I receive about 60 new mails on an average, Now 60% of it are forwarded messages among that I get messages which says that this is a special blessing send by Lord ******* (I don't intend to revel their identity) Forward this message in next 30 mins to 10 of your friends you will get what ever you deserve. I fell in this trap couple of times. I forwarded this message to 15 of my friends and made a wish for a girl. Now she is happily married, not with me though and about my 15 friends, they blocked my email id for sending spams.
If at all god has to bless you why should he ever send you a mail and even if he has to why should he ever want them to be forwarded. Does he have any contract with Microsoft Corporation or other company that gives commission for circulating mails?
The worst is that the origins of such mails are always from a friend who is into a CMM level 5 IT company.
Aren’t we IT people matured enough to understand that a Spam mail is a major pain in the wrong part of the body. Think ............................
Forward this to 10 of your other friend s and have a year of good luck :p
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Pathetic Swayamvar
After reading this please don’t start shouting that how much waste time I have to watch such things on TV! As always I won’t listen to you, so just shut up and read! :D
The trend of reality shows portraying people with dubious backgrounds as their hero is at its peak. Continuing the trend of showing scripted, disgusting, degrading 'reality shows', the idiot box(TV) now gives us Rahul Mahajan ka Swayamvar. We were already traumatized after watching a bit of 'Rakhi ka Swayamvar' last year, but season 2 proved to be ludicrous beyond imagination.
The esteemed (druggist, useless career, divorcee, wife basher) Rahul Mahajan has become the most eligible bachelor in India (thanx to his father Pramod Mahajan's media hyped violent death).
Rahul Mahajan, in past, has committed such benevolent acts as beating his childhood friend cum wife Shweta, to near-death every two days, divorcing her, using drugs, being locked up by the police on charges of drug possession and consumption, and flirting with Payal Rohtagi on the sets of Big Boss-2.
Lookin at this glowing record, I don’t understand y gals are dying to get that guy… Moreover those girls behave like quite maal then y do they want that 'scary-laugh’ Mahajan.
How cool does it sound that three females, along with their whole families are doing the preparations and all the rasams for wedding, and then in a couple of days, after all the preparations, a reality TV host will come with an envelope and say – “Afsos! Aaj aapki shaadi nahi hai , aap jaa sakti hain, Namaste!”
Generally (majority of the) people get only one chance in life for all those preparations and stuff around that, so its kinda special for them, but then these reality shows have beaten the shit out of all emotions, sentiments and sold them in the open market to generate money!
And the bigger question is, why do people want to participate in these reality shows? I mean for us sitting at home, watching these shows is a nice time-pass, but then what fun is in participating in a swyamvar? If the show is like Bigg Boss and co-participants are like Payal-full-body-massage-Rohatgi then its a different thing :D
Well, if you think that I have written this to preach you “ stop watching such crap shows in the name of 'time pass'. It is our time pass habits that are generating TRPs for them. The entire educated class is bashing all these shows but still watching them…blah blah….”, then you are wrong.
If these masala doesn’t exist around then imagine from where we’ll get topics for tea discussions. Our daily conversations will get boring.
Above all, from where I would get idea to write such absurd blogs.
HEA...... HEA...... HEA..... (Rahul’s style)
The trend of reality shows portraying people with dubious backgrounds as their hero is at its peak. Continuing the trend of showing scripted, disgusting, degrading 'reality shows', the idiot box(TV) now gives us Rahul Mahajan ka Swayamvar. We were already traumatized after watching a bit of 'Rakhi ka Swayamvar' last year, but season 2 proved to be ludicrous beyond imagination.
The esteemed (druggist, useless career, divorcee, wife basher) Rahul Mahajan has become the most eligible bachelor in India (thanx to his father Pramod Mahajan's media hyped violent death).
Rahul Mahajan, in past, has committed such benevolent acts as beating his childhood friend cum wife Shweta, to near-death every two days, divorcing her, using drugs, being locked up by the police on charges of drug possession and consumption, and flirting with Payal Rohtagi on the sets of Big Boss-2.
Lookin at this glowing record, I don’t understand y gals are dying to get that guy… Moreover those girls behave like quite maal then y do they want that 'scary-laugh’ Mahajan.
