Some more ideas

It just struck me that we will make a series called the maha America ( like Maha Bharat )

Where we will put Super man as Arjuna, Batman as Yudhistir,

 

I am still in search of the hundred Kauravas. Compiling then from Marvel , Diamond and GI Joes series. I believe the GI Joes will give me a lot of hints.

 

Also a second thing that I want to go ahead is the idea of having a political super hero , Some body like the hero of the movie call Nayak , where I will put in ideas like how to play politics the smarter way.

 

Make this small Sons of bit**es realize  that there ploys could go against them at times. I have also thought about the first plan

 

There will be a state , where one of the districts have gone beyond control and whichever Superintendent of Police goes there becomes corrupt. Now what I do is send one new SP every few months. He goes there and starts his activities within the first few weeks.

Catches some of the goons, puts them in the locker and beats the shit out of them. Then he sells himself slowly to the local guys, he starts playing tricks like creating suspicion and fights among rival gangs, Attends there parties.

Then he starts selling himself to both of them and by the time they both figure out , he is transferred  . This thing is done repeatedly until these guys are out of their will to buy the SP and also realize the ploy . Till then they would have realized there is a smarter player sitting at the top and then we start our bad politics.

This is how I am planning to play the political games through the comics

Last day of June

I have now completed over one and half months of blogging. A lot of blogs written , and lot of ideas thrown here and there. I think I need to make some of them concrete.

 

Yesterday I got this wonderful idea. I want to make a movie about one scrupulous Indian politician who dies early with a lot of money and hidden income loitered across banks all around the world.

He wants them to be utilized now after his death. His soul then comes back to find all the things he did all along his life and he is finally transformed into a good soul but he cannot do anything about it.

All his dreams that people don’t like him and all his followers are just another bunch  of apple polishers come true and he sees the live drama of the agony , pain anguish and corruption that he has left behind as legacy.

 

 I actually am confused between showing his soul getting transformed or continue him on his path even after death. With increased powers and greed he comes back to become the invincible politicians.

 

 

 

Ban Ultimatum

After having thought for a long time, we reached a conclusion that yes, Ban is the new age thinker. The new revelation of this age,

 

He watched Dashavatar very minutely and with a lot of passion put behind. He now believes in the fact that yes, for a man like Rama to win any war he needs people like Hanuman , basically a man without any connection with his own family  , a perfect bachelor devoted to your service so that you can enjoy your life peacefully.

 

That is one thing that will happen over the ages , and it is still happening, look at countries like America, they need to have a country like India or a country like China. Yes, major towns in both these nations have reached a certain amount of world class touch to them and have some very costly places to live at, but the whole country still dreams the great America dream. They feel languished in this prison called India, given the first chance they will flee this nation. This looks like a sentence put on us for the past lives crimes.

How on earth will you explain to the Indian youth who watches a serial like Friends , or going back to the 60’s the portrayal of the average American middles class through serials like “I dream of Genie”, “Different Strokes”, Fresh Prince of Bel Air” ( I mean a bunch of them )  ,How will you explain to the Indian youth that they are enjoying a good quality of life.

 

Nope, we live in a state where we don’t know, whether staying back in this country is out of love or just accepting a second mother land. Well, for most Indians , all they want to do is live the American dream whether it is in this country or that, Our ideas, our lifestyles, our attitudes have been at the mercy of that nation that sits there in the western side of the hemisphere  providing the best for its average citizen.

 

Yesterday we went to this place called ITPL, which is some where on the outskirts of Bangalore. One thing I have noticed is as far as the private constructions go, there is a lot of development, but if one were to look at the condition of the roads out there, they are very badly planned and not under proper maintenance.

 

I don’t believe it, if you complain that the older towns have so crooked infrastructure and town planning that it is not possible to lay new roads, that is acceptable to an extent but if you are putting no attention to the new roads getting created, you are doing a crime for the future generations.

The government is willing to say only one thing

“See, we not only neglect the villages, we also do it with the towns”

That keeps their votes banks happy.

 

Indian Politicians have reached the pinnacle of politics, Now development, planning, strategizing against another country and self motivation are not part of their jobs ,they only know one thing and that is politics. Oppositions only job is to oppose no matter whether there is any good out of the policy, and the one in power has only one job to subdue them.

They have become the perfect politicians who only deal with politics

Ideas, ideas and ideas

I was think ing about making an app which will be called the face search engine , that is given a portrait, it will go and search the web and show you pics of people who look like you .

 

So this might be a very costly thing to do but not the worst possible application I believe. But people who look alike could have groups of their own . Their could be new communities etc .

 

 

Don’t know whether the idea is feasible but lets see, We are thinking about the logistics of this project

Highway construction in Bomabay

Recently, one of my friends who came to Bangalore from New York was astonished to see people buying stuff worth 6k to 7k as their monthly shopping from a local Food World. This is not only comparable to what they as a family of four buy in the United States, it was also much more than that. She did not understand how so soon things have changed. I kept my trials and efforts to a bare minimal since I did not understand the phenomenon much over the years. It has all happened in front of my eyes.

I have seen a Tiger Woods, A Roger Federer , Sachin Tendulkars cricket career and my viewership started at the same time and now when it is time for him to retire, even I feel the same from my post near the television. I have seen them all , but how on earth could I explain to a friend who has not gone 4 yours ago to the united States that India has seen some tremendous growth in the consumer market and the American companies who till date only considered the developed countries as a playground for their businesses are having serious board room discussions as to whether they have missed their chances or not or whether they should start playing soon.

Walmart the clever guys, have already started some training classes for future retail managers. I am serious about it that once you have a good start in the Asian markets with Walmart it is a journey worth travelling.

 

But inspite of all these, finally when we switched on the television , I realized that not all things  are as good as you are made to feel. ( courtesy , India Today , Outlook etc ) . There has been as many 136 events or mishaps on a slippery highway outside Mumbai in the last four days, That is like one every hour.

 

There has been 7 deaths in the last week and that is all in the name of development. I believe small time corruption is alright as long it is a few hundred rupees, but when the broader good and projects worth crores of rupees ( nowadays they touch billions of dollars and not even rupees ) , there should be some amount of accountability . There is a dire need to stop evil people , politicians and bureaucrats from usurping all the public money. We have people in politics with 1000 of crores of rupees in their pockets.

 

That is not a myth anymore and there are instances when foreign banks who have tried to disclose the accounts to the public but the top brass has always stopped them from doing so. This is a astounding statement of the state of development in the nation. Actually development is happening but at a slower pace, in an un planned manner , in a whimsical nightmare.

 

Too fast no where

Sketch on June 22 2008

5 minute Management course

FIVE MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE

Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.'
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,
'Who was that?'
'It was Bob the next door neighbour,' she replies.
'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'

Moral of the story:
If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.   

Lesson 2:

A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.
The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'
The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?' The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.' Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'
 
Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.  

Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out.
The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.'
 'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk.
'I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.' Puff! She's gone.

'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want to be in Hawaii , relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.' Puff! He's gone.
 
'OK, you're up,' the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, 'I want those two back in the office after lunch.'

 Moral of the story:

Always let your boss have the first say.

Lesson 4

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'
 The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
 
Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull. 'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.' 'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.' The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there..

Lesson 6

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your     friend.(3) And when you're in deep shit, but warm and comfortable, it's best to keep     your mouth shut!

