Dil ki aahaten

chand lafz apni zindagi ki kitaab se hame bhi padao
kya beeti kaisi beeti kuchh hame bhi sunao
kis panne pe kaun mila, panna palatate bichhad gaya
kahaan syahi ke daag lage hume bhi batao

Indian debacle

As i am a bona fide Indian i have to comment on Indian cricket teams performance and have to give my expert comments on what should be done next. What is the best strategy, should Chappel be kicked out or Dravid be spanked?

I feel the team needs to rest, rejuvenate themselves. There is too much cricket. Players are not puppets. Give them a break. Every batsmen a good one, bowling is just okay, all of them have proved themselves so no need to revamp the team apart from certain policies like one should be kicked out (or allowed to cool your heels) with assurance that you will be taken back when you are ready. There has to be a stable opening batting line up. India plays 3-4 opener

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Bummed! Flustered! Sounds Greek!
Is it a puzzle? a code? a key to Aztec gold or secret of Da Vinci's sexual orientation or Michelangelo's link with Al-Qaeda?
The answer is Innovation. It is simple hexadecimal representation of ASCII code for innovation. (What an innovative thought eh ;-) )

Yes the innocent word innovation. Knowledge industry, flat world, globalization, information age blah blah to the nth power.

Every one is crying hoarse, look at us we are an innovative company. We lay a lot of emphasis on innovation. We want our employees to be innovative. We always innovate
Holy crap! No one cares as long as the monies are coming

Read some serious stuff here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation and start innovating

(what an innovative blog)

Moore's Law

Number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles in every 18 months. (Reference)

Well I propose new Quark's Law of idiocy. Average 'level' of programmers dwindles by half every two year.

By level I mean the kind of work you do, the kind of work that get proud of(if you get a chance to do so).

\

A programmers problem in C language:

How do you print a new line of information on a console?
printf("\n");
Turn the problem into itself, recursive
How do you print the symbol \ followed by n on console?
printf("\\n");
Then how do you print the symbol \ followed by \ followed by n?
printf("\\\n");

\ is a popular way to express the inexpressible because new line is a concept not an axiomatic symbol like: a,b,c
Just as one uses . to denote an end of line in English language. So whenever you have to comment about the dot you have to write d followed by o followed by t (as I did few characters back) or use '.'

Surely our computer and there arcane languages are no contender against our evolutionary advanced hair covered CPUs

ब्लौग अब हिंदी में

गूगल भाई साहब को पता नही कहाँ से पता चल गया की हमें हिंदी में टाईप करना बहुत अच्छा लगता है

भाई बहुत मस्त चीज है यार

क़सम से मजा आ गया हिंदी मैं टाईप करते हुए एक अजीब सा एहसास हो रह है
मैंने पता नही कितनी बार कोशिश की होगी अलग अलग सॉफ्टवेयर use करके
धन्य हो श्री अमित अगर्वाल का जिन्होंने हमे अवगत कराया इस feature se
Digitally Inspired

Tagged!

Are you getting some tagged mails from a friend or from someone you had mailed sometime back?


Get 'Digitally Inspired'

:-(

Jean Baudrillard no more

News Article

About Jean

Kotable Kotes

Everyone should perform above average!
(Duh! mate what will happen to the average?)

Microsoft Access is not working today!
(hee hee hee hee no comments dude)

Is there a mathematics where no objects are equal to themselves!

Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan Ghalib

Yeh na thee hamari qismat..

Yeh na thee hamari qismat keh wisaal-e-yaar hota
Agar aur jeete rahtay yehi intezaar hota

Tere waade par jiyee ham to yeh jaan jhoot jana
Keh khushi se mar na jaate agar intezaar hota

Yeh kahaan ki dosti hai bane hain dost naaseh
Koi chaarasaaz hota koi ghamghuzar hota

Kahoon kis se main keh kya hai shab-e-gham buri balaa hai
Mujhe kya bura tha marana agar aikbaar hota

Huay mar keh ham jo ruswa huay kyun ka gharq-e-dariya
Na kabhi janaza uthata na kahin mazaar hota

Yeh masaael-e-tasavvuf yeh tera bayan ghalib
Tujhe ham wali samajhate Joh na badaakhwar hota.

