Twitter Updates for 2008-08-07
  • feeling a bit low, things should have been turned out well. Had put lot of hours and thinking and it just didn’t really worked well #
  • @chryste well, good to know that; Watch the one “How to become a canadian citizen”, being an immigrant i can relate to that easily #
  • Heard fresno got invested with army worms, so did @imabonehead and @jmstr see any ? #
  • This isn’t fair; why does people look just like the same they were 10 years ago. It isn’t fair. World is so cruel :-) #
  • Hmm, shiny new thing.again, this is going to be fun #

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My son goes to MIT !!

boasting-parents.jpg I hang around in forums and groups to see what the new generation students talk about. I often find a thread where the guys just bitches about their teachers. Funny thing is, the reason why they think their teachers are blockheads, seems same all these years. I confess I did the same thing myself.

Many universities have joined in a consortium to share their course materials online for students world wide. This courseware includes Audio, Video. MIT even has a channel in youtube. So your teachers may be bad, but there are good teachers elsehwere. So feel free to find them. The concept was introduced in 1999, but hasn’t gained momentum until recently. I think a reason for the increased popularity is due to the fact that the technology has advanced a lot and the medium to share has become cheap and popular.

Here is the course material for the course Algorithm Analysis and Desgin. Oh well, you can download it in iTunes aswell.

Well, this is a great idea. A truly remarkable concept that could benefit generations to come. The world just had become big classroom. Your classmate might be miles away.

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-06
  • @jobijoy thanks man, well i work in california for pelco. so where are you ? #

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Somebody Gonna get a hurt real bad

I couldn’t resist laughing reading Scott H’s post I like cake …. This is funny because its something happens every where, not necessarily in a software development environment.

Let me get you one story from my diary. You need to watch this first to get to the context of what I am talking about.

If you haven’t seen it, I really advice you should, its even funnier if you are born to immigrant parents.

This video has been going around in my team for a long time. Being the only indian I suddenly turned into a target. I get picked pretty easily for various reasons, but this became funny when they turned it into the context of our work. Suddenly I started receiving oneline emails from our testers if they find some stupid stuff in my code saying, “Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad”. Needless to say show stopper bug is referred to as Somebody gonna get a hurt …

Need to get back to work, otherwise “Sombody gonna get a hurt real bad”.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-04
  • Always resisted to instll Adobe air on my mac. Just had to give it up #
  • @angreegoatee no, initial reaction is not that great. I want to give a fare try though. I have a dislike for AIR, so I might be biased #
  • @bavanaina I am right now doing that trek. Will explain it more on phone :-( #
  • Seems another flood is going to happen in fort kent. Water level at st john river is alarmingly high. #
  • Beans from my garden :-) http://bit.ly/1odebw #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-03
  • India equalled the series with srilanka with a 170 run victory. This will probably wash the stains of shame endured in the first test. #
  • three twitter spams so far #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-02
  • @jmstr you might mistake me for a pregnant whale. And I don’t trust your myopic old eye. So bring someone young with you. #
  • damn i thought i will be done by today. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-01
  • @seanrees forget the possibility, i heard there is not anymore. But not quite sure. have you looked at this http://www.ede.iastate.edu/ #
  • Had a dose of ego boost after reading a linked in recommendation from my former colleague. #
  • @jobijoy can we swap our job ?, you reaching office by noon!! #
  • So here it rains all through summer and snows all through winter. All through means daily. i.e Every freaking day, no kidding #
  • @jmstr you a@$@#$, you gonna jinx me!!!. If ever i end up on a canoe i am gonna come and grab your …. #

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Its a small world after all !!!

If you ever want to shake off a song of your head. Listen to the famous disney song. “Its a small world after all.” (Thanks bill for shariing this trivia).

So what I was saying is, we went to Orlando, Florida; the famous pilgrimage, to pay homage to St. Disney. After shoving so much money I had shot a video with that famous song as the background.


Aaron in MagicKingdom from Ranjith Antony on Vimeo.

It took a while for editing this video. Now I need to find a way to shake THIS song of my head.