 

Chocolat

I watched in complete awe, The whole idea behind the movie was the exhibition of a  spirit. A spirit of a man who dared to open a Chocolaterie in a remote town in France where the local mayor and the people are not tolerant towards any excesses. The people of the town believe that indulgence is bad and that pleasure in any form is not acceptable in the house of god. Even the sins you commit by eating chocolate.

 

The whole idea and the imagery , the location , the sets, and the colors chosen were vivid reflections of what we go through in our lives. The content is very powerful and no wonder the movie won so many nominations and Oscars. With star power like Johnny Depp and Alred Molina, the movies goes a long way in terms of visual perfection and overall presentation.

The whole idea to present to you that the religion as a shackle on your leg can take you now where near reverence for it, rather it is the idea of tolerance that is the backbone of the idea of religion. It is the sanctity of choice that one makes in his life that is to be preserved at the alter of religion.

Well there are hundreds of books and pages that have been dedicated to the same topic and I don’t do any extra justcice to the idea . Lasse Hallstrom , who also won a Oscar for his side rolein the Cider House Rules  is the director of this movie . I believe that with time in hand he has still a long way to go and many more movies to gift to this world.

 

Currently some of the movies in production are Hachiko, Sammy and Dear John. Eagerly waiting forward for them.

All the symbols that usually appear in Makefiles

$@ The file name of the target.

$% The target member name, when the target is an archive member.

$< The name of the first dependency.

$? The names of all the dependencies that are newer than the target, with spaces between them.

$^ and $+
The names of all the dependencies, with spaces between them. For dependencies which are archive members,
only the member named is used (see section Using make to Update Archive Files). The value of $^ omits
duplicate dependencies, while $+ retains them and preserves their order.

$* The stem with which an implicit rule matches (see section How Patterns Match).

$(@D) and $(@F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $@.

$(*D) and $(*F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $*.

$(%D) and $(%F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $%.

$( The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $<.

$(^D) and $(^F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $^.

$(+D) and $(+F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $+.

$(?D) and $(?F)
The directory part and the file-within-directory part of $?

Ai hairathey

Ai hairathey aashiqui , jagah aah mat.

Hariharan at his best. Guru is one movie that stands out in the series of movies that Abhishek Bachchan made with is one pack ab.

 

1:05 am in the morning with me on a fone conference . Having put it to mute I have nothing else to do other than this song which is the only one running currently. The other songs have somehow vanished from the musicindiaonline servers.

 

Mighty busy these days. Today we went to this small place called the Haka in RMZ. For 99 a plate for the buffet , it was a treat for many of us. The food was ok and the non veg was the main attraction. I did not like the over crowded ness of the place.

In India, anything good comes up , and soon it is marred by the population  , huge population  of this country. ATMs made banking easy and soon you stand in line. Deccan started a new revolution of cheap flights and soon a whole crowd made your life through serpentine queues and waiting in the airports a difficult time. I even saw a bunch of boys fighting over the plane luggage a few days back. In one Deccan flight I saw a handkerchief in  one of the seats to show that that seat was occupied and the owner had left to attend natures call.

 

Well, when one comedy formula succeeds , ten others come out to eat the charm away, when Golmaal released, it sparked out, Dhol, Dhamaal, One two three, krazzy 4. Why will people not generalize us?

Monday morning , 3:55 in the morning

Slept so much on the Sunday , that now I dont get any sleep.
Well all in good. Just finished the two editions of Saira Khans, discovery of Pakistan .
She starts off from Karachi to Lahore to Islamabad, from Begum Nawaiz Khan to the artists life in Karachi to the red light area in Lahore, she did take me to a complete tour of the country,

She got down for a tea somewhere between Islamabad and Hunza, the stares she received and the way she interpreted it, trust me, will take this to folklore,
The whole thing came too late, if you were to ask me. From a candid interview of the Premier Pervez Musharaf to the Imarn Khan on road in a protest , I think this two episodes elevates my view of Discovery Chanel by many a mile.
The journalism involved and the message is so strong . They way she ends the journey in the valley of Kashmir paying her respect to her fathers tomb , nothing more visibly stong and moving has ever been made on television. I will happily pay 200 rupees for these episodes in any given theater. Trust me

I took this one from
http://wowblog.rediffiland.com/blogs/2006/11/27/Interview.html

But could help give you the best ones
Interview questions

So next time when u go for an inteview be prepared for following....

Story I
E: Do u have a boyfriend?
C: I have.
E: Is he working Locally?
C: No. He is working Overseas.
E: Sorry, my company cannot employ u!
C: Why?
E: U will not be able to settle down here permanently. And my Company
don't
want to pay extra expenses on the Overseas calls just because of u.







Story IV
E: Any girlfriends?
C: Yes.
E: Is she pretty?
C: Yes.
E: Is she your first lover?
C: Yes.
E: Sorry, we can't employ you because you lack of fighting spirit.


Story V
E: Any girlfriends?
C: Yes.
E: Is she your first lover?
C: No. Have a few already.
E: Sorry, my company cannot employ you because you are a "grasshoper"!
(Job hoper lah!)






To end with a philosophical note: You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.......

Some other sites with excellent C puzzles interface

I tried this today
http://www.hudihudi.com/placement/c/cadvanced_1.html

This looks like a whole bunch of people working dedicated to get it working. There are number of questions and a lot of puzzles too. Slowly the art of asking questions will rest on the employers choice of aptitude that correctly catches the persons view point. When in need of an employee with a good retention power these questions can come in handy as all they do is ask questions which have a standard solution.
If there were alternate solutions to most of them, it might have had a better impact. Still, this site currently ranks on top of the other site , due to the inlinks it has, which is the best criteria for the Google page rank algorithm that we know.

Ban Supremacy

I know I cannot exhaust the Ban series by Bourne names. Actually, Robert Ludlum did not write any more Bourne issues after Ultimatum. He died .

It was Eric Van Lustbader who continued the legacy , he even named it legacy. Let me see, where I can take my Ban. Well, Bans latest includes a lot of stuff, over the weekend he came with this cool idea that he should pursue management only to enter the HRs of big companies which cannot run well due to attrition. He plans to provide them with quarters just like Government offices. You know of this place called the SBI quarters, The AG quarters. There are so many of them.
He went to see his friend in IIT Madras, which has not yet changed its name.Thank you IIT.

Well, Ban says that the students loved the campus and he too was impressed by it and when they enter the jobs, they find it difficult to imagine a future where there is no greenery. He says that the grass on the other side will always look greener since there is no grass on this side.

That was a strong statement of Banalism. He is simply great. Well, he also fretted over the fact that our children will be called the children of concrete , all their small falls will be on conrete, there pains more deeper and the wounds indelible.

So much for a good job. He also came up with this idea that soon he will be able to open up a restaurant that will be clean but no ambience , that will keep the people coming for sure. According to him it is the external show that actually intimidates people. In between 2000-2005, software engineers were actually earning more compared to the the rate of infaltion and before the devaluation of money ( or Rupee ) to what it is now and they were eating out more often . But now with terrible times ahead us, we are not in the mood for any, so Ban thinks that times are ripe for him to come up with the ideas for a restaurant.
Actually most restaurants in Bangalore do come up with this theme in mind. Small, simple and comparable prices.

Today we ate in one , called Sethji , some where closr to Domlur, quite interior but cosy good, and cheap place.

