Made in USA

A couple of days back, I ordered a book on Amazon.
I found this printed on the last page:
Made in the USA
Lexington, KY
15 November 2010

Apparently, the publishers* print the book on demand and hence it makes sense to tag it 'made in USA' on 15th November 2010.

* I searched the book from the first page to the last page, there was no indication whatsoever if it really had a publishing company!

Corporate Awareness..

The local mess wala who owns(?) his shop just adjacent to Manyata Tech Park, to one of his colleagues : "Jo IBM ka wo (he meant badge) lagate hein wo kampootar chalate hein..."
I thought..IBM wale aur bhi bahut kuch chala sakte hein :P

Two on a Single Day

Part 1 :
I am not the only one scared of dogs, in Bangalore...
(What!!! of course I am not scared of dogs)
A guy from Reliance was to visit my apartment for address verification of some sort.
He called me and I was directing him to my place on phone.
I - Take the first left after the Rendezvous restaurant.
RA - Ok
I - then first right and 2nd left
RA - Ok
RA - Sir, the one with a pink board saying # 607 ?
I - Yup...okay
(I was about to keep the phone, when...)
RA- Sir,
I -Yup.
RA - Sir....
I -Yes????
(With a bit skittish and a bit apprehensive tone, he asked ...)
Sir, aapke ghar mein doggie to nahin hai ?
.
.
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Part 2 :
An agent from TataAIG called me for some Insurance plan
TA : Hello
I - Hello
TA : Can I talk with ....., I am @@@ from TataAIG
I - Yup,
TA : We have a plan from TataAIG regarding...
I : (very much being myself) Thankyou, I'm not interested.
TA : One moment Sir, we have a good plan.
I : ok .what's it?
TA : It's a retirement plan. And this is the correct time for you to think about it!!!
I : What!!!!!Correct Time!!!!(I am not even 23 yet!!!!!)
.
..
...
the phone went dead...

Nothing novel but very true

A popular apothegm among Bangalore based ******** :
"If you throw a stone with all your might in Bangalore, it will either fall on a stray dog or a Software Engineer"

:(

'Aur batao' Syndrome

I never knew that a lottt of people are poor victims of the ghastly 'disease' - The 'Aur Batao' Syndrome
[A term very beautifully coined, and I came to know about this jab Amit ne ek din bataya.]
I used to feel that this is some sort of 'phycho disorder' which my sister is suffering :P, but ab pata chala ki wo akeli nahin hai :D :D
The 'Aur batao' bug is the only bug which has the capability of auto generating (it's highly contagious as well) in the monotonous lives of the people who spend 1/2 their lives droning in front of some 1000s of lines of code with regular visits to CoffeeDay machines.
The life goes on and on...
ab koi raaste mein milta hai to baat hui...
30 din baad phir mila, to phir baat hui, but ab life hi aisee hai, kya naya hoga!!!!isliye...after exchanging hi and hello--AUR BATAO! ..... bas chal raha hai...TUM BATAO......donon chup..okay..c ya...
after 30 days...aur batao....

Ab to kisi ka phone bhi uthata hun to lagta hai..please..please....'aur batao' mat bol dena....gurrrrr

Refer These [the originals]:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aur+batao+syndrome&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

http://rajatba.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/aur-batao-syndrome/
http://thevariegatedsky.blogspot.com/2006/09/aur-batao-syndrome.html
http://www.indyarocks.com/blogs/blog_visiterview_main.php?id=639

Two BackSlashes and >Two Months

Well, this was not the first post I wanted to post in this blog but isliye likh raha hu, because the latest mast incident I experienced.
More than 2 months back, some pre-study test was going on for an integration of our product with something , somewhere in the world in some Brain Lab [as they call it ;-P ]. An issue came up, the people in Brain*** contacted the team in Best. A discussion started and they had no clue whom to contact for the solution. The team in Best contacted our team in Bangy. Again discussions, sories exchanged, deadlines, no time etc...But finally they got time and did some analysis and deduced that there are 2 packages which can have the possible bug. One ownered by Best other in Bangalore. Okay, the people in Best did their job, not a problem on their part. --->implies---> problem on our head.
Okay some more estimates were done. more analysis. okay it was approximated and assumed that an effort of 5-6 days would possibly fix the solution...POSSIBLY!
So, finally the bug was raised and unfortunately assigned to me :((
I was like ..ufff..itna chaotic and maybe 'important' kaam mujhe kyun mil gaya.. Architect ne kaha, do some analysis and for geometric reconstruction and what not..take help from... Complex Maths also involved...nooooooooooooo
khair..dekha...debuggging..debugging...whole day and night(not full..he he)...
and finally..
what was the fix..?
1 line commented...
code review..delivered..sent to the people who had the issue.
I was told to send a mail to the people with the my code with the fix..Sent..
5 min baad I got a reply...There is no difference between the code we have and what you have sent.
meine kaha..dhyan se dekho..ek line commented hai :P
..khair..no reply..
and kal I got the info that they have tested..whatever test they were doing in the Brain*** and the fix had solved their problem....
ha ha ha...
2 backslashes kept someone waiting for 2 months :D :D :D :D
[of course they were doing other stuff and the development teams were also busy in work...]
but whatever...2 backslashes!!!!