Bob Cringely's predictions of 2005 are out

Okay at last, after a long wait, it is out
you can see them here
I kinda big fan of Bob by now, But not necessary he will be always rite, he was not rite even on all points in 2004, and one point about which I disagree this time is:
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12) There is no evidence that Sun will change its current course, which is inexorably downward. I know Jonathan Schwartz thinks I'm crazy, but so far I am more right than he is, and hear no reason coming from him why that should change.
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I wish he will be wrong about this, But I can't see anything big plan also from Sun in this year, Apart from Mustang(JDK 1.6) which will be out sometimes in mid 2005
But yes I agree strongly with his 10th point
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10) In 2005, the major beneficiaries of the Peoplesoft-Oracle merger will be SAP and IBM, NOT Peoplesoft or Oracle customers, despite anything Larry Ellison says ("Oversupport" Peoplesoft customers? -- sheesh).
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So lets see what goes this year, But I am just wondernig is Bob is trying to play safe this year, Otherwise why didn't he made any predictions over
- iPod future
- Outsourcing halla
Are u there Bob ? :)

Summarizing 2004

So here is the end of the another golden year of my life,

This year I really saw many changes{Ups and downs} in life and really learned alot of things from life, This year brought me closer to myself and I under myself little better than what I use to earlier.

What I learned
--> I learned how to react in bad times and how to cope up with stress, surely this is going to be useful in rest of the life.
--> I learned how to stay away from selfish people, And really saw a bigtime crap person in life, thanks I have my distances now.
--> I learned how to be inactive while still being actively involved.
--> I now more strongly believe, one of the biggest treasure of life are good friends and tight family ties.
--> I learned how to say no
--> I learned to adapt changes, and indeed pretty fast.

What I liked
--> I think I still hold that zeel to some extend and some determination power, as to prove this only I gave SCEA Part I
--> I am still passionate about new stuffs
--> I came lil more close to my family, reason might be quite possible that I had too much vacations this year
--> I got whooping increment in my salary
--> I finished my long uni due.
--> I had a good room mate, like last year
--> Still hold some good hearted friends around.
--> Celebrated 2nd 31st dec. being in same company
--> Tension between India n Pakistan seems reduced, and proportionally less number of deaths in J&K.

some small points
--> I didn't lost my wallet{I did lost last year}
--> My eyesight is still good and don't wear specs, despite of the fact I had pretty irregular sleeps and long working hours.
--> I had some good trip to western ghats and Kerala
--> I have far more self confidence in myself than before.
--> I am watching good number of movies in theatre.


What I didn't liked
--> I think I am lazy towards my work
--> I am not talking about my work anymore, and getting drifted I strongly believe, but anyways, I have talked about it in this point atleast :)
--> I think I am lazy towards my work
--> Didn't had good time adapting Bangalore weather
--> Bush won again
--> Tsunami disaster
some small points
--> Never went gym this year regularly
--> I forgot my jeju's b'day
--> I didn't buyed any shoe pair :)


Another amazing note about 2004 I can say is,
World is getting weired
best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold
the America cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance
and Germany doesn't want to go to war", and lastly Dubai got snowfall and
there and Antartica having grass round the year

Old vidhan sabha of Bangalore

Just near to it, is getting another new one coming up(Almost finished), it is needed or not I am not very sure.

Early morning Bangalore and Accident view

Following is some early morning morning pics of MG Road end in Bangalore







Vijaya bank HQ



This is a fatal accident happend around 6am in morning near Christian cemetry on Hosur road, bus belong to MICO which shuttle dozens of buses for there employs round the clock

Death by Tsunami in Asia rising faster and faster

Death by Tsunami in Asia rising faster and faster, even far more faster than BSE index.
Its being 4 days past this incident, And I wonder, every day death toll is getting double and double, now the latest Indiatimes is saying that it has reached 68,000., It leaves no doubt in my mind that tomorrow some news agency for surely will say it around 100, 000. Biggest figure I can remember I saw, I still remember when I heard this news first time on Sunday 26 Dec, 2004 firstly it was news that there is small earth quake in South India mostly conc. around Chennai and than slowly news came that earth quake was in Indonesia of size 8.9(When I heard it first, I was 100% sure I heard it wrong, as I never heard more than 7 in my life) and it was TSunami and these are creating death waves, but no one at that moment though that waves will take so much of lives, and it is all clear now, whole Asia is under deep trouble, as much as its Forex is on downstream, worse being already war affected Srilanka.
CNN showed a very nice computerized video about how it actually happend, they showed a earth and than showed like a piece of drop is being putted near Indonesia and which it created waves all around the Asia region, it looked so much possible and so small thing in that video while in reality those waves was big power, but again yes it was very small thing for galaxy or earth and only small change, which hardly effect this galaxy.
My deep condolence to all those affected family and god gives piece to all those lost souls. And many thanks to my parents which came on trip to Bangalore and thus I cancelled my christmas trip to Pondicherry(Another hardly hit place).
And yes here is the one stop News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts for Bangaloreans.