T R A N S L A T I O N
I N
E N G L I S H

It was never in my fate to meet my beloved.
Even if more years of life was to me allocated, I would have been still awaiting the prize cherished.

If you think that I had been living on your promise, it is a lie.
For, if I had faith in you, would not of joy I would die.

Woe betide, my friendship, that the friends give pious advice and sermons they deliver.
I need someone on whose shoulders could I weep, who could allay my grief and my fears.

Whom should I tell that the night of sorrow is full of pangs.
I would not have resented the death, if it comes only once.

Disgraced, as I was after my death, why didn't I drown in a river or sea.
Neither, there would have been a funeral, nor tomb erected for me.

The marvels of ethical problems and your statements full of meanings.
I would have counted you, "Ghalib" amongst dearest friends of God; if only, you had not been a lover of drinks.

This is the translation of one of Ghalib's ghazals by Mansurul Hoda, author of the Urdu book "Dusra Rookh." He is one of the scholars of Ghalib poetry. He has translated many Ghalib ghazals and also published many articles on different Urdu poets and their poetry. He can be reached via e-mail


Taken from: http://members.tripod.com/~Hoda/mansur.html

ab neebu ki taazgi aapki baniyaan main - Dollar Baniyan
now get lime's freshness in your vest - Dollar Vests

Heard this from radio while commuting to office

ROFLOL, ROFLMAO

Eklavya

Brilliant! Bravo! and kudos to Mr. Chopra to make a thoroughly perfect movie. Excellent work of picturization. He takes whatever is required out of tradition, mythology, dialectic discussion of right and wrong, caste system and ignores the crap. What I really enjoyed was the pace of movie with good twists and turns in the story.

He has made me believe again that story and script are the heroes of cinema. I thought it to be another bleak, 'ART' movie and why the hell is he not showing his story in the promos, but when you do watch the movie you will realize that it is the story which carries the whole weight.

Another point is Mr. Chopra doesn't go overboard with scenery, art as does Mr. Bhansali where actors are mere puppets strolling or living in front of a picturesque background. Let the background be background because it is meant to be at the back Mr. Bhansali.

Amitabh Bachchan at his best. Now this is what is called acting. Not to make people cry or laugh because politicians and Mr. Chidambaram are best at it but to ACT. To behave as some one else
to personify some one and when you see Mr. Bachchan you wont be watching Mr. Bachchan. You will be seeing Eklavya.

So it is with most of the cast. Boman Irani really great, Jimmy Shergill in a small yet well done role. Saif very good (though not as overpowering as Langda Tyagi)

A must watch for those souls who are fed up with crass comedies, heart wrenching NRI drama, bleak underworld stories (Actually the term underworld is a misnomer because we all carry our heaven and hell with us)

Things that I despise but do watch. No reasons, no infatuations, no obsessions

Crazy Kiya Re...... :: Aishwarya Rai with skimpiest frock she has ever worn
Tofee with Taran :: Mutual Back patting pack of brats and babes and a karan johar
Sawaal ka sawal :: Body huggin Tshirt on a toads body SRK. Funky video
Great Indian Laughter Challenge:: from class to crass, I still await a good laugh

Code for Thought

Requirement, value for customer, usability, testability and all the other 'ilities' are debilitating. We need the hackers (not the password stealers), artists, craftsmen in our coding/programming industry.

It is good to take note of formal procedures, processes etc. but coding/programming is a human activity involving a lot of thought and creativity. One should experiment a lot. Write code for the sake of it, don't think about its usability or better write code for yourself. A nerd wanted to solve a problem of formatting text data and existing tool could not do it. The person concerned being the lazy programmer that he is, decided to over-kill the problem with a general-purpose tool that he could use in at least one other place and lo behold it is Perl made by Larry Wall.

So start making your own code, tools which solve your own problem chances are that others will also be facing similar issues. Or better write code for fun, just pure unadulterated joy. Work as the child plays in a sandbox

Sexy & Sex

I'm bringin' sexy back (Yeah) (dhinchik dhinchik and all other unspeakable sounds in Just-In Timberlake's latest song)

Don't know whether this gentleman is speaking about bringing a sexual renaissance or talking about posterior of an alpha female!

But no no no sexy has no connection what so ever with copulation not even the hint towards it.

Sax man! Saxy phone! Sexy Car! Sex Bomb! SAX!

