Composure even at the helm of Science

I am talking about none other than the recent Nobel laureate for Chemistry, Mr. Venkittaraman Ramakrishnan. I was quiet amazed at his recent speech at Madras University. He wonder why people are so impressed when some Sweden University has given a recognition to a Molecular Biophysicist, who got comparatively low marks in biology, for a new finding in chemistry! [I wonder why people live in so much composure even at the helm of world science.] When someone from the crowd asked how he can win Nobel, Mr. Venkittaraman answered first to show interest in Science and not in Nobel. He also added, in his speech, that he desperately need this sudden fame to cool down because it distracts him from his work and he hopes that things will be on track in few days when people start forgetting this little “Nobel Prize Winner”. He also added it doesn’t matter where you live but what matters most is the teachers, friends and facilities when someone asked why he left India.

I couldn’t stop myself writing about him. I am a person who is easily impressed by news like this. Hats off to this great personality who brings fame and glory to the science and technology war of India. Hard work is the only key to success and his story is definitely a lesson for those who enjoy the frivolity of life.

Courtesy: “THE HINDU” dated Dec 23rd, 2009

All about Aries

“You live life ahead first. You are noted for your courage and leadership quality. You often demonstrate your confidence. The need for excitement pushes you into new territory. While you mature, you slows down your reaction to think about the possible consequences. You would rather figure out what to do while you are doing it. An offbeat self-ordained leader who fight for what you believe to be important.”

Aries Greatest Strength:
Your courage to overcome fear

Aries Possible Weakness:
Not finishing things you start

Wow! that was inspiring

Source: http://horoscopes.aol.com/astrology/zodiac-central/aries

After a long while

Hi all,

It’s been a long while i am here to write something. Was quite busy with works and well you know. I hope the things are getting tighter as time flies by like i always say. You realize it in a better way when you are on to it.  So what all about me so far.

I have switched to fedora completely and I am moving all my documents too. Get rid of those bloody games. (I lost a huge amount of time playing games). Started project as a part of course work. Plan A is still a masters degree but money is the only matter. Plan B in something innovative. ( I will reveal it later).

As usual tweeting all the time and now a new habit too. Waving.! Got the Google wave invitation after a months delay from its release date. I jumped with joy then but this is only a limited preview. and i was  beta tester. Well its fine.

So again towards another University examination. Next November. Lot other thinks have to be finished before that. My last but one University examination for BTECH. Ok well that goes like that.

So what about the economic recession and Global Warming. I am interested in such topics now a days. ha! Dumb Ass

I am really useless. (Sheesh…)

Days @ Singapore

For me IEEE has been a learning plethora for all my capabilities as an engineer or as an organizer or as a leader besides all the benefits that a member is entitled to get. My role for this student congress as an organizing

team member was exciting undoubtedly in many ways like flying for the first time abroad for an IEEE activity, being the program committee vice chair, close association with present leaders of IEEE and likewise the list goes unending. I really enjoyed the days prior to the student congress, my days at NUS campus with my team mates and friends just across the border. I was thrilled to meet all of them and I found the real happiness of networking and meeting new people. It was really exciting to see how a fellow IEEE care about each other.

On this student congress perspective I have lot of enthusiasm and excitements to describe my experiences and benefits that I got. First of all being the organizing member with friends at NUS which is about 3500 KMs away from my college. It was an awesome way of defining the motto “networking the world”. Being a part of this team I not only learned new lessons of organizing and management but also have got lots of friends from NUS and Singapore. Next and the very best thing I got from the student congress is the close association with the top leaders of IEEE which I believe to fuel up my volunteerism in IEEE. And about the sessions which held during the events were extremely good and informative particularly the leadership lessons from Marko and Darrel. The talks from IBM, Google and Microsoft were my food for thought about where this world will be going after all.

The sessions I really like were IEEE@2020 and World@2020. Discussions and points made out were so appealing to make myself get down to brass

tracks. I really appreciate all those who have actively involved in these sessions. More surprisingly I was able to get lot of contacts in IEEE than from my previous exposure at R10 SC at Chennai in 2008. Met lot of my IEEE friends after a long while and was able to connect with few of my seniors at college who are also associated to Singapore IEEE Section.

As a whole this student congress will be a cornerstone for my personal and professional prospective with such a lot of rich experiences of learning, experimenting and networking with my fellow IEEE Members. I thank each and everyone who gave us the opportunity for this level of involvement in those precious moments.

Five Point Some “big” one !

I have done reading a book, Five Point Someone by Chetan Bagath. My version is autographed by him;) Its a nice story to read and also has got the correct recipe to make a movie out. I never hoped life would be so screwed in IIT’s. I really liked one point he emphasizes about IIT’s in India. What are the greatest educational institutions in India so called IIT’s contributed for the country till date rather shaping some highly trained engineers ? When I read this line I just paused and thought? Is there anything that big delivered from IIT for India? Ahw! anyway I really liked the story. sometimes I feel that the character of Alok Gupta in the story seems matching with me.! Its a great book to read and I would surely recommend

