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Bangalore: Job-hopping these days is a frequent occurrence among engineers in India. This is limiting the scope of development of cutting-edge technology and cranks the R&D operations in the country.

"The job-hopping tendency of Indian engineers is stumbling block in the path of gaining deeper technical knowledge," said Rick Steffens, Head of Hewlett Packard’s Systems Technology and Software Division. As reported in Reuters,he also opined that the country should make it attractive for the engineers to stay within rather than shifting to tech multinationals.

They’re just losing too many engineers, arent they? What an ass!

I’ve been wanting to have it on wordpress forever now but its only been recently enabled and as you can see, I’ve been very active and have posted too many times!

I was telling a friend how busy my life’s become and his comment was “thats too many unnecessary things in your life then!” – now, this chap is known for being blunt (so am i, at times) and I was like “Yeah, right”. But then I’m thinkin now, am I really wasting time on inane shit?

Switching channels after seeing Pakistan beat South Africa (not chokers anymore), I came to Star Movies. And it was playing “Waitress“.
And that cute looking actress (since identified as Keri Russell by IMDB) caught my eye. She was dressed in a Waitress’ garb and looking oh-so-sad like someone who’s just a few $ away from being really poor, and isnt in a very happy state vis-a-vis their life – crappy job, relationship etc.,

And so it was. The waitress is actually stuck in a loveless marriage, with a husband who doesnt care for her much, in a small town. There is one bright spot in her life though – pies. (Not the American Pie kind). She makes lovely pies, most of which she thinks up to represent some bits of her emotional state.
And then we see some of the best representation of humdrum life in a movie – her regular days at work, followed by ending the night with a self-absorbed and somewhat uncaring husband. The regular ills of a workplace – her boss who doesnt seem to be able to utter kind words besides “Get out of the kitchen” “There are customers waiting” and such, her colleagues who form a clique with her, and both of whom share a humdrum life as well.
Her customers, some idiosyncratic, some loving, some who really love her pies and her as well. There isnt too much outdoor shoots, not much snazzy outfits – not too much at all.  Its subtle – if any product wanted to be marketed as subtle, this would be the movie to do it.
I wouldnt go into the rest of the story as I’d fawn so much into it, but here’s something for subtlety – the husband finds spare cash hidden all around the house, and he asks her why (after wrecking a chair at the diner she works in) and she tells him its for the baby – even as he’s a bit taken aback, he gets up embraces her and says “For the baby!”. (Pictures work better)

If this review still hasnt convinced you, maybe I havent been as subtle and as real as the movie. Just go watch it. Its a masterpiece.  Sadly, the writer-director is no more.

Closing ceremonies are always a drag – *why* have them at all?

Writing seems like an easy job, until you try doing it everyday and try expanding every little thought you have into a paragraph. And the paragraphs into little essay pieces.

It is not just filling up words, but having them making sense together and for the whole to be bigger than just the sum of its parts. Your brain has to work at churning the thoughts out, making them fit together and make sense.
And its something I’ve noticed its that my brain comes up with very varied and newer thoughts when its tired. Its kinda like a double whammy – I’m just about to get to bed, if I expand on the thought then I’m waving my sleep bye-bye, if not, the thought just doesn’t have that elegance with it.
It seems like humour in most movies these days: forced.
Some days I let the thoughts take over, some days I just give in to tiredness, but the compromise rankles either way – on the one side I’m betraying my body, on the other side I’m betraying the betterment of my intellectual faculties.
Mind you, not that I’m writing a book – but blog-posts and writing these with clarity of thought and with the requisite sleep is proving a big stumbling block. Hope to have that resolved, soon!

There are sometimes in your life when you miss your ex the most.Something in a magazine, in a book, in a movie – a particular scene or the way a couple interact reminds you of them. For good or for bad. But remind it does, and the emotion it takes you to is the one of missing.
Like the “Kahin to” song playing in my head right now, which captures the longing, the melancholy with the right voice, tone and music. That reminder just takes you places, memories, stuff which you dont want to remember cos its over. Stuff you dont wanna remember cos its good and you dont have it anymore.or just stuff that hurts. And can only be replaced by new love.
Sometimes all we need is a good hug.

..you discover that some comments on your blog are really by the same person under different names?

Do you mark that person as spam, do you unapprove the comment and watch for the commenter again?

It’s rather tough to dismiss all the comments, cos after all, that person has taken time out to read your blog, maybe the comments there and posted their own.

Also, when your blog isnt kickin it at the top, the comments can indeed lure more viewers.

But, comments, and the posts – their authenticity, and uniqueness are what are best about a blog.

What to do then?

I just realised that I’ve not posted in a little over 3 months! Yikes! Where’s my creative juices, where have they been? What’s gotten into me?

well, for starters, it was the travel genie that bit me (more on it later). Then it was the flu virus, followed by lots of work – and then sickness of a dear one.

Whew! Now feeling slightly better – and hoping to post on all the above ones!

According to Security Evaluators, the Apple iPhone has the ridiculous vulnerability of every major application accessing system with “Root” privileges. And they have already found an exploit with Safari, which lets them take complete control of the phone!

Wired reports :

“As long as everything runs as root, there are going to be bugs and people are going to find them (to take over the device),” says Charlie Miller, principal security analyst for Independent Security Evaluators, who, with colleagues, discovered the first reported bug with the iPhone earlier this year.

Wired’s headline reads “IPhone’s Security Rivals Windows 95“

If that doesnt scare you shitless, and away from it, I am not sure what would. I am wondering if I should just stick to relatively “normal” phones and avoid smartphones in the near future.

I am only surprised that this wasnt caught out at the software design phase itself! Just speaks volumes about our developers.