Ban ended the day in Sethji on starting motor bike lift service from Airports. which would charge the customers less and for people with faster needs and less luggage, I think this business would flourish, though we did not have the energy to counter argue anything here, he won the field comprehensively.

One more mistake about blogging I learnt

Today I went to this friends place to check out his new room. Well guess what , he was spending time or trying to spend time on an idle Sunday afternoon by blogging. He was actually doing it on Wordpress.

Though Wordpress actually hosts some of the most famous blogs but it seems that the widgets for wordpress have to integrated with quite a bit of negotiation for you. Many of us are not conversant with HTML to the extent of making things as we want. So the world of better or good looking blogs will be left at the mercy of Google helping its users.

Well coming to the point of the blog, I actually changed the name of the post for which I was getting the most number of clicks and slowly the growth of the blog has climbed down.
Last week I got about 500 hits a day and now it has come down to about 20 a day. So that explains a lot of things, You should not change the names, trust me, it hurts when a month long publicity effort actually goes down the drain.

I went to Higging Bothams today in search of this pens with flat nibs , the ones that are required for calligraphy, I actually wanted to go to Gangarams on MG road but it was closed ( it seems it is closed on all Sundays ) . I ened up in Higgin Bothams. I will paste or put my pictures for flat nibbed pens in the next post .

Sketch on June 15 2008

Sketch for the day

I will paste the pictures of the pencils I got today . There is a store called Sapna Book stores, on the 80 feet road here in Bangalore. They sell this carbon pencils. I got hold of them ,
Here is one pic I drew

Friday Blues

Well, what is it in for me.
Fridays are good, but not the best thing for me.
I have to actually think about working on a Saturday and half the weeks I end up deciding working . I am from Hyderabad but dont stay there much as I have to travel throughout the year. So the weekends in Hyderabad are lost on stuff that are left undone on the weekdays.
Well, this is the case now in Bangalore too. I have friends to catch up with, there are some pending promises to myself. There is work left and the body is giving up too soon.
It is 9:28 in the evening here on a Friday and my friends have started to arrive. I have this pending task from the day and will have to finish them overnight,
Morning there is a Cricket Match in NGEF. Hopefully I will make it.
Today I went to the Google office , cool, it is really good to see people working in an environment so conducive to growth and better lifestyle . Let it be for a small time, let it be pseudo , but man is a product of its environment. It is not a traditional office at all. They say that Mountain View office is even better.

They have dorms where they have cute beds and there are beautiful things every where. Employee comes first , it really does

C and C++ compilations, questions , puzzles and tricks

Hi All,

I know you would have come to this page after some searching online. I am currently ranked 23 in the c puzzles section. So if you have come to mine , I will direct you to the series of puzzles pages that I have made.

Actually, I would request you to open the May archive for 2008,

 

And these are lists that I have, please try all of them if you want to really blow away your interviewers minds ( one secret, even he read these , I have found requests to hide these ) . But the questions are so extensive that you may not be able to remember all of them. It is like the old days, the school exams, where you knew the books from where the questions can come but you are not able gulp all of them (.

·  C++ #30

·  C++ #29

·  C++ #28

·  C++ #27

·  C++ #26

·  C++ #26

·  C++ #25

·  C++ #24

·  C++ #23

·  C++ #22

·  C++ #21

·  C++ #20

·  C++ #19

·  C++ #18

·  C++ #17

·  C++ #15

·  C++ #16

·  C++ #14

·  C++ #13

·  C++ #12

·  C++ #11

·  C puzzles #2

·  C puzzles

·  C++ puzzles #10

·  C++ puzzles #9

·  C++ puzzles #8

·  C++ puzzles #7

·  C++ puzzles #6

·  C++ puzzles #5

·  C++ puzzles #4

·  C++ puzzles #3

·  C++ puzzles #2

·  C++ puzzles and interview questions

 

Google channel on You tube

Did you know that ? I don’t think so ,

There is a dedicated channel for Google on You tube , So joining google might some day entitle you for some media stuff. That is always a dream for anyone working on something boring. Isntit. Media is instant recognition for your work.

 

 

Try this for Google channel

http://www.youtube.com/google

 

 

These guys pretty much have anything you ever wanted

Why men are what we are today

Why the men of today have to excel in everything to get to be his darlings best. Why is that the most faithful of all , the Indian girl , is now having hard time convincing her hubby that she is faithful to him. Why is it that we are in constant fear of a neighbor or  a helping class mate .

 

The problem lies in our earlier generation, they wanted boys boys and boys. Now there are only boys and boys and boys everywhere you go.

If the plight of the average good student in India were to be looked at , you will find that beauty and brain does not go together is something they have accepted long back. They have tied it to their dreams, hopes and logic.

 

So they accept it that they will not meet their beauties in school and then in college. In an expectation to meet that fairy , he keeps improving himself and without any  contact of the opposite sex reaches adulthood. He is not honed and polished for a girl yet . Now he enters jobs. With mounting family pressure as soon as he starts earning he has to forget everything and give up his own dreams, and works in a good place where again he never meets any  girls or if he does he comes to know the fact that no girl will marry somebody of her own stature, especially in India, so she will either be engaged or out of the league.

 

Now think of it, this guy who definitely considers himself superior since his family and relatives says so finally reaches a marriageable age. He is all high with expectations that it better be good , and marries some girl who finally has had a good youth and teenage and a nice one or two affairs and finally seeking some marriageable material, comes to the decision that it better be this average looking but hard working and if she has already considered US not a good place to settle.

 

Now this guy has to fight all prejudices and excel in everything , you know why?

That is the stage in India. We read a lot, we found out about the lifestyles of human beings like us, we keep watching them on TV, we read daily, and we come to the conclusion that better  life is not for us. We the youth in India are to be the exploited class unless we are born with a silver spoon. Our parents were not able to afford a good living for us, good looks don’t come to us naturally, good education is sometimes taken at the parents compromises.

 

Don’t give me examples for people who have done well from average families, that is the worst possible logic ever. Bedtime stories and inspirations don’t come from miracles. The average mans life has to get a boost. He does not earn money to get a fair and lovely and look good. He is not in a state to take care of himself at all and all he expects is in the end on girl to be his sole companion. Now there is a dearth of them and he comes to believe that whatever goes.

 

No! that is one mistake . Marriage for the sake of it and that to whatever comes is one self immolation act that many men in India do. Women who expect too much from them and who whine and complain and compare only because there are hundreds of options available to them is what Indian men have to face today. Dating is still a fantasy in India and it will run around like this till my son in young.

 

 

I know, one might say that it is just a single mans frustrations. Do you think what I am saying is my personal view. If you are  a guy you would have agreed upon this a hundred times over on what I said and if you are girl you need to ask somebody with honesty.

Working on a Thursday

Not that many software engineers in India actually look forward for a weekend or something like that. We actually have less places to go around when you really come to see it from my eyes.

 

Malls are as disgusting as it could be. They are places full of sham and wrong perceptions. Beauty of a place is still judged in India by the quality of the tiles and marble you chose to put there. Average malls will slowly start being a regular hangout. We Indians have been hoarding for a long time and we have it deep inour minds that yes we have to save for old age. There is nothing called as old age security in our country. People are able to provide for the poor children what do you expect to be done for the old in India.

