Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Daasara Padagalu

I may not agree to all of what Shri Purandara daasaru has said here. But, you look at this composition, it is simply great. 'Daasanaagu' - From last week, I may have listened some 100 times atleast. It is so gripping! I want to be able to sing it one day :)

http://www.udbhava.com/udbhava/songs.jsp?id=55

Came across this song only recently. How many such might be there...among his 475000 songs??!

Monday, September 13, 2004

Restrooms

Many funny things happen in restrooms.

One would see many of us talking about code,bugs, politics, girls, jokes, weekend stories etc. It is also the place where people meet to say atleast a 'Hi'. Otherwise, no one bothers to visit your cube, nor do you care enough. There are people who I am seeing for last couple of years in restrooms and still don't talk to them!

Sometimes secrets, conspiracies also get revealed unnoticingly.

Well, let there be two kinds of releases in restrooms: Software and Hardware. There could be both, by the way!

Two guys from the same team had come for a software release.
One told the other:
"Hey, I closed 3 bugs today!".
It was only afternoon! I thought this guy must be *good*.
"Cool!,howz that?" asked another.
"Well, infact, I marked two of them as U (short for 'Unreproducible') and returned the other one moving it to I(need more info. from the submitter of the bug).
This guy would really make it big in the industry, I felt.

Recently, it has been raining almost everyday and as expected, visits to restrooms increase.
A guy came for a s/w release and just before starting, letting a sigh, he said :
"Aah, it is soo cold !"
A friend of mine quickly replied: "Whhat! you think that's a thermometer ?" :)