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| QualityZMM is a wonderful read. Pirsig handles difficult to express concepts so well. Makes a lot of sense. The book has an added appeal since the storey has mountain hiking and travel. Great combination.
I'll be off to Yamnotri valley this summer and I'm really excited. More details of the trek at Foliage website. Himalaya calling. | | |
| FasterThats the name of James Gleick's novel. And thats how this ending
year has been. Coincidentally, the FM radio was playing the other day
Billy Joel's "Vienna waits for you". Slow down you crazy child! Thats the resolution for the coming year.
Wish everyone a very happy new year.
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| Winter is here!The rains are over, finally! The pleasant winter has slowly set in. Its
nice. Sitting out in the morning sun just after the bath, feeling the
cool breeze. Taking a break from work in the evening for a cup of tea.
Eating a variety of salads, dry and fresh fruits. Playing badminton on
weekends. Cricket matches. Sachin Tendulkar back with a bang. Life is
beautiful.
The migratory birds, including customers, from the US will be here for
Christmas vacations next month. Hectic 3-4 weeks and a lull for next
two.
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| One month into the startup mode has been wonderful! Learnt XSLT and
Velocity and delivered an API generator for about 60 APIs. Coded in
Java and C++, wrote Ant and Make build scripts. That surely looks like
a startup!
I had fought for allowing working from home while at Persistent and the
answers that I got were that neither the Indian software developers nor
the infrastructure are yet mature enough to allow that. Also, breaking
down the team spirit was sighted as an important reason. All those
reasons were partially true, though my argument was that we have to
start somewhere. With DSL costs coming down drastically, I think the
infrastructure is no longer an issue. Team spirit isn't strictly a
funtion of time spent together in the office and any general statement
about the maturity of people is always an exercise in futility. After
all, we trusted the business with those same people.
After having worked from home for the last one month, I realize that
working from home is both a matter of great decipline and a wonderful
boost to the individual productivity. Of course, I don't have a large
team working with me right now, nor is my work dependent too much on
someone else's output. But my productivity levels went up couple of
notches above the usual and for the first time in my 8 year long
career I finished a deliverable with a day to spare from the deadline.
I'm also finding time to refresh the software engineering skills as I'm
reading Steve McConnell's "Code Complete" in between the sessions at the
keyboard.
Hopefully, this should continue for a few more months. With a broader sampling period, I should be able to judge better.
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| The "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown is enthralling but at the same
time I thought the climax wasn't very exciting. I think the part II, if
it gets ever written, would be boring since the curiosity over the
secret society and the holy grail is now gone. In any case, time well
spent reading.
Switching contexts, the SATA disk is turning out to be a royal pain.
Suse
9.2, Fedora Core 3 as well as RH 9.0 Enterprise failed to detect its
controller. Don't want to waste DSL bandwidth on downloading the kernel
sources for recompilation. Hope Fedora Core 4 detects it.
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