tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301036452024-03-07T00:53:39.652-08:00Some thoughtsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-74094816058875659502011-09-07T10:02:00.001-07:002011-09-07T10:54:55.562-07:00Do Atheist have morals?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Do Atheist Have Morals?<div>Atheist and Moral, are they contradictory? So why is this question ? This was the first question came to my mind when I had decided to be an Atheist. Religions, all over the world, tried to define morals for society. In fact, the morality comes very closer on the religious agenda. What is morality anyways? To me, its an ability to distinguish differences between right or wrong. However, how could you tell what is right or wrong?</div><div>Generally religious morality are based on following few common morals,</div><div>- Do not Kill</div><div>- Do not Stealing</div><div>- abstaining from intoxicants</div><div>- false speech</div><div>- sensual misconduct</div><div>Basically all it means is what is not yours and what you don't control is forbidden. Also the behavior which may hurt others should be abstained.</div><div>Any atheist person will agree of all of these factors. No atheist will kill or steal just because he or she is an atheist. </div><div>The biggest difference is while theist think or taught that the immoral behavior attracts punishment of some kind and should follow morality on fear of punishment or reward, atheist think that its their own responsibility to behave morally but without any fear or reward.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-41482028059710745662011-08-25T12:23:00.000-07:002011-08-25T12:23:22.756-07:00I hate Corruption ! So what? I don't support Anna Way?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Curious voice : Are you with Anna? <div>Me: "No". </div><div>Aggressive voice : Don't you want corruption to end?</div><div>Me : I want corruption to end.</div><div>One angry Voice : Then, why are you not supporting Anna's Jan LokPal?</div><div>Me: I don't think that will going to end corruption.</div><div>Frustrated and Still angry voice : People like you are here, that is why India is in neck dip in Corruption. You must be from Congress. All politicians are ****, and you are one of the blind supporter of them. You are not a patriot. And much more angry and emotional outburst.</div><div>I thought, what I have said which has pissed off my friend. I never took or gave any bribe, atleast not from the time, I gain my consciousness. I am not terrorist. I have faith in India. So why on one fine day, my friend has easily labelled me as unpatriotic?</div><div>There is so much written for or against Anna and his team. I also have my own reservations on any national or social issue. So why I was deprived from expressing myself. Why is it become "only Anna" equation? </div><div>In the time of Mahatma Gandhi, there were lot number of people who were critic of his methods. Ambedkar on Social or Bose on National issue. Not always people went for Gandhi. </div><div>So If I decide not to join Anna movement or criticize him, why such anger?</div><div>I am not with corruption and I doubt who are doing corruption may also are against corruption. There is always a small section of society who loves to break law for enjoyment. Just leave this group, and see that all other are against corruption. But nowadays its a fad to support Anna. I have seen a group of builders who were supporting Anna. Shall I need to say more?</div><div>What is corruption exactly? </div><div>- Political corruption : It is the abuse of power by the state official for the private gain. </div><div>- Social corruption : To stops valuing integrity, honesty, virtue or moral principles. </div><div>For what we are targeting is Political corruption and not the social corruption. Because we all know how corrupt we all are. Corruption start at rock bottom level, going upwards well nourished and protected. </div><div>Most of us have the target of "getting thing done". It is because lack of knowledge of the processes, checking for short-cuts which are not at all necessary. </div><div>I see, passing the Jan Lokpal bill is one more moral, social and constitutional corruption we are committing. </div><div>If someone is going to make a law in this country, then its my right to ask questions about it. Why the open discussions are not being held? Why more emotional outburst that the rational answers. The same so called weaker laws have put A Raja and Kalmadi and many others behind bars. Why are we forgetting the case of<br />
"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Nanavati and Ahuja Murder case</span>" where we had to abandon the system of Jury from the Judicial system of the country, which is still prevalent in many western countries.</div><div>There are many bill are required, separate bills, like Police reforms, Judicial procedure reforms, Political parties reforms, etc need to handle corruption. </div><div>But what about social corruption? I heard many of my friends are very proud saying that they get so many things in dowry. Many of us still look down-ridden caste as ugly and disgusting. Many of us are involved in honour killing. Beside all this, many of us are living on the space which was reserved for forest or school or children park. The list is countless. These things were in our hand, but we turned blind because it profits us. </div><div>I don't want bloody revolution in my country, I don't support Modi because of what had happened in Gujrat, I don;t support congress becasue of what they did with Sikhs and I don't support many others because of this. </div><div>I believe in Democracy, I believe in elective representation in Parliament, I believe in our independent Judicial system. I believe in reforms from dialog and discussion. It needs Patience and courage. Here, Team Anna, who don't represent people of India, dictatorial mandate to Pass the bill in single session doesn't go well with me. Hence I don't support his fast and bill. </div><div><br />
</div><div>I would like to give a quote from Ambedkar.</div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">If we wish to maintain democracy not merely in form, but also in fact, what must we do? The first thing in my judgment we must do is to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving our social and economic objectives. It means we must abandon the bloody methods of revolution. It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us. – Dr.B.R. Ambedkar</span></blockquote><div><br />
