| Facts about Dec 26 2004 |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|04:00 pm] |
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Dec 26, 2004 was the day when tides raised, swallowed people and washed away many homes. But adding to the misery the day is also highly forgettable to the Indian Cricket team which lost to Bangladesh for the first time in ODI history. |
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| Indian Cricket: Whats happening |
[Nov. 29th, 2006|12:23 pm] |
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I am not sure whether it's a coincidence, the Indian Cricket team is often in dire straits before the World Cup. The problem is the selectors always get impressed whenever an youngster scores runs in a series or plays one or two good knock so that he can be given a chance forever. They should realize that it's high time that to learn some lessons from Australian Selection panel and should implement the following.
1. No Mercy to any players
Everyone knows how Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh and Micheal Bevan were shown the door so ruthlessly, despite that Ricky Ponting's Australia came out in flying colors in 2003 World cup, therefore country's win is important than who's playing in 11's. The players who will survive such a selection policy from current Indian team would be Sachin, Dravid, Dhoni and Harbhajan.
2. Roles should be clear
Players like Pathan are victims of it. He was a good bowler, but suddenly he got an all rounder tag, and now he's struggling in both. It has to be made clear that bowlers should be bowlers and batsmen should be batsmen and all rounders should enter the team as all rounders. Did Jason Gillespie who scored 201* against Bangladesh was there in Ashes squad as a batsman or as an all rounder?
3. Captain's role
The captain needs to be more aggressive, which is missing in Dravid's approach compared to Sourav, go ahead, ask bowlers to bowl bouncers, target batsmen, win them mentally and the rest is done (don't drop catches please).
Enough is enough, let's pray for India in the current series and not to forget in World cup too. |
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| Big day for Sun and Open Source |
[Nov. 13th, 2006|07:49 pm] |
The announcement from Sun Microsystems to open source java technology is a news which open source enthusiasts will cherish forever. Moreover its under GPL, a welcome move. This should and will put into end any questions about Sun's commitment to open source community. Sun has been a leader in Open Source as early as in 1999, though it did not receive enough public attention during those times as compared to recent years. Truly, Silicon valley needs Sun. |
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| Steve Irwin |
[Sep. 8th, 2006|08:19 pm] |
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The sudden demise of Steve Irwin is a rude shock to the world. The crocodile hunter won the hearts of many people in the world with his daring acts with the deadliest of the creatures. Definitely it's a great loss for Animal Planet enthusiasts all over the World (and probably a relief for animals). "Heroes are not only born as heroes but they also die as heroes" and it reminds me of the legendary formula one driver Ayrton_Senna who met a similar fate when in action. |
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| Time taken to walk to Tirumala |
[Sep. 1st, 2006|11:45 am] |
Two days before I went to Tirumala. I always used to walk to the hills by steps and whenever I do this, I used to clock it. This time I went alone (my mother and my brother went through bus) and started at 830 PM and reached the hill at 1030 PM. In other words, it took me 2.15 hrs to complete the walk (believe me I didn't run), which is a satisfactory time for me better than the previous best (2.45 hrs). I just want to know if anyone did better than this, in that case, that time would be my new target to accomplish. Wildest dream: Walk the hills in the same time as a vehicle would reach .... |
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| Where is Python |
[Aug. 21st, 2006|05:52 pm] |
Its sad to note that python programmers are not recognized for what they are here (at least in majority of the places). Though I got a chance to work in my favorite language at my work (mostly because of my effort and push), its not recognized overall which is a cause of concern. Hardly few use python extensively, with Google leading by example. Are python gurus in wrong place? I don't have an answer but why people are going for old traditional programming styles if there is something which will solve things in the easiest possible way. I hope the same is not the case in US where python waves are hitting strong and getting recognized in many places.
Ok let me be a small change. Here after my web will focus entirely on python, portraying its power and its exclusively for python programmers. My programming strategy will also change. Python (high level) and C++ (low level) will be the core with SWIG to bridge the gap between them, of course for platform independency Java.
