been going on for some years now and the truth each party calls---no body knows how true is it.
But to raise a doubt or a controversy is human....when the first and the last landing on moon can be called a fabricated high budget movie shot in the US (read EARTH) produced by NASA....everything is an fargile and as controversial.
Read the taj controversy for urself.
http://o3.indiatimes.com/dirtydoggy/archive/2004/09/14/10081.aspx
But to raise a doubt or a controversy is human....when the first and the last landing on moon can be called a fabricated high budget movie shot in the US (read EARTH) produced by NASA....everything is an fargile and as controversial.
Read the taj controversy for urself.
http://o3.indiatimes.com/dirtydoggy/archive/2004/09/14/10081.aspx
MAN
Just read it somewhere pver the net and felt that it was justified to put it here. Thia made sense to me to blog this.
Because I'm a man, when I lock my keys in the car I will fiddle with a wire clothes hanger and ignore your suggestions that we call a road service until long after hypothermia has set in. Because I'm a man, when the car isn't running very well, I will pop the hood and stare at the engine as if I know what I'm looking at. If another man shows up, one of us will say to the other, "I used to be able to fix these things, but now with all these computers and everything, I wouldn't know where to start." We will then drink beer.
Because I'm a man, when I catch a cold I need someone to bring me soup and take care of me while I lie in bed and moan. You never get as sick as I do, so for you this isn't an issue.
Because I'm a man, I can be relied upon to purchase basic groceries at the store, like milk or bread. I cannot be expected to find exotic items like "Cumin" or "Tofu". For all I know these are the same thing. And never, under any circumstances, expect me to pick up anything for which "feminine hygiene product" is a euphemism.
Because I'm a man, when one of our appliances stops working I will insist on taking it apart, despite evidence that this will just cost me twice as much once the repair person gets here and has to put it back together.
Because I'm a man, I must hold the television remote control in my hand while I watch TV. If the thing has been misplaced, I may miss a whole show looking for it (though one time I was able to survive by holding a calculator).
Because I'm a man, there is no need to ask me what I'm thinking about. The answer is always either sex, racing, or football, though I have to make up something else when you ask, so don't.
Because I'm a man, I do not want to visit your mother, or have your mother come visit us, or talk to her when she calls, or think about her any more than I have to. Whatever you got her for mother's day is okay, I don't need to see it. And don't forget to pick up something for my Mom too!!
Because I'm a man, you don't have to ask me if I liked the movie. Chances are, if you're crying at the end of it, I didn't.
Because I'm a man, I think what you're wearing is fine. I thought what you were wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or without it looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look fine. Can we just go now?
Because I'm a man,, and this is, I will share equally in the housework. You just do the laundry, the cooking, the gardening, the cleaning, and the dishes. I'll do the rest
Because I'm a man, when I lock my keys in the car I will fiddle with a wire clothes hanger and ignore your suggestions that we call a road service until long after hypothermia has set in. Because I'm a man, when the car isn't running very well, I will pop the hood and stare at the engine as if I know what I'm looking at. If another man shows up, one of us will say to the other, "I used to be able to fix these things, but now with all these computers and everything, I wouldn't know where to start." We will then drink beer.
Because I'm a man, when I catch a cold I need someone to bring me soup and take care of me while I lie in bed and moan. You never get as sick as I do, so for you this isn't an issue.
Because I'm a man, I can be relied upon to purchase basic groceries at the store, like milk or bread. I cannot be expected to find exotic items like "Cumin" or "Tofu". For all I know these are the same thing. And never, under any circumstances, expect me to pick up anything for which "feminine hygiene product" is a euphemism.
Because I'm a man, when one of our appliances stops working I will insist on taking it apart, despite evidence that this will just cost me twice as much once the repair person gets here and has to put it back together.
Because I'm a man, I must hold the television remote control in my hand while I watch TV. If the thing has been misplaced, I may miss a whole show looking for it (though one time I was able to survive by holding a calculator).
Because I'm a man, there is no need to ask me what I'm thinking about. The answer is always either sex, racing, or football, though I have to make up something else when you ask, so don't.
Because I'm a man, I do not want to visit your mother, or have your mother come visit us, or talk to her when she calls, or think about her any more than I have to. Whatever you got her for mother's day is okay, I don't need to see it. And don't forget to pick up something for my Mom too!!
Because I'm a man, you don't have to ask me if I liked the movie. Chances are, if you're crying at the end of it, I didn't.
Because I'm a man, I think what you're wearing is fine. I thought what you were wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or without it looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look fine. Can we just go now?
Because I'm a man,, and this is, I will share equally in the housework. You just do the laundry, the cooking, the gardening, the cleaning, and the dishes. I'll do the rest
Sep 6, 2004
new music on my ears
ICED EARTH's new album "The Glorious Burden" is what am listening to right on..the music is gud rather strong..lately have been exposed to new music especially death metal and more of grunge. My music is growing louder and heavier, but isn't it an irony that the amount of music i get to hear is pretty less(measured in hours per week) as compared to whnat i have been exposed to in the past....
Its kind of a war album..and makes me think on the lines of how can some one go to the heights of bravery and what drives men to do what we can not even imagine and feel simulated to even read about. How do armies composed of humble soldiers who are just ordianry men do such daredevil acts of bravely, their valor...always leaves me staring blank...thinking and thinking more..
Just read about the 1st July, 1863 the so called American Independence Day, could not derive much of it but stil what i could make sense of was something each american must feel proud of...
the lyrics for the new album are available at
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/icedearth/thegloriousburden.html
N for the one i liked the most the lyrics are as follows
Track 8. Hollow Man
Emptiness, consuming me
Head in hands, I can hardly speak
Looking for solitude
Lost in humanity
True knowledge leads to suffering
A constant quest an endless dream
Searching for inner peace
Hidden so deep in me
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
Sadness comes knocking constantly
Filling up my eyes, for all to see
Peace will come someday
I pray that it finds a way
Darkness caressing my mind and soul
My spirits rejecting, I'm feeling whole
Emptiness goes away
Fills with the light of day
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
I rise up like the pheonix
from the ashes of an older way
With wisdom gained, I turn away
I turned away
Hollow man find yourself some other Plan
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
Must hear are the three sequal tracks of the album namely The Devil To Pay, Hold At All Costs and High Water Mark
Its kind of a war album..and makes me think on the lines of how can some one go to the heights of bravery and what drives men to do what we can not even imagine and feel simulated to even read about. How do armies composed of humble soldiers who are just ordianry men do such daredevil acts of bravely, their valor...always leaves me staring blank...thinking and thinking more..