</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-15470096652309356192011-08-22T00:16:00.001-07:002011-08-22T00:16:17.296-07:00Shudras are not untouchables!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="data-post">While discussing about reservations in Indian system, my friends told me that it is okay to give reservations for Shudras. I asked him, what do you mean by Shudra? My friends said, weren't they untouchables? <br />
Often we don't know the history or remember some part of it. The above information might have come from false interpretation or limited knowledge. In my history classes, I never taught about the actual history of India. The actual history of India is not well written and highly speculative. All we know for sure that there was a system existed in India. There was Varna system and caste system. Caste are different from Varna. This must be well understood. People often mix here. They think Varna and Caste system are same. They are not same, may be mixed but not same. Varna is basic division of then society in four major parts,<br />
- Brahmin (mainly priests, scholors) <br />
- Kshatriya(kings, warriors)<br />
- Vaishya(traders)<br />
- Sudra(craftsmen, labourer)<br />
Castes are endogamous groups which may sub-divided in sub-caste.<br />
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But the untouchables are not part of any of this. They are simply outcaste. Anyone outside the then society and not in varnas are outcaste, chandaal. <br />
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Untouchables or even the shadow of them were considered unpure.<br />
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The outcastes are below sudra and not a part of society. So next time if you hear someone is confusing between shudra and untouchable, tell them the reality. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-31210382201663962622011-08-21T23:16:00.000-07:002011-08-21T23:16:37.406-07:00Luck ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5C466536%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C02%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><span style="font-size: small;"><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">What is Luck?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hey, today I won a ticket to <st1:city><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:city>. I am the only lucky person among 200." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">"I won lottery of 1 million $."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">"Wish you best of luck for you future."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking at general point of view about luck, I still don't understand luck and its consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">What is luck? I say, I don't believe in luck but use it as a word in day-to-day interactions. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Luck is a false idea. It just give you a ray of hope in oddities. It's just a positive thinking. It has no spritual or scientific base.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">No one believe in luck, yet they just want it to be on their side. Have you come across someone who actually said, I am lucky and I will win this lottery?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">It is such a fragile idea that only after something happen you come to know about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's say, Person A has won a lottery for a trip to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Thailand</st1:place></st1:country-region> (or wherever), while on board plane has accident and Person A died in it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Following would be the outcome of statements:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">- Person A is lucky to have won lottery (after lottery results out)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">- Person A is unlucky that he died in plane crash (after plane crash)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's alter the plane crash outcome to Person A lightly injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">- Person A is lucky to have escaped death (after being hospitalized)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">3rd outcome: Person A badly injured, all limbs gone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">- Person A is lucky to have escaped death (after being hospitalized)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">- Person A is unlucky because of limbs loss (after being hospitalized)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">So the Person A luck is always happens after. You can't determine the fate of Person A before something happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Skill and Effort:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">In the above example, Person A requires no skill or effort to win the lottery. Person A just needs to participate in that lottery, willingly or not.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">CAT exam for entrance to MBA is an extremely difficult exam to crack. If there is only one seat and two people with same name, age, abilities, marks, background etc.. Are contending for it and one get than seat, the one is lucky and other is unlucky.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">In first example, person A requires no skill or effort to win that lottery. It is possible that he may not even have opted for it. But in second case, the winner and loser both have put their equal efforts to win that seat. The unseen phenomenon if someone termed as luck by the virtue of day to day language is fine. But otherwise how good it to be judge for the looser who has put exactly the same amount of effort but still a looser. The explanation cannot come handy on some superstition things like Karma in last life, or the luck or something like this. If something is already written, then why to take an effort? Or taking effort is also written somewhere. The idea of being a play tool of someone who has taken good efforts to write about everything about everyone is scary. Mammoth effort, isn't it? To do such thing, only effort and skill are required. Nothing is automatically done.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Luck and Decision making<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Decision making is a collective result of experience, skill, thinking, etc. Do you really put your luck in your decision making? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Luck is essentially a wishful thinking and nothing else. It is just denying the unpredictability of random events.