Thursday, September 27, 2007

Marriages....

Two of my cousins are getting married in the month of December.Pretty Cool huh,just days apart,two marriages in the family.Well,one of my cousins came to my home and was asking,when I was gonna get married?Did I have a Girl friend? and stuff like that.

That got me thinkin,as to why the heck do we get married?cos we fall in love?That would be a really lousy reason to lose one's bachelorhood!!We do know opposites attract,but that would be the same,until they have strength,after that the relationship shatters to a staggering stop.We need to be compatible mentally.cos once all the young blood runs out,we need to find something to talk about.Surely it ain't gonna be about cars and bikes.

Some common ground needs to be found.But still we find a lot of marriages heading down the road to divorce!! Why is it?Is it that,they are drained out of their young blood,or it is a marriage made in a fast food stand.People seem to misunderstand the concept of marriage,It is a agreement,which states,"blah blah blah....in time of need and sickness & blah blah blah".

The last line seems to be punch line,that gets deceived everytime a divorce is authorized.

Friday, September 14, 2007

China!!

I have been reading a lot about China,nowadays.The huge blow to its export in toys,due to lead found in the paint used on toys,and the collapse of some of the bridges,killing a lot of the people.

Adding more to that news,is the recent high power curtail on what the media can report!Check out the BBC article on this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6992946.stm .It is pretty astounding that all major media players came up with the same headlines,accurate upto the location of the images.

Man oh Man,if this ain't dictatorship,I du not understand what is?Freedom of speech is our right,and it does not matter,on which soil we are born.We take it for granted,but some pay a very high price ,even their life for that right!!

Even the internet,where homeless roam free,are being targetted.They have the firewalls set,up in such a way that any one accessing any of the sites,that offend the chinese party or the government,or even the previous horrific,brutal history,they are blocked.

History is supposed to teach us,as how to live our future.We are not supposed to shy away from our past!! That only leads us,to our denial.

Have to go to Work.C u guys later.

-Alphy

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

My fnd & Life!!

I would just say,"If only I had thought about this previously!!It would have saved a lot of time for me....".Why does this have to happen to me?These are like some of the questions that I ask myself.

One of my friends has fallen in love...I mean literally head over heels in love with a girl.Pretty cool huh....For me it is really interesting,b cos now I get to monitor his moves and irritate him furthermore,that he has changed after getting a girl friend.

But still he does not seem reponsible??? Any ideas,I always assumed that once you have an obligation,automatically,you would get the responsibility also.But in this case am I Wrong?

I think it would become pretty clear,when he decides to break this to his parents,and I have decided,not to be in the near vicinity for about three months!!

I have to save my hide here!! No offence dude,if you are reading this...

off with my rambling...have to go to sleep.

-Alphy

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Indian Independence 60 years and moving on......

It has been 60 years,since we had received Independence.What has changed since then? Have the population become tech savy?The majority speak for the country and they are still using Kerosene lamps.Are they reaping the benefits of OutSourcing.The new found gold is not reaching the common masses.

We as the computer engineers are exacerbating the situation with inflation.What the heck are we doing?We are increasing the cost of vegetables,house rent and so on ...the list goes on,bcos we are not bothered about the money,since we get a hike every year,else we would just jump companies.have you ever thought about the Bus drivers,or the people who clean the streets.Their monthly salary is equivalent to or lesser than our one day's B'day treat!!!"ONE DAY"

My Shoe costs more than their monthy family expenditure.

It really brings tears down my eyes to watch people on the street begging.I am talking about the real helpless and needy people.India is shining ,yeah but for them it seems like the heat is being concentrated by a magnifying glass to burn their life out of their bodies,"ANT BULLY".

I am not calling for a revolution here,or I am not asking for you to stop spending.It is our brow's sweat and we have to right to spend it the way we like.All I am asking is,just to think twice before throwing out the money.If all of us start to think before spending,the prices would automatically come down... It may take time,but it is something we could be part of.It does not take a mighty person to do this,all you need to have is a heart.

Closing my eyes does help me to forget all the torture temporarily,but that does not change the facts.What are you going to do to save India from its self made tragic lifestyle?

-Alphy

Friday, August 31, 2007

Song Review:Stranger by Hilary Duff

The music is really good.Hilary Duff has outdone herself again,with her new song "Stranger".The tone has a melancholic tune that I really like.This just shows us ,how she has grown from being a teenager to a responsible adult.

Checked out the video also.No so cool though.I like the Audio,much more than the video.The video does not have the impact that the audio has.

Pretty lame though.The song talks about her boyfriend,whom she has spent a long time with,but later turns out to be a stranger,even though she has lived with him for a long time.She does not really know him... :)

I guess that sums up her song.If you have not listened to it,I suggest you do.

