Life as it goes by...

An example of "Vision"

2011-07-07T12:10:00.000-07:00

Around 5 yrs back I posted on my blog about the MMTS service that was started in hyderabad around the year 2003. Here's the link for the post:-http://dhiraj.blogspot.com/2006/01/hi-tech-city-station.htmlThe service then was not a big hit and was criticized for the low occupancy. Fast forward it to now...8 yrs later...today during the peak hours it's full to the brim, offers a cheap, fast, green

Excellent Post on Time Management

2011-07-07T11:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/do-it-now.htm

Java Anti Patterns

2011-07-07T02:52:00.001-07:00

Came across this nice articles which enumerates some quite basic and common mistakes done by Java programmes. Definitely worth a read. http://www.odi.ch/prog/design/newbies.php

Another Brick in the wall

2011-06-23T14:27:00.001-07:00

It's very easy to give up...Extremely difficult to stand up and fight. If you think giving up/detachment is a virtue... then you are wrong... the separation is thin. Detachment is the state in which you didn't have a yearning for it, but you give up something, to which you were attached some point of time. You gave up not because you wanted to be detached...rather you accepted the defeat and were

Cycling in hyderabad

2011-03-05T21:03:00.000-08:00

After a long time did a long ride along with Anitha. She on her Merida and I on my Specialized. Got up early and started at 6.15 am from our house in srinagar colony and went all the way to Gandipet lake (a.k.a Osman Sagar Lake). It's around 28km one way. It was a little cold on the way and roads were empty and the road through Artillery center was very good. It was a pleasant ride to Gandipet.

Cricket Grounds in Hyderabad

2010-03-19T17:24:00.000-07:00

It's quite difficult to find a proper cricket ground in hyderabad. Some of them that I am aware of :-HCA Gymkhana ground, SD Road, Paradise. This is a beautiful ground and many Ranji matches are played here. Turf and grass all along the ground. Contact Dutta (9885830200)Sanatnagar Welfare Center Cricket Ground, Sanatnagar. Mat, no grass on the ground. Contact Dhanraj Babu (9394556356). More

Participating in AIDS Lifecycle 8

2009-04-03T00:33:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since I posted anything. I am doing the AIDS Lifecycle ridethis year too. Look over here:-http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/dhirajAnd this is the video I created in preparation for the ride:-Prepared it using Microsoft Photo Story 3. Used the pictures that we took on the previous years ride and some others from www.jeffbrockstudio.com.

Tour oF Nilgiris

2008-12-09T22:46:00.000-08:00

I am happy to see that organized long-distance cycling events are starting to take place in India. Stumbled upon the link to "Tour of Nilgiris", 7 day 919 km cycling event from Bangalore to Mysore. The culture of cycling is spreading to India...one good effects of globalization ;-)

Comfortably numb

2008-11-11T22:18:00.000-08:00

The child is grown, the dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.- The Wall, Pink Floyd

It's all about Biking (Bicycling)

2008-09-21T16:23:00.001-07:00

4000 miles on my bike and still going. Little did I think that I would do so much of cycling when I bought my road bike in May 2007. Thanks to biker-friendly California and the sport of Bicycling itself, it has become my passion. Sometimes I even foolishly think of becoming a Pro.It was in the month of May 2007 that I first rode on my bicycle, a mere 12 miles. But it wasn't until Oct 2007 that I

2008-08-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

This is an extract from the book "It's not about the bike, My journey back to life" on Lance Armstrong the seven time Tour-de-France champion:-THE QUESTION THAT LINGERS IS, HOW MUCH WAS I A factor in my own survival, and how much was science, and how much miracle?I don't have the answer to that question. Other people look to me for the answer, I know. But if I could answer it, we would have the

Red-use, Re-use, Recycle

2008-04-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday (April 22nd) was Earth Day. If I were not in US probably I wouldn't have known about it. Lot of people here are concerned about their carbon footprint. It's a different matter that US does most of the climate damage.There's a lot of talk about Recycling. That's nice but the other problem is that the US economy is primarily driven by consumption. For a variety of reasons (cost,

AIDS/Lifecycle Practice 1

2008-04-13T21:15:00.000-07:00

Now that the event AIDS/Lifecycle is just 6 weeks away, and now that the California Summer of 2008 has arrived (Forget the afternoon, but the evenings are amazingly refreshing), I shred my lethargy and went for my first practice ride from Cupertino to Stanford and back a total of 24 miles at a stretch. Did it in 2 hrs, my usual speed. I know it's very less and I feel the pinch every now and then

