Is Orkut your Character???

People,

Today is the day I would never forget in my life :(
Not because it was great, but this time somethings prove terribly wrong for me!!
Had a good start to the day, One of my favourite movie had it's another version out.. yes I'm talking about Die Hard 4.0. Was expected to be there at E-sqaure by this time and probably would have been half way through the movie :( Aah! I hate to say that I have missed the first ever movie show of my life and had to "tear" the tickets to stop some "tears" in mine as well as others life!! "Die Hard 4.0 is calling" .. umm no more :..(

This all seems so absurd to me talking out loud. But I'm doing this because no body else falls into such traps. It has already been me, I wish it's no one else anymore.

So, what is all this crap about..
Orkut, yes most of us have many friends who are linked through orkut, not only friends it's relatives, your elder/younger brothers/ sisters and who not!!

Most of us who are using Orkut would be aware of the security loop holes it has! Well you might have gussed it by now! Sadly, I was a victim of this today!

There were some obscene communities added to my list of communites and one of my ****** got an eye on it!! What next, that person straight away started doubting! Man I was shocked[almost 2000V] to hear that! The person being unaware of the facts about orkut security loop holes, is giving me a hard time to explain my genuineness!! Well I have digged the whole of net to find out facts about the same and it was Wikipedia, who seems to have come to my rescue! Found something relating to crappy stuff on the link and straight away mailed to the person.

Leaving the pain, it has caused me aside, I just want to appeal to all my readers..
Please do not take sites like orkut or fun mails to judge a person's character. They are there to give you .00001%[I wish, that zero's could go till infinity] of information about what the person is! Most of them are there to just have a laugh at it while reading!!

Some thoughts that come to my mind right away -

-When in doubt, just take the next small step.
-Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
-However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
-It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
-Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
-Try to the best of your abilities, be it in professional or personal life.

P.S. - Please forgive me for being blunt in this post. No second thoughts are attached to it...
It's just what is coming to my mind at present.

Oh and Btw, you would not find any of those links [at present, I cannot gurantee the future] on my community any more.

So instead of visiting my profile, do visit yours and if you feel somebody might be looking at your profile, It could possibly be a time for clean up!

[Updated]Day 2

Found this link, which talks about the problem I faced. Yes the community content can have non-public content and yes they can appear in your list without your permission! So friends, be careful.

http://nitishkumar.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/ban-on-orkut-are-you-insane/

Um, now I am hungry.. Had a very very long day [since yesterday]

I just hope and wish that "that" person gets to know about these facts and believes that

I'm Clean!!

Since this post do not have any smileys till this point, let me add some lighter part to it.

I feel like Sita mata who had once given the Agni Pariksha! :)
I'm stronger, and would surely survive the test! :

P.S. That silly joke was to make me feel lighter!

A tribute to Software Engineers...

Picked up from mail -

Apne Project ke bojh tale daba jaa raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

zindagi se hara hua hai,
par "Bugs" se haar nahi manata,
Apne application ki ek ek line ise rati hui hai,
par aaj kaun se rang ke moje pehne hain , ye nahi janata,
din par din ek excel file banata ja raha hai
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

das hazaar line ke code main error dhoond lete hain lekin,
majboor dost ki ankhon ki nami dikhayi nahi deti,
pc pe hazaar windows khuli hain,
par dil ki khidki pe koi dastak sunayi nahi deti,
satuday-sunday nahata nahi, week days ko naha raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

Coding karte karte pata hi nahi chala,
bugs ki priority kab maa-baap se high ho gayi,
kitabon main gulab rakhne wala , cigerette ke dhuyen main kho gaya,
dil ki zameen se armaanon ki vidayi ho gayi,
weekends pe daroo peke jo jashna mana raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

maze lena ho iske to pooch lo,
"Salary Increment" ki party kab dila rahe ho,
hansi udana ho to pooch lo,
"Onsite" kab ja rahe ho?
wo dekho onsite se laute team-mate ki chocolates kha raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

kharche badh rahe hain,
baal kam ho rahe hain,
KRA ki date ati nahi,
Income Tax ke sitam ho rahe hain,
lo phir se bus choot gayi, Auto se aa raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

Pizza gale se nahi utarta,
to "Coke" ke sahare nigal liya jata hai,
office ki "Thali" dekh munh hai bigadta,
maa ke hath ka wo khana baar roz yaad ata hai,
"Sprout bhel" bani hai phir bhi, free "Evening Snacks" kha raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai,

aapne ab tak li hongi bahut si chutikiya,
Software engg. ke jivan ka sach batati ye akhri kuch panktiyan,
hazaron ki tankhwah wala, company ki karodon ki jeb bharta hai,
software engg. wahi ban sakta hai, jo lohe ka jigar rakhta hai,
hum log jee jee ke marte hain , zindagi hai kuch aisi,
ek fauj ki naukri, doosri software engg. ki , dono ek jaisi,
is kavita ka har shabd mere dil ki gehrayi se aa raha hai,
Wo dekho ek Software engineer ja raha hai.