-Alphy

Monday, August 27, 2007

Airport Security!

If you have travelled in a plane post 9/11,you would have been surely frisked in the airports,and bags poked around to check for any liquid stuff that could be dangerous.I do agree with their security measures.It is there to save lives...

We are not allowed to take liquids and semi solid stuff on the airplane,but what about the food or the water that comes through the caterers.Are they scanned.what if some one pays one of these workers to look the other way,while some prick plants a gun,or some liquid flammable stuff that could look like water,but explode at the hands of a extremist.

What kind of measures are taken to avoid this?No one seems to know.A extremist determined to take lives will look for all possible options,so we need to think and be one step ahead of them.It is a hassel for the passengers,but nothing is much more important than security.

But man oh man clearing airport security on the first attempt,is much worse than like clearing a class test :)

phew...

-Alphy

Friday, August 24, 2007

Rational Developer Conference 2007

I recently attended the Rational Developer Conference 2007 in Bangalore.Man Oh Man was it a Bang.Truth be told,this is my first conference and it was interesting,especially for the goodies that they gave way :) made me happy to be part of the Conference.Hmmm...Jokes aside,they did talk about a lot of technical stuff,which made my head tizzy.

Rational has lined a lot of new version of all its product with version 7.1.0 to be released in the first quarter in the next year.They products being released are CC,CQ,BuildForge,RAM and a lot of other stuff also.Pretty amazing as what they are doing with Software!!.They explained the case studies as how they use CC in house to main the CC code itself.

They have this new CC Multisite Global Monitoring SW,which is like a God given gift for a CC Multisite administrator.This tools at present allows the administrator to Monitor the sync up,status of the scheduled jobs and every thing that a local admin can do remotely.Moving on to the future,they will be supporting even remote changes,that could make the job really easier for the admin and also reduce the admin task,so that the admins can focus on other really important issues,rather then remote login and try to debug the outputs.

BuildForge,it is really a tool to be used.If you have like 100 builds a day with each build on different platform and each teamlead hanging on your head with a reaper's blade,then BuildForge is the tool for you.It has the dependencies,distributed make and all the other stuff packed to the rim.It makes a real big bang with its introduction....

The Two day conference was a technical hurricane,with a lot of info but very hard digest in the short span of time....

Hoping to attend the future conferences toooo.

If you want any info regarding this conference,contact me....

One more thing,had a chance to visti Leela palace,which was the location for this conference :)


-Alphy

Monday, August 20, 2007

Busted wide open!!

Did you know that Google archives all your web search data.They never delete it from their archives,thanks to their cheap Hard drive storing capability.

They can pinpoint the exact content that you were searching,with your unique MAC id and bust you for anything.Just consider this information in the wrong hands and we are literally screwed.Why would they want to store so much data?

Their answer is that they want understand the requirements of the users and provide better customer solution.Hell yeah they do that,but they are bound by law to provide these informations to the local governments,I do not know,the extent to which they can procrastinate,but still this would be serious breach of privacy violation.Isn't? Why would I want anyone to store my search history and use it for any illegal activity.The most serious of them being,Identity thefts....

Check out this website http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/google-privacy.html ,this provides more information.

Informative.

-Alphy

Sunday, August 19, 2007

My Computer HACKED!!

Have you ever faced a situation,when you PC becomes really sluggish,while accessing the network and you wonder what program was consuming so much CPU.you find that there are hardly two browsers open and the most CPU intensive program that was run,was in my brain trying to figure out,what the heck was happenin with my PC??

Then realization sets in,some one or some thing is accessing my PC :( .I do not know,how to trace the origin as to ,who was doing this but I had the presence of mind to go offline immediately.once I did that my computer just froze for sometime and returned to normalcy.Phew man I am glad that i do not use Internet banking and stuff that involves money,since I am wary person.

Now I had to find out,if the program still remained on my hard drive to intiate the activity again,if I went online.So I ran my antivirus and found some malicious program running on my PC.I did not have a firewall,so it is easy for even a rookie to access my PC.Man am I dumb?

Have to disable all the ports on my PC,else I am in for trouble.

I assumed that my PC was safe to a certain extent,since my IP cannot be seen on the public Network.NAT(Network Address Translation)Check out more info on this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation It has to do with exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and security stuff.So unless I initiate the connection ,the hacker would not have been able to access my PC,so I must have accessed some site or a pop up ,for this to happen.


check out this site http://www.auditmypc.com ,on how to find your private ipaddrees,even if you are behind a firewall(badly configured)

So I am still thinking,how should I go ahead with this.try to setup a firewall on my PC,or find something else....

