Hey,
Visited more sites after tea. This time, I got hooked onto to technology and its recipe for the future. Here are two articles. If you can spare the time, you can read them.

• Six Technologies That Will Change the World
• Bringing the EBooks home

I just don't know how I got to these links. I seem to keep going on and on round the Internet. It's almost 5 p.m. here. So got to go.
Blog you all later,
Jax

Here's another list that I visited today from my browser's history list:

• Michael Alpern
• An interesting concept. Let us see if we can use it for our blog here.
• Micro Content
• Dave Barry
• Freak Watchers
• VinBlog

Bye,
Jax.
I have not yet stopped browsing. As it is raining heavily outside, I might get caught at office beyond my working hours. I have got a choir practice to go today evening. Hope the rains stop so that I can make it. Ah! the sun has started shining again. The humidity is making me sweat a lot. As Kicha knows, our office is on the top floor, so the heat gets to me very quickly.

Kicha, saw your photos yesterday. Mmmm! looks like a very good computer to me (Dell). I like the black coloured PC's very much. Send the config of your system to me later. I am here stuck up with a very old Cyrix PC, that likes to test my patience and endurance to its limit. As a part of my motto is Durabo, I have to put up with it.

Well my colleagues are calling me for tea. Got to go...

Hi,

Browsing the web has become very addictive. I just cannot resist from clicking on any hyperlink that appears on a webpage. I spent the morning visiting all types of sites catering tastes ranging from gossip to the unused but very useful technological ideas.

Here is a small list of the sites / blogs I've been reading today

• http://nontroppo.org/
• Alex Halavais
• Meg Hourihan

There are still a lot of websites that I have visited today. I am thinking of adding a sidebar that will list a few of the sites that I or you have visited. It can be done, but requires a little bit of programming and tweaking techniques. As I am not the technical expert in this group, I feel that our techie friends can try thier hand at this.

Bye,
Jax.
Before I go, I need a favour from you all. Can you suggest me a good gift for a frind of mine? It is a she, aged 23. Something that would appeal to the feminine side. (No jewellery please). Something simple and elegant.

just a passing thot... we celebrate Saraswathi pooja by not studying on that day... we celebrate "workers day" (May day) by not working on that day... any thots why (or why shouldn't we)...???

Hi, oh jax... Ram and Rini have the facility of dropping into the Bangalore Golf Club anytime, but Kicha is blessed with a mini-Golf course within the campus of his company. But I'm not sure, to what extent he'll utilise this blessing. and currently I'm reading...

IBM MQ Series-1 IBM MQ Series-2

Need to compare its performace with BizTalk Server and prepare the next version (ver 0.2) of the current white paper (which is under review). I've given a timeline to my PL that the work will be done by June 20th. So, have to switch to the next gear. and jax, the paper will not appear at infy.com ... it is an IP of infy and will be used by the Technical Architects and/or Project Managers who will go in for consultation for the clients.

Hi everyone,

I'm back. Actually I have got a lot of work to do, but I don't feel like doing so. So I'm whiling away time browsing websites. Especially as my boss is out of town, everyone is feeling relaxed. Any way, Thursday is a holiday. I want to rest at home.

Life seems so boring nowadays, especially in the evenings. Not being the type that enjoys going out, I feel so bored. I tried to learn a few languages like Latin and Icelandic. No, nothing worked out right.

How's life at your ends, guys and gals? Same story?..

Ram, Golf is not only a game for great personalities, but it is one game that gives you a great personality. The wide open spaces, the thick woods, dotted with water hazards and dangerous bunkers. I only wish I could get into a golf course and have a few swings. Sindu seems to have the luck. Ram, Kicha and Rini have the facility of dropping into the Bangalore Golf Club anytime. The only golf course in Coimbatore is almost 20 kms away.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have sites to visit and blogs to read..

Currently I am reading

• k10k.net
• Elegant Hack
• Rebecca's Pocket

Adios,

Hi,

Sindu, you call them "golf clubs". There are usually 9 clubs in a set. Each club has its feature. Be careful with them. You can kill a person with one. Especially with a 5 Iron.

Kicha, Good to hear that your presentation went very well. Hope to see your paper on Infy.com soon.

Will get back to you all later,

Hi, My sample for the right-side panel: Kicha / Virgo / Madurai, Bangalore / Surfing, Music, Reading n Talking Business

Hi, A memorable day for me. Just had my first presentation of my professional career. Things were different here. My PL gave me his Laptop to load the ppts to take to the conferance room. I've never touched a laptop until today and here I was struggling to roll my finger over, to move the mouse-cursor. Though presentations are nothing new to any of us, this audience was different... In our class, I could bluff anything about technology and seem smart and get away with that. But here, people know a hell lot more than me... about all I talk... But they acted within my limitations. And, of course, my PL was there to rescue me whenever I showed any slightest hint of doubt in answering something. The presentation went on for about 1 hr and 40 mins including the Q&A time. At the end of it all, I got the same feedback that I got during my MS(IT&M) presentations - Talking too fast....!!! Guess, I need to do more mending on my "express speaking" ways... Overall, it was a very satisfying presentation for me. And furthermore, the white paper that I've prepared (and which, the presenatation was all about)... is gone for a review. Once it is done then my first white paper will be released across infy.