How cool does it sound that three females, along with their whole families are doing the preparations and all the rasams for wedding, and then in a couple of days, after all the preparations, a reality TV host will come with an envelope and say – “Afsos! Aaj aapki shaadi nahi hai , aap jaa sakti hain, Namaste!”
Generally (majority of the) people get only one chance in life for all those preparations and stuff around that, so its kinda special for them, but then these reality shows have beaten the shit out of all emotions, sentiments and sold them in the open market to generate money!
And the bigger question is, why do people want to participate in these reality shows? I mean for us sitting at home, watching these shows is a nice time-pass, but then what fun is in participating in a swyamvar? If the show is like Bigg Boss and co-participants are like Payal-full-body-massage-Rohatgi then its a different thing :D
Well, if you think that I have written this to preach you “ stop watching such crap shows in the name of 'time pass'. It is our time pass habits that are generating TRPs for them. The entire educated class is bashing all these shows but still watching them…blah blah….”, then you are wrong.
If these masala doesn’t exist around then imagine from where we’ll get topics for tea discussions. Our daily conversations will get boring.
Above all, from where I would get idea to write such absurd blogs.
HEA...... HEA...... HEA..... (Rahul’s style)
Monday, January 11, 2010
QA - are they required anymore???
Agar hum nahi honge to tumhara kaam hi kya hai company me…..
Tumhe req to samajh nahi aati bas aise apna bug count badane k liye bugs daalte rahte ho……
Tumhe coding nahi aati…. Firr IT me kya kar rahe ho….
These dialogues can be heard in any of the IT company (obviously from devs only).
Often the tester is seen as the anti-developer, with the developer standing for creation and the tester the destroyer of the developers work. On many occasions you will see their two departments almost fighting battles as each tries to prove its worth and capability.
According to one of my colleague the developer and their skill set are valued above the tester. Within the project life-cycle, development is considered essential, testing as a “nice to have” but not mandatory. Initially I differ from her but unfortunately, sometimes I feel the perception of testing as a inferior role in some developers mind.
When code goes live and the volume of bugs is minimal with positive user experience, it is rarely the tester that is thanked for their diligence: more likely to be the developer thanked for their fantastic software. And on the other side if client has reported bugs in software then the whole blame goes to tester.
The developers mind set is one of creation whereas the tester is one of destruction. There is no doubt that the tester becomes redundant if there is no development whereas the opposite is not true. Many projects still run today with no focus on testing and the burden is placed on the users to experience the problems and report them.
I almost fought with one of my senior when I heard him saying “I would recommend that the "not-so-hot developers should be made full-time testers”. Many of the same skills and tactics that make a developer successful also make a tester successful. How can he be so sure that bad developer will be a good tester? If you value quality a lot, then you may should the specialized skills and tactics that a tester brings to the project, since that's what testers specialize in.
Imagine a scenario: Organization doesn't value testing because they have a low opinion of testers and think developers can do it better. Organization, have communication issues or personality issues, whatever.... Organization notices that they are decides to take a chance. It allocates some developers to be testers. Those developer-now-tester's struggle in their new role for all the same reasons they struggled with their old role (they don't read, are slow to learn or adapt not getting increased value from adding testers.) This lowers their opinion of testers even more. The call goes out for more developers to become testers to help stabilize the experiment. Now that the tester negative perception has been "confirmed", even worse candidates are sent over to become testers. If external candidates are hired, they are hired by developer-now-tester's who don't know what a good tester looks like - so they hire those like themselves. Those developer-now-tester's struggle even more in their role.. organization notices that they are getting no increased value from adding testers. This lowers their opinion of testers even more. The experiment is over. They gave it a shot, it didn't work out. Their earlier assumptions that just having developers is "confirmed." They knew it all along anyway, right?
Perhaps the above case appears to be dramatic to you but it is not far from true.
This “anyone can do” attitude is followed in many IT companies and QA job is treated like plug n play(i.e.. anyone can perform)
Tumhe req to samajh nahi aati bas aise apna bug count badane k liye bugs daalte rahte ho……
Tumhe coding nahi aati…. Firr IT me kya kar rahe ho….