 

Through all the hype that The news channels create and the IMF report yesterday that Indians are hoarding grains, my question is why on earth do we not feel it. If something develops it becomes to too difficult to sustain. If there is a new road there are hundreds of vehicles. Why being a youth in India you feel cheated. Why not standing in a H1 Visa line not makes you feel patriotic. Why is that you know what is going to happen if you try to make a change. There is no mass thinking and no community intention in this country to keep it where it is. Not all politicians are as bad.

 

I am only hinting at the WE . The WE is bad in this country. Yes, the WE , who will adjust to anything when in happens in a bigger way but small things and petty stuff is all we bother about.
There is a saying in Bengali that you will never see the Elephant moving in front of your eyes but the mosquito that just flew behind your back matters to you . Petty fogging has led us to a country which is now running news channels that will go the extent showing crimes which does not really matter. I have been trying to say this for a long time , that murder coming out of unrequited love is not a crime to be horrified of. That person who did that may not even kill a fly in other times, but smitten in love and crimes of passion are some thing else. They are not the criminals you can fight by showing a news report. If that has to happen it will inspite of all you do.

 

The crime that you need to focus is the crime that we as a country do. How the youth feels in this nation , how it is getting increasingly looked down upon. For an example I went to this building the other day, it seems that old man sitting outside was given instructions that no bachelors allowed. I don’t blame him but the real mistake here is the situation that has been created over the years.

Why so ?

Think about it. I know where the problems all started but it sounds cheap and I will not put it here

Formatting tips for bloggers

Though I am pretty much a novice, but there are some tips that I would like to provide to all.

If you are using the mail to blog feature, the best thing to do will be to send the mails from gmail

You will find that some of the blogs that I have written are much better to look at and the indenting and all are fine. What I did was send those from gmail account.  

 

Well, one more thing, this blog is getting featured in a number of places for C and C++ puzzles. I am now in a dilemma as to pursue my own interests or put in C and C++ puzzles in it.

This is a tough decision for me since this blog has been a brainchild of mine and my source of constant devotion for the last 45 days or so

Olympic dreams

Do you know one thing that hurts being the Indian youth. That is incompetency at levels where it really does not matter but somehow due to a uncertain complex network of rules and an old setup there are consequences from these incompetence.

 

Initially I was only brooding over the fact that India will not be able to host the Olympics in this lifetime of mine. I don’t want to be that old bug when the day comes. I really want to enjoy it if it ever happens.

 

Today I came to know if this abhorring story. The wrestlers who have qualified for the Olympics this year are actually not able to get the milk proteins that they need. All the three of them are vegetarians and they need to fulfill their protein requirements by their own means.

They were also showing the fact that, when the officials are not there , they are given bread to eat and they have resorted to cooking themselves.

Today we will not be able to raise a meal for them but the supplements that they will buy from the market might finally lead to doping charges, ( that’s what the news reports were  ). But tomorrow we will surely point a finger at the officials.

 

 

I seriously request the IOC to stop trying to just fill your duties by merely sending a team and be there for attendance sake, lets try when we are really good. If you are not good, don’t give the winners extra numbers to show off.

 

 

Trying to put ad codes inside your blog body

I will try a new experiment from now on

 

http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/05/adsense-code-in-blogger-post-body.html

This has some tips for how to get your ads inside the body of your blog. I did do some research as to whether it is against the rules of the blogger or the adsense programs.

Since they pretty much give you the control by giving you html edit, I believe there should be no problems from it either.

I will try to see how the ads look in the body of the post.

 

Also if you are thinking about moving from HTML to XML you may want to get hold of this parser that does just that

 

http://blogcrowds.com/resources/parse_html.php

I found this handy in converting some of the HTML site I have personal

Optimization that google themselves suggest

There are pretty much many strong guidelines that one can follow while online , but I believe that these are pretty celver ones.

 

http://adsense.blogspot.com/search/label/Optimization
If you read the first two optimizations that people use , you will find that google has been researching about people and how they use adsense to garner more money for a long time.

People actually, put ads with their content and are make their content in the same color as the ads and that makes some people think that these are publisher created content.

 

Also, some guys will put all the ads just below a welcome message like

“todays top picks”

And that is it ,one is led to believe in its originality.

 

Google conducts regular Webinars all the time to let you know of what all they forbid and what all they really take seriously.

I am always a believer of genuine content though

 

 

My blogs small milestones

Hi All,
I have now completed over a month on Blogger. It has been a tiring and research oriented journey all the way. Now that I am into serious blogging I believe that the human mind is one contraption that makes me start believing in God.

I know some of you will take the argument to a new high but I have started to think about bloggers block. Will that ever strike me since I am never running out of ideas for my blogs. I will soon be posting my 200th blog.

Over this month, I did not have single visitor in the first few days. I kept posting everything about my frustrations in my blog. Since it is a personal journal I believe and there is nothing to hide between me and my blog, I vent my frustrations openly. Today with over 33 days of blogging, 1:05 am in the morning of , June 10 2008, I have got my 1000th visitor.

Though most of them are coming due to my online advertising in groups around the world ,but I still believe if there is genuine content they will keep coming.

C++ is a major barrier between would be engineers and the happening ones. To get to do better stuff with it takes a lot of time and patience but trust me, either you have it or you dont, it is like any other language, beauty in it lies in it inherent mechanism to express a same logic in a much more sound way, just like the way Hemingway , Wordsworth did it with English it will be time for thee logical languages too.
Master craftsmen will keep coming, we will write legacy with these languages one day. Just give it time, English tool thousands of years to give to the world the pleasure it gives now.
To compare a computer language with English , you must be joking, but some part of you agrees, isnt it

Puzzles series 2

51. You are given a set of scales and 12 marbles. The scales are of the old balance variety. That is, a small dish hangs from each end of a rod that is balanced in the middle. The device enables you to conclude either that the contents of the dishes weigh the same or that the dish that falls lower has heavier contents than the other.
The 12 marbles appear to be identical. In fact, 11 of them are identical, and one is of a different weight. Your task is to identify the unusual marble and discard it. You are allowed to use the scales three times if you wish, but no more.

Note that the unusual marble may be heavier or lighter than the others. You are asked to both identify it and determine whether it is heavy or light.

52. You are a bug sitting in one corner of a cubic room. You wish to walk (no flying) to the extreme opposite corner (the one farthest from you). Describe the shortest path that you can walk.

53. A mythical city contains 100,000 married couples but no children. Each family wishes to “continue the male line”, but they do not wish to over-populate. So, each family has one baby per annum until the arrival of the first boy. For example, if (at some future date) a family has five children, then it must be either that they are all girls, and another child is planned, or that there are four girls and one boy, and no more children are planned. Assume that children are equally likely to be born male or female.

54. There are 100 light bulbs lined up in a row in a long room. Each bulb has its own switch and is currently switched off. The room has an entry door and an exit door. There are 100 people lined up outside the entry door. Each bulb is numbered consecutively from 1 to 100. So is each person.
Person No. 1 enters the room, switches on every bulb, and exits. Person No. 2 enters and flips the switch on every second bulb (turning off bulbs 2, 4, 6, …). Person No. 3 enters and flips the switch on every third bulb (changing the state on bulbs 3, 6, 9, …). This continues until all 100 people have passed through the room.
What is the final state of bulb No. 64? And how many of the light bulbs are illuminated after the 100th person has passed through the room?