Just read about the 1st July, 1863 the so called American Independence Day, could not derive much of it but stil what i could make sense of was something each american must feel proud of...
the lyrics for the new album are available at
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/icedearth/thegloriousburden.html
N for the one i liked the most the lyrics are as follows
Track 8. Hollow Man
Emptiness, consuming me
Head in hands, I can hardly speak
Looking for solitude
Lost in humanity
True knowledge leads to suffering
A constant quest an endless dream
Searching for inner peace
Hidden so deep in me
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
Sadness comes knocking constantly
Filling up my eyes, for all to see
Peace will come someday
I pray that it finds a way
Darkness caressing my mind and soul
My spirits rejecting, I'm feeling whole
Emptiness goes away
Fills with the light of day
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
I rise up like the pheonix
from the ashes of an older way
With wisdom gained, I turn away
I turned away
Hollow man find yourself some other Plan
Don't wanna be a hollow man
Ain't gonna be the hollow man
Must hear are the three sequal tracks of the album namely The Devil To Pay, Hold At All Costs and High Water Mark
Aug 31, 2004
Some cool Technical LInks : Programing Languages
Google for "SteveSummit C" and "about.com" for tutorials on C and C++.
Also the sites http://planetpdf.com for some books on OOPS using C
Another one is http://www.dhruvaraj.com
Also the sites http://planetpdf.com for some books on OOPS using C
Another one is http://www.dhruvaraj.com
Instructions for Microsoft's new TV dinner product
You must first remove the plastic cover. By doing so you agree to accept and honor Microsoft's rights to all TV dinners. You may not give anyone else a bite of your dinner (which would constitute an infringement of Microsoft's rights). You may, however, let others smell and look at your dinner and are encouraged to tell them how good it is.
If you have a PC microwave oven, insert the dinner into the oven. Set the oven using these keystrokes:
\mstv.dinn.//08.5min@50%heat//
Then enter:
ms//start.cook_dindin/yummy\|/yum~yum:-)gohot#cookme
If you have a Mac oven, insert the dinner and press start. The oven will set itself and cook the dinner.
If you have a Unix oven, insert the dinner, enter the ingredients of the dinner (found on the package label), the weight of the dinner, and the desired level of cooking and press start. The oven will calculate the time and heat and cook the dinner exactly to your specification.
Be forewarned that Microsoft dinners may crash, in which case your oven must be restarted. This is a simple procedure. Remove the dinner from the oven and enter:
ms.worthless.nogood/tryagain\again/again.bozo
This process may have to be repeated. Try unplugging the microwave and then doing a cold reboot. If this doesn't work, contact your hardware vendor.
Many users have reported that the dinner tray is far too big, larger than the dinner itself, having many useless compartments, most of which are empty. These are for future menu items. If the tray is too large to fit in your oven, you will need to upgrade your equipment.
Dinners are only available from registered outlets, and only the chicken variety is currently produced. If you want another variety, call MicrosoftHelp and they will explain that you really don't want another variety. Microsoft Chicken is all you really need.
Microsoft has disclosed plans to discontinue all smaller versions of their chicken dinners. Future releases will only be in the larger family size. Excess chicken may be stored for future use, but must be saved only in Microsoft approved packaging.
Microsoft promises a dessert with every dinner after '98. However, that version has yet to be released. Users have permission to get thrilled in advance.
Microsoft dinners may be incompatible with other dinners in the freezer, causing your freezer to self-defrost. This is a feature, not a bug. Your freezer probably should have been defrosted anyway.
If you have a PC microwave oven, insert the dinner into the oven. Set the oven using these keystrokes:
\mstv.dinn.//08.5min@50%heat//
Then enter:
ms//start.cook_dindin/yummy\|/yum~yum:-)gohot#cookme
If you have a Mac oven, insert the dinner and press start. The oven will set itself and cook the dinner.
If you have a Unix oven, insert the dinner, enter the ingredients of the dinner (found on the package label), the weight of the dinner, and the desired level of cooking and press start. The oven will calculate the time and heat and cook the dinner exactly to your specification.
Be forewarned that Microsoft dinners may crash, in which case your oven must be restarted. This is a simple procedure. Remove the dinner from the oven and enter:
ms.worthless.nogood/tryagain\again/again.bozo
This process may have to be repeated. Try unplugging the microwave and then doing a cold reboot. If this doesn't work, contact your hardware vendor.
Many users have reported that the dinner tray is far too big, larger than the dinner itself, having many useless compartments, most of which are empty. These are for future menu items. If the tray is too large to fit in your oven, you will need to upgrade your equipment.
Dinners are only available from registered outlets, and only the chicken variety is currently produced. If you want another variety, call MicrosoftHelp and they will explain that you really don't want another variety. Microsoft Chicken is all you really need.
Microsoft has disclosed plans to discontinue all smaller versions of their chicken dinners. Future releases will only be in the larger family size. Excess chicken may be stored for future use, but must be saved only in Microsoft approved packaging.
Microsoft promises a dessert with every dinner after '98. However, that version has yet to be released. Users have permission to get thrilled in advance.
Microsoft dinners may be incompatible with other dinners in the freezer, causing your freezer to self-defrost. This is a feature, not a bug. Your freezer probably should have been defrosted anyway.
Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank
This article resides at http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/unix.prank.html.
I don't know how true it is, but it is really fun to read.
This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
"In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/Honeywell/AT&T Multics project. Brian and I had started work with an early release of Pascal from Professor Niklaus Wirth's ETH Labs in Switzerland and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and power. Dennis had just finished reading 'Bored of the Rings', a National Lampoon parody of the Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environment and Pascal. Dennis and I were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new OS to be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frustration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other more risque! allusions. We sold the terse command language to novitiates by telling them that it saved them typing.