My First Half-Marathon

2008-04-13T20:03:00.000-07:00

I have been jogging all through my life but never for more than 1 hour and never very seriously. The last public event of worth mentioning is Hyderabad 10k run (in 2005) around the Hussain Sagar. I guess I completed it in a little over 1 hour. On that day I realized that I could run for even 2 hrs at that low speed. Running very slowly is the key atleast for beginers.Thanks to Vamsi & Sudhir,

Jo Beet gayi so baat gayi-Harivansh Rai Bachchan

2008-02-27T22:43:00.000-08:00

One poem from my school days which is my favorite and it still echoes in my mind. That's the beauty of it. It was written by Harivansh Rai Bachchan (father of Amitabh Bachchan) at the time of the demise of one of his dear friends. It goes like this:-जीवन में एक सितारा थामाना वह बेहद प्यारा थावह डूब गया तो डूब गयाअंबर के आनन को देखोकितने इसके तारे टूटेकितने इसके प्यारे छूटेजो छूट गए फ़िर कहाँ

AIDS Lifecycle : Cycling for a cause

2008-02-24T20:48:00.000-08:00

This summer (June 1-7, 2008) I will be cycling from San Fransisco to Los Angeles (a total of 545 miles in 7 days) to raise donations for fighting AIDS Worldwide. I will be one of the ~2500 people participating in this tremendous event. It's a tough physical job but I hope to complete it successfully with months of training and support from near and dear.Visit my personal page for details and

Words of wisdom...

2008-02-12T20:00:00.000-08:00

From one of those email forwards:-Forget about the dayswhen its been cloudy, butdon't forget your hours in the sun.Forget about mistakesthat you can't change now, butdon't forget the lessonsthat you've learned.Forget about the timesyou've been defeated, butdon't forget the victories you've won.Forget about the dayswhen you've been lonely, butdon't forget the friendly smiles you've seen.Forget

Yahoo Pipes

2008-01-12T20:52:00.000-08:00

I had heard about Yahoo Pipes long time back (If my memory doesn't fail me, it should be more than six months). Little did I realize that it would be a very handy tool for me then. I have been searching for a used car for a long time and checking craigslist has sort of become a daily habit for me. It was becoming very painful visiting the site and finding out the cars that interest me. I was

GM Rao is the Enterpreneur of the Year 2007

2007-12-13T23:28:00.000-08:00

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2430267.cms

Feathers in the cap of California

2007-10-01T21:42:00.001-07:00

clipped from gov.ca.govI have been asked to talk to you today about what is happening in California, what are we doing about climate change. Ladies and gentlemen, something remarkable is beginning to stir, something revolutionary, something historic and transformative. Let me give you some background.

My Wine-List

2007-01-29T19:36:00.000-08:00

Wines that I have tasted till now:-Red WineMerlotZinfandelCabernet SauvignonWhite Wine

American Beauty & Steve Jobs

2007-01-10T09:20:00.000-08:00

The movie American Beauty ends with Lester's (protoganist) description of his life flashing before his eyes, interspersed with scenes of his family and others at the moment of the gunshot. Looking back on these events from his vantage point as narrator, Lester is only content:"I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in

Road Trip to Death Valley

2007-01-08T20:17:00.000-08:00

Date: 22nd-25th Dec 2006To : Death Valley National Park, CaliforniaWith : Vikram and PradeepPhotos are here.How could be a desert beautiful? I always associated beauty with greenery. That was my thought before going on this trip. But my opinions completely changed after going there. I realized how narrow my definition of beauty was.We went in Vikram’s BMW X5. They were both driving, taking turns,

Vivekanda's paper on Hinduism

2007-01-07T11:42:00.000-08:00

This is a link to the paper on Hinduism presented by Swami Vivekananda,at the World parliament of Religion at Chicago, 19th September 1893.http://www.theuniversalwisdom.org/hinduism/paper-on-hinduism-vivekananda/ Bear with the considerably large no. of typos in this version. Here are some of the lines that I liked:-"Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall

Earth at Night

2007-01-04T12:20:00.000-08:00

This link has the picture of how Earth looks at night (of course, it's an image formedby super-imposing many images from satellites)http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html

Money-n-Fame

2006-12-27T11:19:00.000-08:00

Let not fame and money hijack the purpose of life.