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-91486577652374866882011-06-09T04:25:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:56:05.097-07:00Anti-Corruption tamasha and People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since Anna Hazare declared that he's going to fast in peaceful way at Jantar Mantar, I have started following the movement. Corruption in India is a chronic problem, and must be tackled before it eats us all. Everyone will agree, but not everyone will agree on how the movement should follow the path. In general, any movements where people are agreed on the goal but not on the strategy have parallel but different routes of achievement. Freedom movement in India had Gandhi, Bose, Bhagat Singh singing different tunes but for same goal. For many people Hazare is unconditional leader, whereas for some Baba ramdeo is just taking limelight from the movement started by Anna. The baba is still very much immature in politics and has not deal with them on political issues before this agitation. On the other hand, Anna Hazare has long experience with Maharashtrian powerful leaders. The fast is not new to Anna. But even Anna has limitations. He can't be compared with Gandhi. The picture created in front of Indians is that all the politicians are crooked, corrupted and thugs. In that case, it’s all common people vs. political class. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the start of this movement, people have put all political parties and in general all politicians bar. While we must consider that there is considerable truth in these allegations as none of the politician with corruption charges went in Jail. Corruption is rampant in India as we all know, but from where to start is the real question. There are anti-corruption bureau at almost all the districts in India. This department exists with CBI, CID etc. Along with ED, Income tax, Central Vigilance Commission, Lokayukta all exist. But they exist with very minimal powers. The willing to fight against corruption doesn’t reflect in these personal. After all, corruption is in Indian blood, so corruption exists in all the area which deals with public. Education, health, public works these are the oasis for corruption. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The movement is trying to create cure than prevention. Of course the cure is important as the disease is well blown. The remedy is not so easy or one day solution. Consider, if someone want that he will always stay lean. For this he’s to follow the path of complete and well balanced diet along with exercise. For a fat person, getting lean is a process and this process has to continue throughout the life of the person. Same is with this cure; this should not be seen as silver bullet. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even the lokpal bill which is proposed with so many things will have all the powers. In the end the lokpal will have to investigate and give judgment, but this will not stop the accused to call the high court wherein his case will be pending for long. So in the lokayukta is nothing but the arbitrator between common people and accused. Hence this will not solve any problem as we thing it will. But this could be seen as 2nd step against corruption. Why I have said that this is 2nd step, because I consider Right of Information Act was the first step. I agree that this act need many corrections and protection to the people using act. But in general this act has created fear among babus. The accountability is now on rise. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So can we think on and try to find some common problems and possible remedy.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1) The low level corruption at various public departments</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2) The corrupt people even if they caught are not punished for long time. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3) Tendency of common public about escaping the law</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4) The awareness about the wastage of public money among all class of people</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) Business grown with the help of corrupted people </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6) Justice delayed</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7) Delaying or doing nothing will also be considered under corruption</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be completed…</span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-56732961452756962162011-04-12T02:45:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:57:09.217-07:00Learning from Failures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is a developer summary on the project developed and managed from scratch. This is my experiements in last 3 years.<br />
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The last project was developed (?) and (mis) managed entirely by me and colleague with the same experience as me. In the process I have understood the importance of design, planning, processes, project management, test management and code reusability, etc. I have learned this all from the failures.<br />
The project was started on a note that it will be a small migration from dot net to java, should be complete in 6 months and we are free to use any thing we want to.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Communication:</i></span><br />
The problem started with communication. The requirements were not clear, but as old habit die hard, at least for us Indians, we never bother for a more specifications. Rather, we had imagined things as they have come and implemented. Of course, in the end, the product was not so near to what was expected. It was not far from expected either. But it dragged a project a little bit more, just for rework.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Unit tests:</i></span><br />
This is best part of our project. More often we don’t have unit test cases (Junit), but in case where the unit test cases were written, didn’t serve the purpose.<br />
I have noted down the problems below:<br />
- Unit test cases were connecting to database. They will fail in other than dev environment; hence we found a solution to have different config files for different env.<br />
- Unit tests were more close to system tests where we test the entire system and not just part of it.<br />
- Discussed Test Driven Development but never ever tried to implement<br />
- We never had time to write unit tests. ;-)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Code Documentation:</i></span><br />