Then Dennis and Brian worked on a warped version of Pascal, called 'A'. 'A' looked a lot like Pascal, but elevated the notion of the direct memory address (which Wirth had banished) to the central concept of the "pointer" as an innocuous sounding name for a truly malevolent construct. Brian must be credited with the idea of having absolutely no standard I/O specification: this ensured that at least 50% of the typical commercial program would have to be re-coded when changing hardware platforms.
Brian was also responsible for pitching this lack of I/O as a feature: it allowed us to describe the language as "truly portable". When we found others were actually creating real programs with A, we removed compulsory type-checking on function arguments. Later, we added a notion we called "casting": this allowed the programmer to treat an integer as though it were a 50kb user-defined structure. When we found that some programmers were simply not using pointers, we eliminated the ability to pass structures to functions, enforcing their use in even the simplest applications. We sold this, and many other features, as enhancements to the efficiency of the language. In this way, our prank evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C.
We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax: for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);
At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years.
Unfortunately, AT&T and other US corporations actually began using Unix and C. We decided we'd better keep mum, assuming it was just a passing phase. In fact, it's taken US companies over 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate useful applications using this 1960's technological parody. We are impressed with the tenacity of the general Unix and C programmer. In fact, Brian, Dennis and I have never ourselves attempted to write a commercial application in this environment.
We feel really guilty about the chaos, confusion and truly awesome programming projects that have resulted from our silly prank so long ago."
Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when ADA was catching on), was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke. He extended it to further parody Smalltalk. Like us, he was caught by surprise when nobody laughed. So he added multiple inheritance, virtual base classes, and later ...templates. All to no avail. So we now have compilers that can compile 100,000 lines per second, but need to process header files for 25 minutes before they get to the meat of "Hello, World".
Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time.
Borland International, a leading vendor of object-oriented tools, including the popular Turbo Pascal and Borland C++, stated they had suspected for Windows was originally written in C++. Philippe Kahn said: "After two and a half years programming, and massive programmer burn-outs, we re-coded the whole thing in Turbo Pascal in three months. I think it's fair to say that Turbo Pascal saved our bacon". Another Borland spokesman said that they would continue to enhance their Pascal products and halt further efforts to develop C/C++.
Professor Wirth of the ETH Institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2, and Oberon structured languages, cryptically said "P.T. Barnum was right." He had no further comments.
All names are Registered Trademarks of their respective companies. This article was found on the USENET - its author could not be determined.
I don't know how true it is, but it is really fun to read.
This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate prank kept alive for over 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
"In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/Honeywell/AT&T Multics project. Brian and I had started work with an early release of Pascal from Professor Niklaus Wirth's ETH Labs in Switzerland and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and power. Dennis had just finished reading 'Bored of the Rings', a National Lampoon parody of the Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environment and Pascal. Dennis and I were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new OS to be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frustration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other more risque! allusions. We sold the terse command language to novitiates by telling them that it saved them typing.
Then Dennis and Brian worked on a warped version of Pascal, called 'A'. 'A' looked a lot like Pascal, but elevated the notion of the direct memory address (which Wirth had banished) to the central concept of the "pointer" as an innocuous sounding name for a truly malevolent construct. Brian must be credited with the idea of having absolutely no standard I/O specification: this ensured that at least 50% of the typical commercial program would have to be re-coded when changing hardware platforms.
Brian was also responsible for pitching this lack of I/O as a feature: it allowed us to describe the language as "truly portable". When we found others were actually creating real programs with A, we removed compulsory type-checking on function arguments. Later, we added a notion we called "casting": this allowed the programmer to treat an integer as though it were a 50kb user-defined structure. When we found that some programmers were simply not using pointers, we eliminated the ability to pass structures to functions, enforcing their use in even the simplest applications. We sold this, and many other features, as enhancements to the efficiency of the language. In this way, our prank evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C.
We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax: for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);
At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years.
Unfortunately, AT&T and other US corporations actually began using Unix and C. We decided we'd better keep mum, assuming it was just a passing phase. In fact, it's taken US companies over 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate useful applications using this 1960's technological parody. We are impressed with the tenacity of the general Unix and C programmer. In fact, Brian, Dennis and I have never ourselves attempted to write a commercial application in this environment.
We feel really guilty about the chaos, confusion and truly awesome programming projects that have resulted from our silly prank so long ago."
Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when ADA was catching on), was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke. He extended it to further parody Smalltalk. Like us, he was caught by surprise when nobody laughed. So he added multiple inheritance, virtual base classes, and later ...templates. All to no avail. So we now have compilers that can compile 100,000 lines per second, but need to process header files for 25 minutes before they get to the meat of "Hello, World".
Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time.
Borland International, a leading vendor of object-oriented tools, including the popular Turbo Pascal and Borland C++, stated they had suspected for Windows was originally written in C++. Philippe Kahn said: "After two and a half years programming, and massive programmer burn-outs, we re-coded the whole thing in Turbo Pascal in three months. I think it's fair to say that Turbo Pascal saved our bacon". Another Borland spokesman said that they would continue to enhance their Pascal products and halt further efforts to develop C/C++.
Professor Wirth of the ETH Institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2, and Oberon structured languages, cryptically said "P.T. Barnum was right." He had no further comments.
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The Bible in 50 words
God made
Adam bit
Noah arked
Abraham split
Joseph ruled
Jacob fooled
Bush talked
Moses balked
Pharaoh plagued
People walked
Sea divided
Tablets guided
Promise landed
Saul freaked
David peeked
Prophets warned
Jesus born
God walked
Love talked
Anger crucified
Hope died
Love rose
Spirit flamed
Word spread
God remained.
This was oricinally spotted at http://ianchaiwriting.50megs.com/
Adam bit
Noah arked
Abraham split
Joseph ruled
Jacob fooled
Bush talked
Moses balked
Pharaoh plagued
People walked
Sea divided
Tablets guided
Promise landed
Saul freaked
David peeked
Prophets warned
Jesus born
God walked
Love talked
Anger crucified
Hope died
Love rose
Spirit flamed
Word spread
God remained.
