Music Meme

Got this meme from http://jeruguru.blogspot.com/ Very Funny .

The rules: Go to your music player(Xmms/WinAmp) of choice and put it on shuffle. The song that pops up when you press play is the answer to that question.

1. How does the world see you? Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
2. Will I have a happy life? Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
3. What do my friends really think of me? Living On The Edge - Aerosmith
4. Do people secretly lust after me? That's The Way (I Like It) -KC and The Sunshine Band
5. How can I make myself happy? Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
6. What should I do with my life? Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
7. Will I ever have children? What's Love Got to do With It - Tina Turner
8. What is some good advice for me? Nice Guys Finish Last - Green Day
9. How will I be remembered? Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
10. What is my signature dancing song? Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealer's Wheel
11. What do I think my current theme song is? I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
12. What does everyone else think my current theme song is? I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
13. What song will play at my funeral? Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
14. What type of women do you like? Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
15. What is my day going to be like? It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M
16. How should I live Life ? Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
17. Howz the Experience up until now ? Its A Long Way To The Top (if you wanna rock & roll) - School of Rock - AC DC
18. After thoughts on Life ? everyday is a winding road - sheryl crow
19. Howz the Day today ? Beautiful Day - U2
20. Most Active time Zone ? Midnight blue - Foreigner

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Agar kabhi aisa hota ............. ~

Agar Aisa kabhi hota... ~

Agar meri chinki Company, chinki na hokar Indian hoti..
agar chinkiyoan ko india ana padta project maangne...:)

agar humari company ka stock price roj CNN pe discuss hota...
Agar hum fundu cheeze market mein duniyah main sabse pehle banate...

Agar meri company ka CEO Hawai Jahaj se office ata...
Chinki bande On$ite ke liye Bharat anekeliye taraste..

Agar ek Dollar ek Rupaiye ke barabar hota.
Pizza ke badle agar amriki rahstrapati gol guppe khata...
Agar Vada Paav mcDonalds mein bikta...

Kash aisa hota...

Yaar tab hamaari company ekdum Jhakaas, Fundoo, Rapchik, Fulltoo kehlati...

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QOTD

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
—Dennis Ritchie

.....Trivia.....

California is approx ~12 hours behind India on the Time Zone and maybe 12 or more years ahead of India :).


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QOTD

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it
was and whether they were enjoying it.
~Douglas Adams, ”The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

When it rained Extra-Terrestrial that day on INDIA

The Observer is reporting that scientists may have found the first evidence of panspermia, the idea promoted by Hoyle (among others) that life on earth was seeded from space, in samples of a strange rain which fell over India for two months in 2001.

"There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers.""

Read more @ http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html

I am getting Zany Ideas here...will the Microbes grow in our $HOMEly{EARTH} Atmosphere. Can we meet our Extra-Terrestrial Cousins...
Certainly this gives India A Close Encounter Of The Third Kind

Kohinoor - The Stolen Treasure from India

The English public take no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is obscene.
~Oscar Wilde.


Well They did steal the OBscenely Beautiful KOHINOOR from India.
Certainly I want them to give it back to India, where it rightly belongs.
Without which they Qualify as the Pseudo Royal Thieves.


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Stack Overflow

Do you want to study the stack overflow ?
use this.. and study how your machine/architecture behaves on Stack overflow.

int main()
{
return main();
}


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more eschborn Pics

Jason is from Larsen and toubro and was my Room mate for sometime during the Messe period :)

Messe is the period in Frankfurt when Hotel room rents hit sky high.

on a bridge near Eschborn

From L-R Me, Nagendra and Sreenath enjoying a Lighter Moment in the Freezing cold wheather.

The Bird Flu ... Ramifications :)

Week End

Week ends on a Affirmative note for me, As I am not sure what I will do over the next two days...

I wanna watch Rang De Basanti

I wanna read up one Book on Systems Programming by Donovan,


Stay Tuned.
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Dil Se Desi...cool pic

  

Computer Chronicle from 1969. Whoa...so much of progress in Computing

  

Politics makes Strange BedFellows.

I was reading TJS George's article in Indian Express. He has outlined how The CULTURE Minister (Gilberto Gill a musician ) of Brazil taught a mighty SuperPower like US what ethics and culture is in conducting Business. US Drug Companies were forced to reduce prices for their AIDS vaccine when he challenged them.

He ditched M$ Windows for Linux which is FREE. THis way he has cut through the normal line of thinking of a minister. I hope such musicians and rational people assume centre stage in India. Sadly in India there is no Qualification for a Politician apart from being from a Politicians family or Lienage.

The Coalition politics in India is making Spaghetti Success of what can be a Continous and Improving India.

Its High time There was some Qualifying Exam for candidates Contesting Elections in India.

Re-Discovery Channel

I was on a small sabbatical this week and watched some cool episodes of Discovery Channel. As I am in the profession of Debugging Software Faults some programmes I feel are meant for people like me who do Post-Mortem analysis(after the event occurs).

Of Particular interest are the Airplane Crashes. Some crashes have software glitches coupled with Human Error as the cause. And some have Human Errors resulting in Software Glitches due to wrong decision making as the actual cause.

Well I now realise that the Pilot and the air traffic controller;s job is a thankless job and one which requires a lot of concentration and precision.

@No point can they rest and risk hundreds of lives (both on board and on land). These episodes make me realise the complexities of software and the Horrors of the same leading to disasters if not handled properly.

Developing Software assumes a new dimension after one watches the Software Glitches brought out by Discovery Channel and national Geographic.
I would recommend these videos to a person who has just started out programming Embedded Devices as he needs to realise the Orthogonal impact and bearing of faulty software.

Kudos to the Channels , that way we can hope to learn fom others mistakes and weed out the *Bugs* in the Softwares, which can possibly save many lives.


~Prasanna.

Flat Panels are here to stay....

We purchased a Samsung 17" TFT Monitor and I will tell you what, IT Rocks ...

It nears a Home Theatre Experience
and Gone are the days of the CRT,

Its Amazing how techonology can bring the Theatre into your living room.

Right now I am enjoying all the Videos of yesteryears....Def Leppard , Aerosmith, U2 etc.on my 713N "Home Sweet Home" is changed to "Home Sweet Home Theatre" :)

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Mittal (Man of Steel)

Lakshmi Mittal has dared what only few could imagine. Hats off to him.
Arcelor appears to have been taken by total surprise!

This Smacks of Typical European Complacency @ Its best.
Arcelor management must have been shocked.
Europe I feel is slowing waking up to the Global Standards of Working.
If they ( Europeans ) have to survive in this world of man eat man world they sure must buckle up their socks and get a grip.

The Shrewd Indian mind that Mittal has made him see an opportunity to create a Global Steel Conglomerate which only few could even think of.

The French are shocked and found napping. they want to Stop the Acquisition. They are making a mockery of Globalisation.

All the Best Mr. Mittal and Hats off to your Business Acumen.

Outside Dow Jones Office... 

Nagendra...