European Day Light savings

 

From Saturday midnight the time difference between the Europe and India will be +4:30 India.

It was great to getup on Monday mornings and see you got an extra hour to sleep !!,  ah if every day was like this :P.

Sexual Harassment at workplace, are women always right !?

Seems there is always some news for our Indian News Channels and they never seem to go out of business on creating SMS Polls. Latest news today is some Madam X has accused her director of company of sexual harassment, the man in question also coincidently happens to be her performance manager. I am not saying here the accused is not guilty and he must be indeed be punished severely if found guilty, but the point is how women's can easily use the one-sided law. The accusation it seems is based on an email which was not in "good taste" Assume if the accusations are false which is indeed true in some cases, the accused will suffer irrecoverable loss and ruined for life, will anybody care about this ? the TV channels are making big noise about the name of the people involved, for god sake, see the problem with a clear mind, and act !!.

Between all those people who are forwarding mails on hourly basis into their mailing lists, be careful, it will not be surprise if i see your beautiful faces on news soon :D.

PS: again nothing against the employee who has put this accusation, but until its proved let it be just an accusation.

And you thought, you know it all.

I was going through the Blog of Herb Sutter the C++ Organizational committee conveyer and came across this wonderful video of his , for people who don't him, he is one of the authorative C++ guys living today !, in this show he talks about, how little we programmers know about the hardware we are programming for and take things like memory and CPU for granted, the talk will conclude with discussion on need for concurrency and parallelism. highly recommended !!.

PS: the PDF slides are availble at the following link:

http://www.nwcpp.org/Downloads/2007/Machine_Architecture_-_NWCPP.pdf

What I am doing these days

 

Its been 10 months now, I am in France, working for Schneider Electric. my friends keep on asking me, how I am enjoying the stay and work here. to tell the truth, I am at my wits end here. just waiting for my stay to get over (another 2.5 months) and get back to India. I don't want to write much about my experience here, since frankly its not worth blogging about.

Mad Politics in Karnataka

 

I real feel sorry for the state of politics in Karnataka nowadays. It has really hit its bottom this time.  one side we have  a CM who I think has really done a good job in last 20 months. is he perfect ? no, he has his own share of controversies and bad politics, but compare to last 10 years of rule in Karnataka, he has done a commendable job and really deserved to continue, for their part i think BJP have digged their own grave, i was a BJP supporter for some time now, I thought it was a party who have some really good leaders at the center and now i see this Mr. Yediyurappa who is a real baboon who has lost his mind on not getting his CM seat, I really don't think he deserves this post, for that matter not even a ministerial post.

The Karnataka citizens are really confused by seeing the allegations and counter allegations by these 2 parties. its high time we have some serious thinking on the state of politics, and do our part in brining some drastic changes, or else these people are going to pull us back to the pre Ramayana days.

its a shame on us the citizens of India, that these people are still able to fool us and get themselves voted back. its high time we wake up from our sleep and take a note and do some thing.

Back to Blogging !!

After almost a year of absence i am back to blogging. Lets give another try at maintaining this blog :P