Mes Amis, At last, I with my friends get to sing for a wedding mass. One of our friends is getting married next monday (May 5). She wanted us to sing for her wedding. So at last we get a long awaited chance. So I'll be busy this week with practices et al. By the way, what happened to Sindu? No message from her? Still trying to understand the British accent of her clients. If you notice I have swapped the team and archives sections. Kicha, try to put the web addresses that you sent within anchor tags. I spent a few seconds clicking on them, before realizing that they were not hyperlinks. It would be nice if you give them as hyperlinks, or even better if they open in a new page with target="_blank" option. My weekend went like this. Sunday: Church - browsing (Chatted with Rajesh and invited Vijay Babu to the blog) - Evening Choir Practice - Night Treat for my friend's birthday. My idea for the right side panel: small bios like Name / Star sign / Location / Hobbies. I am giving my sample: Jax / Pisces / Coimbatore / Reading, writing and music. Rini seems to be busy with her wedding preparations. Anything we could help you with? Expecting everyone's comments and suggestions,

and one more interesting one... http://y.20q.net:8095/btest

jax, an intersting link on the history of spam... for the favourite links section... American Scientist has a fine article by Brian Hayes summing up the history of spam and proposed measures to deal with it." http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-05Hayes.html A shorter article along the same lines is running at The Economist http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1734216

Hi, This is great work jax. And this is why I insist that u retain the admn rights with urself alone. Friday, I was down with fever. And, thanks to my PL, my presentation got postponed to today and am back to full strength. Saturday I was waiting for Ramgopal to call me at my house. But didn't receive his call. It was in late sunday afternoon that I realized the secrect behind why Ramg didn't call me - our phone was out-of-order. Today, I'm looking forward to the first presentation that I'm giving in my corporate life. And its great to see the blog growing. All credits to jax, as he was the one who first introduced this concept of WebLogs to all of us. This is getting exciting by the day. Kicha

Dear Rini, Ok, Don't get heated up on the chicken and duck thing. Regarding the layout, I'm still experimenting with it. The design might change anytime. We have got a few space on the right to post our favorite links. Send a few good ones. We will utilize the space well. There is also some space on the left. I'm thinking of swapping the archives section and the team section. Hey, what do you think about posting a small bio of each member? Everyone tell me what to put there... I am expecting a lot of content to be put over there. A small request to everyone, don't send your mail to me at my office id. I am getting a lot of mail to this id. And also anyone can view the mails, that's why. If it is anything urgent, you can post it to the blog or my personal id. Hope you understand. I have also modified the blog entry to display the name of the blogger. So no more worries on wondering who posted the message. Also no need to sign your name everytime. Bye,

Hi Rajesh, Welcome to the blog and you said Ranjin was a Koli. I thought she was a Vathu. I can console you on the loss of the cellphone connection but don't expect my sympathy for your Ranjitha. If you want, you can spend the wholee day calling her or waiting in froint of the Reliance office (as you are free now), Vijay Babu wants to join us, I'm told by Rajesh. Seems like we are getting a lot of new faces to join us. Kicha and Ram take note. So i'll be sending him an invite now. Bye, Jax.

My search for a good blog layout continues... I spent the entire day visiting several blogs to understand thier layout. I think it is time to put the HTML skills and Control C + Control V skills to use. How does the new layout look? Took me a lot of time and hand coding with ^C & ^V. A few technical details about the layout: Fluid design. Uses CSS. The content will automatically resize to fit into the window size. Try changing the size of the browser window and look at the content. Will get back later, Jax.

Hi, jax, a suggestion. Why don't you alone retain the admn rights. I feel, rather then each one of us having the rights and going about things, it would be more organized if one person could take charge of things and if anything needs to be done, we can request you to change. At times, if it becomes difficult for u for some reason to go about things u can temporarily give rights to someone for that purpose alone and then revoke it later when u r back. I feel, that'll keep it more organized just like msitmmb is doing good (admn-wise). However, others also share ur views on this before taking a decision. And today... am not feeling well. Have some temperature. I was supposed to take a presentation today, but (thank GOD) my PL postponed it to monday on my request but asked me to have the presentation for the entire MSPSG (Ms Platform Solns Group) Team... rather than to the EAI Team alone (a sub-group within MSPSG, to which I belong). Good... I have less strain today. I have to learn a new concept called Remoting to leverage on the performance tests that I had been doing. So, I'll spend the rest of the day brooding over MSDN... atleast I hope to be back to full strength for the presentation on monday. Ganja: type ur name below ur post... the name does not automatically come in dayswork.blogspot.com page. So, this small request from my part... (if u think I being kind to u, refer ur offline msgs)... Kicha

Hi friends, It is good to see you exchanging your views. As more people are joining us, I feel that we should help those joining us. I had asked if anyone can prepare an user manual sort of doc. As I had invited you all to the blog, I don't know the exact sequence of steps that you followed to join the blog. The doc can be like: 1. After receipt of invitation to the blog, what to do? 2. Whether you have to create a blogger account etc. If you noticed any change in the blog layout, don't worry. I was just trying to get a few things right like the layout and colour scheme. Sinduja had mailed me about her joining us. I noticed that she had two invites to the blog. In order to avoid duplication of efforts, temporarily I have removed the admin rights for all. I'll restore them later when the blog's layout scheme and other features are decided upon. You can continue your postings as usaul they won't get affected at all. Will get back later today, Jax.

Hi, Nope, ramg... it doesn't conflict... to be more precise... point no.1 is YOU point no.2 is ME if u still can't understand, leave it... and jax, fine all u said... but whats that last line of urs... "Really, I would like to know your views on going abroad." And to give another precise reply, "I don't prefer going abroad".period. I'm making a presentation tomorrow morning on my findings on the performance of BizTalk Server.... the first one of my corporate life... Kicha

Hi,

It is true that there is no data available to prove that other computer related workers rise faster in the corporate ladder than programmers. It is perfectly true that growth is more of a personal interest and proactivity. The hidden meaning is that I said most, not all programmers.