Desire...Quest...Consummation...Greed

2006-12-21T13:26:00.000-08:00

Let not the progression of Desire to Quest to Consummation... reach the stage of Greed. Run, rabbit run. Dig that hole, forget the sun, And when at last the work is done Don't sit down it's time to dig another one. - "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON", Pink Floyd

Bringing in Change

2006-12-20T06:53:00.001-08:00

Just like there are two ways of designing software, there are alsotwo ways in which change can be bought in :-- Top-down. This has a lot of impact and is very intrusive. A faster way to bring-in change. There will be oppositions and revolutions and without force or authority this cannot be done.- Bottom-up. This is very non-intrusive. Instead of asking people to change, can make them realize

Who am I?

2006-12-20T06:53:00.000-08:00

I am zilch. My role gives me identity. My sole objective is to worship my role. Worship in the true sense.

Verses from Gita - 3.27

2006-12-14T23:24:00.000-08:00

प्रक्रितेह् क्रियमानानि गुनैहि कर्मानि सर्वशह् अहन्कारविमुदात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते అహన్కారము యొక్క్ ప్రభావముచె కలత్ నోన్దిమ్పబదిన జివాత్మ నిజముగ భౌతిక ప్రక్రితి యొక్క త్రిగునములచె చెయబదిన కర్మలకు తానె కర్తనని భావిన్చును. (Translated by P.C Bhaktivedaanta Swamy (ISKCON founder))

Purpose of Life - All the world's a stage

2006-12-14T22:50:00.000-08:00

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts- William Shakespheare (from As You Like It)I heard this many a times, but it is now that I have come to seerelevance of this quote in all our lives. If we go by the quote and assume that the world is a stage and we are all actors, then there aresome

A picture you ought to see

2006-12-07T21:05:00.000-08:00

Another story on GMR

2006-12-02T21:56:00.000-08:00

Sometime back I had written on my blog about the GMR Group. It seems to be growing very rapidly...and I hope the GMR group becomes as big as the Reliance group. As per this article on rediff Rao, who owns a 79% stake, is worth $2.2 billion, enough for him to debut at No. 18 on Forbes Asia's third annual list of India's 40 Richest.

Friends Map at Orkut

2006-12-02T15:40:00.000-08:00

I didn't notice this until today. Orkut provides a nice friends map using Google Maps.That is mine (For some reason no one is showing up in India :-()

The amazingly cool WII

2006-12-01T21:13:00.000-08:00

The newly introduced Nintendo Wii (pronounced as We) is an amazingly cool innovation.I am not one of those guys who is into gaming, but the other day when I saw peopletrying it out at the Valley Fair Mall in San Jose, I couldn't stop myself from trying it. I played boxing andit was as if you were really in the ring and were fight with an opponent to knock him down. No more key combinations or

The crazy Vista story

2006-12-01T21:05:00.000-08:00

I am not sure if I have heard it properly ...but I remember hearing to the radiothat Vista was a 50,000 man year project. Isn't that crazy...but that's what Iheard "10,000 people working for 5 years". (Yeah it does include every person involvedin the effort: the developers, the testers, the program managers, the UI experst andthe other higher-ups). I dont know anything abt what's new in the Vista

Purpose of Life - Background

2006-11-30T06:10:00.000-08:00

"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose"I found it as one of my friends' signature. I dont know what it really means :-),but there's sth to it that makes it interesting.I think I am at a stage in my life (almost everybody goes through it) where I haveto question my existence. Questions like: Who am I? Why am I on this earth? Whatshould I pursue? How should I live? Has it got more to do

Does GOD Exist ???

2006-11-30T05:35:00.000-08:00

The eternal mystery was/is troubling me. Is there somebody called GOD orsomething of that nature who controls all our lives and actions. Do we really havecontrol on most of the things that happen in our life? Is there sth called destiny?If so can we change our destiny? I am not wise enough to answer them...but how doI march ahead? By making assumptions? What if my assumptions are wrong? Does it

An AI/NLP problem

2006-11-29T19:06:00.000-08:00

I was just wondering if this could be possible:-Using my blog (which includes all my blog posts) as the key to a search engine, can I find all those persons who blog andhave a similar mindset/interests/thoughts like me.