So long,I reckoned,it would not happen to me,but now,It has happened to me....

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation

This is a new thing that I am doing here.Writing columns on the television serials that I watch.Don't fret,it ain't about the any long perrenial series,which cover crying mugshots for about an hour.I watch series like CSI and her sisters CSI:MIAMI & CSI:NY.They are really interesting,cos they make you think.

Have you ever watched Dr.House MD series in AXN?He is one of the most abnoxious person ever,but I like the way he works.He motivates in me the fact,always do the right thing and never ,ever feel sorry for what you have done."It should be that you think through before you act". Implusive actions,face the music at all costs.....

You must be thinkin,that I am not any different from a house wife rambling on what happened on yesterday nite show,with the neighbours.Well you are rite,we all do it.Only the topic varys.


Coming back to the review on the CSI series,well if you have not watched.it's time you watched the serial,to understand how science can be used to catch crooks .heh...

I am thinking that crooks would be watching this more keenly,than other,cos they would wanna avoid leaving clues in the crime scene... ;)

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Load off u 'r Mind!!

When I started this blog,my friend said that I was toooo lazy to maintain even this.Truth be told,there are times that I am lazier than a donkey.But it seems that I like writing about abstract topics ,that evoke no meaning,but just occupy plain old space on my brain.It is good way of taking it off my mind,so I can think about other stuff..Phew takes a load of my chest right now!!!

Writing is a good remedy for those who think chaotically,It gives us a chance to show much required attention on important matters at hand,rather than focus on trivial thoughts.Some time I ramble ,so much here,that one my fnds had called me up and asked "Are you okay? cos your writing is like a drunk driving a lorry!!".

One even suggested yoga to get my thoughts in place,Yeah,like that is gonna help me.I don't like things to go slow,it has its up's and downs though!!!.So coming back to the topic in hand does writing help me to take a load of my mind.Yeah it Does!!!

-Alphy

Friday, July 27, 2007

why Blush!!/Weaker Sex??

Why is it that guys,we always blush,when some one teases us,with a girl,whom we like.It does not have to be like "like like" but just like the girl.Even if they are valid friends.Does it have to do something with our Hormones,or our abstract heart,that seems to be the centre of attraction here.

Do the girls feel the same way? May be /May be not.We always hear that girls are more mature than guys of the same age.That is why we have the Indian custom of always marrying to younger girls,so the marraige could be Harmonious( no content overflow,Yeah rite!!).

Coming back to the point again,do girls feel the sameway,or is it that they do not show their feelings outwardly and we guys tend to be open hearted.They surely do not suppress their feelings.They are the first to burst out in tears after watching a emotional scene.


We say that women are the weaker sex,and yet still we cannot tell a lie and get away with it from them.A man be the boss of a billion dollar company,but is a servant before his wife.That is true to the bare bones...Wife of the boss is always called as the supreme commander!!.The abstract qualities always seem to overwhelm men... wat dumb idiots we are.

Personal experience,nothing can get past my mom!! for sure!!Is that bcos she is my mom ,or bcos she is a woman? My questions still remain unanswered??

Physical strengths matter only to an extent after which we need to totally rely on our emotional strength.And women seem to fair far more better than Men in that.


-Alphy

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Reminiscence...

Does our past really affect the future that we are trying to create?All our actions have consequences.If you believe in the maker,then your life has already been laid out with a plan and it undergoes implementation on a daily basis ,one chunk at a time.It is our lifetime's goal to understand,why our life was planned in this way.

This is exactly,what Matrix,talks about.Except the difference,that Matrix is a trilogy and I am talking about our life here.One of my friend says," life is what we make out of it".Does it mean we have choices? But we do not get always ,the things we want,even after putting all the effort.Then where is the choice part in that intricate equation?

I ain't a theologian,or a philosopher,but there is always a puppeteer and that is for certain.Some call it Fate,others "God's thougtful Hand" .

I don't seem to find the answer even within myself or for that matter from the external world either.I hope time will an answer for all my questions.

-Alphy

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Dukes of Hazzard( My Review)

Endala endala,that is a single phrase to define the action packed,crazy comedy of the film this is.Do you know that this was directed by an Indian named Jay chandrasekar(Hope I got his name right?) Man,this raucous comedy along with Konxville and Sean made this movie a must c for me.( I know,that I saw the movie really late like six months after release,but still,I saw it!! )

Jessica simpson,seemed to spice up the movie just enough to have the feminine/sexy touch on this.Pretty cool huh,thank God they did not try to overdo though.The movie theme is simple,two guys trying to save their county from the bad villains,who seem to own the law.Any normal person,would have tried a different approach,but for the Dukes,it ain't their way!