These dialogues can be heard in any of the IT company (obviously from devs only).
Often the tester is seen as the anti-developer, with the developer standing for creation and the tester the destroyer of the developers work. On many occasions you will see their two departments almost fighting battles as each tries to prove its worth and capability.
According to one of my colleague the developer and their skill set are valued above the tester. Within the project life-cycle, development is considered essential, testing as a “nice to have” but not mandatory. Initially I differ from her but unfortunately, sometimes I feel the perception of testing as a inferior role in some developers mind.
When code goes live and the volume of bugs is minimal with positive user experience, it is rarely the tester that is thanked for their diligence: more likely to be the developer thanked for their fantastic software. And on the other side if client has reported bugs in software then the whole blame goes to tester.
The developers mind set is one of creation whereas the tester is one of destruction. There is no doubt that the tester becomes redundant if there is no development whereas the opposite is not true. Many projects still run today with no focus on testing and the burden is placed on the users to experience the problems and report them.
I almost fought with one of my senior when I heard him saying “I would recommend that the "not-so-hot developers should be made full-time testers”. Many of the same skills and tactics that make a developer successful also make a tester successful. How can he be so sure that bad developer will be a good tester? If you value quality a lot, then you may should the specialized skills and tactics that a tester brings to the project, since that's what testers specialize in.
Imagine a scenario: Organization doesn't value testing because they have a low opinion of testers and think developers can do it better. Organization, have communication issues or personality issues, whatever.... Organization notices that they are decides to take a chance. It allocates some developers to be testers. Those developer-now-tester's struggle in their new role for all the same reasons they struggled with their old role (they don't read, are slow to learn or adapt not getting increased value from adding testers.) This lowers their opinion of testers even more. The call goes out for more developers to become testers to help stabilize the experiment. Now that the tester negative perception has been "confirmed", even worse candidates are sent over to become testers. If external candidates are hired, they are hired by developer-now-tester's who don't know what a good tester looks like - so they hire those like themselves. Those developer-now-tester's struggle even more in their role.. organization notices that they are getting no increased value from adding testers. This lowers their opinion of testers even more. The experiment is over. They gave it a shot, it didn't work out. Their earlier assumptions that just having developers is "confirmed." They knew it all along anyway, right?
Perhaps the above case appears to be dramatic to you but it is not far from true.
This “anyone can do” attitude is followed in many IT companies and QA job is treated like plug n play(i.e.. anyone can perform)
Monday, November 23, 2009
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 26/11
Happy Anniversary
How you guys are planning to celebrate 26/11? Some of you may have a day off and will go for movie, some of you may light up candles at gateway of India for footage, some of you will sit in drawing room and watch last year bizarre with your entire family.
It gives immense pleasure in discussing catastrophe happened on 26/11 with all friends and colleagues but did we realize that there is no escaping the reality: TERROR HAD ENTERED OUR HOMES.
Till 25th Nov Raj Thackeray and his people can be seen on every street of Mumbai, forcing non maharashtrians to leave Mumbai. He says that Mumbai belongs to MARATHI so where were Marathi people when terrorists were attacking Taj, Oberoi. It is very easy for 1000 MNS activists to beat 100 Non Maharashtrians…… but they got threatened by only 10 terrorists…what a SHAME!!!!!!
26/11 in many ways was not a wake-up call just for the Indian security system. Nor a show to expose the porosity of our security system but in real terms was as reminder of the disengagement of the average Indian from India. In “Mumbai Meri Jaan”, Nishikant Kamath said “if we didn’t took any step now then for next generation these explosions and blasts would be the party of daily life “
But we are still busy in making most use of 26/11 incident. Politicians are busy in increasing their vote banks by blaming govt for 26/11 incident, one of leading mobile service provider has very creatively found the way to propagate its product “26 nov ko aap 8:30 se 9:30 tak jitney call karenge wo Mumbai police ko jaenge. conditions apply* “ and so on…
Almost twelve months later, we are still quite befuddled by the David Headleys of the world and their exemption and at the lack of any co-ordinated intelligence gathering system that ideally should have been in place by now. But then as in Shakespeare's words, the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves and that is the real point. We have sadly become a nation that is Teflon-coated because we genuinely believe this 'system' is cruel and there is nothing we as common men and women can do. This is perhaps the best way of perpetrating the evil of the system.
