I have been meaning to by “The Mythical Man-Month” by Frederick P Brooks for some time now. Yesterday, I read a post on how to be a better programmer which recommended this book. That was the tipping point for me. Today, I went to Ernakulam and bought this book. I bought it from “Computer Book […]
Category: Personal
PTR or Partial Time Reversal
In the last post, I promised to show you the way to beat KSEB and their nefarious schemes. I called that method TTR – or Total Time Reversal. But in the days between the promise and this post, there is a small change in plans. I found that total time reversal was not for me […]
Power Struggle – Electricity, KSEB and Me
After my announcement about retirement from active rat racing, KSEB have begun a campaign to make me regret my decision. I can see them sitting in fancy chairs and stroking white felines saying stuff like So, Binny thinks he can escape the rat race, huh. We will show him, won’t we.<Evil laugh> After laughing for […]
Quit the Rat Race
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin A week ago, I quit the rat race. Now I am an freelance web developer. One week – no complaints yet. After two years of service, I decided to leave Reubro International. I joined there around March […]
Happy New Year
2006 was a great year for me – got a lot of things done. Created lot of sites, and made it a paying job. I just hope 2007 would be just as good – if not better. I hope that this case is true in your life too. If not, hey, its another year. Some […]
IT Expo 2006 has started
It has started – I will be manning the ilug-cochin.org stall from 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM for the next two days. I was there today. So if you are reading this, come over there and say hi. I still have not looked at the other stalls – I was busy – and most of […]
Mysterious Comment Spam in Bin-Co
I am used to spam by now. You find it everywhere – emails, blogs comments, entire sites are spam. But all have one factor in common – it must benefit the poster in some way. Now I have come across a new breed of spam that is forcing me to re-evaluate my beliefs. I get […]
Left Handed Words
I am a software developer(to be precise, a web developer). There are times when I have to input some text into a field to test the system. I talking about wether-it-works-or-not testing, not the QA department’s testing. The problem is, I find this to be a lot of work. Let me draw a little scenario […]
Got Tata Broadband
I got the Tata broadband connection yesterday – that was fast. I was expecting at least one week wait before getting the connection. Timeline Aug 25, Fri – Took the connection, paid for it. Aug 26, Sat – Tata phoned to confirm the address/phone number etc. Aug 27, Sun – Holiday(?) Aug 28, Mon – […]
A Broadband Connection in Cochin, Kerala – Tata, BSNL and Asianet
I have decided to take a broadband connection after slaving so long under a dialup. I have not got it yet, but I have booked it(I have even payed for it). The connection I am taking is 128kbps, Unlimited bandwidth and unlimited time from Tata(VSNL). Since I don’t know who good the connection is, I […]