Exploring Thoughtz..

In HeyMath!, the week finished off with a screening of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, a documentary film on global warming. And on Saturday, I went to the inauguration of a literary forum (yikes !) and got out of there as soon as i could manage ! And then made a crazy decision to walk all the way home ! Those 85 minutes of walking reminded me of the time I used to walk with my friends during my school days with a devil-may-care attitude for the traffic rules

Non-cricket organizations have reasons to rejoice ! BCCI had succeeded in making atleast one die-hard cricket fan, who don’t really follow any other game with so much passion, turn away from cricket in disgust. Though its hard to imagine me shunning Test Cricket which is still the best of the lot !

I am getting sick of this Irritating Pathetic League called IPL which I believe is nothing but a vulgar display of might and money ! And I really cannot understand all the hype - Sachin vs Rahul, Chennai vs Kolkata, Khan vs Mallya - I am damn confused as to who is playing for what? Cities, Owners, Players? I seriously wanted to stay away from this crap and yet cannot do so because of the stupid media ! I don’t expect anything better from the electronic media because its in their blood to flash unworthy news.

And talking about the issue of media coverage, does any one know that there was a walk from Bhopal to Delhi for 37 days demanding compensation for the gas tragedy victims in recent days ? Oh yeah, thats the one that happened in 1984, and apparently people have still not got anything concrete !! No, we are not to blame. After all how can we know all this when the media so blatantly refuses to cover these issues as ‘breaking news’ ??? Atleast Barkha Dutt had the candidness to admit that its wrong (during a discussion on ‘We the People’) not to cover news like these, may be because they have no celebrities involved !!

Had a chance to see a laptop with the following mind-blowing configuration - Designed for Windows 98, 2 GB Hard Disk, 96 MB RAM and lots more(!)

If I do something after nearly a decade (!!), its good to note it down here - I went to the Marina Beach today

Lord Mic as he is affectionately called by his friends after he got an MS offer, has now got an admit in Stanford and has bragged about it here !! Congratulations Junior !

But from the other side of the table !! Obviously, I liked it

Its High Time !

Cant figure out any other title After nearly 20 days of life without PC at home, I got my comp. running yesterday by replacing the RAM. But its still behaving like some poorly written code - totally unreliable; when it goes down, it goes down BIG

This comes a bit late but doesn’t matter….

CEG had its Graduation Day for 2008 last Tuesday (March 11). So I bunked office and had a great time with friends and got the Degree Certificate at the event held later in the evening.

Imagine working on a really BIG project for nearly 6 out of the first 9 months of your career - boy, wont you be happy? I got such a wonderful opportunity to develop TNT aka TI and I must thank my bosses (one “Talkie”, the other “Techie” :D) for showing a hell lot of faith in me which is one of the main reasons that I delivered a great product !!

TNT is an online test infrastructure written completely using Java and FreeMarker strictly following the MVC pattern. Even though a lot of test engines, both proprietary and open source, already exist, we have done this from scratch because the idea was to build an engine that can be customized at will for all our future needs.

The project which went live on Jan 15 had its first real test on Feb 29. TNT was used as the platform to successfully conduct RIPMWC 2008, an annual Mathematics contest conducted by RI in Singapore, online for the first time. I have learned a lot about *USERS* during the last 2 months which no book can ever teach me. So much so that I had sometimes thought “how many days left before all this will be over?” Its all in the game

And why did I not blog anything for the last 40 days ? Read the post again - I was busy !! And the internet connectivity was so irregular for the past 4 days that I never got to finish the post and publish it !!!