55. You and I are to play a competitive game. We shall take it in turns to call out integers. The first person to call out “50” wins. The rules are as follows:
• The player who starts must call out an integer between 1 and 10, inclusive;
• A new number called out must exceed the most recent number called by at least one and by no more than 10.

Do you want to go first, and if so, what is your strategy?
56. You are standing at the centre of a circular field of radius R. The field has a low wire fence around it. Attached to the wire fence (and restricted to running around the perimeter) is a large, sharp-fanged, hungry dog. You can run at speed v, while the dog can run four times as fast. What is your running strategy to escape the field?

57. Why is that if p is a prime number bigger than 3, then p2-1 is always divisible by 24 with no remainder?

58. You have a chessboard (8×8) plus a big box of dominoes (each 2×1). I use a marker pen to put an “X” in the squares at coordinates (1, 1) and (8, 8) - a pair of diagonally opposing corners. Is it possible to cover the remaining 62 squares using the dominoes without any of them sticking out over the edge of the board and without any of them overlapping? You cannot let the dominoes stand on their ends.

59. How many consecutive zeros are there at the end of 100! (100 factorial). How would your solution change if there problem were in base 5? How about in Binary?

60. You're a farmer. You're going to a market to buy some animals. On the market there are 3 types of animals for sale. You can buy:

Horses for £10 each, goats for £1 each and ducks, you get 8 of these per bunch and each bunch costs £1.

The aim is to acquire 100 animals at the cost of £100, what is the combination of horses, goats and duck that allows you to do this? (you must buy at least one of each.)

61. A man has built three houses. Nearby there are gas water and electric plants. The man wishes to connect all three houses to each of the gas, water and electricity supplies.

Unfortunately the pipes and cables must not cross each other. How would you connect each of the 3 houses to each of the gas, water and electricity supplies?

62. How many squares are there on a chessboard? Can you extend your technique to calculate the number of rectangles on a chessboard?

63. There is a round table and 12 chairs around it. 12 coffee mugs are there on the table in front of chairs. Three persons can sit to any random position and drink the coffee in front of him. Another person then can fill one coffee mug. These three persons can move to two chairs either left or right and can drink the coffee again. How the other person will make sure that six mugs are always filled.

64. There is an array of “n” elements and there are “1” to “n-1” numbers are stored. So which number occurred double time?

65. There are three tires, each of which can go for some distance, let x, y, and z. How long you can go with these tires?

66. There is a number which ends with the “6”, like “6”. If we multiply the number with “4” then six moves to most significant digit and all other digits remains same. What is the number?

Indi Joes

I had written a post a few days ago about the Indi Joes in the RMZ , though I was not very positive about the place but the buffets in Indijoes Old madras road are pretty cheap ( 125 bucks )

I did not know that on the day I wrote about it, So hopefully you guys can tune your quality sense a bit if you want to take office people out once in a while, Since it is mostly the gathering that matters and not the stuff that enters your stomach ( now , now, dont shy away )

 

Well,

Today I want to write about Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull. The Inca and Mayan civilization seems to be the American answer to the mysticism of the east. Nope we wont allow you to rob us of that. I am Indian and so I have the extra mystic  powers ok and we will not argue over that. Spielberg and Harrison Ford have done the swan song. They put everything they could,

 

A family reunion ,  a bomb explosion, a trans continental shift in scenes, a treasure hunt, a little bit of the alien pinch, a little bit of betrayal, a vamp with the guts, a tarzan act, a father son union, the reckless fight, the Mummy stuff , like lust of gold and the bugs . Yes the bugs, this time red ones.

 

So almost everything we wanted to see when we were in Class X . Still it is good entertainment for parents taking their children to the movies on the weekend since most of the Hindi movies in an attempt to get all kinds of people and to keep the Bhaiyya jee mass happy will end up making a movie where there will be scenes far more inappropriate than a hollywood movie at times for a family entertainment, I believe movies like Indy 4 will definitely earn more in Indian markets than Bollywood movies. Can you believe that people spend money to go and see movies like Saawariya, My sister had bought a DVD of it with high aspirations and expectations. When the result is so bad that the difference between your small expectations and huge loss you suffer make a gap and void that needs to filled with movies of substance.

 

Well, Zee movies is coming up with 5 movies from Akiro Kurosawa. Be there

Bengali magazine online

I dont know whether I will be able to pull this down in the end, but running an online magazine for the bengali community is what I have in my mind. I checked this old one out,

http://www.shatorupa.com/v001n006/

 The intentions are always good and we all show to the world how good we are at the inauguration part and then the whole plan goes for a toss. I am trying to go online with Bengali magazine , mostly like Anandamela. Since I am pretty sure that if I go over to the editors office, they might as well throw this idea out of the window , blaming me of charging them of not having released magazines over the last so many years. Soon we will enter the next decade of the 21 st century and to not have on Bengali magazine, it is just like our ministers in bengal , who know how to do the opening ceremony with pomp ans show and a lot of talk about the greatness and culture of the place which can actaulyl get the Nobel medal lost.

Lets not brood over the past, and sulking is what we expatriat bengalis know the best, Starting with an idea to go adsense I have come a long way figuring out stuff about the net and the our language now laguishes to a perishable extent. We need to revolutionize the process of leading a life where working for a private company should not be the end of the road and the glory should not be restricted to acquiring a two bed room flat somewhere in the town. The youth should be directly resposible for not having the vision beyond family. Yes, we know family has been missing out a lot on life, We go abroad and find out that we as human beings lead a far inferior quality of life. But things wont change at the rate we are gulping the solutions which may be not be the right ones for us.

I have sent letters to places about taking up the job of maintaing a site where can actually have one childrens magazine monthly once atleast online for the Bengali community online. If you have some how read upto this line, please do help me with contacts who would be ready to do so. I dont want any direct contact but just want the idea driven. Also , soon I will poll on my blog for people to come up with ideas for what needs to be done for the language to get one step ahead.

Adsense for search

I got my SE Optimization report from google adsense this month. They have asked me to add Adsense for search on my blog too. There seems to be some problem trying to get the code for it

 

If you come over to the point in the picture, you may have to give a name to your search engine, but whenever I do that I get an error box that tells me that Error in the operation and that I should come back some other time.

This is sometimes frustrating. Since my blog is not a hot pick in terms of Adsense search and other niche blogging areas I am still getting hits because of the C puzzles , so SEO still not a choice for me because I dont have a high traffic blog yet.

 

One news that I would like to share is that google has reduced the effective area on the ads that will get your click through in the ad banners. This was done in November last year , This actually has raised a concern over most of the Adsense forums, since incomes have dropped for many ex adsense fans. I am not bothered since being new to it, everything is just for fun.

 

Google shares have also dropped over the period since last November when they did cutoff the actual area of the ads that are clickable.

How to reduce the size of an url

http://tinyurl.com/

 

I foudn this, site, which does that. Mainly they will take huger URL that at times become non manageable for sites which actually have page trees that go all the way down to the wire, you may have to be reduce it since, then there are websites that have limitations on their number of characters and also , when cutting and pasting them you have a good chance of missing some of the characters.

 

This is handy in cases where you are uploading img srcs online in your html file.

Puzzle for June 8 2008

There is a ring road and there are some gas stations around it. Each gas station are some distance apart. Gas at particular gas station cab be less, exact or more to reach the next gas station.A vehicle needs to complete the round and gas at all the gas stations is sufficient enough to cover the full distance. Let vehicle mileage is “X”. From where will you start to complete the full distance.C1, C2, C3, C4, …, Cn are the amount of gas at gas stations and D1, D2, D3, …Dn are distances between gas stations.