Hindi is NOT our National Language

2006-11-29T18:28:00.000-08:00

All these years I have been believing that Hindi is our National Language, becausethat's what I remember I was taught when I was in school, I am not sure if it waswritten in any of my texbooks. Thanks to Vikram, I came to know TODAY...that it'sa BIG myth that we are carrying around in our mind. I am unable to accept that something as simple thing as this could be tampered with. It makes me think

National Public Radio (NPR)

2006-11-27T11:07:00.000-08:00

The best radio that I have come across. If u are in the bay area you can tune into 88.5 FM, which is the KQED-FM.Their non-intrusive way of advertising, the worldwide (BBC news at 9 pm),and the daily morning biz news and the "Perspective", have been reallygood.Here are the timings of some of the good programs:-- BBC world news at 9pm (daily)- "The perspective" at 7.30 am (daily)- "Commonwealth

The flipside of Rules

2006-11-21T18:53:00.000-08:00

Rules are created with a purpose/objective. But unfortunately as time progresses the rules themselves become the objectives and the original purpose itself is forgotton.And the enforcers of these rules forget that the rules are to be verified/applied withthe original purpose in mind. Lest the rules might become blind-faiths. So it is necessary that the rules are evaluated regularly to see their

Sanyaasa - The fourth and final stage of Hindu life

2006-11-20T07:34:00.000-08:00

I am impressed by the way Wikipedia describes the Sanyaasa stage of hindu life:-Having succeeded in overcoming all sensual affections and desires, and in acquiring perfect equanimity towards everything around him, the hermit has fitted himself for the final and most exalted order, that of devotee or religious mendicant. As such, he has no further need of either mortifications or religious

Inter(net)-Dependence

2006-11-19T22:29:00.000-08:00

I never thought I would be so dependent on the Internet. These days it's like I am in a solitary confinement (in my apartment) and my laptop (Thinkpad T60) together withthe internet is my window to the outer world :-). Internet has become the 4th basicnecessity of my life (apart from roti, kapda and makaan). Look at the ways I am using it:-Chatting :- Yahoo Messenger, GTalk, GmailPhone, Conf call

The OLPC Project

2006-11-08T20:12:00.000-08:00

Here's the link for the pics of the working prototyp of $100 laptop,which is part of the One Laptop Per Child intiative.http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/And here's the link that shows the current adoption/interest bythe countries:-http://www.laptop.org/map.en_US.html

The Hindu

2006-11-08T07:44:00.000-08:00

My favourite newspaper is "The Hindu". One of things I was thinking of when comingover to US was that I would be missing reading it every morning. But recently Irealized that I can read it in the same print format online. The subscription is free for first the first 3 months.

Computer History Museum

2006-11-01T09:48:00.000-08:00

Finally got a chance to visit the one of it's kind Computer History Museum, situatedin Mountain View. It's really worth a visit. It had a collection of old machines ranging from the Abacus to the Blue. To mention some of them: Abacus, Difference Engine, DEC PDP1, System/360, ENIAC, UNIVAC, Apple Mac Workstation, Altair 9000 (that created the PC revolution). You could also see the huge Hard Disks

My Cricbay profile

2006-11-01T09:47:00.000-08:00

I have become a part of the cricket-playing community of the Bay area :-)

Nice Article On India and it's ties with US by Fareed Zakaria

2006-10-26T12:52:00.000-07:00

Universe as a state machine

2006-10-23T19:41:00.000-07:00

Was reading this book "Things a computer scientist rarely talks about" by Donald E. Knuth. In the book he pondersabout the existence of God and whether the universe is deterministic. He also mentionsthe possibility of the Universe being a big state-machine. Or is it a huge cluster ofstate-machines interacting with each other. If that is the case then SUPPOSING weget to know the transition rules

Embarrassed

2006-10-22T14:18:00.000-07:00

Didn't ever expect that people could be so good. Vinod and I were going to the Diwali party at Sunnyvale Temple and it was very crowded with all the Indians presentin the bay area making their appearance. For around 15 mins we couldn't find aplace to park and then there was this young mexican guy who saw us struggling and guided us to a parking place near his house and wished us Happy Diwali.