So where do we go from here? Shall we give up and wait for the next catastrophe to befall us? Should we send out armies of young men and women to light symbolic candles? Where neither the light illuminates nor the fire stokes our imagination into moving forward? Or should we decide that this nation as an integrated entity, cannot forget 26/11. Not because it was 26/11 but because it exposed every facet of our governance and security architecture and all the talk of GDP growth figures.
But I guess the time now is for anger. If people are not engaged then one way of getting them engaged is by getting them enraged: and here I propose positive anger which in essence is the inability to tolerate injustice and deceit and the complete abhorrence of both in our daily lives. The sad part is that tolerance is good in most areas but terrible when it comes to accepting lives being lost only because we as a nation didn't care (and even today perhaps don't as much) about lives being lost. About children being orphaned and women being widowed. 26/11 has a lesson, we should have learnt. And we still have time to learn it. It is this engagement that needs to occupy our hearts and minds. We need to fight for every Indian to live with dignity. We need to fight against being taken for granted. We need to fight for the memories of the Kangs, the Kamtes and the Karkares.
How you guys are planning to celebrate 26/11? Some of you may have a day off and will go for movie, some of you may light up candles at gateway of India for footage, some of you will sit in drawing room and watch last year bizarre with your entire family.
It gives immense pleasure in discussing catastrophe happened on 26/11 with all friends and colleagues but did we realize that there is no escaping the reality: TERROR HAD ENTERED OUR HOMES.
Till 25th Nov Raj Thackeray and his people can be seen on every street of Mumbai, forcing non maharashtrians to leave Mumbai. He says that Mumbai belongs to MARATHI so where were Marathi people when terrorists were attacking Taj, Oberoi. It is very easy for 1000 MNS activists to beat 100 Non Maharashtrians…… but they got threatened by only 10 terrorists…what a SHAME!!!!!!
26/11 in many ways was not a wake-up call just for the Indian security system. Nor a show to expose the porosity of our security system but in real terms was as reminder of the disengagement of the average Indian from India. In “Mumbai Meri Jaan”, Nishikant Kamath said “if we didn’t took any step now then for next generation these explosions and blasts would be the party of daily life “
But we are still busy in making most use of 26/11 incident. Politicians are busy in increasing their vote banks by blaming govt for 26/11 incident, one of leading mobile service provider has very creatively found the way to propagate its product “26 nov ko aap 8:30 se 9:30 tak jitney call karenge wo Mumbai police ko jaenge. conditions apply* “ and so on…
Almost twelve months later, we are still quite befuddled by the David Headleys of the world and their exemption and at the lack of any co-ordinated intelligence gathering system that ideally should have been in place by now. But then as in Shakespeare's words, the fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves and that is the real point. We have sadly become a nation that is Teflon-coated because we genuinely believe this 'system' is cruel and there is nothing we as common men and women can do. This is perhaps the best way of perpetrating the evil of the system.
So where do we go from here? Shall we give up and wait for the next catastrophe to befall us? Should we send out armies of young men and women to light symbolic candles? Where neither the light illuminates nor the fire stokes our imagination into moving forward? Or should we decide that this nation as an integrated entity, cannot forget 26/11. Not because it was 26/11 but because it exposed every facet of our governance and security architecture and all the talk of GDP growth figures.
But I guess the time now is for anger. If people are not engaged then one way of getting them engaged is by getting them enraged: and here I propose positive anger which in essence is the inability to tolerate injustice and deceit and the complete abhorrence of both in our daily lives. The sad part is that tolerance is good in most areas but terrible when it comes to accepting lives being lost only because we as a nation didn't care (and even today perhaps don't as much) about lives being lost. About children being orphaned and women being widowed. 26/11 has a lesson, we should have learnt. And we still have time to learn it. It is this engagement that needs to occupy our hearts and minds. We need to fight for every Indian to live with dignity. We need to fight against being taken for granted. We need to fight for the memories of the Kangs, the Kamtes and the Karkares.
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