My first interview experience

Here is the whole conversation.:

interviewer: Please come.. (walking towards a room)
me: Thanks you sir.
(When I reach there he told me to wait outside that room. After some time one lady called me in. On the other side of the table there were two people. Man who drove me there with another lady)
Me: Hello ( BuHh ! I was not so polite)
interviewer: Hi please be seated
Me: Thank you madam, (I took the seat)
interviewer: So you have now completed your 3rd year only right?
Me: Yes sir, We are having two months vacation from May and I wish to utilize it working for your firm.
interviewer: Do you have any prior experience
Me: No sir,
interviewer: (looking at my resume) 74 percentage..hm..  have you got any backlogs?
Me: No sir
interviewer: You learned Controls systems right? What is open loop systems and closed loop system?
Me: Sir, in open loop systems none of the elements of the systems do have a feedback of its output. But a closed loops systems have that.
interviewer: then why is it called open ‘loop’:
Me: I am not sure sir. (Ahhhh !! from that point i became very nervous)
interviewer: What is the full form of OSI?
Me: Open System Inteface
interviewer: Are you sure?
Me: Sir, No, I mean, Open System Interconnections (I was tensed)
interviewer: How many layers are there in OSI Model
Me: 7 sir,
interviewer: Which is the third layer?
Me: Transport Layer (While I answered, both of them shoot a smile eye to eye)
interviewer: What do you know about Leaky Bucket Algorithm
Me: I don’t know sir. (I was hearing it for the first time)
interviewer: What are routers used for?
Me: Routers are basically used for dividing the incoming bandwidth of a connection to different set of system
interviewer: thats what a HUB does right?
Me: yeah but there are some basic differences. Particularly on the layers on which both works. One work on Data Link Layer while other works on Network Layer. (I was not quite sure which work on which layer)
interviewer: (After some time looking at my resume.) Do you know linux
Me: Yes sir
interviewer: how do you create a file from terminal?
Me: Sir, there is a command called CAT( Thank god I remembered this)
interviewer: How do you edit that file?
Me: Sir, it can be opened in any editors like gedit or VI
interviewer: What are pointers in C? (That was from madam)
Me: Madam, Pointers are basic entity of C which is used to point or refer to the memory location defined
interviewer: What is NULL Pointer exception?
Me: Its the exception when a pointer points to a location which is NULL? ( My goodness.. Was that answer right?)
interviewer: Do you heard of windows?
Me: yes madam
interviewer: How many types are there?
Me: Sorry but do you mean Microsoft windows? (Huh ! I was amazed at that question and my guess was right. It was a question from DSP )
interviewer: No windows in Digital Signal Processing
Me: No idea madam ( I was very honest)
interviewer: What is this IEEECEC?
Me: that mean IEEE SB of College of Engineering Chengannur
interviewer: Have you designed the ceceieee.org
Me: Not completely , the back end and programming was done by a team mate
interviewer: What are the languages used?
Me: HTML and PHP
interviewer: Do you know PHP? ( Again a question from Madam)
Me: only the basics madam
interviewer: How do you connect php with a database?
Me: Here we have used My sql as database and used ‘mysqlconnect’ command for establishing the connection. ( To be frank I don’t know the answer But I was confident in answering this question since my guess that she was also not sure in this was correct)
interviewer: So you are looking for two months work right?
Me: yes sir, My classes will commence this July 2nd week
interviewer: (looking at my contact No.)’ triple nine … five two zero… double eight one five….
Me: aeh! ( I just gazed)
interviewer: Ok rahul, it was nice talking to you and we will call you up this number soon
Me: thank you sir, (shaking hands)

And that’s the climax ! How was it?

Tale of Two Vista

This is a real story happened a week ago. My friend has helped his neighbour to install a brand ‘new’ windows vista for his new PC which he bought to his new shop. His purpose was not more than a data entry I guess. But he was really adamant in breaking the law and decided to buy a secure “Original” Vista. But it will cost him around 3000 Re and decided an alternative, finally approached my friend. He told him he will give him an Original Vista for 1200 Re. and he installed his PC with new Vista Ultimate cracked with some blah.(you know what)! so that he can go on-line safely. But the real business happened else where. After installation he made a beautiful offer to him to like a ‘Buy One, Get One free’ and gave a copy of Vista Business edition DVD Free of cost, hoping to get some more similar business in future.

I was really astonished to hear the story and couldn’t believe it until one fine morning that business guy called my friend for the ‘life time  support and maintenance’ I was almost like wow and felt little disappointed for not being a partner in crime ! My friend overridden some business for Micro$oft with an exciting offer.”Buy one, get One free” He should definitely be employed in some sales department and MS should definitely try some new business tactics or else they will rest in peace..

PS: Do not ask more details about that friend of mine and that acute business man. They will lose the credibility. Let him do some more business and let me see whether i can associate with him

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL’s guiding principles for Python’s design into 20 aphorisms, only 19 of which have been written down. Reference: PEP 20

Google – My dream destiny

This is for all those google aspirants out there. I know you are all waiting for something really interesting about google as I do for the last couple of months. What made me get closer to Google.? What made me think Google as my dream company.? What is so special with Google services.? Well the answers are little blurred but one thing is clear that I was really inspired by the life of Googlers and Bio of its founders. Such a deterministic people ! who wants to download all  the information in the world to their computer and distribute them free of cost to the world.! Its so great to read the Book titled “Google Story” by David A. Wise. If anybody like to keep in touch with what is happening at Googleplex and atleast to see some really good tech talks for googlers I recommend to subscribe to google channel in youtube. Actually I was searching for some video presentations on python and I reached here. There were even more python related tech talks at Google than I expected. I was really happy to know that among Google developers python is their most favorite language. Google simply rocks ! If some anti googlers reading this, tell me why ?

1973 – James Blunt

I liked this video very much. I just want to keep it. have a look.