A nice parable

2006-10-17T22:35:00.000-07:00

This is a humorous parable written by Raymond Smullyan. Makes me think about the following things:-- Belief in God (I am an athiest though)- When we are doing something are we really doing something, or are we just acting to the script written by somebody?- For some time I used to think that Reason should be the basis of all your actions, but that shows my ignorance. There seem to be lot of

WorldWide Catalog

2006-10-17T22:05:00.000-07:00

Came across this largest online catalog of books, linking all the libraries worldwide.It helps me in finding for books/videos/magazines etc. in my local libraries. This willbe very useful to me considering the fact that I dont have my own medium of transport and the public transport system here in the bay area is not good. So I would only go to the library if the book is available.Found that

Blogger Beta

2006-10-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

Blogger has come up with a beta, which includes some good features like:-- Publish thru Email- Enhance inline blog content editor.- Setting up feeds (I am not sure if this was earlier there)Visit Blogger Beta TourI hope I will soon migrate to it.

It's raining marriages

2006-08-18T07:54:00.000-07:00

This season (from Jan - Aug 2006) the number of marriages that I have attended reached14...a big number.

Rahul in Person

2006-07-25T07:10:00.000-07:00

Today I had the oppurtunity of seeing Rahul Dravid in person for the first time. He was at Tirumala Music Center (TMC) Begumpet as an ambassador of Samsung. Good no. of peoplehad come to see him. People wished all the best to him and the Indian team for the coming world cup (2007). He was as usual reticent and didn't even entertain any questions from the press persons. Unfortunately I didn't

Biking to Anantagari

2006-07-25T07:04:00.000-07:00

Couple of weeks back my brother and I went to a place called Anantagiri on Bike. It's a small hilly jungle, around 80km from hyderabad, near vikarabad. It's a nice place for trekking, though completely neglected. The ride was very good as it's along thehighway and the climate was cloudy and windy. We trekked a bit but there was lot leftto be explored. Check out the photos here:-Anantagiri photos

Shirdi Travel Diary

2006-04-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

Shirdi Travel Diary (13/04/06 to 16/04/06) Sunil, Anil annayya, Aunty (Sunil's mother), viji annayyaand myself had planned for a trip to Shirdi and finally wemade it.13/04/06 I boarded the Manmad (Secunderabad to Manmad) express at Begumpet station, onwhich Sunil and Aunty were also there. They came from vizag to hyderabad todaymorning.14/04/06 Got down at Nagersol (which is around 2 hrs from

Ruthless Life

2006-04-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

I knew that life could be as ruthless as this, but never saw it through myeyes. Recently I met the mother of one of my friends and realized how toughit could be. She had been on the bed for close to two years and for thesetwo years she could not move any of her body parts, except for opening themouth, slight movement of the neck and eyelids. It's a very difficult situationwhere you can see,

GMR Group

2006-04-06T21:54:00.000-07:00

It gives me a sense of pride watching the television commercial of GMRGroup (which is into Energy and construction (airports and roads)).This is the group which has roots in my own district Srikakulam and around20 km from my village. It makes me think about the amount of oppurtunities(in terms of employment) generated. I have great regard for industrialists,because they are the one who generate

Dravid and Tendulkar

2006-03-24T19:50:00.000-08:00

One of the recent issues of Sportstar carried a cover feature on these two Goliathsof Indian cricket of their time, on the occasion of each of them reaching a milestone of their career: Sachin becoming the most capped Indian Test cricketer (132) and Dravid playing his 100th Test, Mumbai Test against England, March 2006. It quotes Shakespeare : "Some are born great and some achieve greatness..."

The suicides have crossed 300 but the sensex has reached the 10000 mark.

2006-02-19T19:47:00.000-08:00

"The suicides have crossed 300 but the sensex has reached the 10000 mark too."Those were the closing lines of an article in "The Hindu" about the pitiful state ofthe cotton growers of Vidarbha. The no. of suicides have been increasing year after year.The above lines give the true picture of India. On one side the country is advancingat a rapid rate and on the other side it is degrading at an

Biking to Nizamsagar

2006-02-08T09:11:00.000-08:00

Find the photos here

SBI Connected

2006-01-26T02:57:00.000-08:00

The branch of State Bank of India near my village (SBI Vizianagaram Cantt. branch) is now connected to the rest of the SBI network. That's where I had taken my education loan from and to which I have been repaying all these years by taking a D.D and then sending it via Post or courier. As a result of this change I can now pay the loan at any of the branches in Hyderabad and further I can get the

Hi-Tech City Station

2006-01-23T20:04:00.000-08:00

This happened some 2 years back. It was when MMTS (Multi-modal trasportsystem was just introduced in Hyderabad). Three of us Sarath,Torture Srikanthand myself had to go to IIIT. I suggested we board the MMTS trainat the Nature-Cure hospital (in Ameerpet, the place where we used to stay immediately after we were out of college) station, and we can get downat the Hi-Tech city station, and from

My Village is connected

2006-01-17T01:32:00.000-08:00

I can now use my Airtel cellphone from my home in my native village (Tampatapalli Village, Palakonda Mandal, Srikakulam District). I noticed this while I went there to celebrate Pongal.It was already connected by BSNL and Reliance.