Senior people in Software now in Jail

Software people are not only eating jobs in US, they are eating the criminals share too.

Some techies are not nabbed for having extorted money from people using techie stuff which they learned from Hollywood movies.

We are not inspired by Holly wood when it comes to bollywood movies, but even in crime.

 

See !! if you put too much technical funda in a movie . Hindi movies will show you a lot of crime, murder, cheating, gore , what ever you want, but they will never show you the means. If you are not an Indian or do not know of Hindi movies, let me tell you a fact. For a long time, whenever the hero and heroine had to do some scene in which the distance between the two were to reduce to negative lenghts, you wont believe they would outsource it to two flowers touching each other, or two birds doing the coochycoo act.

And that kept me wondering for a long time until ofcourse it was a well made english movie of the azure kind that completely came to my rescue.

 

Now, hollywood movies put too much research on whatever they do. Movies like Shawshank redemption completely  removes all chances of a convict escaping any more. Shit. Now these techies are in for asking for money which Software jobs no longer provide. With super smart engineers all around the place and super duper HR to find out what it takes to get more done with less input , it is difficult for the software engineer of today .

With no chance of ghoos, these softies took the hard way , and an ability to wield hardware like knives and stuff like that, they started extorting money. I could also tell you of other crimes that are waiting to  happen if this mass frustration is not soothed soon.

Ban Identity

Ban is the man for  the day . On any idle Saturday afternoon when you have nothing  to do , ( i mean you can avoid the small stuff if you want ) Banalism go out of the way to help you save yourself from the clutches of persistent boredom of being a techie who had planned to do something on a Saturday and eventually losing his head on Friday night to have listened to lound music and a night out.

The way people take rest nowadays, we are definitely not giving any rest to that poor brain of ours. My laptop processor gets more rest than that slimy piece of cake that god put inside my head somewhere in the early 80's of the last century.

 

Well, Ban came up with this horrendous idea of planning some like FIIT JEE for United States, we have a common friend in the US. The though train went something like this.

 

"There is nothing to be done in the stock market, we cannot rely on other people doing their business properly and equally pray with them for his business to run successfully so that you make money from the stocks, it is essentially eating commission for either your service or your investment. "

That fired some of us up, there goes Saturday afternoon boredom .

 

2nd statement

"There is nothing to be done in the web field either, it is actually a business like a man buying a book or a camera online or a newspaper selling its stuff , or a automobile company advertisement , that we can make money online , but that happens only when a real business happens "

F word, he is right! we are just thinking about making a percentage of ther real profit and that is why with Googles power it does not make enough to be in the top 50 Fortune companies. It actually makes commissions from other peoples businesses.

 

Shit, that just put many of us off track .

 

Ban's ideas

"Our common friend in US should start up a small school in US, where he will teach children of NRI's out there the culture and history of India, from a very beginning stage he will have to do it, later on he will go up to the level of starting a Brilliants, or Bansal class for SAT exams in US. Actually it is kewl idea if you ask me,"

 

Well, that was pretty  much it . Since I am not a very good narrator at exactly what happened after that, but the stuff was pretty much deserving enough to beat any Aaj tak coverage by miles,

 

Today they were showing Amitabh Bachchan on a shopping spree in Bangkok which turned out to be him looking for some small token to remember Bangkok by , and the questions thrown at him were

 

"What are you doing here ?" <-- the question was getting asked in a shopping mall

Ans:"Shopping"

"Exactly what are you looking for"

Ans:"Anything to remember my visit here"

 

And then the camera man will focus on the reporter,

 

"We can see , Mr Big B here on a shopping spree, lets follow him ,............ Bangkok is famous for ... and .... and... and... so whata must he be buying ... lets see ... hmmm. ummm. .....well ..blah blah ,

 

I guess, we need to invent a new word now. Blah blah is not even remotely near to what these guys are upto.

 

June 7 2008, Google Adsense Servers down

আজ শনিবার রাত । ADSENSE সর‌ম্ভারটা ডাউন আছে , কিন্তু যেইটা আমার ভালো লাগেনি তা হোলো Google অনেক গুলী ভাষাতেই এইটা রিপোর্ট করেছে কিম্তু বাংলা তে না । এর জন্য দায়ী আমরা । আমরা কোনোদিন কি সেই গৌরব ফিরাতে পারব ।
একটু একটু করে আজকে এটাই লিখতে পারলাম ।

Puzzle for June 7 2008

How can this be true? Have a look at the picture. All the lines are straight, the shapes that make up the top picture are the same as the ones in the bottom picture so where does the gap come from?

SEO tip

Finally, I came to know this.

 

The first thing about SEO is get your URL to reflect what you write. Currently my blog is listed in the top 22 of the results for C puzzles and it is difficult to get exposure this way. I seem to be having better material than many people online since the ones I have on C++ are really the result of studying C++ and seeing it work in major projects.  But the URL seems to be the road block in my case.

Try searching for C puzzles and you will find all urls with relevant names to be on the top 10 list.

But the ones in the second page have less material than I have but the URL seems to be getting in more traffic for the same. In the mean time I am seeing a reducing influx over the last few weeks. Yesterday the number of unique visitors I got is less than 10 and it was as high as 33 in the middle of the week. Today I complete one month of Blogging.

 

Tomorrow is a sunday and I am planning to put more puzzles with time.

 

 

Trolls online

I found this interesting piece of information. Tryhttp://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2008/04/sb-gobbinathan-copied-my-post-word-for.html

This guy Peter Chen has clearly been writing some cool stuff online. All he does his help people or first time bloggers and trust me there are a lot of sites which help bloggers learn the tips and tricks of business, but this one is genuine stuff. He is a retiree  using Google Adsense to add to this pension money.

 

He usually ranks 1 in most of the searches for help on blogging ( depends on what you are searching though ) . Well, he found this troll out and has pointed it out on his blog. There are internet trolls who roam around the net and answer peoples queries with genuine solutions from other peoples blog. This is not harmful as long as you are not eating away some one elses buck.

 

Anyway, What I am searching now is indentation issues with blogger, whether there is any such thing as indentation in blogger and also get my blog into a 3 column stuff.

My first site

I registered paragpaul.com finally.

I have it ready , now. I am trying to see some Bengali sites that are available. The ones that started in 1998 ( as early as that ) have   a good interface  but nothing much is getting written out there . We need more people who can contribute.

Profuse Host, where I have set my site is allowing me 200 MB which I believe is good enough as long as the articles written are new and there is not much hype and hoopla over the stuff out there.

 

I am trying to get some people under salary to come up with a magazine online. Some thing  Bengali. Though attempts at parabaas.com to translate great authors is always there but in all these attempts we forget the original Bengalis who want to read in Bengali.

http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/

 

Look at this one above, you will find a nice interface and lot of articles on the history and stuff like , that is like a school project where the editor needs to fill up with something, well that was good enough  for the years 2000 – 2001  , but now the period  is different . Expatriate Bengalis have now started to mingle more than ever and we need better interfaces than this.  

