Good & bad ... another rant

Okk, the bad thing first , I forgot to turn off my roomie car's lights yesterday, so the battery is all gone and it needs a jump start now. I had to pick up the guy at airport, so poor guy needs to hire a cab ,, too bad ...

Anyways the good news is that i found some videos of old univ. days, those youth fests. and dances , Nice nostalgic memories, and it was good to see myself lean and young, those were the days when kids used to call me 'Bhaiya' or 'veere' (thats the same in panjabi), not 'Uncle'. All the guys can vouch for the fact that transition from that 'Bhaiya' to 'Uncle' comes without a warning and you are just left to ponder whoa what happened. And if you are still single by the time, all the members of the auntie team will start bugging you , beta when you gonna get married, you know ***** daughther(After living in south india for so many years, i have started to put h wherever i see a t) has just completed her MSc, she z a very nice gal . What can I say, I find all the gals to be very nice , and as its universally known gals can of only of two varities, either good or very good. Indian parents are very good at playing that emotional cold war to nudge you towards an arranged marriage. Here are some of the weapons of war:
* All the gals are getting married. Keeping in mind the skewed sex ratio in panjab, this seems to be a valid reason.
* I want to see you married before my retirement, like panjab govt will refuse to give pension benefits if any of the kids is unmarried.
* We need someone to take care of you,, Valid argument, i also need some one to take car of me ..
* Silent with hard probing looks, we get so lonely here , means we want grand-kids,

but the best one is from my cousins ,,,
* There are so many good bhangra songs at the moment ,, why are you not getting married ,, Haha like Jazzy B gonna stop singing if I dont get married this summer..

Any of you guys got some excuses to buy some time, holler back ..

Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground

A decent article on various real-life hacking scenarios using RFID chips. I think this is going to be an interesting arena for people like early days of internet. And probably I should get in touch with the 'cloner guy' to make some duplicate key for my office

Read more at www.wired.com/wired/arc...

Testing the blog post feature of MS Word 2007

Just writing this post to test the blog posting feature of MS word 2007. I thought why not make most of my stay at MS and try out some of the latest features. The UI of this office is totally different from the earlier versions and, I like it at the first go.

The French translation of the same using Translation feature in this version.

Écriture juste ce poteau pour examiner le blog signalant le dispositif de Mot 2007 de MME.. J'ai pensé pourquoi ne pas faire les la plupart de mon séjour à la MME. et ne pas essayer certaines de les derniers dispositifs. L'UI de ce bureau est totalement différent du des versions plus tôt et, je l'aime à la première vais.

Satyam Story: The reasons

When the indian IT industry started booming somewhere in late 90's, there were four major players grabbing all the headlines. And they were TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Satyam. While the other three continued their ascent, Satyam lost its way somewhere and got booted out of the top bracket. After a long soul search Satyam management have finally found the reasons for this, ah wait not reasons actually their is a 'single' reason for that and that is the 'unprofessional' behaviour of the female empoyees.

According to the HR chief of Satyam, once women reach the age of 30-35 they become complacent and dont want to forge ahead. This shows the lack of dedication to the company, when all employees are expected to work for 14 hrs a day, these women folk leaving early for home create an unhealthy atmosphere in the company. What if all the males also start showing interest in their family life?? Just imagine the impact on the industry which is totally based on the concept of labor cost arbitrage.

Another interesting point found in this study is that single women especially the divorced ones have been responsible for slow growth of satym. Mr. Murthy thinks that single or divorced women is an concept alien to Indian culture and having these women in more visible position, affects the values and culture of Indian companies. As seeing these symbols of western civilization in power might encourage others to embrace it and start demanding blasphemous things like 40 hour weeks, yearly vacations, overtime etc. That will be the end of road for us.

Read more at www.thehindubusinesslin...

Sound Waves - Rising and Fallin'

The history of hunt will always glorify the hunters, until tigers have their own historians.

1. Joban||Yudhvir Manak||Dil Dharkey: A refreshing song, not anything new, but the same manak style, a good hear. And I think the only decent one on this album.

2. President||Wyclef Jean||Welcome to Haiti: Got amazing lyrics.Just Check em out

3. A Ballad for the fallen soldier||Jay Z||The Blueprint: Jay Z compares the life on a soldier and a hustler on the street. An interesting take.

4. Happy B'Day||Flipsyde: In this one the MC from Flipsyde raps about the his 'never to be born child'. Again one with some great and touching lyrics

Cheers

Now this is real flattering ...

My Inner Hero - Warrior!





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