While we always has specification and functional stuff defined on project wiki, we never seriously believed in documentation on code. I know that document is not always helpful or necessary, as masters say that clean code is always preferable.<br />
But we had neither. :-D<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><i>Coding Style:</i></span><br />
All developers has there own style of writing the code. Hence our code was cluttered with two not so different styles, Hungerian and CamelCase. One developer has declared class variable like m_BlaNothing, while other has blaNothing. The formatting specified for code is different for both developers. Even the development environment was not same, I was using BEA Workshop (Bea’s eclipse with weblogic debugging facilities) and other has eclipse. When the third developer joined the team, he started using the latest version of eclipse.<br />
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<b><i>Design:</i></b><br />
Now in India, 3 years of coding experience seems good. I don’t consider myself as a bad developer and colleague is also good thinker and developer. We both had just above 3 years of experience when we started working on this project. Soon after I came to know that we have had very limited knowledge about the designing the software. I realized that I can write a complicated piece of code, but can’t design system entirely from scratch. It’s a huge limitation. Designing software comes with experience and practicing and reading lots of design pattern and much more. And at that time, I knew only one design pattern, Singleton. ;-)<br />
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<b><i>Code Reusability: </i></b><br />
We knew from start that code should be reused. But we have lacked with the vision of how to achieve this.<br />
I think following we should have done:<br />
- Put generic code at common place.<br />
- Communicate often about the code.<br />
Instead what we have done is,<br />
- Never discussed amongst us as what we are developing and how are we developing<br />
- The developed code, even if it at common place, is not communicated with others.<br />
Now, the problem started occurring while we were refactoring some code after few years. Many times, we had just updated at one place, forgetting others. So usually we had problems on Prod env.<br />
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<b><i>Clean Code:</i></b><br />
Every programmer should read once, Clean Code book. We had done all the things, exactly opposite as what is said in that book. And we faced the consequences.<br />
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<b><i>Half baked implementation of frameworks: </i></b><br />
Spring, iBatis, Hibernate etc, was used at will. If developer things that JDBC is his comfort zone, then use JDBC otherwise iBatis. Spring was always underutilized as none of our modules used any of the spring features.<br />
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<b><i>Test Case Management:</i></b><br />
The automated and manual tests are managed in Quality Center. We have developed a wonderful script using, VAPI-XP script to automate our web services. We have also managed to use selenium to manage web based modules in quality center.<br />
But the main problems with those test cases are, they check for more conditions than required or specified in test case. Hence test case can fail even if the output is what is expected.<br />
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I have seen things going wrong, and managed to correct them. I have learned a pretty hard lesson in all this process. But on the bright side, I have come up as a better programmer. I think that’s the best part.</span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-73507810181624751732011-03-27T02:15:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:57:35.298-07:00Getting Social<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recent developments in social networking sites are now a phenomenon. The pace of connecting people is so huge that it can be only called as mass rage. People of all age groups are attracted towards some form of networking. One may wonder how people used to interact with each other when the technologies like internet and mobile were not developed. The technology is helping us to move closer and making truly marking an era of single global village. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All at the same time a new form of commerce is developing within social networks. The advertising which was earlier limited to TV or radio commercials are expanded to the social media. Mails are scanned by autobots, chat windows are showing text based ads, searching information are promoting paid ads and many more. The revenue is not just generated for the companies who own social network sites, but also to those small businesses who want to reach to the larger audiences at lower price and more eyes of user. It is easy to search as well as order things on net than that of going out and finding one. Just take an example of courier service, once dubbed as potential failure after invention of e-mails are now booming because people have started purchasing on net and couriers are delivering the orders. The form of business has changed with creating a lot more of possibility of creation of new jobs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let us not forget the allegations towards these networking. Parents are complaining that the pupils are stick to computer, and doing lesser physical activities. Few studies have shown that kids with too much of time on net finds real world boring, whereas the virtual world the things happens faster. They start off and end relationship on the click of the mouse. On the other hand, few kids are sharp enough to start their own business and also not shy with complete strangers.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shadowy identities have been created and a person pretends to be the one they are not. But with the gradual shift towards web2.0 sites are more about extending the real identity or names. So with real people develops real relationship. Isn’t it is great that people don’t get time to call others but at the same time everyone can be able to get updated about the others. Just update own site and follow the others. People now don’t forget the birthdays. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The topic is relatively new and lot to be there to study about the socializing behaviour of people in new era. At the same time, it is doubtless that everyone enjoys socializing. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy Socializing!!!</span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-4800419020912754652011-03-18T07:28:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:58:16.052-07:00Best Reservation for Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The public transports for Mumbai are Local trains and Best buses. Democratic republic government of India has a policy of Reservation for all the public domain for deprived class. Women are considered to have disadvantages as dominated by men; the government has introduced reservations for women in local trains and best buses. This provides a general convenience to all women, who face problems while travelling at peak time. Mostly men have not at all any problem of having reservations for women. But certainly they are not so happy with the situation. The main arguments are</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">- Women should occupy the reserved seats first.<br />
