I started writing this post two days ago. At 2AM. In office. Yesterday I finally got an unbroken stretch of sleep after weeks. That’s what happens when:
a) Your client is in a time zone on the opposite side of the planet
b) You’re developing a critical system that can’t risk downtime
c) Your client’s industry has experienced [...]
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Two weeks in hell; take it out on spammers
Posted in Counter-Spam, Me, Work on March 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Carols
Posted in Me, Work on December 18, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Had office Carols last Friday (15th). I was scared the whole thing was going to “crash in production” due to insufficient “regression testing” (we practiced only for about a week). But it went remarkably well.
This was in the company cafeteria, at around 6.00pm on Friday. If you look left over the shoulder of the tall [...]
The life’s work of Jackie Chan; 64-bit XP
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me, TV/Radio/Movies/Drama, Work on December 5, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Random office pic: HQ building entrance.
The life’s work of Jackie Chan
Believe it or not, I bought 38 Jackie Chan movies in a single 9-disc collection for Rs. 3600. I’ve always been a fan of martial arts movies, especially Chan’s improbably agile slapstick. As a kid, I can’t count the number of shorts I tore at [...]
The Developer’s Song for PMs and Consultants
Posted in Me, Nonsense, Work on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a little something I wrote a few months ago (if you happen to be in the industry, you might have been forwarded the email — heck, I had it forwarded back to me a few times). It all started when I was told that a certain new feature I worked very hard for is [...]
I have moved
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me, Nonsense, Work on November 3, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Pic: The company’s HQ building’s East Wing pond on an overcast Friday morning…
Due to space problems created by a huge influx of new recruits, we’ve had to do some shuffling of office space (I think I mentioned that before). As a result, I now work in the company’s HQ building, in the West Wing, to [...]
