When Obama was successfully marching towards winning presidency in his first term, one of his famous interviews, he talked about the problem of others! Without being a victim, one never gets to know what does it take to be a victim. You can be a victim from a ruthless bloody war or even a man who gets cheated by a ...
The odometer almost touching 140 mark. But he didn’t notice. He didn’t realise how fast he was going. There was nobody in the road. It was a deserted out creek drive with full of livestock farms around. Its the first day of the autumn season. One could see the bush fire affected remnants all over the places. It wasn't hot, ...
"Good Morning Jessie, past six already, Coffee Time, get up, get up" "Good Morninggggg Jake" , Jessie mums with a deep yawn without opening her eyes, stretches her hands, turns to freefall and continues sleeping. I stand still and start staring at her proudly. Jessie has a mid length sleek hair with a slight curl ...
It was early 90s. 1994 I think. My brother was an English teacher by then, undergoing the teachers' English literature training program. I still remember his long study table with full of scattered literature books. Shakespeare, R.K Narayan, Charles Dickens, you name it. Never a natural reader by himself, he often finds it hard to study those books, and he ...
Time 1:45 PMToday morning, I was hit with an irritating UI issue. I was working on a JSP with combinations of div elements with rich use of jquery. Upon different combinations we may need to show and hind the div elements accordingly. There goes a problem enabling the focus on the logical input element.So I was reusing a simple window.onload ...
After six months .. yes six months ... I watched a movie and it was the movie "Nanban", a Tamil movie, remake of Hindi movie "Three Idiots" adapted from Chetan Bhagat's Novel called "Five Point Someone".Having watched the Hindi film and read the book already, the movie didn't excite me much except the acting of Vijay. Now not gonna talk ...
"And of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. Who's Steve Jobs again?"But Gates, there will be statues of Gates across the Third World, and people will remember him as the man who ... you know, there's a reasonable shot, because of his money, we will cure malaria." The man who uttered these words is ...
Today during the lunch hour, the topic of Darwin and Vestiges popped up. We started talking about Einstein and his childhood vocal disability and reluctant nature, later moved to his theories and public reception. This lead to how Darwin's views received in contrast to the controversial reception for Vestiges theory. Not knowing the Vestiges theory much, I kept quiet, thrilled ...
I have a Chinese new year resolution, getting back to blogging. Well this is gonna be a lunch time blogging. Will be short and slim! Lets get on to the topic!ySchool, an open source school management system, we at Yarl IT Hub are trying to build. The idea is simple. We want to build a system for primary and secondary ...
ySchool project started rolling for some time now. We have a senior developer actively working on setting up the initial environment on git repository. The idea is to get something working initially, build a team around it and then go on to assign task to individuals. Without a ground model, its hard for us to accommodate volunteers especially the trainees ...
Yesterday I made a call to one of the institutes' director in Jaffna, to brief our intentions about Yarl IT Hub. To my surprise, he had already read my blog about it in Tamil as well as Sayanthan's visions in his blog. He was excited and thrilled to talk more about and even emphasized the need of giving more and ...
Totally forgot I had a resolution to write during the lunch hours. Today, damn Ketha asked me for lunch. We had a bit of a catchup to do, so we met in Melbourne Convention Center ..He discussed about my unpublished story(in Tamil) written recently, I had asked opinion from him and Uthaya since I felt something odd in this story. ...
I had a situation today where I need to create a patch on my project changes and keep it for a possible use in a later date, as I cannot commit my changes to any of the repository we have currently. Because this is some random work I did as enhancement. Initially I thought of taking a backup and then ...
When Google released its YouTube application for iPad, I was one of those who got damn excited. Soon switched to it and started using it. But then it was like a fiscal cliff! Its pathetic I couldn’t multitask it. The moment I start using the chrome or safari, YouTube would stop playing the video. If you go to volume ...
Its been a long talked argument on where exactly the Quality Assurance(QA) team in IT department belongs to. They are usually on the point where it could either go cold or hot from no where. The success stories of a project would be attributed to dev teams/PMO and the failures would boil down to QA team. Poor chaps, often the ...
Recently I have been working on a Cloud project, an attempt to host a full and full Service Delivery Platform (SDP) in cloud. Which means we are working on a solution to manage SDP eco system completely on cloud. This obviously may sound easier and familiar, but not in reality.Most of the telco services are not using conventional protocols like ...
It was the 9th of October 2011, a Sunday morning, as usual I woke up early in the morning, made my coffee and settling in my couch with iPad, going through the heaps of emails, and to my surprise... there was this email.Hi JK, Hope you are doing great! Since I visited iHub in Nairobi, I had been toying with ...
Renovators, a reality show which was happening in Australia. A flop show, never had its second season apparently. But I kind of fell for the show and hardly missed any episodes. You get five teams assigned homes/buildings in crappy conditions. The teams need to renovate the them in a given budget and this show would go for six to seven ...
There are days one feels, everything is blacked out. There wouldn’t be any reasons for it, but it just happens. Its like an opposite to big bang. Everything you do go nothing. That includes, time, space, mass and energy. You would have counted on them in your entire life right? Now imagine everything without time, space, mass and energy? ...
Yesterday found this amazing video of a desperate kid trying to reach to moon. Taken aback by the freshness and the innocence in this kid, I watched this video again and again. Interestingly a NASA employee must have seen this video, now invited the girl to have a visit to their lab to see how close she can reach ...