- In case if no reserved seats are available then go for general seats.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;">With these arguments, it is unacceptable for them that women can occupy on general seat if the reserved seats are vacant. Further, the situation worsens if the guys are standing and there are still vacant seats for women and few women are occupying seat in general. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, gals don't give a damn what men's are thinking. They find seats easily and of course they don't mind.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't want to argue on either side of debate. But I feel people often miss the few points in this debate and associate too much with personal experience.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fundamental law for reservation is:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The quota is limited for the people who are addressed, and the remaining positions are </span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">for all</span><span style="font-size: small;"> people. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If we look closely to the above statement, the second part is more interesting, "for all", that means all the people including the one who are qualified for the quota. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But few men feel that the system is discriminating and find women are taking undue advantage of the situation. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My points are:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- If someone wants to opt out for quota, then it is their fundamental right not to take advantage of quota system. <br />
- In case, if someone see the general seat, then they should occupy it first, so that the other girls who will enter after the bus is full will get the reserved seat. So girls have higher social concerns oven guys.<br />
Arguments on either side may not satisfy all people unless we have the equal resources with human population.</span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-1174988209688845382007-03-27T03:35:00.000-07:002007-03-27T03:36:49.703-07:00Trauma<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Trauma<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Let me introduce myself. I am a well settled software engineer in a fast growing software firm, happy with work. I have achieved most of the things, say job, flat, bike, friends, girl friend, everything you say it. I have created my own world, my passion and my love. You may find this as rosy cozy picture perfect. So far so good. Then where is the problem, means I had problems in my life, one can say a bad phase. But I had gone through it. I simply amazed how I had handled those situations and how strong I was. But today I feel somewhat helpless for the situations I am in. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Four years before, with lot of struggle and hard work I cleared my engineering. Best part was I scored enough to sell myself in job market. It was difficult but not impossible to survive in this market. Eventually did C-DAD and joined a reputed software company as an s/w engineer. Then I had bought a flat at hometown. Also by the time developed relationship with a very sweet girl, my own love. Again so far so good. Simple right? I look like a happy person in each perspective. I should be happy. But I am not.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">First time it strikes me when I got clear my final year B.E. exams. I had done lot of hard work and had devoted much time in it. But when I saw my name in the list of passed candidates I feel nothing. I was just relaxed. Ok, I have cleared it, finally. But I was not excited, not happy but only relaxed. I didn’t feel this thing before. This was an end of one phase of my life, but still I was just relaxed. A strange thing, but I told myself by saying, hey man you are optimist and always looking forward type. Hence, now onwards you just look forward and forgot the entire thing you did, mostly achievements. I followed my inner voice. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">After a year I got a job, very good job indeed for me. That job was the solution for my family’s financial problems. I was supposed to be happy that day. But the same feeling haunted me. I just felt like calm and comfortable. Not a feeling of joy or happiness. Something was missing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">The best part in my life came next. I was in love. I felt love for first time to anybody outside my family. She was the best, suited me very well. With lots of ups and downs in our relationship everything is going well. By the time I am also doing well and career path is wide open full with all exciting opportunities. Still at this point again I am not feeling anything. No sense of delighted happiness. I feel like a blank slate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">I am in pursuit of happiness. Where can I find it? That is the question. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Pursuit of happiness begins:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">What is wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">For that I need to ask myself a question. What I am considering as my achievements are actually my achievements or something else.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">I found this question interesting. Whatever I achieved that was the things that I was told by someone, directly or indirectly. These may be or may not be the one’s which I want to seek. But I was told to do so. Hence the feeling of owning the achievement is actually not exactly mine. The achievement is important for me also, but I was not the one who wrote it for me. I was not the owner. I was the carrier. I was the carrier to fulfill my society’s wishes. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">So this went wrong. I am not owner. I don’t own anything, but I am the transporter. Acting as a carrier of someone else’s dream.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Why it is so?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">This is because I am living according to people’s expectations from me. These are the expectation which I can feel, nobody tells me about it, but it is my duty to sense it right and act accordingly. I am supposed to fulfill it. Hence I got lost in somewhere between and got the feeling that something is missing. Now this missing feeling is haunting me all the time, ask me, to do something different.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">But now even if I feel that I have come closer to solution I don’t really know what to do. From last few days I am trying, but whenever I tried, I found myself directed by the expectation. I feel like expectation n what I really want are mixed and lost somewhere. Now I feel that others expectation is what I really want. This is important. I have lost my identity. Now I am confused what to do next?</span></p> I have no solutions at this point of time but will definitely search for them.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-1152774068799971662006-07-12T22:27:00.001-07:002006-07-13T00:05:20.180-07:00Few more thoughts - Friendship<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >In my life I came across several kinds of people whom I call as friends. Certainly few of them are girls as well. Before writing further, I want to tell that what friendship meant for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >“I think Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other. You share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly and right away you know your friendships truly meant to be.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >May be friendship can’t be explained in few words or it doesn’t need explanation, but still not every person in your contact become your friend. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >When I have made friendship with girls I wonder I ever thought of our society. Yes, it might be the case of male female relationship has no respect n some sort of same crap. I never bother of such unethical thinking of our ethical society. For me friendship means friendship. It must be same for everyone. The only relationship exist which does not consider any boundaries. </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >Despite friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art (a painting of Mona Lisa or Michelangelo’s work doesn’t have a single penny ka meaning to anybody. Still these are the costliest monuments in the world) ... It has no survival value (if it is not there at all it wont affect any body); rather is one of those things that give value to survival (it is just precious). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how we felt. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >Just stop for a moment and think:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. Simple and pure.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >Once I said this to one of my female friend: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >"I can drops mine plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. I always encourage your dreams and offer advice--but when you don't follow it, me will still respect and love you. That’s it. It’s me. I will always be like this. Sometimes I wonder how our relationship flourished. We had no expectations, demands or any other things like this from each other. Or this was the reason behind? Yeap ! Might Be!<span style=""> " </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered companionship a permanent success. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" >When you honestly ask yourself which person in your lives means the most you, you will often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with you in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with you in an hour of grief and sadness, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with me the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.Yes , but with this I dont mean to say that friends are extremely important, but for me they are part of my life but not can't be mistaken as my life. It may be the much hypes word , hence most of the time I tend not to define anyone as my friend. Friends are special, they will be with you throughout life.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><br /></span></p><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04173176682385249228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30103645.post-1150991513068848982006-06-22T08:07:00.000-07:002011-07-26T03:58:55.838-07:00First Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today is my first day to write in any blog. Nothing special, as software engineer I usually come across different kinds of blogs everyday. But today I observed something unusual. Something that had just happened and inspire me to start writing blog.<br />
When I joined my 1st company (actually still working with the same), we guys always finds nice chicks around us. Few of us came across one girl, who was looking wise kind of OK. The things goes on, few of us got the chance to be work with her. But what the luck, everybody rejected her on the ground that she has no brain. Beautiful but dumb. :( .<br />
Days went on; meantime I even forgot her name. But then one day (today) I came across her blog. Voyla ! The same girl. But she wrote magnificently. She was kewl , really ! :) ...<br />
This is it, we always tends to take First impression as the last one. It is okay in interviews or some places like that. But it doesn’t hold well in real life. Life is like this only.<br />
People say I am not expressive. Yes, I never expressed myself. May be it is true. I always keep smiling. But it was not true always. Obviously I am not perfect; I do have 13 grey hairs :).<br />
I feel that we need to understand /gain from small things. Today unknowingly I have understood something, that you need to give chances to others. And then other will follow.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Understanding is must , must for any relationship.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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