But tell me Kicha, be true to your heart and mind and tell me what chances are there for a programmer to enter into top management in a company. I admit the same chances apply to other posts also. The reason is programmers are seen with a notion that you say them something they do it. More of an command-following group. Again I have no data to back me up. I recall a quote by Mark Twain, "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics".

As for your query for course, there are indeed several courses available for other IT jobs I had mentioned. But the truth is everyone, including knowledgable persons, believe that programming is the de facto definition of an IT job. They tend to forget that it is more of a supportive job. Why, the entire industry is a supportive industry.

The reasons why the educational sector for these areas are still gray are obvious. Can you really justify that you are taught only programming. I accept that we have had labs only for programming. But we were in the science stream, you and me. Ask Ranjini about the labs she had. She can tell you lots. We had a paper called Computer System Architecture. If you had really got hooked onto the subject, you would have been a system administrator by now. There was a paper called Computer Graphics. If I had been interested, I could've become a Multimedia artist by now. The truth is that there were opportunities galore in front of us. The truth is that we never acknowledged them.

You had started your points on there being two kinds of people. You said that the 2nd type was focussed. But you ended somewhere on the lines of them being losers. Can you enlighten me on the above.BTW, which type do you consider yourself? the first or the second. Ii can tell you I am somewhat of a fifty-fifty.

I had determined not to take up a programming job, reasons being already mentioned. I was also passionate about writing, as you all know. When an opportunity presented itself, I grabbed it with both hands (writing and technology). I never rue it at all. But some think otherwise. Even last week, my friend's mom told me I was not utilising my talents. I asked her what my talents were. She said knowledge and writing. I said I am utilising it through my work. She didn't agree with me.

Really, I would like to know your views on going abroad.

Bye,
Jax.

Ram: This blog is for discussion alone. So feel free to post your thoughts about the matter. I am eager to know what you feel about this. Anyway discussions help us a lot to understand others better. Remember "empathy", "putting oneself in other's shoes" etc. So I will be waitng for yours and Ranjini's comments.


Kicha: I had given all of us admin privileges. So you can add them yourself. Anyway, don't take the trouble. I have send them the invitations. If possible, try helping them out to join the blog. If I have the time, I'll try to prepare a user manual sort of thing to help those joining us. But if any of you have the time, prepare one yourself and send it across to me for finetuning. I'll be busy for the next two days.

BTW, can anyone suggest me a good, informational site. I need it for my monthly newsletter. It should be helpful for lay persons. Because most of the people who get to read the newsletter are not always techno savvy. This is urgent. It would really be great if I get it by 1600 hrs IST.

SMART is... Simple Measurable Achievable Realistic TImebound Kicha

Hi, jax brings up a nice topic. I could talk hours on it... There r 2 categories of people. 1. the "anything will do" kind 2. and the "nothing but this" kind the 1s are ready to accept any kind of job. They might have a primary interest but may be ready to compromise it for anything under the sun as long as they r having the expected benefits out of the job. The 2s will not think of anything but what is in their mind (unless personal/family circumstances force them to go otherwise). The first lessons need to start in college. It is up to the faculty to bring to the notice of students the various avenues opened up by an industry they r dealing with. Tell me, how many in our class had an idea of what their genuine interest was, at the time of studying, and of the few people who had, how many went on to work precisely where they wanted to (excluding people forced by personal/family circumstances). It is the inability in analysing themselves and the industry, that is the cause of such ignorance. It is only in the hands of the faculty to groom them. But having said that, the faculty themselves need to update at a faster pace to keep their students at their toes - not something which boasts a good statistic. And no wonder the situation told by jax arises. Now decide, who's to be balmed. On his second point of growth in their field of work... It all depends on the interest and proactivity exhibited by the individual. What data could be provided to say that "Web Designers, Multimedia Artists, Marketing, System Administrators, Technical Writers, Customer Support, Administration & Support, System Analyst, Visualizers, Interaction/Information Designers" (and people in all other non-programming IT jobs) move faster to higher management levels than programmers. It all depends on the individuals' interest, learnability, enthusiasm and proactivity. People assume that working in IT means programming because thats how their faculty have taught them in colleges. How many colleges/courses/papers are there for the above jobs. They certainly fall less in number than things related to programming. But not all get genuine interest in programming, but they r taught nothing but programming - this is the paradox that students have to live with. IT is more of a "help urself" industry for students. They cannot expect this input from college, still they need to have it. Or else, they will be languishing on what job to search for looong after they've completed their education.... Kicha

