It has been an awfully gloomy week. Cloudy, drizzling, heavy overcast and persistent rain have confiscated Sun altogether. Getting up in the morning, for no strange reasons, feels as if I was sleeping for 2000 years. Perhaps, Mother Earth is sober and shedding tears for the heavy losses in Pakistan and Indian Kashmir.
I continue to [...]
Arun Vaidyanathan’s shortfilm has been selected for screening at the Indo-American arts council’s film festival, come this nov 3-6th in Manhattan. I think this is a significant milestone for Arun, to be screening alongside movies such as Deepa Mehta’s new film”Water”, much appreciated and oscar nominated “Born in Brothels” and a lot of other [...]
I have heard the term “bleeding-edge” being used occasionally to refer to something thats far better than “cutting-edge” which sounds better than “high-tech”. When I started working for L-Cube, programming image processing software in C++, there was a good friend and colleague of mine who was exploring a new programming language called ‘Java’. He kept [...]
A title that I recently came across.
Though it sounds surcastic, it is indeed an optimistic approach to what a software developer in America can do about it. Interestingly, the author has worked in India to set up an offshore center. I am guessing he must have used his perspectives from that experience to come up [...]
This past weekend’s retreat was great and i returned with sore body-parts but inspired thoughts. I had the rare opportunity (i am sure more of it would come) of meeting a billionaire, Ken Langone (co-founder, HomeDepot) and a multi-millionaire Mark Patterson (co-founder of MatlinPatterson Global Advisers). Their speeches and words of encouragement were truly inspiring. [...]