Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 is out

Hoorah! Acrobat 7 is finally out. If you get hold of it, you can look for my name in the Credits, Quality Engineering section.

Ten Commandments of Traffic Rules in India

Got this nice post on Traffic Rules here

What has the world come to?

C&EN Latest News - ACS Takes Legal Action Against Google: "Google search service is said to infringe SciFinder Scholar trademark"

Dialouges

I read this nice blog entry by one of the ISB alums, Arun. I keep checking a few blogs of current ISB students and alums.

Pakistani time

I was seeing a certain process that was running on our AIX server. There was a process that was going on for too long a time. I typed the date command and noticed the time zone. "PAKST". Pakistan Standard Time? Yes. To my horror, it was Pak Std Time. I told this to a senior QE and he said that this is the only option we can have. There is no Indian Standard Time option that we could use. The time zones change by one hour in the options given for time zones. Horrible!

Down with IBM!!!

Tsunami toll rises to 4,000 in India

The only Tsunami to hit India in recorded history came as a bolt from the blue and hit the rich and the poor alike. I had heard the term and seen its vageries in documentaries on Discovery. They had a series of programs last year called Extreme Engineering. A number of planned over-the-sea structures they documented highlighted the vageries of the seas, particularly focusing on typhoons and tsunamis.

I had a friend in Chennai at that time, out there with his wife, on way for their honeymoon. He is reported to be safe there.

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