Hi friends, Today, I complete one year at Angler. I didn't know that days could rush so quick. The past one year had been a helluva an experience. There were good times, not so good times, moments I would cherish and some I wish that had never happened at all. Looking around me, I find that there are people who had left the company in the past one year and those who have come in the same time. Reminiscing on the past year, I've learned a lot. A lot about people, responsibilities, expectations, organisations, clients, peers, work and most of all, life itself. People have criticized me for choosing a line of work that is very remotely linked with my qualifications. But I believe that they are wrong. When some one asks me what I do. My reply is that I work for an IT company. Thier next question is 'As what, a programmer?' or 'VB or ASP etc .' I say 'No. I am a content developer.' They say 'Oh, what does that mean?' I start by saying that I am responsible for the creation of the content or text for websites, multimedia cds, marketing brochures etc. They say 'Oh, a writing job or a documentation work.' God, how many times have I restrained myself from catching them by the throat and throttling them. Don't people ever understand that they are a lot of jobs in the IT industry other than programming. People have got it ingrained in thier mind that if you work for an IT company, then you are a programmer. Frankly saying, it was this attitude of people that made me decide not to work in the IT industry as a programmer. I don't want to be one of the thousands of nameless, faceless people programmers in the IT industry, who are just content in developing the code for an application. Most of them don't get a chance to expand thier horizons. They are mostly satisfied in thier job role. They start as programmer trainees and move up the corporate ladder as maybe a programmer, senior programmer, team or project leader. Very few break the invisible ceiling into the top management. They get stuck into mostly the lower middle or middle management. A few of my programmer friends might get a little upset over the above statements, but it is the truth. Coming back to jobs in the IT industry, as said earlier there are lots of other jobs that are paramount for any IT company. Web Designers, Multimedia Artists, Marketing, System Administrators, Technical Writers, Customer Support, Administration & Support, System Analyst, Visualizers, Interaction/Information Designers and still a lot of technical designations I cannot remember. By the way, my job profile includes: 1) Developing content for websites, multimedia cds, marketing collaterals (includes brochures, flyers etc.) 2) Editing the company's monthly newsletter 3) Act as company's spokesperson to the outside world(through newsletters, emailer campaigns, company marketing collaterals etc.- According to my CEO) 4) Prepare user manuals for software applications (Currently, I have not involved myself in this aspect, but will do so very soon) Bye, Jax. Kicha: Send me Rajesh's and Ganesh's email ids. Tell them about the unofficial rules of the blog.

A very happy birthday to Ranjini!!

I wanted to send you a greeting card but I didn't know your address. Ok I thought I'll send you an e-card. But what to do, my system was being upgraded to Win2k. So I had no access to the Internet. All this was yesterday. I thought of going to a browsing centre to do the same. Alas, being a lazy guy had its privileges. On my way home, I ran into a couple of neighbours who wanted to play cricket. That's all, my plans of the going to an Internet cafe vanished like my last ball six into the nearby bushes. I thought well I have time till today morning. My system doesn't seem to like Win2k at all. It took an immediate dislike to the OS and started to restart (What an irony!). Well it is almost 3 in the afternoon when things have been going on smoothly between the OS and the system. So, here are my wishes to you, "You are always my friend; When I am happy or when I am sad, When I am along or when I am with people. You are always my friend, If I see you today Or if I see you a year from now, If I talk to you today Or if I talk to you a year from now. You are always my friend, And though through the years we will change, It does not matter what you do. Throughout our lifetime You are always my friend. " Bye, Jax. P.S. Ram & Kicha , Get my treat also from Ranjini.

Hi, 7 days back I was right. I expected this weekend to be different and so it was. As rini told, it was a refreshing morning walk and its been quite a while that I went to a temple as early as we went on that day. Thanks to rini I made it after a looong time. And yes... quite a few gossips about rini's and my life but the best of it was the big lecture she gave me on the flowers at the road-side and at the end of it all said "I know I'm boring u... but what will u do if ur girl has a curious taste and keeps pestering u by talking about that... so, take some practice" ... Might just be a question of time before I realise how true rini's words were... Spent the rest of saturday washing and snoozing... come sunday, and started early (again) to ramgopal's house to meet bala and by afternoon we had met Kavitha who's settled with a PG accomodation in BTM layout, not far from my house. Then we walked and walked and walked and drank pepsi and walked and drank pepsi and in between had Kavitha's treat and walked until we settled down in a park for an hour or so... then Kavitha left and we 3 walked and walked and drank pepsi and walked... and then I went home and slept and now I have a severe headache... I already filled up my stomach with some hot doses of coffee... still I need a good night's sleep today to get back to my usual self. Kicha

Hi, "When the eyes start to listen the ears begin to see" ... Yup... ramg is right... western (MJ and Shakira likes) are entirely different from yesudass etc of India... but there r others also ... Elton John, Beatles, Bryan Adams and the young ones like Charlotte Church - these people are to western what yesudass is to Indian. I still can't forget the song "Voice of an angel" by Charlotte Church.. really her voice is like an angel's... but I couldn't get that song after that anywhere... (jax, note down...) Kicha

Hi everyone,

Atleast Ranjini got a chance to go to a music concert, that too a classical music concert.Here I am at Coimbatore longing for a chance to listen to any music, while at Bangalore, Ranjini is having a whale of a time in music.

It is good to see that classical music is being appreciated by people still. But the following I think has dwindled over the years. You don't find people arriving in droves to classical music concerts.

I understand that young people nowadays find it very hard to relate to classical music, whether it is Indian or western. I am at times tearing my hair in frustration about the terms used in the music. Those alaapanas, keerthanas in Indian music, the adagios, the da capos in western classical music make my head spin at times.

Somehow Indian classical music has been brought to the common people by the movies. People can now realize that a song is in Bhairavi or kalyani ragam. But modern film music has become unhearable. Personnaly I feel that about 10 or 12 good songs are released every year out of a possible 500-600 film songs.

Ignorant people may say that this is mainly due to western influence. That is total crap. Anyone who knows his keerthanas from the alaapanas will disagree. Western Classical music has been a great inspiration to many of our modern musicians. Notice I say Western Classical  music, not westernised music. The modern music has no connection with the original classical music per se.

Music as everyone will agree has no languages or boundaries. If you are able to listen and appreciate music, you will be able to listen and appreciate music in its various forms, whether it is in sanskrit, urdu or swahili.

I think I have been talking a lot about music. I love music.period.

Coming to my weekend, It is too early I know but what else to do.

Thursday:

Evening: Got to go to the church. Today is Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday. For Christianity, the next three days form the crux of the religion. The coming Thursday, Friday & Saturday are called as "Triduum" meaning the three great days.

I will be again back at the church for a prayer late night.

Friday: Good Friday. Will be on leave. Have to go to the church around 11 am.

