May 2009

To Trinity or not to Trinity

by The Big K on May 28, 2009

Most of the people think they can learn to play the guitar by attending a crash course or at max. a 3 month course. Even after 8 years of guitaring, when I tell people that I still attend guitar classes, they give me a shocked ( :shocked: ) look. Learning to play the guitar is a lifelong, continuous process. You just get better at it from the day 1. My Guitar guru has been forcing me to appear for the [...]

Midnight Blogging

by The Big K on May 26, 2009

Time: 1:05 AM Here I’m! Just returned home from the show we’ve been planning for since past 1 month. Here I’m, stretching my legs, trying to relax & resting my head on the pillow. The show wasn’t as good as I expected it to be (else I’d not have invited my family to attend it). Regular blogging with begin soon. PS: If you are an engineer – read this cool post by my friend Kidakaka -> My Son Is A [...]

Your job & health

by The Big K on May 16, 2009

Dilbert on health

One of the reasons I never liked my job as a software engineer is that it was deteriorating my health. I followed this schedule like any other software engineer – Wake up at 8:30 am [How many of you have seen 8:30 am in your clock?] Morning duties. Office -> Directly into my chair in  the remotest part of the remotest cubicle. Surprisingly, like many of you, I called it my ‘office’. I’d sit for 1 hour: Checking mails, going [...]

Wolfram Alpha Impresses Big K

by The Big K on May 16, 2009

Wolfram Alpha Impresses Big K

I had been following developments on Wolfram Alpha website [ www.wolframalpha.com ] for quite some time now. Today, I tried it for the first time. To begin with, WA is not a search engine like Google. Google helps you find useful web pages from the Internet. Wolfram Alpha on the other hand, gets you direct answers to your questions. Naturally, to put WA to test, I wanted to feed WA with the toughest question that it would burst WA’s biggest [...]

Colors are GOOD

by The Big K on May 15, 2009

Since you are reading this, I can safely assume that you have nothing better to do. You may kill some time looking at beautiful color combinations available here:- http://kuler.adobe.com/ Go! Go Away! -The Big K-

I want to shout

by The Big K on May 12, 2009

My head is about to explode and there’s no vent to let out all the frustration. It feels like I’m standing at the center of a big big stadium and everyone’s looking at me. My actions please everyone or disappoint everyone. I feel like a loser. -The Big K-

I’m generalizing from my own example. Why Maharashtrians don’t fare well in business. I worked on a project without ‘written confirmation’ from the client, to maintain the ‘relations’. I executed the task well before time, exceeding client’s expectations. I worked honestly. The developer I hired (another Maharashtrian [not intentionally] worked on the module without expecting a single penny. He’s just too modest when its about money; just like I am. Now the client [Marwardi folks] says they’ll pay 50% of [...]

CrazyEngineers Covered On UTVi

by The Big K on May 11, 2009

Howdy folks! CrazyEngineers got covered on UTVi Special thanks to Pallavi for the clip – crazzy engineers @ Yahoo! Video

I’m down

by The Big K on May 10, 2009

I’m bit down today.

Does democracy always work?

by The Big K on May 4, 2009

To begin with, I’m not too sure if the title of this thread got the sentence construction part correct. If it’s not, let me know and I’ll update it with the correct one. I’ve recently had a situation where I had to take a decision against the will of majority. The public vote was for something and I was against it. I had to be narrow minded and go with my own decision because I know what’s right for everyone. [...]