This was oricinally spotted at http://ianchaiwriting.50megs.com/
Aug 17, 2004
Is the modern Software Industry Back on old Track?
How can it be possible? I know unless i tell you what I have on my mind u cannot agree or disagree or even comment..but this was something difficult for me...and may be you won't find it easy to eat...especially if you are a BIG COMAPNY HIRED SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL....(i pity u as i do myself)...get ready to eat my words... I say that the software industry is working the same way as Marx described the Industry and the labour's in the year 1847 in the book Wage and Labour in the Chapter 9.....The only question is how could me and my pals at work could relate to this?
Read for urself...I was shell shocked and how about you?
But what effect do these conditions, which are inseparable from the growth of productive capital, have upon the determination of wages?
The greater division of labor enables one laborer to accomplish the work of five, 10, or 20 laborers; it therefore increases competition among the laborers fivefold, tenfold, or twentyfold. The laborers compete not only by selling themselves one cheaper than the other, but also by one doing the work of five, 10, or 20; and they are forced to compete in this manner by the division of labor, which is introduced and steadily improved by capital.
Furthermore, to the same degree in which the division of labor increases, is the labor simplified. The special skill of the laborer becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple monotonous force of production, with neither physical nor mental elasticity. His work becomes accessible to all; therefore competitors press upon him from all sides. Moreover, it must be remembered that the more simple, the more easily learned the work is, so much the less is its cost to production, the expense of its acquisition, and so much the lower must the wages sink — for, like the price of any other commodity, they are determined by the cost of production. Therefore, in the same manner in which labor becomes more unsatisfactory, more repulsive, do competition increase and wages decrease.
The laborer seeks to maintain the total of his wages for a given time by performing more labor, either by working a great number of hours, or by accomplishing more in the same number of hours. Thus, urged on by want, he himself multiplies the disastrous effects of division of labor. The result is: the more he works, the less wages he receives. And for this simple reason: the more he works, the more he competes against his fellow workmen, the more he compels them to compete against him, and to offer themselves on the same wretched conditions as he does; so that, in the last analysis, he competes against himself as a member of the working class.
Read for urself...I was shell shocked and how about you?
But what effect do these conditions, which are inseparable from the growth of productive capital, have upon the determination of wages?
The greater division of labor enables one laborer to accomplish the work of five, 10, or 20 laborers; it therefore increases competition among the laborers fivefold, tenfold, or twentyfold. The laborers compete not only by selling themselves one cheaper than the other, but also by one doing the work of five, 10, or 20; and they are forced to compete in this manner by the division of labor, which is introduced and steadily improved by capital.
Furthermore, to the same degree in which the division of labor increases, is the labor simplified. The special skill of the laborer becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple monotonous force of production, with neither physical nor mental elasticity. His work becomes accessible to all; therefore competitors press upon him from all sides. Moreover, it must be remembered that the more simple, the more easily learned the work is, so much the less is its cost to production, the expense of its acquisition, and so much the lower must the wages sink — for, like the price of any other commodity, they are determined by the cost of production. Therefore, in the same manner in which labor becomes more unsatisfactory, more repulsive, do competition increase and wages decrease.
The laborer seeks to maintain the total of his wages for a given time by performing more labor, either by working a great number of hours, or by accomplishing more in the same number of hours. Thus, urged on by want, he himself multiplies the disastrous effects of division of labor. The result is: the more he works, the less wages he receives. And for this simple reason: the more he works, the more he competes against his fellow workmen, the more he compels them to compete against him, and to offer themselves on the same wretched conditions as he does; so that, in the last analysis, he competes against himself as a member of the working class.
Marx..the philosophy
The philosophy works fine and still makes sense. The marxists have been laid to peace, the communists failed and lost in the race against the capitalists (Chinese aren't communists for me now) but still the inside story remains unchanged.....the labour, the wages, the money makers.
Has something changed?
Was just reading a bit of Marx
and it hit me hard like the iceberg hit the titanic.
The following passage from the book "Wage Labour and Capital" still holds true. Yes, all we can agree to is, the fact that only the names have changed. Don't believe me...read it.
Political economy finds it an established fact that the prices of all commodities, among them the price of the commodity which it calls "labor", continually change; that they rise and fall in consequence of the most diverse circumstances, which often have no connection whatsoever with the production of the commodities themselves, so that prices appear to be determined, as a rule, by pure chance. As soon, therefore, as political economy stepped forth as a science, it was one of its first tasks to search for the law that hid itself behind this chance, which apparently determined the prices of commodities, and which in reality controlled this very chance. Among the prices of commodities, fluctuating and oscillating, now upward, now downward, the fixed central point was searched for around which these fluctuations and oscillations were taking place. In short, starting from the price of commodities, political economy sought for the value of commodities as the regulating law, by means of which all price fluctuations could be explained, and to which they could all be reduced in the last resort.
And so, classical political economy found that the value of a commodity was determined by the labor incorporated in it and requisite to its production. With this explanation, it was satisfied. And we, too, may, for the present, stop at this point. But, to avoid misconceptions, I will remind the reader that today this explanation has become wholly inadequate. Marx was the first to investigate thoroughly into the value-forming quality of labor and to discover that not all labor which is apparently, or even really, necessary to the production of a commodity, imparts under all circumstances to this commodity a magnitude of value corresponding to the quantity of labor used up. If, therefore, we say today in short, with economists like Ricardo, that the value of a commodity is determined by the labor necessary to its production, we always imply the reservations and restrictions made by Marx. Thus much for our present purpose; further information can be found in Marx's Critique of Political Economy, which appeared in 1859, and in the first volume of Capital.
But, as soon as the economists applied this determination of value by labor to the commodity "labor", they fell from one contradiction into another. How is the value of "labor" determined? By the necessary labor embodied in it. But how much labor is embodied in the labor of a laborer of a day a week, a month, a year. If labor is the measure of all values, we can express the "value of labor" only in labor. But we know absolutely nothing about the value of an hour's labor, if all that we know about it is that it is equal to one hour's labor. So, thereby, we have not advanced one hair's breadth nearer our goal; we are constantly turning about in a circle.