Saturday: My leave has not been sanctioned. So will have to come to office on Saturday. I am planning to ask for half a day's leave.
Evening: Got to go to the church in the evening and again later at midnight for Easter Mass.

Sunday: Easter Sunday. Morning mass @10 am. Heavy lunch at home. Visit friends and relatives.  
 
These are my expected lines for the weekend.

See you on Saturday morn or Monday morn,

Jax.

Hi, So, thats the end of BizTalk Server training for me. Now, back to my routine work. rini, so nice to hear u enjoyed in the concert. Just stacked beside me are 8 boxes containing new Black DELL computers for the 4 people in our cubicle. The systems are 40GB HDD with 512MB RAM... good, ain't it... and the much awaited financial results of Wipro has come...They have registered a drop of 6% in their net-profit... Kicha

Hi, Back from today's quota of my training in BizTalk Server. Had a short chat with kavi in the morning as she was rushing into the hall for her 2nd day and I was moving rather sedately (as I always do...) to my training lab... Another of those routine days... but I guess this weekend could just be a bit different than the 2-men show of me and ramgopal all these days here. With Kavitha coming into the picture and Bala also having some plans to come to BLR this weekend for some work... and with Kavitha's treat still pending... it all seems to be all set for a juicy, slurpy weekend... lets atleast hope so... about the sites I visit daily... 1. rediff 2. yahoo 3. hotmail .......for all my mailing needs 1. msdn 2. gotdotnet 3. google ......for all my programming needs 1. cricinfo 2. scores.sify ......for all my cricketing needs and of course, "sparsh" - the Infosys intranet ... Kicha

Hi,

Just kidding Ram, Found this bit of "interesting" news. Thought I would share it with you. Tell me do all of you get the time to visit a lot of websites everyday. I certainly have a few must-visit web sites everyday.

Ok, we'll have a poll. Each one of us will have to post the first 5 websites they visit everyday.

Well, here is my list:

1. Yahoo Groups
2. Google News (major source - I keep visiting links from here)
3. MSN Joke of the Day

Websites I used to visit regularly, but have stopped now:

• NY Times
• Astro.com
• Google Web Directory
• Rediff.com

Websites I visit on and off again:

I visit these sites only when i feel a need to visit the site. mostly this list contains only sports sites

1. FIA
2. Wisden
3. BBC
4. Sify
5. Indiatimes

Bye,
Jax.

Hey,
Got this news from the net right now!

Bill Gates Shot dead... from CNN

Bye.
Jax.

Bon jour mes amis,

So, Rini has started on the greatest adventure - house hunting. You can learn a lot of things when you go on a search for a house. You find that there are things which you have taken for granted in the past are now hard to come by. The most interesting thing about house hunting is meeting people, all types of people (interesting and dull).

Ranjini, visit these links for info:

• http://www.onlinebangalore.com/hous/reupdate/thumbrul.html
• http://www.koramangala.com/korabuz/rentals.htm

One week left for your birthday and diid you get my points on your comments?


Yesterday was a holiday, one of the 9 official holidays in my company. Here is my weekend.

Sat: just working - evening choir practice

Sun: Every year, we have a "samapandhi" at our church (Sunday preceding Easter). WE used to help in setting up of the tables and chairs and serve food, first to the poor and after that to other people in the church. This is not like the annadhanam given in temples, but more of a communal lunch. Had a good time. Got tired by the time I sat down for lunch. As one of the member in the 'serving' committee, got a lt of vadais than others. Went back home at 3 pm. and watched the Ind-SA match.

Around 6 pm, went to leave my suister at Namakkal, The buses I got into were one of the slowest of the lot. Finally reached Namakkal at 10:30. Went to my uncle's house. After dinner, watched the highlights of the Brazilian Grand Prix. It was interesting to watch people just crash out. Luckily no one got hurt.

Mon: Tamil New Year day - Got up early, got ready to leave to Coimbatore. I usually don't have breakfast on holidays. Did the same and later realized what a fool I was. Got down at Erode for breakfast. On checking my pockets, found that I had practically no money other than for the bus ticket. After rummaging through my pockets,  found that I had over 30 Rs. of change alone. Had a orange juice and bought an Aquafina and got into the bus. My sister had told me about this bus. very fast and no stopping on the way. Got into the front row seat, just behind the gear shaft. Wonderful view of the road. made it to Coimbatore in no time.

Coming home, found my house locked. After some time, my brother came. Took rest the entire evening playing Age of Empires. Also watched "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - interesting film.

Tue: back at office - reading three day's mails and  -- typing this...

Ciao,
Jax.

BTW: anybody seen Saddam Hussein and his Weapns of Mass Destruction?? If yes, please inforn Bush and Blair. poor guys, been searching for him for the past one month.

Hi, Am back from home. First a BIG sorry to jax for not calling him... in fact, I couldn't call anybody this weekend. Got a bit tied-up with some resposibilities. Interesting to watch the twists and turns of life, just a few months ago we were lads and now of all, we r men and women... I got a first-hand feel of what it feels to be a responsible "man" and an indication of sorts of how things are going to be in a few years from now. Long Live Life ...!!!! Expecting call from Kavi. She might be here by now and into the training hall. Just learnt that their training is going to be in UNIX to start with... yeah jax, may be u can again send the link to the groups and may be they can have a look at what has been going on and people who are online for a reasonable part of the day can be welcome to be part of us. Kicha

Bon Jour ,

Finally, I am able to view the blog page once again. Found out a easy way to post to the blog, "Remote editing".  Just trying the feature out. This feature will allow you to edit posted messages directly from the blog. No need to visit blogger.com. This is very useful , if you find you had made some typo or not linked an url.