Yeah these are some of the words I hear often and wonder what has car, phone or bomb has to do with coitus. In this age of seduction everything has to be sexy. Even your ads have to have sexual undertones to it

Dabaa ke piyo!

Choos ke khao (Parle Orange)!
In the last case if you have seen the ad then you will realize that the kid is no archetype sample for Dr. Freud's Oedipal study but he needs to suck on an innocent candy as to make a gesture of a kiss. Talking of advertisements made in a bad taste!

Aam (the common)

no no this not any of Indian Hindi movies (Bollywood smells of American fixation, foreign fetish and reactive self perception of Indian psyche) like 'Daag the fire', 'Eklavya the royal guard'. Aam in Hindustani means common, though it also means the tropical fruit - mango. I am considering the common aspect.

'XYZ toothpaste daaton ki sadan se lade aam toothpaste se 10 guna zyada' (XYZ toothpaste fights tooth decay 10 times better than common/ordinary toothpaste)

'Kisi bhi aam detergent se de behtar dhulai' (Gives a better wash than any common detergent)

Now I am no ad or media expert but this doubt still lingers. Where are these 'Aam' toothpaste, detergent, nappy, etc sold. Who buys them? 'Aam' people?

I think these 'Aam' set of products are the only non existent products which give such a tough competition! Talking of hyper reality Mr. Baudrillard are you listening!!!
Hello !

(In the quest to be different we all are same)

Valentino Diwas

Phrases like Special Day, V Day, D Day, Just another day, Love is in the air (but I only see air pollution) are all hackneyed phrases over used abused misused. Spoken over and over and over to the point where my brain marching ahead in its evolutionary path silently ignores these noises as they hardly contribute furtherance of the species and nearly nill in the process of natural selection.

Valentino Diwas is a conspiracy played out by archies, hallmark and all goody goody stuff producers. Mass produced, templatized love. Diamonds are forever well they have been here forever!

Does Newton's Second Law apply on live pigs?

What a silly question to ask. But do ya have the answer. You sure have to keep the pig on a frictionless surface and then apply a force, then calculate his mass and acceleration of it. Air resistance yes our dear old friend would come back, so keep him in a vaccum. Surely he will die in that then you wont have a live pig! What the heck what does it matter it is alive or dead or even a pig?

The point is the physics we have is so constricted where even an elephant can be reduced to a payint maass (point mass in my physics teacher's rendition of the word). Every observation and every nature of universe has to fall in the rule, whatever is incongrous an abberation, a deviation, an outlaw. Do ya see the similarity in majority democracy and cultural xenophobia? A short respite was seen in chaos theory (which is a effusive name of non-linear dynamics)

The second point is that the day we consciously used laws which are universal (applicable to anyone) we started generalizing stuff and started on the quest of universal theory of everything. The same rules should apply to nearly every object (or all objects of specific types like subatomic particles). The day we concluded that apples and planetary bodies are moved by the same force we started seeing them in the same light as a 'payint maases'. This basic minimalism of experiment, the construct of system, surrounding and observer are all signs of modern science.

Tradition, Culture and Modernity in Technology

Whatever I say hence forward, there is no point in argument, analysis, debate. Just listen to it. If you feel sensible okay if you find it insensible then gurrrrret. They are ramblings put to words.

Words are birds,
they can fly
They can make you happy
and surely you can cry

Technology is seen as something really modern. Modern is out of the world, ahead of its times, ahead of norms, beyond the present. Like the second face of Janus facing to the future.

let me get to reality, let me take an example:

F = ma

If I say this equation (if you consider this as an equation) is from electrostatics you will have a short snort at me, and ask me whether I have heard of Newton.

Well who says F should always stand for Force, m for mass and a for acceleration????????

There are patterns of behavior which are followed for various reasons:

Ease of use: conventions. You create conventions to shorten the expression F stands for Force etc.

Formal processes: Just like a bachelor's program, degree education or upanayan sanskar

Rituals: to denote transition from one stage to another and tell the same to others, promotion, bachelor party, project handover, joining party, company leaving treat.

Basically traditions are also communication through human actions in groups. When you are getting married you tell the rest of society I am marrying so and so. Otherwise go fuck somewhere in a shady corner who cares?

and yes technology doesn't always mean IT or a software running in a dumb chip