*Rain

One of my managers needed three attempts to remember the name of my last employer correctly. First two attempts being "RainDance" and "NextRain" :)

*Yu

After "xyu" at firstRain, I have just come in contact with a "hyu" here :) h == Hong-Lee.

Death to hungarian notation

Surely
hungarian notation ought to be banned from the face of the earth..aaaaarggghh. It is so ugly it beats Paula Jones's hair:)
It is a bad thing because it is hard to consistently maintain its use in a code base touched by several people. It is especially bad when code generating tools use it and the code incorporating the generated code does not :(( I recently came accross a piece of code which uses variable names like "dqToken, sqToken" to mean double/single quoted tokens, and then went on to some generated code which was using hungarian notation. My nonhungariannotationed brain's reaction to it was to find some context dependent meaning for the prefixes in some of the variables ulProd, oulProd. And aargh...i realised after going through some more of that generated code that it was hungarian notation.

MAD

I recently bought a collection of 25-MADs from Fabmall. These ppl are really cruel :) One of the mags had a MAD look at dedications one finds in music album covers/booklets. Michael Jackson's is something like this "I dedicate this album to children because children are our future, our soft, tender, sexy future" :)) One wonders whatever happened to all that good music he used to make..he now only makes news..for the wrong reasons.

I dont know if the referrer of the last linked story wants to be identified :) but thanks to him!!

Oblivio > Road > Bookmark

Some people have strange and fundamental stories to tell. Maybe having a porn star girlfriend is somebody's fantasy, but a girlfriend turning out to be a porn star is slightly a non-fantasy :) Well that can hurt........and right in the groins at that :D

Hmmm..remember the security violations long time back? As a punishment the security policy makes the errant kid participate in a security audit :) So here i am at 7:30 am in the office having just participated in one..snooping around on my colleagues, checking their desks and all to see if they have left any confidential stuff unlocked. Anyways this thing is off my back. Wasnt totally my fault you know..I had no keys to the drawers on my desk..how on earth was i supposed to lock anything :) I created some hungama about it some days back when i got the "mandatory invitation" (what a euphemism :) ) to participate in the audit. Copied my manager, the department who supply the keys and the security ppl and informed all that I still did not have the f*?king keys and i wont be signing any violations till i get them...and what..preto..I get a replacement for the drawer with they keys...also asked them to work more efficiently and give keys to any new joinee as soon as he joins...at the time i signed the non-compliance sheet i had no idea abt the implications..i though i would sign and they ll give me back my documents..never new i would be here today. People say i aint seen nothing yet and hungama is the only way things get done here :)

Code tasty code..

Slurrrp slurrp!!! (Meaningful) Coding days are back again :) Finally after a long wait my colleague has completed what he had to before i started integration of the part that i m working on.

The emporers clothes.

A few days back Nikhil was here in Bangalore. Heard an
interesting Mitra anecdote from him. A few days earlier ppl had
encountered Mitra in an unusually oversized shirt. So people
asked Mitra abt the reason...the answer as told by Nikhil was
something like the following: "accha bohot bada hai kya..mera
nahi hoga..wo dhobi ko diye the kapde..usne wapas laye..usmein
ye shirt tha..to pahana"

We bow to thee O Mitra.

Probably Nikhil or Mitra himself could give us a very correct version
of the conversation in the comments.

FYI I have learnt how to make banana split at home! And no, this
has no connection to the banana split in a certain Sidney
Sheldon novel :))

This allah is also interesting.