Classical economics, therefore, essayed another turn. It said: the value of a commodity is equal to its cost of production. But, what is the cost of production of "labor"? In order to answer this question, the economists are forced to strain logic just a little. Instead of investigating the cost of production of labor itself, which, unfortunately, cannot be ascertained, they now investigate the cost of production of the laborer. And this latter can be ascertained. It changes according to time and circumstances, but for a given condition of society, in a given locality, and in a given branch of production, it, too, is given, at least within quite narrow limits. We live today under the regime of capitalist production, under which a large and steadily growing class of the population can live only on the condition that it works for the owners of the means of production -- tools, machines, raw materials, and means of subsistence -- in return for wages. On the basis of this mode of production, the laborer's cost of production consists of the sum of the means of subsistence (or their price in money) which on the average are requisite to enable him to work, to maintain in him this capacity for work, and to replace him at his departure, by reason of age, sickness, or death, with another laborer -- that is to say, to propagate the working class in required numbers.
Let us assume that the money price of these means of subsistence averages 3 shillings a day. Our laborer gets, therefore, a daily wage of 3 shillings from his employer. For this, the capitalist lets him work, say, 12 hours a day. Our capitalist, moreover, calculates somewhat in the following fashion: Let us assume that our laborer (a machinist) has to make a part of a machine which he finishes in one day. The raw material (iron and brass in the necessary prepared form) costs 20 shillings. The consumption of coal by the steam-engine, the wear-and-tear of this engine itself, of the turning-lathe, and of the other tools with which our laborer works, represent, for one day and one laborer, a value of 1 shilling. The wages for one day are, according to our assumption, 3 shillings. This makes a total of 24 shillings for our piece of a machine.
But, the capitalist calculates that, on an average, he will receive for it a price of 27 shillings from his customers, or 3 shillings over and above his outlay.
Whence do they 3 shillings pocketed by the capitalist come? According to the assertion of classical political economy, commodities are in the long run sold at their values, that is, they are sold at prices which correspond to the necessary quantities of labor contained in them. The average price of our part of a machine -- 27 shillings -- would therefore equal its value, i.e., equal the amount of labor embodied in it. But, of these 27 shillings, 21 shillings were values were values already existing before the machinist began to work; 20 shillings were contained in the raw material, 1 shilling in the fuel consumed during the work and in the machines and tools used in the process and reduced in their efficiency to the value of this amount. There remains 6 shillings, which have been added to the value of the raw material. But, according to the supposition of our economists, themselves, these 6 shillings can arise only from the labor added to the raw material by the laborer. His 12 hours' labor has created, according to this, a new value of 6 shillings. Therefore, the value of his 12 hours' labor would be equivalent to 6 shillings. So we have at last discovered what the "value of labor" is.
"Hold on there!" cries our machinist. "Six shillings? But I have received only 3 shillings! My capitalist swears high and day that the value of my 12 hours' labor is no more than 3 shillings, and if I were to demand 6, he'd laugh at me. What kind of a story is that?"
If before this we got with our value of labor into a vicious circle, we now surely have driven straight into an insoluble contradiction. We searched for the value of labor, and we found more than we can use. For the laborer, the value of the 12 hours' labor is 3 shillings; for the capitalist, it is 6 shillings, of which he pays the workingman 3 shillings as wages, and pockets the remaining 3 shilling himself. According to this, labor has not one but two values, and, moreover, two very different values!
As soon as we reduce the values, now expressed in money, to labor-time, the contradiction becomes even more absurd. By the 12 hours' labor, a new value of 6 shillings is created. Therefore, in 6 hours, the new value created equals 3 shilling -- the mount which the laborer receives for 12 hours' labor. For 12 hours' labor, the workingman receives, as an equivalent, the product of 6 hours' labor. We are, thus, forced to one of two conclusions: either labor has two values, one of which is twice as large as the other, or 12 equals 6! In both cases, we get pure absurdities. Turn and twist as we may, we will not get out of this contradiction as long as we speak of the buying and selling of "labor" and of the "value of labor". And just so it happened to the political economists. The last offshoot of classical political economy -- the Ricardian school -- was largely wrecked on the insolubility of this contradiction. Classical political economy had run itself into a blind alley. The man who discovered the way out of this blind alley was Karl Marx.
What the economists had considered as the cost of production of "labor" was really the cost of production, not of "labor", but of the living laborer himself. And what this laborer sold to the capitalist was not his labor.
"So soon as his labor really begins," says Marx, "it ceases to belong to him, and therefore can no longer be sold by him."
Can any one of us dare to be different? All comments are welcome.
Has something changed?
Was just reading a bit of Marx
and it hit me hard like the iceberg hit the titanic.
The following passage from the book "Wage Labour and Capital" still holds true. Yes, all we can agree to is, the fact that only the names have changed. Don't believe me...read it.
Political economy finds it an established fact that the prices of all commodities, among them the price of the commodity which it calls "labor", continually change; that they rise and fall in consequence of the most diverse circumstances, which often have no connection whatsoever with the production of the commodities themselves, so that prices appear to be determined, as a rule, by pure chance. As soon, therefore, as political economy stepped forth as a science, it was one of its first tasks to search for the law that hid itself behind this chance, which apparently determined the prices of commodities, and which in reality controlled this very chance. Among the prices of commodities, fluctuating and oscillating, now upward, now downward, the fixed central point was searched for around which these fluctuations and oscillations were taking place. In short, starting from the price of commodities, political economy sought for the value of commodities as the regulating law, by means of which all price fluctuations could be explained, and to which they could all be reduced in the last resort.