Ranj, did you receive my reply about your comments on the story?

Ram, what happened to Manny?

I feel that we should promote the blog more. Anyway, Kavitha would be joining us. If any of our friends are on the net most of their time, we can ask them to join also. your thoughts?? I wanted to put a message to the group about this, but first wanted to know your thoughts on the matter.

BTW, if any of you visit a big bookshop like higginbothams or landmark, please ask if they have audio books for sale. Audio books are books recorded as audio cassettes or audio cds, sometimes even as mp3s. If they have any, could you inform me about the average prices?

Just hoping this weekend goes as per expected lines.

Bye,
Jax.

Hi,
Yesterday was an interesting day. It went on as interestingly as it started. Infy's results were announced. Even though it had achieved company projections... the market analysts expectation was not reached.
Furthermore, the forecast for next year that infy gave was 12-14% while the market expected it to be around 20-25%... and the resultant...
market shattered... infy lost more than 1000 bucks in a single day, ie., over 25% lost... and ended at Rs. 3049

for ramgopal's query, Hughes s/w lost over 11% and ended at Rs.179
Not just that... almost every tech company lost more then 10-15% and Mastek led the way by losing 49% and ended at Rs.285

yesterday that was the talk of everyone... now I really understand the worth of our MS(IT&M) course. Even though all around me were discussing shares and businesses I was atleast able to figure out what all the fuss was about and could chip in with some sensible inputs to them.
I usually keep a slender track of the markets ever since the day I started reading BusinessWorld (to be more precise, from March 2002). Now my interest is only increasing...

and am going home today. heard that vijay babu is coming to mdu to collect his cert. Hope to meet him. and jax, will call u saturday night or sunday morning... and be back here on monday morning...

Kicha

Hi Ram, If it was placed under fire-wall, I would have received a custom message. No I get the message "Connection Failed . No route to host" found. I have to log into blogger.com and see the messages like I am doing right now. Trying to figure a way past this error. Bye, Jax.

Hi all, I think there is some problem. I am unable to access the blog page. I keep getting errors. How about you? Bye, Jax.

Hi friends,

Yesterday, had nothing to do except sit around waiting for something or someone to call me. Nothing turned up. My sister wanted to watch a movie. So while waiting for dinner, I went out to the video shop. On the way back, bought a Digit magazine (100 Rs. gone down the drain).

Watched "Manasellam". Ordinary story with illness, flashback. Tamil cinema has nowadays become very predictable. I can predict the start of a song, a fight sequence, or why even the next dialogue to a second (maybe plus or minute a couple of milliseconds).

One thing I liked about this movie was its ending, albeit on expected lines, something that I have always believed in. Over the past couple of years, these type of climaxes have become commonplace. Trisha was more or less a leaner Jothika (same voice dubbing, gestures and body language). Srikant, better than previous films, but same old beard style. Most of the film, he seems to be wearing the same dresses. Our stunt master have gotten over the Matrix effect. The slo-mo and the instant action scenes have now become irritating.

Ranjini, what happened to Hariharan? Forgot him?

I have almost stopped listening to music. My cassette player has gone kaput. I don't get CDs (expensive). Most of all, no time at all to listen to music. At work, not much of music aficionados here. At times, can hear a few English songs wafting in the air.

As I am composing this, Richard Marx's version of "I can't help falling in love with you" was running in one of the multimedia systems.  Elvis Presley had originally sung this song. With his wonderful voice, it brought to mind emotions of beaches and walking along it with your loved one. One of my favourite songs, this song has appeared in the movie "Speed 2: Cruise Control". That song was by a British pop group, UB40.

Now, the original version of Alaipayuthey has taken over the air, not the song in the movie, but the original version by..... I don't know who.

Bye,
Jax.

Infy Quarter 4 results are announced...

259 crores net profit in 4th quarter � last year the fig was 210 crores�

3rd quarter it was 256 crores�

Year-wise:

2003 : Net profit � 957.93 crores

2002: Net profit � 807.96 crores

Growth rate of 18.56%

Kicha

Hi, Today, the morning was different. I stepped out of my bed amidst the darkness (there was no current) into the meeting room where I usually have a meeting every morning to answer all the questions posed by nature, only to find that the tap blew out air - No water in the tank...and no current to switch on the motor. I had to forcefully postpone my meeting with nature. It was not until 7AM that the current came and then rushed in to meet and went on to successfully answer all of nature's questions as I do everyday and made here some 30 mins later than usual... rini venturing into Greek stories... I'm not patient enough to read stories... but very patient enough to listen if somebody is patient enough to tell it out... Today is April 10th... and by late afternoon, Infy's 2002-03 4th quarter results will be out... anxious to learn how we've fared in this not-so-good economic climate... Kicha

Dear Ram,

Friday is too soon. I was expecting it to be ready by Monday. Then the only option is let Manny prepare a rough draft of the paper. Ask him to mail it to my personal id. I'll go through, make necessary corrections, changes etc and mail it back to him.

For your mozilla query, open the blog in Mozilla and bookmark it. Then go the Bookmarks menu and click on Manage Bookmarks... Right click on the newly created bookmark and click on Properties. Go to the Schedule tab and set it according to your preferences. The Notify tab can be used to alert you whenever the page has been modified.  Though this feature is very useful, it gets a little annoying at times, whenever an alert pops up.

Everyone, check out the new Members link at the left hand side. Your comments and suggestion for utliizing the space effectively are welcome. 

The small subscription box on the right is for those who want to receive updates made to the blog through email. If anyone, say Ganesh, wants to know whether there are any new posts to the blog, he can subscribe using the form. He will then be receiving mails about the updates to the blog through emails.

