We had a talk entitled "Avoiding pitfalls in designing distributed systems" this Thursday at work. The speaker, Felipe Cabrera, is one of the most impressive speakers I've heard. The topic was very abstract and I was hoping that it would not turn out to be high level abstract BS. But I was glad I attended. He would bring in examples from projects ( Read more... )

So finally I got to see Rang De Basanti. After two weekends of trying at PVR and Inox I managed to get tickets at Rex ( Read more... )

I am beginning to think that enterprise is the only real virtue.

War is the father of all and king of all.
Some he shows as gods, others as men.
Some he makes slaves, and others free.

from Life And Times Of Michael K by J.M.Coetzee

a way to search in your LJ entries ( Read more... )

I cooked today. Not my forté, but I'm rather pleased with the outcome:


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I have no idea where my weekend vanishes. Damn ( Read more... )

I spent this New Year weekend in Yercaud. Had gone there with a bunch of friends and their friends. The place didn't quite live up to my expectations. It is quite commercialised and was less green than what I had imagined it to be (perhaps this is not the right season to go there ( Read more... )

There is a Kavi Sammelan on Harivansh Rai Bachchan being aired on Sahara One and I can find all other channels on my TV except for that! Bah ( Read more... )

There are two articles on slashdot today using "1984" and "Orwellian" to describe some new developments. I wonder what's going on - is it simply paranoia, or is it a harbinger of things to come?

I think that by writing 1984, George Orwell may have prevented the state of affairs of our world from devolving to that of Oceania. It has probably ( Read more... )