And so, classical political economy found that the value of a commodity was determined by the labor incorporated in it and requisite to its production. With this explanation, it was satisfied. And we, too, may, for the present, stop at this point. But, to avoid misconceptions, I will remind the reader that today this explanation has become wholly inadequate. Marx was the first to investigate thoroughly into the value-forming quality of labor and to discover that not all labor which is apparently, or even really, necessary to the production of a commodity, imparts under all circumstances to this commodity a magnitude of value corresponding to the quantity of labor used up. If, therefore, we say today in short, with economists like Ricardo, that the value of a commodity is determined by the labor necessary to its production, we always imply the reservations and restrictions made by Marx. Thus much for our present purpose; further information can be found in Marx's Critique of Political Economy, which appeared in 1859, and in the first volume of Capital.
But, as soon as the economists applied this determination of value by labor to the commodity "labor", they fell from one contradiction into another. How is the value of "labor" determined? By the necessary labor embodied in it. But how much labor is embodied in the labor of a laborer of a day a week, a month, a year. If labor is the measure of all values, we can express the "value of labor" only in labor. But we know absolutely nothing about the value of an hour's labor, if all that we know about it is that it is equal to one hour's labor. So, thereby, we have not advanced one hair's breadth nearer our goal; we are constantly turning about in a circle.
Classical economics, therefore, essayed another turn. It said: the value of a commodity is equal to its cost of production. But, what is the cost of production of "labor"? In order to answer this question, the economists are forced to strain logic just a little. Instead of investigating the cost of production of labor itself, which, unfortunately, cannot be ascertained, they now investigate the cost of production of the laborer. And this latter can be ascertained. It changes according to time and circumstances, but for a given condition of society, in a given locality, and in a given branch of production, it, too, is given, at least within quite narrow limits. We live today under the regime of capitalist production, under which a large and steadily growing class of the population can live only on the condition that it works for the owners of the means of production -- tools, machines, raw materials, and means of subsistence -- in return for wages. On the basis of this mode of production, the laborer's cost of production consists of the sum of the means of subsistence (or their price in money) which on the average are requisite to enable him to work, to maintain in him this capacity for work, and to replace him at his departure, by reason of age, sickness, or death, with another laborer -- that is to say, to propagate the working class in required numbers.
Let us assume that the money price of these means of subsistence averages 3 shillings a day. Our laborer gets, therefore, a daily wage of 3 shillings from his employer. For this, the capitalist lets him work, say, 12 hours a day. Our capitalist, moreover, calculates somewhat in the following fashion: Let us assume that our laborer (a machinist) has to make a part of a machine which he finishes in one day. The raw material (iron and brass in the necessary prepared form) costs 20 shillings. The consumption of coal by the steam-engine, the wear-and-tear of this engine itself, of the turning-lathe, and of the other tools with which our laborer works, represent, for one day and one laborer, a value of 1 shilling. The wages for one day are, according to our assumption, 3 shillings. This makes a total of 24 shillings for our piece of a machine.
But, the capitalist calculates that, on an average, he will receive for it a price of 27 shillings from his customers, or 3 shillings over and above his outlay.
Whence do they 3 shillings pocketed by the capitalist come? According to the assertion of classical political economy, commodities are in the long run sold at their values, that is, they are sold at prices which correspond to the necessary quantities of labor contained in them. The average price of our part of a machine -- 27 shillings -- would therefore equal its value, i.e., equal the amount of labor embodied in it. But, of these 27 shillings, 21 shillings were values were values already existing before the machinist began to work; 20 shillings were contained in the raw material, 1 shilling in the fuel consumed during the work and in the machines and tools used in the process and reduced in their efficiency to the value of this amount. There remains 6 shillings, which have been added to the value of the raw material. But, according to the supposition of our economists, themselves, these 6 shillings can arise only from the labor added to the raw material by the laborer. His 12 hours' labor has created, according to this, a new value of 6 shillings. Therefore, the value of his 12 hours' labor would be equivalent to 6 shillings. So we have at last discovered what the "value of labor" is.
"Hold on there!" cries our machinist. "Six shillings? But I have received only 3 shillings! My capitalist swears high and day that the value of my 12 hours' labor is no more than 3 shillings, and if I were to demand 6, he'd laugh at me. What kind of a story is that?"
If before this we got with our value of labor into a vicious circle, we now surely have driven straight into an insoluble contradiction. We searched for the value of labor, and we found more than we can use. For the laborer, the value of the 12 hours' labor is 3 shillings; for the capitalist, it is 6 shillings, of which he pays the workingman 3 shillings as wages, and pockets the remaining 3 shilling himself. According to this, labor has not one but two values, and, moreover, two very different values!
As soon as we reduce the values, now expressed in money, to labor-time, the contradiction becomes even more absurd. By the 12 hours' labor, a new value of 6 shillings is created. Therefore, in 6 hours, the new value created equals 3 shilling -- the mount which the laborer receives for 12 hours' labor. For 12 hours' labor, the workingman receives, as an equivalent, the product of 6 hours' labor. We are, thus, forced to one of two conclusions: either labor has two values, one of which is twice as large as the other, or 12 equals 6! In both cases, we get pure absurdities. Turn and twist as we may, we will not get out of this contradiction as long as we speak of the buying and selling of "labor" and of the "value of labor". And just so it happened to the political economists. The last offshoot of classical political economy -- the Ricardian school -- was largely wrecked on the insolubility of this contradiction. Classical political economy had run itself into a blind alley. The man who discovered the way out of this blind alley was Karl Marx.
What the economists had considered as the cost of production of "labor" was really the cost of production, not of "labor", but of the living laborer himself. And what this laborer sold to the capitalist was not his labor.
"So soon as his labor really begins," says Marx, "it ceases to belong to him, and therefore can no longer be sold by him."
Can any one of us dare to be different? All comments are welcome.
some country music i liked...new to me
This is now on my wishlist. I heard this song on Yahoo launchcast while in office and it sounds fantabulous...Can ne one arrange it for me...or shall I buy?
Artist: John Michael Montgomery
Album: Very Best of John Michael Montgomery
Song: Letters From Home
Lyrics:
My Dear Son, it is almost June,
I hope this letter catches up to you, and finds you well.
Its been dry but they’re calling for rain,
And everything's the same ol’ same in Johnsonville.