Python <-> SWIG <-> C++ |
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| Srilanka Tri Series |
[Aug. 18th, 2006|09:49 am] |
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It's a huge disappointment for Cricket fans that the triseries in Srilanka didn't happen due to unfortunate circumstances, so is unfortunate that SA pulled out of the tournament. But BCCI did a sensible job by not calling the Indian team back home which would have definitely shattered the cricketing spirit in both the countries. Game is there to be played and imagine how many fans are waiting to see the comeback of Sachin or to witness the batting exploits of in form Sanath Jayasuriya or the crafty spin of Murali. India and Srilanka should make sure that Cricket is the ultimate winner. |
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| The pain of being separated from a close friend |
[Aug. 7th, 2006|12:04 pm] |
What is the worse punishment? I discovered that two days before, its the pain of being separated from my dear friend. I have seen many agonizing moments in life but this one stands at the top of them. My friend had a good sense of humor, I had helped her technically and gave my best support, but despite those things, I couldn't avoid the inevitable. I can still meet my friend, speak with her, help her, share my happiness and sorrow, realize that her happiness is my happiness, her sadness is mine, etc, but just it will take some time for me to get through this lean patch.
One more question, is it wrong to have a close and dear friend so that the pain of separation will be hard to overcome. I don't know the answer, but she is my friend (and more than that) and even though things are little tough right now, nothing can deter my steely resolve that I will live for my friend and our true friendship will live forever. |
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| The return of Sachin Tendulkar |
[Aug. 4th, 2006|09:42 am] |
The return of Sachin Tendulkar to the Indian Cricket team for the tour of SL proves that the master blaster can overcome any tough situation and come back with flying colors. He was troubled by injuries to no extent in the recent years and in the battle against passion for cricket and the troublesome injury, sachin's passion won for cricket beat the injuries convincingly. If everyone takes a leaf out of sachin's commitment and character, one can succeed not only in cricket but in their professional life as well. Kudos Sachin!!!
Remember "You are greater than anything which can happen to you". |
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| Penalty shootout deciding games in football |
[Jul. 10th, 2006|08:25 pm] |
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What a pity, the world cup finals 2006 was won by Italy due to a simple mistake committed by a french player during the penalty shootouts. This doesn't mean that France is the runner and Italy is the winner, both exhibited some tremendous skills. Any game deciding the winner should have substantial difference in goals especially in Penalty shootouts. Rather than one goal difference separating the two teams, penalty shootout should decide the winner based on two goal difference (how long its going to take to decide the winner in this case?).
Imagine the first team converting the five penalty corners and the second team converting four. Look at the pressure on the second team to finish the fifth one, its really immense and in that way if two goal difference comes into play, the goalkeepers and the players can focus on the penalty shootout with much assurance. Moreover the finals which is played just once in four years can be more exciting if it's a best of three contest rather than a sole game deciding the winner. |
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| A tribute to Rahul Dravid |
[Jul. 3rd, 2006|02:00 pm] |
I had a doubt in past as who is the best in test, though Sachin had an edge in the past, after the recently concluded test series in West Indies which India won 1 - 0, I have to reconsider my thoughts. Surely Rahul Dravid is out of world. Have you seen a captain who has the temparament as Rahul Dravid. Take the case of the recently concluded 4th test. Rahul came to the crease very early in the first innings, helped the team with a fighting 81, batting almost throughout the day, leading the side from the front when India bowled, then came to the crease early in the second innings too, batted throughout the day, got out finally, then led his side to victory.
After India almost came close to victory in the first two tests and not finishing it, it's easy for any captain to lose cool and throw the bat away on anything. But his persistance and frustrating the bowlers is his great weapon. Finally concluding, there can be Ricky Pontings, Sachin Tendulkars, Brain Laras, Sehwags, Gilchrists, Haydens, but there can ONLY be ONE man like my favorite hero the WALL - Rahul Dravid. |
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| Work and play.... |
[Jun. 2nd, 2006|12:26 pm] |
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I remember in Eric's article on how to become a hacker, he mentioned that "Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work" and the boundary between work and play disappears for true hackers. Let me put it this way: If a person really enjoys work and play, he will play as intensely as he works and will work as intensely as he plays. Therefore enjoy both part of life.... |
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| Two years before: May 24 2004, My Intel Experience |
[May. 24th, 2006|05:20 pm] |
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Two years before on the same day I prepared hard for an interview with Intel (in Bangalore, I got a call from Intel when I was a student in Anna University). But me tell you how things went out of sorts on the interview day, I will reveal the chain of events that lead in things going awry (similar to Nat Geo investigates).