As I had mentioned earlier, please use the <br> tag to seperate sentences. As you all can see all the posts appear as a single para. Use the HTML knowledge we learnt at MS(IT&M) atleast now.

Bye,
Jax.

Hi, Came across an interesting site - an online museum of computing... check that out... if possible, send me some names of famous personalities associated with computing...not the CEOs of current big companies but some people who have a historical importance with computing... here, there is a tradition of naming conferance halls after such names... they want to name 2 new conferance halls of our floor and r asking for some suggestions... Kicha

Dear Ram,
Regarding your query for Manny, I would like to have some info before proceeding. What the hell is dynamic binding and how is it related to C, C++, and Java. I am not that much technically sound. Maybe if you or manny could help me by suggesting a few pointers (not the one in C & C++) on the topic, maybe some sites where you can get information.

Since I need some time to prepare it, it would be really helpful if you or Manny collect just the rough information and mail me (to my personal id). I'll try my best. Don't reply to my office. Any urgent message, blog it, I'll read it and reply asap.

Kicha, the answer to your question " The man was a very short man. He could reach only upto the button for fifth floor. On rainy days, he would be having his umbrella. Using it, he can press the button for the tenth floor." I feel that we can use the blog for these type of interactions instead of mailing. We have got the technology, so I feel that we should make use of it more often.

Ram: Sorry for not replying earlier to your query, which version of mozilla did you download? I know you are using Win2k OS.
Bye,
Jax.

Neither of the two u mentioned, jax... she's being cruel by not readying herself to give treat to her friends... ain't not giving treat for b'day a cruel thing... Kicha

Hi all,

I think that the problem is that the line breaks were not converted into <br> tags. I feel the best option is to insert the line breaks manually. So as you have got admin rights, you can edit your posts and insert the tags manually. If it is a problem from Blogger's end, then we will have to wait for them to rectify it.

Ranjini, I guess you have taken to reading a lot nowadays. Why, having a lot of free time? As you had said, the Greek mythology is one of the most interesting and also the most intriguing mythologies. No offense meant, but I feel that that it is better than the Indian ones. The entire greek mythology is available online. Bartleby is a very good source. Personally I really love the Odyssey by Homer the most.

BTW what was Kicha meaning by Ranjini being cruel to her friends. What is Ranjini going home to Madurai or spending the entire day with Srini, which of these two scenarios will it be?

To view images, it is important the image be referenced by an url, a file path would not suffice.

That's all folks, bye,

Jax.

Hi, Times are turning better for our people, I guess. Kavitha getting into infy, jax getting a hike... and we cud expect more to come... but dunno whats happening with vinod... now, should we believe him or not.... Its nice thing that Kavitha is reporting in Bangalore... so soon our blog and mailing people's number will rise to 1 more... but its a pity that kavi will not be able to meet ranjini (or should I say, ranjini will not be able to meet kavi - or anyone for that matter) ---not even for her b'day treat...thats very sad.... ain' it... how can ranjini be so cruel to her friends... Kicha

Hi friends, Ranjini had mailed me about blogger scrolling. Sorry i had nothing to do with it. Will try and see if anything can be done to rectify this. It might be a problem at blogger's end. Also as blogger is providing a free hosting space in its domain, we are allotted only one page space. That's why we are not allowed the facility of uploading images, Ranjini. If we require the option of uploading images onto the blog, we have buy some space. For more information, read the FAQ. Rini, your cooments on the story are appreciated. I'll mail you later about them. I had just come in when I recieved your mail. BTW, I got an increment of 1K yesterday. Bye, Jax.

Dear all,

Uploading images:
You cannot insert images that are present in your hard disk or internal network. The image has to be online. I repeat it has to be a image that can be referenced as an url (i.e. www.somedomain.com/images/image.gif). If you find a image that you really like and want to share, right click on it to locate its location and insert that path as the source in the image tag. If you are accessing sites that require authentication, there are chances that the image might not get displayed in the blog. But you can check that out by copying the image's url and pasting it in the browser. If the image gets displayed, fine. If not, forget it.

 Editing blogs:
All of you have been given admin rights by me. You can log in and check it. Please use this facility only when you have made some mistakes like wrong links or something like that. I am using it only to delete multiple blogs that you might have created by pressing post or publish twice. As I have made a facility to be updated by Mozilla every time the blog changes, I can immediately get the changes done. The blog gets checked by the browser every 15 minutes.
More news and info later,
Jax.

Hi everyone,

I found a way by which images can be posted. Remember, Images can be inserted only, not uploaded. To insert images into the blog post, you need to know a little bit of basic HTML.

Say, I want to insert a image into the post say a Blogger logo. All I have to do is write the post as a HTML code.
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<p>
This is a <b>sample test post>/b><br>
This shows how you can insert images into the post<br>
<img src="aaa" width="xxx" height="yyy">
eg.

Note:
'aaa'=source image, the actual path of the image. You can find this out by rightclicking the image you want to be posted to the blog.
'xxx'=the width of the image to be displayed.
'yyy'=the height of the image to be displayed.
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Try it out...

Bye,
Jax.

Hi everyone,

Ranjini seems to be making efficient use of the blog. Good going, keep it up. Ranjini, another thing, if you come across any interesting websites or articles on the web, just blog it. Just like the article of the week that you had been sending. 

Kicha, what a co-incidence, I saw "Lord of the Rings - Two Towers" on CD for the second time Saturday night. I wanted to watch it in a theatre. But they took the movie off from the theatre this Friday.

