It’s almost months since I last posted , thanks to exams,IPL,Vacation,Photography and now FIFA. When finally hit­ting the dash­board, I had cou­ple of sub­tle ideas and emo­tions to share.

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When I got my desk­top back in 2007 ‚I decided to get a broad­band con­nec­tion for I end up down­load­ing hell lot of shit. Placed in a val­ley, I had lim­ited options and the most eco­nom­i­cal one was BSNL dataone. The first two months were one of the best times I spend online. Awe­some speed of 2MBps , it was light­ning speed indeed. One sad after­noon , things started going haystack. The inter­net was down, how­ever it was nor­mal the next day. This cycle of dis­con­nects were not so com­mon those days.Then back in feb 2008 , the fre­quency increased . I started get­ting wor­ried and called cus­tomer care. They came and fixed it. How­ever the next month , it starts dis­con­nect­ing once again. The story repeated. From jan 2009 things started get­ting worse , I moved upstairs and the line used to fre­quently drop.So they changed the line .Then the whole net stopped work­ing. Finally the A.E came and said its because I have a wrong power sup­ply to the modem. Then it started work­ing prop­erly except for the three hours in the evening. I was afraid that if i com­plain they might screw it badly. So I kept dumb, how­ever since last two weeks the line started drop­ping more , infact the python code i wrote to count the time i was uptime showed my inter­net is down for 21 hours and 09 min­utes in the 24 hours cycle. This is kind of frustrating,may be too frus­trat­ing . The inter­est­ing part is BSNL doesnt have a one stop helpline. You call some guy , he gives you some other num­ber and it goes on and on.…So i decided it’s time i call it a day,and shift to Reliance.

For the  humor­ous ver­sion of my frus­tra­tions do check kthanxbhai’s awe­some post

Often it hap­pens that at the start of a semes­ter we make rules and we talk a lot of shit about them.It might soothe our heart after the ‘tire­some and unplanned’ end­ing of the pre­vi­ous semes­ter . Back in Decem­ber, I felt fresh lis­ten­ing to my head talk about his plans to change the way our lab sys­tem works. As he says  “sys­tem is never wrong,it runs as we make it run ” , i had hope in his words and still do. But a semes­ter later I didn’t notice any dif­fer­ence. The prob­lem with us is that we are too depen­dent to account for our deeds, thus mak­ing us irre­spon­si­ble for things that should have hap­pened hap­pened.  Read the rest of this entry »

The fol­low­ing blog post is a endeavor to prac­tice for my GRE ana­lyt­i­cal issue writ­ing. The topic is basi­cally how Scan­dals can focus our atten­tion to prob­lems which oth­er­wise remain unknown.

Mind is a prej­u­diced object of won­der god gave us. Most of us are never opti­mistic in the way we see prob­lems, thus mak­ing us baised to what we hear and see. The belief in proof makes us mere zom­bies in the intel­lec­tual abyss. Over the years most of the com­mon prob­lems which remained unsolved got atten­tion with a Scan­dal in light.

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It was quite a hap­pen­ing month. Post exams , I decided to work on other things instead of fight­ing the sys­tem after all  we run the sys­tem . And finally i am hav­ing GRE blues. Frankly I guess I need to do it well. Now I can’t com­plain the sys­tem ‚it’s my preps which mat­ter here . I hap­pened to take stage after a long time , and the response was quite good. Guess I need to pol­ish few things and I am as good as I was . I wanted to prac­tice for my ana­lyt­i­cal writ­ing, so here is a small share of a things which were haunt­ing since few years.

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Yes­ter­day while my MT class was going on , My HOD hap­pened to give a small insight on how he would set his own uni­ver­sity. Here is an exag­ger­ated brief­ing of his idea. ” Edu­ca­tion is a busi­ness ” , Con­sid­er­ing the fact that it’s quite iron­i­cal to the present day sit­u­a­tion of mak­ing money using edu­ca­tion . He would con­tinue say­ing edu­ca­tion is a busi­ness where we pro­vide a x + ?x for every x the stu­dent spends .

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My madam asked “What is our National Ani­mal ? ” . I remem­ber shout­ing back along with all my class­mates when I was in my grade 1. Inter­est­ingly I didn’t see one at that time . My first encounter with this mages­tic ani­mal was when I was in grade 3 . At Local Zoo , we had three of them . And I was lucky to get a glimpse of one , thanks to the rush by my friends.

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I have been post­pon­ing the design or in fact a sketch of the new API I want to develop for a Enter­prise Meta Dic­tio­nary . Basi­cally it’s a abstract design link­ing dif­fer­ent servers to a Cen­tral RMI Reg­istry . And using Lan­guage Inde­pen­dent Inter­faces I want to make it lan­guage inde­pen­dent , mak­ing it flex­i­ble for dif­fer­ent lan­guage pro­gram­mers to stop work­ing about method invo­ca­tion from the client side. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Dad took a brief glance on my marks mem­o­ran­dum of all the three semes­ter exams I gave. Thanks to my pathetic per­for­mance , the log­i­cal ques­tion on com­par­i­son has come . At the end of the dis­cus­sion he asked me a sim­ple ques­tion “Don’t you com­pare with the rest of the your class mates ? ” . This is really an inter­est­ing ques­tion espe­cially hav­ing known my dad’s ana­lyt­i­cal skills. Read the rest of this entry »

Inter­est­ingly after a poor per­for­mance at the semes­ter exams, I kind of got more into stud­ies and when I stay stud­ies I meant more of the­o­ret­i­cal learn­ing. Some­how these days I can read my text books with­out much dis­trac­tion . Inter­est­ingly I am more con­fi­dent these days as I am get­ting more into local lan­guages instead of work­ing more on new ones.

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