:)

I used to believe....

Humans have a great 'technology' within themselves to understand somethings more than what is told to them and eventually start believing it!!

Crazy, is it? Well that's where words like rumours come from! :)

You might have had some believes in your childhood days, more often wrong than right!

Well here comes out one from my side - I used to believe...
"... that the movies were for real, The actors really got married and that the villans really were shot dead." :) Yes, how in the hell these villans were alive in the next movie I saw? Those actors were really bad, marriage was joke to them! Had a new marriage in almost every movie!! :)

This is not yet the time to roll out laughing, go visit this site. It's a directory of such believes from all over the places. Now you have good place to hangout when you are feeling low.

Have fun reading what others believe! :)

Beautiful - the dress or the person?

Boy - Hi there! (Smiles)
Girl - Hello! (Smiles)

Boy - You are looking beautiful today! (Genuine Comment)
Girl - What do you mean? (Angry)
Boy - No really, I meant every single word I said...
Girl - So you mean to say I don't look beautiful always. It's just today that I look beautiful to you???
Boy - No, I did not mean to say that! (Confused & Boxed out).. Er.. Ok I meant that, that you are looking beautiful in this dress!
Girl - What?? (Red)
Boy - (Not Again!! God Save me)
Girl - So now you mean that only this dress in my wardrobe makes me looks beautiful and what about the rest???
Boy - (Praying that this time he hits it right) No No, not at all. I didn't meant that either. Ok, I mean to say The dress is looking beautiful on you!
Girl - Hmm.. Thanks! (Smiles)
Boy - (Grin's)

So, pick your words carefully when talking.

Disclaimer - The characters shown/depicted in this play are completely ficticious and bear no relationship to anyone living or dead. :)

Work can be Fun!!

If you want and make it to be!! Yes, I am not trying to make a humourous statement out here ( You bet I'm! :) )

Let me not start giving you gyan on how to manage your work etc. etc... and straight away get to the point. Here is an example of what I mean -

You are a developer and one of the most boring task could be to support your work with good commenting! I have to prepare a sample application for a web control I have created, now every line I write must accompany with some comment, right! I am trying to show a demo of a Message Box control I had created (Yes, I have :) ) Now just to bring up the box I created a scenario for divide by zero exception and show the same in "My Message Box" (Good Idea!) But now that I am not using a good coding practice to bluntly generate the exception, I must comment it. How do I go about it:

"The following code is not advisable in a real-time scenario. This has potential performance implications, blah blah blah.."

Nah! boring.. Let me make it KISS (Keep It Short Stupid! and what where you thinking ;))

"Disclaimer: Do not try the following four LOCs at home!"

Yes, doesn't this convey what it should. It brings a smile on your face while writing it, and surely would bring a smile to the face of the developer who is trying to use your control and is bored with long steps and comments to start with.

So, you saw the message conveyed what is should have and bought smiles to many faces. However, remember this should not always be the case. Sometimes you need to be serious afterall :| (Must you? :P). This can be implemented while writing documentations or mails, articles as well, use smileys at right point of time and place to bring smiles to readers' face and not with the intentions to mock you reader.

I like to use it more often than not, and surely remember the last point while doing it!

Thoughts for the Day

"The sweet taste of success can be more enjoyed by a person who has failed earlier" ~Aditya

"A winner is not one who never fails, but the one who never quits" ~ Unknown

Normal goes Fast!!!

Wondering what the title means! Read on...

Normally my group goes in for lunch @ 1pm. Since today was Monday, the first counter from back entrance contained 'Fast' Food ( Not the 'Fast' as in Junk, but the food for fasting :) ). When we were there one of the vegetable bowl was empty!! (the other one was obiviously not edible as usual) Lunch time here starts @ 12pm and lasts till 2.30pm.

Yes you thinking it right, "So early... WTH!!"

More astonishingly, the section for 'Fast' food had its each and every bowl filled up till brim!! [Reason, as we saw it to be, being "Sabka Bandhu", as we call the person was fasting today. :) ]

And did you note the irony - On one hand Fasting food was available in abundance and on other Non-Fasting had it's counter closed!
And till date I was under impression Fasting meant "Not to Eat!!". I really wonder who was fasting!!

Enjoy Eating!! :)