Ram and Kicha, don't get left behind. Keep blogging. Last week, when there was a flurry of mails being sent to the groups, Ganesh had spoken to me. He did not believe that this blog was actually ours. He thought that we had ^C and ^V'ed the entries from somewhere. He said that only when he had noticewd the names at the bottom, he believed that it was us. He said that he also wanted to join. I had told him the rules: 1) Atleast more than two blogs in a week (one per day or more would be really great) 2) He would not be able to upload images( thank god, or else this blog would have become a photo gallery of Jothika).

Your comments on the above matter expected???

My weekend went as per expected lines. Saturday evening singing practice, Sunday morning church, Sunday evening practice. The only thing different this week was that Cecilia Ohrwall   had come to give us a few pointers on singing. The practice sessions were totally fun and interesting. Actually today (Monday), we will be giving a small performance in the evening.

We will be singing three African songs. One song is titled "Ashikatale". You find the lyrics to this song here at the bottom of the page.One song is "Bele Mama". This song is a lively foot-tapping song. Another song is titled "Mwanga Ni Mwema". This song is in Swahili.

Well, I forgot to tell you all something. If this small music group takes off, we might be coming over to Bangalore to give  a small performance. A similar group located at Bangalore will be coming over to Coimbatore to give a performance. We might be reciprocating thier visit here. So expect in Bangalore sometime in the future, but definitely within the end of 2003.

The second Gulf War is in its third week. Keeping a close watch on the developments, I found out several things. It is interesting to note that there are different versions of the same news, on by the western media and one by the eatern media. I get both versions though the western media is more prominient, CNN, BBC, NY Times... For the Iraqi version, you have Al-Jazeera only. Reading both versions gives one the thought that they are covering two different wars. On one, the Anglo-American forces all have but won the war. on the other, they are getting beaten black and blue.

That's all for now, keep in touch,

Jax.

Note: As I may be experimenting with the look and feel of the blog, you might get some errors accessing it. Kindly adjust. I will give prior intimation if I plan to modify it.

This weekend, I was not in the best of my spirits. I dunno why. But I was just not feeling like myself. Imagine what cud have been the reason for a guy who NEVER sleeps in the afternoons to sleep for 5 hours at-a-stretch between 2PM and 7PM on a saturday... I'm still trying to figure that out... Later that saturday night my house-mates called for "Lord of the rings" movie... Imagine what cud have been the reason for a guy who SELDOM prefers to go for night-show movies to go in for the movie that night... I'm still trying to figure that out ... nevertheless, the movie was good... and I hardly slept that night after coming back from the movie. Morning got up around 6AM (after returning from the movie well past 1PM and hardly getting any sleep).... started to ramgopal's house later in the morning ... saw "Lord of the rings" again in CD at his house... and in the evening went to shiva temple behind Kemp Fort before pulling up my bermudas for the night... so, wasn't the best of weekends... hope to have a more cheerful week ahead... and praying that my plans of going home this weekend doesn't get spoilt... Kicha

Ranjini, I absolutely forgot that you are an engineer and that you had to wear uniforms. I guess I am getting a little senile nowadays. I keep forgetting simple things a lot. But I am astounded to hear that Srini has been buying you a lot of dresses. I have to talk to him about that. If he says that you always take a lot of time to get ready to go out somewhere, it is his mistake ;-). He buys you a lot of dresses and then he complains you take a lot of time to choose a dress and get ready. BTW I'll send my story this weekend. I don't have it at office. Kicha, where are the answers for the quiz that you had sent. I am eager to know the answers that the others had sent. Mail it soon. I guess you all have been enjoying a lot of holidays at your respective concerns. I have over 60 days off for me, 52 sundays + 10 cl. Poor me! Bye, Jax. visit this.

A new language has been developed by the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Durham, UK. Written by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris. This language is very user-friendly, doesn't contain a lot of syntax. Learn more about the language here. I guess Ramgopal can learn this program. Kicha may also find it useful for his programming. But the language may not be compatible witht the .Net platform. The only link between programs written in Whitespace and .Net is that the filename suffix are similar (.ws for Whitespace programs & .ws for Web Services written on .Net platform. Yesterday being April Fool's day, I don't know how many of you all got be a real fool. I came across this article while browsing. It gives the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Read and Enjoy... Bye, Jax.

Ranjini, wearing pants...???? going for movie....??????? me too like to see u in pant shirt and going to a movie... wait... i'm trying to imagine... am thinking.... hard... hard... really hard... oh...man... I give up... however hard I try... its impossible for me to think that way... is it Ranjini...??? I guess, thats how gals change on accomodating their "The Guy"... I wonder how seeni has changed after getting his "The Gal"... has he started wearing dhoties while going out... :-) (hee....heee.....heee.........) and ever wonder, if seeni spends so much time in choosing what dress he wears to meet his gal... or has Ranjini ever cribbed anything to her guy on what he's wearing that day... strange happenings.... just trying to use this as a case-study ... might be useful for me in the future... Hey Ram....!!! (no, i've not become pious... thats the song slicing its piece of melody thru my ears...) Kicha

Ranjini, You in a pant shirt. Is this an April Fool's joke? I would like to see a photo. Can you arrange it?
I guess you all must be using mostly Internet Explorer for your browsing. But there are alternatives to IE. I am not against Microsoft products. But after using Mozilla, I have become a fan of that browser. I wouldn't say that Mozilla is the best browser, but it has a few features that I really have come to like like tabbed browsing. Though Netscape is built using the Mozilla base, I feel that Netscape is resource hungry.
Mozilla has some really wonderful tools to help in blogging. A few of my earlier posts were made through those tools. The irony is that I am composing this blog using IE, not Mozilla.
In case you need any more information on Mozilla or any other browser, try googling!
BTW, R.Sinduja's birthday is tomorrow. Right? Jax.