Raves and Rants

With loads and loads of time on my hands to burn I cant help thinking abt the good old days when gettin up early in the morning(11:00 o clock) and pondering about how to emulate a post or how to tunnel through the proxy at office kept me engaged for hours on end.It was during this period that i learnt and perfected percussive maintainence.In case you are wondering what maintainence is,percussive percussive maintainence is the fine art of whacking an electronic device to get it working again.My poor desktop cabinet was a victim of my then newly acquired skill as I would kick it(yes kick it!!) whenever the network connection got disconnected and voila i was on the LAN again.

I also ended up making a list of career limiting moves, CLM for short.Here are a few of em..... 

1.)hanging out at the coffee shop below office after uve called in sick .

2)your project leader unexpectedly walks into your cube, your screen, once hot-keyed, passes for a code-intensive IDE, and you bruskly announce, "Now what?" in your most annoyed guru manner when suddenly you realize the "My project leader sux" thread you'd actually been testing was set to interrupt in 10 seconds, 9, 8, ...  

3) just as u decide to do some serious work there is a call for a meeting..(Another meeting!!!!When are we supposed to write code around here???) and the boss explains another critical need: Status reports. Your project simply cannot move forward until u adopt the new status report and during feedback, your response is : "What's a status report?"
This time around these CLMs do not apply and hope I end up making a new set of em that can be applicable no matter which co u r doing a project for.

Udayan, here i come!!!!!!!!!!