 

Some more

এইবার সামথিং ডিফারেন্ট । তার মানে আমি এখন থেকে ইংরাজী শব্দ গূলী কে বাংলা তে লিখবো ।
- পরাগ

First Bangla typing experience

বাংলা লিখতে পারছী যে ঐইটাই বেশী ।

 

Some more puzzles

30. This is the logic game of Mastermind. If you haven't played it before, here's how it works. There is a board that is sectioned off into many rows, each row having four slots in which pegs can be inserted. There are six different colors of pegs: green, red, yellow, brown, dark-blue, and light-blue. There are two players, A and B. First, A makes up some arrangement of four pegs along a row, the colors and ordering of which are his or her choice. Then B spends the rest of the game trying to guess what A's arrangement is. For every guess that B makes, A will respond by putting some black and/or white pegs right next to A's guess; the black and white pegs are interpreted as follows
• Black keypeg = one of B's pegs is the correct color and in the correct position
• White keypeg = one of the B's pegs is the correct color but in the wrong position
So if B manages to guess all four colors and positions correctly, A will respond with four black keypegs, and the game is over. The goal is to determine A's secret arrangement in the minimum number of guesses. Below, we see a completed game of Mastermind. Apparently the player was able to determine A's arrangement by using only four guesses. What’s A's arrangement?

Web marketing

Well, this one goes to the top

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/blog.php

 

You might have heard it or read it somewhere that one man proclaiming to sell his space on line to any business who wanted to advertise online.

So he went out , marketing his attempt and slowly he has sold out about a million pixels on his page for some ad or the other.

He is not planning for a even bigger marketing trick and believes in hiring , so it goes, this guy , thinks up an idea and uses productive means to sell it.

The google analytics feature

Well,

Coming to read of it, I pretty much assumed that it was meant for network admins and guys who really depend on information mining from the kind of people accessing their sites.

 

If you go through the Google blogs you will realize that these guys in Google have absolutely no time in hand to do anything other than development. They seem to be running on a mission where sitting around answering people is a loafers job. Well, to that extent Google is ACTUALLY pretty much like Microsoft,

Have you ever tried the help features in Microsoft, it is mainly people who use Windows who found out stuff about it lying here and there and the guys actually, answering through their msdn site, through wizards, or through other kind of help features,

 

Microsoft shows it attitude about helping in a way that you got to buy it to get better response. But coming to think of Google, you actually are not buying any stuff and being addicted is your problem , ( I mean you cannot blame the cigarettes for being addictive , isn’t it ?  )

 

So the motto is if you are not meant to use the google tools, you might as well start trying other stuff. Moreover, they do hold conferences all around the year, that helps them spread their business. They will hire the marketing guys who are completely unrelated to the software field only to bring in expertise on marketing their own tools. Their idea is if you are good you will deliver better

 

Try this site http://analytics.blogspot.com/   it pretty announces their principle about holding conferences for the layman only if you are helping them in their businesses. So that is the Microsoft way isn’t it?

The best marketing agenda wins

Sketching pencils I am searching

I need to find out where in India will I find sketching pencils, and the graphites ones are the best . The picture below will lose its shine soon unless I really start using graphite for my drawings.
The thing that I am searching for pretty much looks like this

Sketch

Some reviews on the new blackberry from a friend

To start with, I didnt have to buy this phone but got it from my office. So whatever I say, will be entirely a user's experience and without any bias towards the M

factor. I will try my utmost not to whine about the cost and convey the truth, the absolute truth and only the truth, so help me God !
I have been using this model since about a year, now and I wonder Why the Hell did I accept it from my office, in the 1st place ??? What had gotten into my techy

brain that I gave up a sleek and $exy Nokia6080, for this electronic piece of brick ?
Its signal reception is horrible and so is battery  life. I have never been able to talk for more than an hour, on it, as I need to attend conference calls from home, on my

cellphone. Its so heavy that if I clip the holster to the side pocket of my jeans, I feel like I have my pocket full of big stones. Anyone who has seen the final bicyle-

practice done by Amir Khan in the movie "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar", will know how it probably feels when you are cycling with weights tied to your ankles; well, in

my case, just move the weights up to my waist and the feel is the same !
The Bluetooth reception sucks bigtime !!! You cant take the bluetooth headset beyond a 2-metre radius without the reception going nuts or the call disconnecting. If

you use applications like Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger on it, then you need to be a Big favorite of the Gods to have a proper hang-free usage for even 15

minutes at a stretch. I have come to hate the blue-hourglass icon it shows when its busy, 'coz it  does it so often and my chatmates keep Buzzing me about why I am

late in replying; let them try to chat from this heavy@$$ junk, someday and they will know why !
One day, when I was removing it from the holster, it slipped from my hand and fell on my feet and that moment I FOUND AN ENTIRELY NEW WORLD OF

SELF_DEFENSE !!!
I realised that this set can be used not only for amrginal cellular communication but also, very effectively, as a Personal Defense Weapon (or PDW, as Heckler and

Koch prefers the acronym).
In India, we do not have usage of non-lethal weapons like Mace/pepepr-Spray or Tasers, yet. But who needs one when your handy 7100G can create an

irrecoverable consussion on your attacker's head and make him amnesiac about his past life of crime ??? You save not just your own life and property but also the

other poor fellow's soul from a lifetime involvement in crime ! isnt that worth all the pain inflicted on your cellular experiences ?
All you have to do, is practise 30 minutes, every day, on how to accurately hit this brick on a person's head within an effective range of 2 feet. It can be used as a

throwing weapon also but lack of aerodynamics can limit accuracy and the only damage inflicted, will be momentum-based impact as it is so heavy. But whats wrong

in trying, eh ?
So, all things said an done, I like thie device for the wrong reasons, as I am still trying to recover from finger and wrist injury incurred by its extremely non-ergonomic

keypad. Hyderabad is still a comparatively safe city, as far as individual crime is concerned, so I never actually got to test my self-defense theories using my

Blackberry 7100G. I hope you neevr have to use it in this way but I urge all of you to keep a piece handy. Its the same concept as a condom....better to have it and

not need it than need it but not have it.
So help you God, as I rest my case.

 

Indijoes

So they are coming up with all these places all around Bangalore. Today we went for a office lunch to one of these places, It was nice one. I prefer not having my lunch since it makes me feel drowsy throughout the day and even till evening at times . That takes away a major chunk of the day . So I preferred eating something light out there.

Well, the pizza though it was a vague attempt at making a thin actually ultra thin crust pizza, but all it tasted was like a bread rolled in some home made ghee. What a put off, you might be writing off the whole idea of going there.

The ambience was good, I told you hotel makers think that the people come here to eat the ambience , no one wants to eat out for good food. The last time any Bangalore restaurant impressed me was the Sahib, Sindh Sultan. That place has Everything. From parking spaces to ambience, choice of drinking place and a good chef ( or many be more than one )

Well, restaurateurs I think know that if they provide good and tasty food,he will end up having to serve more customers than he can handle.

And he cannot provide parceled food since that does not make any sense. So he is happy overcharging for the ambience. Indijoes now has already opened up in three places ( old madras road , where I work is a new one )

All I like about the place are the film posters and stuff like that. They are really cool. I liked the place in terms of some nostalgic remains of Rome in the 1950 ‘s ( not for me though, unless you watched movies like a Roman Holiday first day first show, I really mean that)

I did end up tasting a lot of the stuff. The only think I will commend is the vegetable soup they made, may be it will be some other thing for the others who went with us. But definitely it is not the best of places that I have been

Banalisms

I know I a, going to get hacked and hewed, and may skewered at high temperatures for a long time , if Ban on whom I am dedicating the whoel blog will come to know of this post.