1. First I came to Bangalore four days before the interview to get tips from friends to put up a better show.
2. The day before the interview, I prepared hard till late night.
3. On the interview day, I underestimated the distance for the interview location (which was in ITPL Bangalore), just started an hour before the schedule and after some hiccups got into the vehicle.
4. Unfortunately the auto-rickshaw driver doesn't know the route, which lead to confusion and the congested traffic during the journey added fuel to the fire.
5. Finally after a long battle, I reached Intel, but some security formalities at the entrance resulted in further delay (it's not Intel's fault as there are many IT companies in ITPL), resulting in additional pressure.
6. Under immense pressure and in tense situation, my answers were upside down (on a fine day I would have answered such questions with ease) , resulting in a total mess-up.
After that day I went back to chennai (with frustration after preparing hard and losing the battle), thinking that I would never return to bangalore again for any job in my life after that highly forgettable experience in the city.
But where am I today? I ultimately got into the same destination with Sun Microsystems India, Bangalore (luckily it was a telephonic call).
As the famous saying goes "Any hardship which doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Everything happened for good finally..
But don't forget to take some lessons from my experience (I learned a lot indeed). |
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| The pain of watching India WI ODI during the night |
[May. 24th, 2006|01:35 pm] |
Thanks to India's WI tour, which resulted in some sleepless nights for me. The fact is while every Indian fan sacrifice their sleep and hope India wins, the story turns different if the results don't go in India's favor. For me it's either a satisfactory night and a happy sleep in case of victory, failing which the night turns into a worst nightmare. Come on Team India, don't kill my sleep by losing, keep winning and keep our fans happy for their hard work in watching your performance late night.. |
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| Sourav Ganguly issue |
[Apr. 6th, 2006|06:55 pm] |
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Nowadays every Indian fan have their sympathies for the treatment Ganguly is receiving from the National selectors and the team management. I should say it's totally unfair on Sourav not being given a chance to prove his mettle as a batsman in one dayers (at least till the World cup 2007). May be he was totally out of touch for sometime as captain, for that he was sacked from captaincy and dropped from the team for some important series. But now it's time to try him again, and if a player like Mohammed Kaif gets the confidence of coach and selectors despite being totally out of sorts because of his fielding abilities and hard working nature, why not Sourav, a man who has scored 10000 in ODI just in less than 10 years of international cricket. Hope Prince of Calcutta will come out with his guns blazing. |
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| The pillars of open source community |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|01:08 pm] |
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I wonder sometimes that I have been programming a lot, but just questioned myself "Who creates good hackers (or developer)". My mind suddenly shifted towards open source. Lots of people in the world use popular open source languages like Python, Perl, Ruby, etc, some of them were highly rated for their expertise and called as hard core python programmers or perl hackers, etc etc.
But every credit (say financially or in reputation wise) they got from those open source languages would not have been possible without the great minds in the world who form the pillars of open source (say Torvalds, Guido, Lary, Eric,Richard Stallman, etc, the list does not end here...). And also the credit goes to thousands (perhaps millions) of open source developers across the world who were involved in the development of popular open source products like Python or perl or linux, etc. These developers do their work mostly at the background keeping a very low profile but form the heart of open source development. Indeed I would rate them as the root cause behind such innovations which is used by millions in the world and in the process producing several hard core python programmers or perl hackers, etc. We are always indebted to them. |
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| Python and Java |
[Mar. 31st, 2006|09:04 pm] |
In recent times, there was some hot discussions regarding the popular languages namely Python or Java. I just don't want to get into such discussions. I appreciate the great features of Python, which influences the way a developer thinks about programming (Believe me it changed my thinking totally and definitely motivates me to hack around it a lot), but that's definitely not enough to compare it with java which has a proven history and track record. Moreover there are many open source implementations of popular scripting languages in JVM like Jython, Tcl/Tk, etc (a complete list can be found here). If such scripting languages can run seamlessly on JVM, then why don't one appreciate the power of Java. Ok, the talk won't end here. My final thoughts are any such discussions won't end with a definite conclusion and it's upto the developer to appreciate the best things in each one these exciting languages from working experience. From my experience I am productive using the Power of Java, the flexibility and different principles of python programming, but never had a bias between these wonderful languages, hope you too will agree with it. |
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