Chemmarathi

October 2, 2009

Chemmarathi is dead. Did she write her name as Chemmarathi, or the correct form Chembarathi?! Doesn’t matter now. Oh well, she couldn’t write for that matter.
She is the last among Grandma’s friends that I can remember. They used to have gossip sessions in the evening. She looked the same for as long as I can [...]

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Kootukari

September 7, 2009

A snippet from a favorite song…

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What is your design objective?

July 23, 2009

Increasingly, people remind me of what this gentleman said.
Making the simple complex is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
-Charles Mingus
What is it with software folks that make them design everything in layers? So much that 3 layers is so passe these days. “Don’t talk to me if you don’t have at least [...]

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Indian Politicians and MPs on Twitter

July 12, 2009

A few of the statesmen in India has taken to tweeting. Some like Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) and K Sudhakaran (@ksudhakaranMP) even responds promptly to most of the tweets they get! With followers spilling into the thousands, it is indeed a great effort that they keep conversing despite their otherwise busy schedule.
I’ve made a website that [...]

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#ifdef Reputed_Company

June 19, 2009

re-put-ed [ri-pyoo-tid]
–adjective: reported or supposed to be such

So, why am I suddenly interested in looking up definitions for “reputed”? Well, our passport offices accept “certificate from Employer of reputed companies on letter head” as a valid proof of address. The requirement is for a passport for my daughter of 19 months and we decide to [...]

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