Tarique's Travails

Sunday found me with two bored and hence irritable people A Sunday which I had planned spending curled up with my Palm reading with the coolers on full blast – thankfully the hot and very dry climate of Nagpur means that we can use desert coolers and the temperature drop is sufficient to make you [...]

Phew!! a very hot and tiring day, We recently got the Office painted – was sick of waiting for the owner to deciede – shifted the furniture around a bit. The office now as a different look Kit & Kat whom we re-introduced in the wild returned home as expected towards evening complaining loudly that [...]

Ah! the power of disinformation While what is stated in the subject line is not untrue it is not what it seems – In the hard facts of reality it reads that since http://atulchitnis.com was some what of a misnomer (it not being a commercial domain and blah) Atul has changed it to http://atulchitnis.net, the [...]

Paradoxically I am writing this using something which most usability gurus consider utterly unusable the Palm. But consider this – I am doing this lying comfortably on my bed without anything to weigh me down – I call it very very usable Any been reading a lot on http://www.joelonsoftware.com , more than usability I find [...]

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Looks like I am finally learning to relax – today is the third consequetive day in the week that I intend to have a siesta Currently enjoying a “in between projects” interlude – the madness will begin from Monday again. Earlier I use to start biting my nails or other people’s head when such things [...]

The last money that was to come in this financial year has been confirmed as deposited. So how was the year? To put it in a line – we survived the dotcom bust and did not earn a single Rupee this year. Swati has been smart enough to see that all the formalities needed to [...]

A hot tiring day – already feel like dropping off to sleep. BUT I have to complete Bob’s work before that… as entered in her journal “What is this life so full of care” – to fall asleep I do not dare!! apologies to W.H. Davis Rajesh was here for lunch – talked with him [...]

Husbands of the world unite!! I invite Swati to LJ and it has not even been a day and she gets paid membership for herself $25 only She even hijacks my LJ client …. I have been asking her to spare that $25 for me since exactly a week and I am still waiting … [...]

With the philosophasters of LI blasting PHP with their corybantic mails several (three to be precise) people asked my why I did not defend PHP. Well just for the same reasons that I dont defend my religion. Besides, why me? Who am I? I am a good PHP coder, fine! BUT that is it, that [...]