The story revolves around multiple roles ,which seem to be held in place correctly,by the superb direction and script.

If you like Bad Boyz I & II and Die Hard( all three parts,I am yet to see the 4.0),you have gotta see this movie.Awesome fun!!!

-Alphy

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Reasons to enjoy life

I Cannot believe,that I am writing this,but I have to do this .

Why do we have to live our life
* It is short,so make the best out of it
* Make hay while the sun shines,cos if you are capable of doing something,it is
now,or it is never!!
* Time and tide waits for no man/woman( I am not a sexist).Apportunities go by and
you may not have a second chance.
* Laugh and the whole world laughs with you,but when you cry,you cry alone.That is
the underlying basis of our society.Know that and you can survive anywere in the
world.u can take my word on that or learn from practical experience urself...:)
* Hard work always Payoff,that is what they say.....
( I am yet to get used to that first two words)


Things that have pain and happiness together

* Everything in this world is like that.....
It's like the matter and anti-matter,that formulates the basic theory behind
the creation of our universe.

* Heaven and Earth,Good and Evil,Happiness and Sadness,Up's and Down's :)


* My life graph nevers follows a specific path,it has its up's and down's like the one shown below


**
* *
Happiness * ************** * *
* * * * * ** *
* * * * * **** ***
------*----*--------------------*---------*----------------------*> Time
* * * * *
* * *****
Sadness **




The Graph based on my life seem pretty much ok,since my parents take care of me.
Shit will get real,once I move out of my parents house for real.It is going Hell for me!!
I ain't kiddin,cos I know,about me.Belive me when I say that....


Well you could share your experience here about your life,may be I can learn a few
things like .... etc

chow!
-Alphy

Friday, June 29, 2007

Horroscope:Real or Reel?

Why do we show importance to horroscopes? soothsayers or for that matter an type of astrologists?Do you think their saying become reality?Do I think ,they are real? nope.It is absolute crap,but still if the astrologists says sleep on the left side of the bed and you might not get hit by a bus.And you will do it.Me hell yeah,cos I believe in living rather than dying.

Does this have to do with our attitude,our brain,or our hearts?Still remains a mystery to me .Or does it relate to outup bringing.RED color in china brings good luck,but the same color is despised in Italy(Pulled this of from HSBC,our local bank's AD). Cat should not cross your path,if it does,make sure it crosses from left to right,which I assume brings no luck,but helps you avoid BaD luck!!! All these superstition,were good enough for our ancestors,why do we think it will not help us?Audacity on our part?

Finally at the EOD,what has to happen ,happens and there is no way to avoid consequences for our actions.unless you are like a time traveler.moving from one dimension to another in a jiffy.I would say ,that it is time for us to face the world and not hide behind masks of cowardice.Still I could be wrong!!


( your supertitiously ignorant fnd)
-Alphy

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Almost Famous??

Have you ever wondered,or thought about becoming a movie star,a singer,hell yeah a famous racer bike or car.me I would prefer bikes.Does it hurt to dream like that.One thing is for sure,for every action,there is always a reaction,this does not confine to the realm of science alone.This is applicable to all matters of life.I am telling you this from my own experience.

One cannot aim to be always on an upward gradient,cos u have to stop,once u reach the top.And there is only one possible way to move from there,down ,gravity pulling you with all its strength.The other possible option to maintain at that height and it is really tough...

My school teacher used to say " it is not difficult to get 100 once in a while ,but it is really tough to maintain that 100 in all the tests." Now that is hard work.you don't get that by working for three hours just before the test.That is laborious work.I have understood,only one thing from here years of experience,living as a person.most of my fnds would disagree on that.Working Hard does not mean that you get your desires on a silver platter,but it is that you might get the thing that you desire.Again "might".But it wud make you feel happy,since you would know,that you had put all your effort to attain the same.


Nothing beats hard work in that respect!!

-Alphy

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Meeting with Stupidity ?

I don't understand what it is,but speed always seems to be my partner in crime.It is like I am the positive pole and speed the negative pole.Think about the attraction bw these two....If i do my work wrong,it is bcos i did it in a hurry Yesterday,I almost swiped a guy at 80,but it was not my fault... the worse thing ,he apologized,while driving the bike at 40km and I did lose my concentration and scratched my bike along the median.The new median in the GST road is like 21/2 ft high and I scratched the entire stretch.Thank God that leg guards were invented,else I would have big chunk of flesh missing in my right feet!!
wat can I say ,I thank God that i was able to recover immediately from that stint with the Median.

It was lesson learnt though,that i shud always have my eyes in front of the me looking @ the road and not on the side of the road!!

-Alphy