Solaris 10 is interoperable

Somebody said, a image says equal to thousand words, so I leave this image to say the rest...
To get more information on solaris 10, visit here

Bangalore from 7th floor

Here is the pics from flat at 7th floor in one part of Bangalore.
Skyscrappers are really not common so here comes a nice view










And here are couple of pics of a mall in Bangalore working on its maximum capacity I guess on a Sunday eve.

New Order True Faith

I feel so extraordinary
Something got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don’t care ’cause I’m not there
And I don’t care if I’m here tomorrow
Again and again I’ve taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we’ve grown up together
They’re afraid of what they see
That’s the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can’t tell you where we’re going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we’ve gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you’ve left me standing
In a world that’s so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

Office & around

Here is the night view of the hockey stadium with a match ON, this is just behind my office


Adjacent to the above is this ground where we play cricket sometimes in evening


Here is how the place where I work look from ground floor


And here is how it looks from 5th floor(total of 8 floors)

Bug in FileExplorer of GoSymbian

Okay couldn't resist publishing this bug from FileExplorer software from GoSymbian
Have a look at my following screenshot of 3650

While on my fone, I have only one side contacts and other camera
Now I myself wonder, how this is possible...

Any gmail takers ?

From over 2 months I have 2 gmail invitations with me
Any takers of it? FIFO Algo will be used.

Japanese are crazy

Last nite after coming back around 2am from a movie(HulChul, really hilarious, I liked) I decided to switch on the TV and there was going this discovery show Xtreme engineering and there they was showing about construction about a building in Tokyo named "Sky City" which they guys are planning to make whooping double the size of current worlds tallest Taipei 101(Chinese Taipei ? ;) )
It is really unbelievable to have such a high concrete structure and that also in place where you get frequent earth quake, but those guys are prepared for all, And they represented no. of mind blowing figures and most exactly which I remember is, that this building construction will require still of worth 1.5Billion USD that is literally crazy
If you want more figures go surf this
http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/skycity/interactive/interactive.html
And if this don't help, google it out more
Anways, Now I know why Laxmi Mittal(Steel Tycoon) is so rich.

Friday dec 10 shots

On friday dec 10 I got free really early around 4.30pm and at 5 was at home, so though of decided to go for a jog and lazily reached for jog only at 5.45, At that time Sun was just about to go down so I thought to run near water body and take this shot, but when I reach there, Mr quicky was already down


And while on the way back I see this tree, completely piled up with flowers, it was looking astonishing in the dim light.


Than at midnite me and one of my friend decided to go watch a movie in a near by multiplex(PVR), which they claim is India's biggest multiplex, around 11 screens and If you calculate no. of people in those 11 screens it comes around 500 X 11 = 5500 and all that on one floor, anyways, we didn't got the ticket for that show so took the one for next days show and while coming back my friend wanted to call his friend in MIT, so we stopped at Sify cyber cafe, from there you can make REALLY cheap international calls, and it is really cheap, around 5 INR a min, Sify is one of the company which brought real revolution in India in case of ISD calls, though much before Sify Reliance brought a revolution in mobile in India and which literally compelled all GSM operators to not only make outgoing calls more and more cheap but incoming calls absolutely FREE.
Here is one of hoarding of the Sify in there shop

Toy on my colleagues desk

They show the traditional Indian people look

Back from Vacations

Okay it was more than great time and never wanted to come back, and was really having a good time seeing my old friends, neighbours and visiting relatives.
Travelled lot of places this time and in complete holidays of more than 20 days I was hardly 5 days at home and rest of the time on the road, travelling.

One of the flower pic in my back home garden(In back you can see new range of apartments coming up).