 

Ban the identity of the man who has changed too many evenings, The gift of god to the kingdom of boredom ( so they say ) . Banalism is some thing I attribute to this man. Well, to start with I am sure this might not impress you to the extent that we are in, since the situations where Ban introduces his banalisms are expceptionally placed and to recreate the same aure would be very difficult. But time and again I will definitely bring it out.

 

Well, the latest that he proposed was the idea of Software companies going for the kill. They introduce quearters like government office ( you know the SBI quarters ) How the private company employees despise the fact that they have to sing "Do deewane shahar mei , raat mei dopahar mei " once in a year since the old house owner is getting greedier by the day and extra greedy by the night.

 

His idea is ,that will keep the families tied to the office ( actually, the HR;s diefnitely would have thought about it but they must have left it out of contention since they too want attrition to an extent. I believe in that philosophy strongly. We need attrition once in a while. Ban has his own arguments to counter against our ideas. His solution is that no need for the HR to maintain the quarters, We have to out source the job. There will be special gated communities and people who want to stay in those will have to let go of their HR or something. This is where we got pissed off , since in Hyderabad I pay much less than my HR, and that make my income go up by a few thousands.

 

But for an idea, a Banalism will be a brain teaser any time of the day.

Olympics for 2016

Thats it,

Not in my youth will I see India rise up to the occasion and host the Olympics. Already the finalists for the 2016 Olympics have been decided and India does not figure in that.

 

India gets compared with China all the time, but art ( whether martial or literature or music ) , sports, development , human right movements have never been more convincing more in Chinas history as it is now. It can boast of more development now than any time in its history. This year with 65 more days to go for the Beijing Olympics, I got a stunner that I will not be able to tell people that see India is hosting the Olympics till I am 33 atleast.

 

I have never thought about leaving the country for other opportunities, but one deos grow up to see the misfortune of getting born in a country like India, To see the luck you got to be a powerful man. Yes, Spiritually this country is vibrant, with rampant myths of the far Himalayas ( recently I heard the Steve Jobs was here in the mountains for the east , in search of greater truths ) .

Yes, India makes you search inside, but currently I dont think the times are like that, our country is now a breeding ground for all material seeking than ever before.

The youth of India asks itself everyday, "Did we commit some kind of crime in taking my birth in India". There is no proper system anywhere, there are no rules, there is complete chaos.

Had there been a sweetness in this marriage of the youth to this nation , things would have been better, but with communal clashes and sectarian violence on the increase and youth being increasingly looked down upon , with Americans waiting on us to work our asses apart to keep them happy ( I am talking of average Indians, if you believe you have a choice , I am sorry I am not talking about you ) . The youth of this country is increasingly finding himself at a loss.

 

He cannot dream of privacy , of isolation, of independence from the clutches of the society that does not deserve it. Too much demand all the time with a country turning towards something that no one knows the truth about with a surity.

 

To you this might sound like gibberish but to be in the same shoes as the Indian youth , you got to keep your eyes, ears and mouth shut.

You cannot raise you voice, You cannot see the beauty and luxury the planet earth provides, since that is not there for the Indian youth.

Trust me when I say , we are labour for cheap.

All that hoopla

BBC world news

And you will get is Barrack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

 

After months of campaigning ( paining ) they have finally decided that the Democratic candidate will be Barrack Obama,

Many of my friends still believe that all the hype ( without getting Tandoori Chicken and hundred rupee notes ) is only possible in the presidential elections in the United States,

 

Nope it is just the fight to get the candidature to fight in the elections against the Republican candidate John Mc Cain. Now trust me this is going to be one hell of a presidential term for the Indians in United States. US has slowly realized that Indians have been fooling them over the years, they way they had taken talent has now stopped and the H1 s are soon becoming filled with junk. Last time I went for my Business Visit Visa in the Chennai Consulate, I met these guys who had fake salary slips that show a salary about 24 lakhs per annum ( which is one measure of a man who must be too good be earning that kind of slip in India )

But my question is no sane person with that kind of salary would stand like a dog in front of the Consulate. It is time that they realize it is time to invite the best and not make them stand in line begging for a chance to see the American dream.

It is not that good fellas, All the Bollywood  and now Hollywood movies ( Namesake ) are based on that theme.  It is time to Brain storage and not Brain drain ( a serious question is what are we doing with the brain we have in store now ) .

 

Now that the results are out , I feel happy that BBC will have some thing else to show for the next few days unless the bigger fight starts ( but Hillary is not stepping down ) That is sad.

 

I also found the following piece of info that John McCain was taken prisoner by the Vietcong and was kept there for 6 years. He must have old memories of this region. And 15 % of the Americans believe that Barrack is a Muslim. Either way they get  one Black guy to be near to the chance of winning the presidential elections.

GTAC

Not many people follow this and I am writing in a crunch time. The GTAC  ( google test automation conference ) will be held on October 23 and 24 2008 this year in Seattle.

If you have anything to propose to improve the current testing infrastructure, or anything that help software testing process in the long run , you need to send it to the following address  gtac@google.com by the 6^th of June 2008.

So there is not  enough time left for,

Just to let you know!!

 

I will preparing one draft of it by evening today and try to send it . I will post it in the blog here

Google to show real time stock quotes

Google finance had a introduced the google screener a few days ago and it was good news for people searching for information online.

After conducting some surveys online I found that people are reluctant to use the rather bland interface of google , and prefer using the glossier ones at Yahoo.
The more they have on one page the better they feel. That they have more hands on knowledge about the stuff they are handling. It is like buying a costlier piece  of article or apparel from a rather glitzy shop than to trust a good deal in a small road side shop. Not all people online believe that the all that glitters is not gold.
Yahoo finance is still the best thing that regular people use online.

 

But the Google Screener was a whiff of fresh air, except that it still had to compete in terms of colours used. I do believe that for software there is no such thing as one color being costlier than the other, so if you are using white, you may as well, use black , rendering has to be done by the machine out there.

 

So Google should stop worrying about losing their virgin , blanched looks and get towards a glowy side or rather one option should at least be provided,
The latest buzz word is that the Nasdaq real time stock quotes will now be available in Google finance. That really helps because the common share market player donot have access to the correct information all the time and they are always playing the games far delayed than the major players

Funny, stuff

I wrote two puzzles blogs with google interview questions and Blogger did not publish them , So one more thing interesting about these guys.

 

You cannot put questions related to goole interviews in the bloggers, now if  you are able to read this , hats off to google to find out an way to block ones with questions J

Solving google questions

Try this

http://tihomir.org/

 

He is the guy who will come with ideas for crazy questions in Google. I accidently came across his site. Now it is bookmarked and I happily spend some idle time reading him.

 

 

What the google guys want is you to see further than the normal process of solving a problem. They are interested in your apts as they say it in the best schools in the world.

 

For example , if they asked you how big the house will have to be to accommodate the population of the world, you may have to end up writing your specifications for the lfit , the car parking area, whether there are choices for the size of the rooms you get, whether there are plumbing issues,

Air and water a must for the internal towers. Whether pressure pretty high for the high rise building. Whether you really stand a chance to get people to work on it , the feasibility analysis, The environmental hazards, they difference of opinion.

 

Now I must be joking