Sunday musings

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 pull a sheet over yourself – but instead I found myself watching Nth re-run of K3G and Scooby Doo Laffalympics with Swati and Aasim (in that order? 😉

2 years earlier this would have left me ragged BUT not now… … What’s the point in getting ragged? It was a bad week at work for Swati and a boring weekend for Aasim. So if two people in the family feel good if one person does things their way – I feel it is a good deal!

And no it does not happen that one person is always the “Bakra”.

Even though at times a person feels that (s)he is always “it”. Invariably it is not true in 90% of the relationships but almost 90% people feel that they are the victim – what follows is a vicious cycle of self pity <-> self indulgence <-> guilt and once you are in it, it takes a lot of clear headed thinking to get out of it

Of Course somewhere in between I managed to snatch some time to test out a couple of cool XML rendering classes from https://www.php-tools.de

Looks like the dinner of Pudina Chicken and Chicken Handi Biryani is here – droooooool

Moving on …

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

Atul Chitnis adopts .net and uses MS Office

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 https://atulchitnis.com was some what of a misnomer (it not being a commercial domain and blah) Atul has changed it to https://atulchitnis.net,

Usability!

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 https://www.joelonsoftware.com , more than usability I

All my techies are reading this NOW!!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html Thanks to Atul for the link

Learning to RELAX!!!

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

FY 2001-2002 Retrospection

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

Hmmm….

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

There Ain’t No Justice

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 …

PHP, Flame Wars and Me

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