Your stubborn 'ol Daddy ain’t said too much,
But I’m sure you know he sends his love,
And she goes on,
In a letter from home.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
Like there’s something funny bout’ the way I talk,
When I say: "Mama sends her best y’all."
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
My Dearest Love, its almost dawn.
I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.
I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring.
Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep.
But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you.
An' this is me kissing you:
XX’s and OO’s,
In a letter from home.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
'Cause she calls me "Honey", but they take it hard,
'Cause I don’t read the good parts.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
Dear Son, I know I ain’t written,
But sittin' here tonight, alone in the kitchen, it occurs to me,
I might not have said, so I’ll say it now:
Son, you make me proud.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, but no one laughs,
'Cause there ain’t nothing funny when a soldier cries.
An' I just wipe me eyes.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
Artist: John Michael Montgomery
Album: Very Best of John Michael Montgomery
Song: Letters From Home
Lyrics:
My Dear Son, it is almost June,
I hope this letter catches up to you, and finds you well.
Its been dry but they’re calling for rain,
And everything's the same ol’ same in Johnsonville.
Your stubborn 'ol Daddy ain’t said too much,
But I’m sure you know he sends his love,
And she goes on,
In a letter from home.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
Like there’s something funny bout’ the way I talk,
When I say: "Mama sends her best y’all."
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
My Dearest Love, its almost dawn.
I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.
I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring.
Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep.
But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you.
An' this is me kissing you:
XX’s and OO’s,
In a letter from home.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
'Cause she calls me "Honey", but they take it hard,
'Cause I don’t read the good parts.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
Dear Son, I know I ain’t written,
But sittin' here tonight, alone in the kitchen, it occurs to me,
I might not have said, so I’ll say it now:
Son, you make me proud.
I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, but no one laughs,
'Cause there ain’t nothing funny when a soldier cries.
An' I just wipe me eyes.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.
Aug 10, 2004
LIfe is Back
Folks am back as a normal user and u know who the culprit was..y wasn't i able to log on because of M$ brainchild the IE aka "internet explorer". The moment i switched on to the Mozilla Firefox life is back to normal....
Just one more time the question is why must a person pay for a software which makes u feel miserable and knocks u out when u depend. And the admiration for the opensource comes automatically. This level of commitment and service and that too for free is really what is hard to find in today's capitalist scenario. Undoubtedly there can be more ways to service thw society but this isn't too bad either.
Once more my soul has been saved by the guys. Long live the open source. Long live the GNU......and thanks to M$...only they let us make the comparison. Otherwise how would we measure the good of there was no bad
Just one more time the question is why must a person pay for a software which makes u feel miserable and knocks u out when u depend. And the admiration for the opensource comes automatically. This level of commitment and service and that too for free is really what is hard to find in today's capitalist scenario. Undoubtedly there can be more ways to service thw society but this isn't too bad either.
Once more my soul has been saved by the guys. Long live the open source. Long live the GNU......and thanks to M$...only they let us make the comparison. Otherwise how would we measure the good of there was no bad
Aug 9, 2004
Login BLues
What happened is i forgot my password on blogspot.com. So I went to the recover password center.
Within minutes i recieved an e-mail saying that if i want to reset my account i have to follow a URL (which they had sent to me)
I was happy...but what happened was..the moment i clicked on the URL a page popped up saying that I must authenticate before i go further.
How can i authenticate when i have lost the passwords :-((
I have sent numerous mails to blog support as well n they send me a similar URL all the time...so looks like i will have to create another account just beacuse i had lost my password....THIS IS WEIRD and AM HURT...
Jul 30, 2004
y do they call it job
I really don't know....y?
May be am fresh out of college and thats why can't adjust here, but otherwise also the job looks like hell. Nothing to do for the whole day.....simply spent the day blogging and chatting on yahoo...sending e-mails to people....training is BORING.....Is this normal I can't know as this is only my fifth day on job. The life at college was moew demanding than this or may be i was accoustomed to it...whatever...
The problem is can't find ways to indulge myself, ain't got company to spend quality time with. Everybody says bangalore is happening but cannot feel it. My typical daily schedule is wake up in the morning, n rush for the office in an autorikshaw making its way across the roads of bangalore, and then try to kill time endlessly before its time to punch out. Get into an auto and then back to home., have dinner n sleep. And the cycle has been so for some days now.
Is this normal? Or am overly sensitive about this issue. But i have to sort it fast really fast. This can't go on for very long or may be we can call it "New Job Training Period Blues"
May be am fresh out of college and thats why can't adjust here, but otherwise also the job looks like hell. Nothing to do for the whole day.....simply spent the day blogging and chatting on yahoo...sending e-mails to people....training is BORING.....Is this normal I can't know as this is only my fifth day on job. The life at college was moew demanding than this or may be i was accoustomed to it...whatever...
The problem is can't find ways to indulge myself, ain't got company to spend quality time with. Everybody says bangalore is happening but cannot feel it. My typical daily schedule is wake up in the morning, n rush for the office in an autorikshaw making its way across the roads of bangalore, and then try to kill time endlessly before its time to punch out. Get into an auto and then back to home., have dinner n sleep. And the cycle has been so for some days now.
Is this normal? Or am overly sensitive about this issue. But i have to sort it fast really fast. This can't go on for very long or may be we can call it "New Job Training Period Blues"
this poem is dedicated 2 ime IIT K
| This poem ain't simple, this is the last preparatory rhyme i had learnt and taught my friends..this was really the coolest one.
And here comes the bengali version macher bachha dim theke phutlo jale pade galo baba dhare nilo maa rendhe dilo ami khela khub maja holo The nepali version is Machha ko bachha andaa bata niskyo paani ma chiplyo buba le pakde ama le banaye maile khaayen bada maja aayo | 
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hmm I have something new with me
Finally i have managed how to add as many snaps as I want ot my blog i just need to move them over to http://www.flickr.com and then upload the snap and then simply say blog it.....
isn't it cool yes it is....i love this
All i need now is a bit of trickery.......
Friday is now almost gone n the good thing is that its almost gone just another few hours and then we shall b in a bar me and tokas
isn't it cool yes it is....i love this
All i need now is a bit of trickery.......
