Thought Process

after much reluctance I finally sent my resignation today (friday evening) with a week notice. I am yet to get the response.

the thought of nostalgia after a few months is bothering me now and its probably weird.

not many of my friends or family are thrilled about leaving this beautiful company and go to an american behemoth practically unknown in India. they are also warning me about the looming recession and i told i cant stop moving ahead because something in future looks gloomy.

the coming week will be full of phone conversations, emails, exit interviews, settlements etc.

atleast i am leaving without jeopardizing any thing.

Virus that uploads personal files to websites.

this virus is in new unopened maxtor harddrives and infection happens at the harddrive factory.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/12/2003387447
do a antivirus check before you start transferring any data to a new drive.

For nearly 200 years, England ruled over 500 million people on six continents-a time in which it was commonly said that the sun never set on the British Empire. Today, however, the sun sets on the British Empire at precisely 5:47 p.m. GMT.

-- From TheOnion.com

BMW started giving its ads on tv for their first hydrogen powered car. its a 7 series and costly. so they are releasing to select customers on lease only.

when i searched for "bmw hydrogen" after watching the ad on tv, the first result was of a critic who bashed this car as "not as green as it seems". He seems to be right about what he said. but this is definetly a positive step away from fossil fuels. may be bmw has a plan to manufacture hydrogen and store it in liquid form using some method they are still working on.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448648,00.html


as a last note, bmw should take little care that their website comes up first when a person searches for their product rather than a critics page.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/07/45569

check this story on wired. a hacker had his arm broken when he challenged the cops to get him...they caught him...h ahaha ha...and broke his hand.

you want to grow in a service company, there is not need for any technology. just try to get into one, and all you need is fill out those reports, XLS sheets and PPTs.

even though you really suck at technology, your clients hate you, you have no other choise or cannot do any other techno work since you donot have the fundamentals....you will be promoted again and again.

I dont want to be a manger, and i am not good at it. but if there is no position for technology enthusiasts..then create one for that stream also...all you have left in the company is small small managers roaming like piglets waiting for some nerd to resolve an issue. Where do you find a nerd if you dont want a nerd in the organization.

i dont seem to understand how "customer is God" is satisfied if all you deliver to the customer is reports and reports of work that none of you do.

well well well..after all the fun and boredom i have had in these many years in technology, i have decided to do an mba (yup in lowercase just incase i trash it soon as many other things). I ordered a gmat book from amazon. and it should come in couple of days.

its been many years i ve done math or done verbal. i did study for gre but didnt give it for some reasons. i hope my brain is as sharp as then if not better.

all these years other than techni books, i hvent touched any other novel or literature. i hope i can still make it.

i ve got 3 months till this project completes and i move on to another one. so 3 months of no work at home...only mat mat gmat.

i m writing this blog entry abt something i wanna do, and intend to continue writing about the progress.

“Living on the Earth may be expensive...
But it includes an annual free trip around the Sun”

Got this as a forward

A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an animated conversation.

The lady sitting behind them ignores them at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of the men say the following:"Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time."

"You foul mouthed swine," retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country we don't talk about our sex lives in public!""Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who talkin' abouta sexa? I'm just tellin' my frienda how to spella 'Mississippi'."