Law 1.Every Software Engineer continues his state of chatting or forwarding mails unless he is assigned work by external unbalanced manager. Law 2. The rate of change in the software is directly proportional to the payment received from client and takes place at the quick rate as when deadline force is applied. Law 3. For every Use Case Manifestation there is an equal but opposite Software Implementation. Law 4. Bugs can neither be created nor be removed from software by a developer. It can only be converted from one form to another. The total number of bugs in the software always remains constant. ...

I took the Swift for a test drive last weekend. Amazing feeling I must say! The gear changes are soo slick, spot on .. like a hot knife through table butter! The acceleration is smooth, and yet let’s you know it is there if you want to leave in a hurry. Perfect seating position for me (I’m 6'5"). The vehicle took my heart away. It’s now a Swift or nothing at all! I’m booking it next weekend. Let me get my bonus!! pllluueeessse God pluuueeesse! ...

I happened to read some very interesting scary (to say the least) articles on how life as we know it may come to a standstill. Check out some articles on the net about the Whats and the Whys of the Oil Crisis we are in today and what the implications are: Life After the Oil Crash THE PARTY’S OVER Nine reasons the peak now looks more imminent Economic “Armageddon” Predicted

I’m planning to get a new car in the offing. The brand new Maruti Swift ! yup! It is quite a kewl car, modelled quite a bit on the new “Beetle” Check it out here I’m planning to get the VXi variant without ABS. It has got a kewl 87Bhp@6500 and 113 Nm@4500! Detailed specs here Currently, I’m working out the financials, let us see how it goes.

Check out nerdtests.com and find out if you are a nerd indeed! This is what I got!

http://techbooksforfree.com/ Nice site .. simple and has a loads of content.. Quite a collection I must say source : http://www.uneasysilence.com/index.php?p=1049

Started working in VC.NET. The Visual Studio 2005 BETA is out! really kewl stuff. I simply love the IDE enhancements I had to port an application from VC6 to VC.NET. It was such a breeze. a little googling and most of the issues are under control Will post an article on it sometime I also got myself, the GoF Design Patterns book! simply amazing and such a great read, I must say ...

Visual Studio .NET 2003 is kewl.. I mean really kewl! The work flow is a hugely improved. Quick, a breeze to install and work with. and VS 2005 sounds even better, Check out the Express editions at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

I simply love that plugin - Batch categories, like a myriad of other wordpress users. (A thousand thanks to Stephanie Booth wouldn’t suffice ;) ), but I had problems getting it to work in 1.5.1 Lots of results out there, that explain how to fix it, but none that lets a newbie get it up quickly. I know this is a repetition, but it still took my more than a day to get it fixed (mebbe it’s my dull head.. but then again) ...

Hip hip hurrah! (applause ..) I finally managed to get my site up using wordpress. A truly wondeful peice of software. Thanks to all those developers and plugin-authors for their wonderful contribution to the world of blogging! I know that blogs are becoming less fashionable, but I have always been more into what is functional than fashionable.. It server my needs and that’s all I care about. I’m trying to make it look more static, like a normal website, but that is beside the point. ...