Matrix ReExplained

I have been a fan of the Matrix series. The most complex of the series according to me was the third part (Matrix Revolutions). I had never fully understood the movie though i had watched it many times. Heres a link where in some explanation is given about the third series. So all fans who would like to know more can visit http://cipher-quaker.blogspot.com/2007/08/matrix-re-explained.html

A long read but a good one.

Mailaria....Beware of it

"Mailaria" is a disease which is found in modern IT enabled offices . This disease is caused by excessive usage of emails by some really process oriented guys.

The symtoms of this disease are when a person will ask to send emails for very basic tasks such as asking him for a cup of tea. Usually the patient is not aware of his condition till bought to notice by some external entity.These guys will not do anything unless u put this information in a email. Even if you plead before them that you rit now are not in a position to send a mail they wont budge. During last stages of this disease, patients are known to shout or hit their bosses for not informing something through mail. After this stage the patient is usually kicked out from the office :)

There is no known cure for this disease as of now. The only treatment that is known to work is banging the patients head to their monitors or breaking their machine to pieces in front of them. Another technique that is found to be effective is deleting all mails from their inbox. This leaves them in such a state of shock so that they usually take a leave from office for a month or two, which means there are less obstacles to your work and therefore your job might get done faster.

So next time if you find anybody infected with this dangerous disease run away from them as far as possible probably to the other end of the office as these idiots otherwise will eat up your precious time in getting you to composing emails all day.

Never give up!

Found this funny pic in an email . The picture is funny but it tells a lot which otherwise would need a page of text.

Processes and my Office Canteen.....

If "Proper Process"is implemented in our office canteen like the way work happens in some big companies.....

1. The canteen door would have the swipe card reader. On days when you forget the card you would be required to send a mail to the canteen admin .
   
2. The admin may approve your request in the next 5-6 hours. If its a critical situation you request may be approved in 2-3 hours.
3. Once in you would have to submit the LRF (Lunch Request Form) . Without this form no lunch will be served even in critical situations. You would be given an LRID(Lunch Request ID) on successfully filling the form.
   
4. For any extras such as sweet dishes you would require to fill in the Supplements form and your LRID needs to be filled in else the request would be considered invalid.
5. If you change your mind and would like to cancel you order you would need to fill up a LRCF (Lunch Request Cancellation Form) with your LRID mentioned in correctly. The order will only be cancelled only after the approval from admin.
   
6. You should not forget to swipe you card upon exit else it will be treated as break hours and the corresponding salary will be cut from your salary.

With such kool "processes" in place every canteen ...may be employees would stop eating food ;)

Diwali and Celebrations

All Hindus celebrate Diwali also known as Deepavali on a grand scale. The word Deepavali is a combination of 2 Sanskrit words Deepa - light and avali - a row in short "lights in a row". No where in the words can one find a mention of sound. I don't know when it started but some guys associated the festival with noise and there started the trouble. I am not against crackers but the present version of crackers and the amount of noise they produce does not make any sense to me. Its like more noise means you are celebrating in a better way. I fail to understand what kind of kiddish thinking is this. In fact the time i am writing this in background there goes a series of deafening sound bombs. Surprisingly many educated people have this type of thinking and this makes the situation even worse. I hope people do change their thinking about this and celebrate Diwali only as a festival of lights.


PS. Found one light hearted take on this topic at rediff.com
http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2007/nov/09diwali.htm

Thought for Religious fanatics

Found this cool wallpaper at http://www.crystalxp.net . Hope Religious fanatics understand what this picture is trying to say!

The original picture is available at
http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.3470-religion-wallpaper.html

Do you REALLY need to Drink/Smoke ????

Does, Not smoking and drinking alcohol make anybody immature or a child. ?? Well some of my "mature" friends do think so. Sure they get Cancers and many diseases as a gift along with their so called matureness .

Some research does suggest that moderate drinking may be actually good for health but i have seen people with their own version of "moderate" :).....so this is matter of debate.

Here's a health report from BBC's website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/heart/prevention_smokingalcohol.shtml

Another one from About.com.
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/nicotine/a/bldu040322.htm


Looking at these reports one can say that it is not REALLY necessary to either drink or smoke and you can exist pretty well and also blog about other's habits of drinking and smoking ;) .

