Archive for August, 2004

Indian MPs can surprise you once in a while

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

For the good reasons that is… Just saw this on NDTV 24×7… We have a MP in Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria from Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh) who unlike other MPs do not even own a car, let alone drive one to the office (that is Indian Parliament). He has been driving a scooter to come to [...]

Lessons learnt the hard way

Saturday, August 21st, 2004

It does not matter if you are paying for the services or not, but just do not ask for support. Because the service provider has either too big an ego or he is simply too incompetent to provide service for a product you are using…

Funny things speculations can lead to!

Friday, August 20th, 2004

I was reading this month’s issue of Outlook magazine which was largely based on the controversial concept of predicting what if scenarios. And one of the funnier what if scenarios discussed was what if India had successfully implemented the family planning policies and couples here were not allowed to have a third child… We would [...]

Of missed opportunities and idiotic trolls

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

So, I tried to check out new software instead of WordPress for my Blog. I tried my best to give it a fair trial. But well, as I already mentioned here… It was a futile exercise. Egoistic developers are a real threat to the beauty of the concept that Open Source stands for. And well, [...]

Looking back at my short and pretty eventful career!

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

I just arrived back home from a visit to Delhi . And there I met some old friends who were still slogging out in my old company. This is apparently a big shame considering some of these guys are way more talented than for what they are employed for. And most of them are paid [...]