Another chapter ends...

Another chapter of my life is coming to a close today. this girl i did not know till exactly 13 months back is spending her last day in office. she is going to the States to join her husband who is working there as an IT consultant.

i came to know her when she joined adobe just a day after i did and we hit from day one. our employee ids are successive and we hail from the same city. we became good friends over a period of time and ended spending hours together. she would keep telling me things that i did not know about my company and the people working there. she would also tell me about the problems she had with the family of her fiance and i would try to suggest ways for her to get over it. she took the plunge in jan this year and is soon going to join her husband. living in US, with your new spouse, away from family and relatives… must be fun, I guess.

i hope to keep in touch with her over email, but i do not have high hopes of that. i have had one such experience a few years ago when another very good lady friend of mine got married. she was more conservative in nature and i haven't heard from her from even before her marriage. i hope she is doing fine; must be a mother by now, hai na :)

What a defeat

The first ODI between India and Pakistan was a great match to see, as India managed a great victory, after loosing early wichets and letting Pakistan go on rampage in the early overs of their innings. Sehvag and Dravid were the only scorers in our innings; both of them scored over 100 and the next highest was a measly 16. No one else really played an innings and we could not cross the 300 mark, something that was very much in our reach.

Anyways, all's well that ends well (the motto of my brother's school). I am looking forward to the Bahrain Grand Prix and Episode 11, Season 2 of The Apprentice that I missed on Friday. I am watching the current series, thanks to the Internet.

GMail doubles up

Google inclreases the disk space quota on its email service GMail to 2 GB, exactly one year after they announced the 1GB free email boxes. The first announcement was too good to be true, and people thought maybe Google was throwing up its first April Fool story. Not this time. And not only are they giving another free Gig, they shall keep adding a little amount every day, as per this article.

I checked mine today and I saw 1145 MB as my quota. I was hoping for 2GB, but sine right now I am using only 260 MB, its fine with me.

Yo Testing!

People keep asking me why I am still in testing and not planning to move to development. I keep telling them "I don't want to take the burden of someone telling me you created a crappy code or be in the jam trying to fix a bug at the last hour". I am not able to convince them that testing is a great job and is very much respected in the industry today. Its because these people are NOT from the IT industry and hence its difficult to convince them that the industry is fast waking up to the need of expert testing. Microsoft has more testers than developers (their software is still crappy, but its the most user-friendly, in each category they have a product).

Maybe this article would help explain it to them

What * am I ?

I did not know wild-cards could be used in Google searches, till I read about this one
"What * am I"

Mobile phones to turn into golf clubs and toy guns in Japan

Mobile phones to turn into golf clubs and toy guns in Japan

I'd love to see how this thing is achieved. In this case, only seeing is believing :)

400 years of print newspaper

Read it in the Times of India. Think of what Guntenberg would have thought the newspaper would do and what form it would take in the next few centuries. And what might happen to the newspaper in the next few years? Here is one interesting vision. "New York Times goes offline in 2014"