Working Overtime ???

I found an interesting link while surfing.Its about working overtime at your job.Though it might sound humorous, it really makes a point and is a must read for all those poor souls who find no time in their hands after a day of office work (including me).

The actual article can be found at
http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/07/26/never-work-overtime-again/

SMS voting and Elections.....

Looking at the success of Indian Idol and many other SMS voting pro grammes SMS voting is being considered to be introduced for the next elections. Voters then wont have to go to the voting booth for casting their vote. They will be able to do that inside the comforts of their house . Even Presidential elections will have the SMS voting available. It looks like a win win situation for every one. The voter is happy coz he can now cast his vote even on the move while the politicians are happy coz the 1 vote per voter system would now be replaced by 1 vote per mobile. Many are looking to even purchase some stake in existing cell phone companies.

The SMS voting system would then be introduced while you are applying for a job. A java programmer would then have to keep on applying by SMS . NO matter which version of java he knows or how many years of experience he has, the job would only go to the candidate who had applied for the job the highest number of times. Many HR departments would love this approach as they then would not have to waste resources on Interview panels. All the hard work would be done by the candidate.

Looks like SMS voting is here to stay!!

Enviornmental friendly Ganesha idols ...

One of my friends mailed me some pics showing the morning after 'Ganesh Visrajan' at some beach....Looking at the pics it feels like we really need to change our tradition of immersing mega size idols or we need to work something out immediately for creating environmental friendly idols.

If one is least concerned about the environment alteast he needs to fear the god whom he prays a day before and leaves his statue in such a state the next day.

Forgive us Ganesha.

Celebarting Days.......Do we need to??

Do we really need specific days to express ourselves like Friendship Day, Mother's Day, Fathers's Day etc ??
Many do think (including me) its just a commercial gimmick by the greeting card companies and the telephone companies.

Heres a poll result from dnaindia news web site displaying results for Friendship Day.

Voting for wonders of the world ????

Personally i never liked the idea of selecting the wonders of the world by popular votes. The whole process never made any sense to me.what i feel a better way would have been was to form a panel of experts and let them decide since they have little more knowledge than the guy at the bus stop frantically SMSing his favorite wonder .

This whole thing could be a BIG scam by international telecom companies to increase their revenue....this may not be the truth...but who knows.

But as they say "All's well that ends well".....TAJ MAHAL has been selected as one of the new 7 wonders and I being an Indian feel really proud about it.

Wah Taj!

World Peace.....By Calvin

A picture is worth a thousand word's. Here is a perfect example of that.
This is Calvin's take on War and it does gives all a message.

My Linux Blog

I created a new blog to share my Linux tips and tricks which i think newbies may find useful.
Check it out at http://latslinuxtips.blogspot.com/ for those interested.

This Blogs' alive :)

There's absolutely no logical reason for this post to appear here. This is just to prove that this blog's not dead. One good thing abt this is that the blogspot guys would see some activity in this blog and not delete it :).

GoodBye ....Orkut World...

Congratulations to me on deleting my orkut account. yeah.....I "actually deleted" my account. Its a gr8 way of being connected, but with all that scrapping taking place i thought i would better come out of the loop.......... and am not thinking of joining again :)

Apple iPhone!

Though I am not really an Apple fan..i really appreciate their creative department skills..What else can you tell when u take a look at the iPhone. I could only say one thing...Wow!....
I have not bothered to check more features of this product as i am sure it will be not anywhere my pocket permits .. :( .
But full marks from me for the design and looks of the product !.

Here's the official iPhone link.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Welcome 2007....

2007 is finally here. 2006 was quite eventful with some good and some unfortunate incidents such as the train blasts which rocked Mumbai . Hope 2007 has more of good for us.

Wishing Everybody "A Happy and Prosperous New Year"...........

Hello World!

Hello World! Since i am a programmer and from the time i have been learning some new technology the first thing as tradition states is to start with the classical 'Hello World'. Its like worshipping Lord 'Ganesha' before performing any important activity in Indian Tradition....

Speaking of Tradition ..Here's a picture of Lord Ganesha.....