Between what is right and what is wrong. There is so fine a line between good and bad. Infact, the line is not there, everything is mixed, and I guess to make a line is as hard a problem as.... SVM in datamining :) (or may be harder!)
Anyways, I think this is common enough, and boring enough as I am not going to say here what is the exact confusion! But it does make me thoughtful, and refrain me from making a judgement about anyone. It is better to think of everyone just as "good" or "don't know", "bad" is a faulty and a cruel judgement.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Monday, January 03, 2005
Some questions
I have some questions revolving around in my mind for long, or say from the time I have started seeing myself as a Computer Engineer...
1. Assume all your degrees and certificates are gone. You have no piece of paper saying anything about you. Also, asssume there are absolutely nothing related to computers anywhere. Now, what can you do for your livelihood?
My options are - open a "dancing school for small kids", take some tutions of maths, physics..., teach in some primary school , work as a receptionist in a hotel, company etc...
What are your choices!
2. How far can you take a new civillization with your brain, knowledge and skills, if you are left alone with them with no aids of the present world?
I guess, for this one, mechanical engineers have an edge :)
1. Assume all your degrees and certificates are gone. You have no piece of paper saying anything about you. Also, asssume there are absolutely nothing related to computers anywhere. Now, what can you do for your livelihood?
My options are - open a "dancing school for small kids", take some tutions of maths, physics..., teach in some primary school , work as a receptionist in a hotel, company etc...
What are your choices!
2. How far can you take a new civillization with your brain, knowledge and skills, if you are left alone with them with no aids of the present world?
I guess, for this one, mechanical engineers have an edge :)
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Living IIT again...
When I was leaving IIT after 2 memorable years of MTech, one thing pained me more than anything else - that whatever may happen, I might come here again, I might meet the people again, see the department, the hostel again, but I won't be able to live those years again.
And whew!, the fate (or so many people who wanted to go to their homes or places at christmas time, and due to whom I couldn't get my reservation confirmed) gave me that rare chance too! :)
I spent my whole vacations (7 days!) in IIT, and spent them almost as older times!
That getting up late, feeling a little shameful for that, having a bath after much postponement and short naps, going to department, working a little (yeah, a little work of my old project, made it all the more realistic), having some tea from Badlu, going somewhere out with Chetan in evening.. coming back in night after dinner, try to work (this time this is for Chetan, I didn't work that hard), feel sleepy, sometimes have a walk outside, coffee at H8, going back to room, reading a novel (co-incidentally picked up Arthur C. Clarke again as while in IIT ), and sleep wondering how fast the day runs in IIT!
Yes, I lived the IIT again!
And whew!, the fate (or so many people who wanted to go to their homes or places at christmas time, and due to whom I couldn't get my reservation confirmed) gave me that rare chance too! :)
I spent my whole vacations (7 days!) in IIT, and spent them almost as older times!
That getting up late, feeling a little shameful for that, having a bath after much postponement and short naps, going to department, working a little (yeah, a little work of my old project, made it all the more realistic), having some tea from Badlu, going somewhere out with Chetan in evening.. coming back in night after dinner, try to work (this time this is for Chetan, I didn't work that hard), feel sleepy, sometimes have a walk outside, coffee at H8, going back to room, reading a novel (co-incidentally picked up Arthur C. Clarke again as while in IIT ), and sleep wondering how fast the day runs in IIT!
Yes, I lived the IIT again!
Friday, December 31, 2004
Fountains of Paradise
He does it again. I am amazed by Arthur C. Clarke's capability of doing far-fetched imagination. "Fountains of Paradise", an outstanding example of this. No, but I am not talking (only) about the "space elevator" here. I was impressed by the simple yet brilliant "News" system that he mentions just in passsing.
People specify their items of interest (of which he mentions the most interesting ones!)
Eggs, Dinosaur, hatching of
Circle, squaring of
Atlantis, re-emergence of
Christ, second coming of
Loch Ness Monster, capture of
World, end of
And, the intelligent news system blink when any news related to any item of interest comes up!
Interesting.
People specify their items of interest (of which he mentions the most interesting ones!)
Eggs, Dinosaur, hatching of
Circle, squaring of
Atlantis, re-emergence of
Christ, second coming of
Loch Ness Monster, capture of
World, end of
And, the intelligent news system blink when any news related to any item of interest comes up!
Interesting.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
And it's Sybase now!
Yesterday was pretty adventurous! Going to HP in morning, completing the formalities, flying to Pune in afternoon, and joining Sybase at 2'o clock!
It all came out quite well. Although, it did not seem so when I was stuck in the traffic jam on Airport road in morning, feared missing the flight, vented out my anger on the traffic policeman who was stopping the traffic for some minister to pass, and ultimately became the last person to board the air-van towards the plane!
Anyways, all the three DBMS TAs met today, and now one can imagine the fate of yet to join DBMS students :)
It all came out quite well. Although, it did not seem so when I was stuck in the traffic jam on Airport road in morning, feared missing the flight, vented out my anger on the traffic policeman who was stopping the traffic for some minister to pass, and ultimately became the last person to board the air-van towards the plane!
Anyways, all the three DBMS TAs met today, and now one can imagine the fate of yet to join DBMS students :)
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Exiting HP
Just returned from the building I am most reluctant to get in - 29C, the HP main office. Somehow, I like the sun-lit plain old offices better than Air-conditioned rooms lit with the white light in software companies, especially if they have low roofs! I have a claustrophobic feeling at such places. Anyways, it was perhaps the last-but-one day when I have to go there, my "Exit Interview" went pretty well.
So this is my last day at my first-ever-full-time-job. (By this I remember, I am yet to write the conventional, "My last day at HP" mail). But I am not feeling anything, except that a lot of things are to be done, before I leave. And that I should make a list now, and start doing them!
So this is my last day at my first-ever-full-time-job. (By this I remember, I am yet to write the conventional, "My last day at HP" mail). But I am not feeling anything, except that a lot of things are to be done, before I leave. And that I should make a list now, and start doing them!
Saturday, November 20, 2004
My first blog!
And what is all this fuss about! My first love, my first ball, my first kiss... (I am reading too much of Jane Austen), or ...................... "My first blog"! Sounds stupid.
Anyways, I never thought blogging was a very good idea, except if you want to do some tik-tak on the keyboard even in your free time!!
But still, here I am, with "My first blog"!
Anyways, I never thought blogging was a very good idea, except if you want to do some tik-tak on the keyboard even in your free time!!
But still, here I am, with "My first blog"!
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