Friday is now almost gone n the good thing is that its almost gone just another few hours and then we shall b in a bar me and tokas
midday story
chatting chatting n chatting........
thats all i have been doing it. Today the IIT mail id has finally been cleared by the administrator and so u can guess, dvaibhav@iitk.ac.in has died today.
Bindu has moved to mysore and tripti has joined phd at kanpur but still its not known if priyanka sgall b joining rrk for research or not. Avinash has joined ANZ-IT today as well and so all of friends are into job routines now. Though. it will take up a lot of time to get used to the feeling. Thats all about friends from Kanpur.
Aditya shall be flying to US prettys soon, with in next fortnite.
Yes, came across the http://www.baraha.com for the baraha product which can be used to produce documents in hindi. But, the same is available on windows only.
I think thats all for the pre lunch session, shall countinue to blog in the post lunch session.
thats all i have been doing it. Today the IIT mail id has finally been cleared by the administrator and so u can guess, dvaibhav@iitk.ac.in has died today.
Bindu has moved to mysore and tripti has joined phd at kanpur but still its not known if priyanka sgall b joining rrk for research or not. Avinash has joined ANZ-IT today as well and so all of friends are into job routines now. Though. it will take up a lot of time to get used to the feeling. Thats all about friends from Kanpur.
Aditya shall be flying to US prettys soon, with in next fortnite.
Yes, came across the http://www.baraha.com for the baraha product which can be used to produce documents in hindi. But, the same is available on windows only.
I think thats all for the pre lunch session, shall countinue to blog in the post lunch session.
First Blessing
Well like a kid in school i feel again, the gud news is that the teacher ain't turning up....:D
Daddu is busy with some work and so we cannot attens his lecture..which was bound to be boring and stupid. So we have a lot of time to kill today and now I really wonder how to?
I could have blogged the shit out of the blogspot but I have no ideas to write about.
But I am sure the blogspot can't escape my fury for long enough...:D
Daddu is busy with some work and so we cannot attens his lecture..which was bound to be boring and stupid. So we have a lot of time to kill today and now I really wonder how to?
I could have blogged the shit out of the blogspot but I have no ideas to write about.
But I am sure the blogspot can't escape my fury for long enough...:D
Friday Morning Blues
waiting for the weekend.....:-)
The best big thing about the friday morning is the weekend that follows. Today is planned to be boring and thats all we know about it, still the tempatation to spend the weekend sleeping overrides all of everything around.
Have a little plan to meet friends from college, hang around a bangalore today....
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To write a blog in the first thing is another way to keep urself busy. N this way looks very nice to me. Last evenbing, had the first harassing experience with an autoriksha driver when I had to pa some 90 bucks for a ride i knew wasn't worth the same.....sad but language problem in a distant land is always a problem. N the worst part is we hardly walk around or hang around with people who are kannads, so the option to inculcate a flair for kannada is even hard. Looks like will have to go the bookish way, but a book somehting like kannada through english in some n days, n then try....:D....but sometimes i really wonder how to people manage when they move for a considerable period of time in countries like france and germany, where the people really love their language or hate english.
Still waiting for the speaker known as "daddu" come over and talk to us for the whole day. Lets c how boring the daddu turns out to be.
The best big thing about the friday morning is the weekend that follows. Today is planned to be boring and thats all we know about it, still the tempatation to spend the weekend sleeping overrides all of everything around.
Have a little plan to meet friends from college, hang around a bangalore today....
.
To write a blog in the first thing is another way to keep urself busy. N this way looks very nice to me. Last evenbing, had the first harassing experience with an autoriksha driver when I had to pa some 90 bucks for a ride i knew wasn't worth the same.....sad but language problem in a distant land is always a problem. N the worst part is we hardly walk around or hang around with people who are kannads, so the option to inculcate a flair for kannada is even hard. Looks like will have to go the bookish way, but a book somehting like kannada through english in some n days, n then try....:D....but sometimes i really wonder how to people manage when they move for a considerable period of time in countries like france and germany, where the people really love their language or hate english.
Still waiting for the speaker known as "daddu" come over and talk to us for the whole day. Lets c how boring the daddu turns out to be.
Jul 29, 2004
blog is started
July 29, 2004
Post Workshop Hour....time to leave
hmm well free time in the office lets you with a lot of time, atlest initially and i have found time to start my own blog. Training lets me with lots of time and i can't find any other better way than to venture into startting my blog.
All the resources as on the day are courtsey VMoksha.
The classroon training is here for stay and feels boring but i guess is better than to work on a project. Louis is cool to work along and its fun as well. The sole grievances are due to the comaprisons we have with the college life at kanpur.
Lets c with time this too shall b a regular grind.
Somethings are different between the college n the job. The facilities and the fun goes missing with the job. Can't find time to locate a nearby swimming pool, spend time cursing the bangalore's city traffic, and making adjustments with the family life. After six four years into hostel life its more than hard to get settled with family life.
yes, one more thing miss the feel of linux on my soul...its all windows company...and i can't find time to install linux on my box at home...really busy...with nothing
Looking forward to the life at the first weekend with the job..may b turns interesting..
Post Workshop Hour....time to leave
hmm well free time in the office lets you with a lot of time, atlest initially and i have found time to start my own blog. Training lets me with lots of time and i can't find any other better way than to venture into startting my blog.
All the resources as on the day are courtsey VMoksha.
The classroon training is here for stay and feels boring but i guess is better than to work on a project. Louis is cool to work along and its fun as well. The sole grievances are due to the comaprisons we have with the college life at kanpur.
Lets c with time this too shall b a regular grind.
Somethings are different between the college n the job. The facilities and the fun goes missing with the job. Can't find time to locate a nearby swimming pool, spend time cursing the bangalore's city traffic, and making adjustments with the family life. After six four years into hostel life its more than hard to get settled with family life.
yes, one more thing miss the feel of linux on my soul...its all windows company...and i can't find time to install linux on my box at home...really busy...with nothing
Looking forward to the life at the first weekend with the job..may b turns interesting..
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