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Archive for March 17th, 2008

Hmm… one’s respect for the work done by Leslie and her team increases exponentially with the number of inane RTFM mails hit the GSoC lists. And this is after the subscription to the list sends out the FAQ as obligatory reading material.
Monday gossip – heard an anecdote about a Product Management chap who quipped last week “I need a [Linux] product that will not require to be updated in 5 years.” Oh come on now …
Read Night by Elie Wiesel over the weekend. The effect has been like sandpaper on the soul.

Written by sankarshan

March 17th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

matutinal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning. […]

John Kenneth Galbraith
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." […]
Bill Vaughan
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." […]

And sometimes you do
end up smiling (note I did write smiling instead of smirking) on the predicaments. For instance, it is just the mid March and, instead of the Ides of March we have the beginnings of the hot season. Curiously enough, we had a spell of shower today and predictably enough the weather went all over the [...] […]
There are times when you recall the surroundings
It turns out that I completed 5 years at the work-place recently. It is a bit of a jumble because the employment contract and status during the times I joined was a bit of a mess and, so it was a surprise. It also struck me that through all these 5 years I have seen folks [...] […]
Annoying ice-breakers
“What are you up to ? Long time no see” was the constant refrain that I heard yesterday at GNUnify’10 when I dropped in. I have never been able to respond well to the “What are you up to part ?”. Most of the times I am doing stuff that is either deeply internal to [...] […]