Sheer Nonsense

2006-01-07T04:43:00.000-08:00

I dont wanna stay here what the heck am I doing here when theworld around me is running like crazy folks under the sun with no hood to stand by the lane and cross the hell with little support with whatever heck can they do...by contributing to the immense pressure of the societal obligations with the family and the rest going to surrender to the pressure of turmoil because of unrest, protesting

Software Engineers or Labourers?

2005-12-19T20:51:00.000-08:00

Nagarjuna Sagar

2005-12-19T05:33:00.000-08:00

Couple of days back (Dec 10th?) it was the golden jubliee of Nagarjuna Sagar. I had been to this Dam two times. But never did it occur to me that such a massive construction would take how much labour/time/money.There was an article in the newspaper which tells us how much of a feat was it to construct the Dam 50 years ago. It seems for 15 years at any point of time (day or night) there were

Money

2005-12-18T21:53:00.001-08:00

I dont know when this meaningless greed for money will come to end.Isn't what we get, enough for living? Why the heck do we need more,when we get so much, when compared to other professions, when comparedto our previous generations? Dont tell me it's inflation. Actually it'sthe other way. We are causing inflation. I am seriously skeptic about some kinds of jobs in IT, whether they are really

My First Overseas Travel (Travel Diary)

2005-12-18T21:53:00.000-08:00

Start Date : 23rd Nov 2005Retunrn Date : 05 Dec 2005 I was supposed to be in our main office in Bedford, Boston for the so called"Hell Week". This being my first overseas journey by flight I was naturallyvery excited. Managed to take one day leave and go early so that I can be therein US for the Thanks-Giving Day.23rd Nov 2005 (Wednesday) (IST)------------------------------- Started from office

My First Flight

2005-12-18T21:52:00.000-08:00

yet to come.

Kabini Trip

2005-12-18T21:51:00.001-08:00

Trekking into the jungles of Nagerhole (Kabini Trip)Date: 14/05/05 - 15/05/05 This is about my expedition into the jungles of Nagerhole. The journey itself to this place called Kabini Jungle Resorts was an experience. We hireda Qualis and an Indica for this. Started at around 7.30 am from hotel Kanishka,Bangalore. (The previous day we all had descended to Bangalore from Hyderabad for Kiran's

What a Family can do

2005-12-18T21:51:00.000-08:00

Recently I came across two instances where the to and fro side of having a family was visible from close quarters.1) In the movie "Cindrella Man", Jim Braddock, the protagonist resurrects like a Phoenix to come back into the boxing ring and win the world heavyweight championship, and the major reason being the need to feed his family. If he hadn't had a family probably he wouldn't have felt the

Che Guevara

2005-12-16T07:18:00.000-08:00

Che Guevara...Only thing I know about him is that he is a revolutionary of the 60s who had the Latin American masses behind him, trying to spread communism across the entire South America.Dont even remember his actual name.Some good books on him would be appreciated.

Wonderful Photo Sharing site

2005-10-04T21:17:00.000-07:00

In the last week I had send our new office photos to a lot of my friends which I did thru email. This is when I realized the need to share my photos online. Looked at "Hello Picasa" but it wasn't possible to share the photos publicly to everybody. Sometime back one of my friends (I guess it was vakiba) who had introduced Flickr (www.flickr.com) to me. I checked it now and I liked it very much.

Travelogue: Ride to Nagarjuna Sagar

2005-07-09T05:19:00.000-07:00

Who : Hari, Prasad, Sudhan (Colleague @Progress) and myselfDistance : 320 km in totalStarted : 7.30 a.m, 2-July-2005Back in Hyd : 8.00 p.m same dayPlaces to visit: Dam, Boating to Nagarjuna Konda and Ettipotala. Had been very busy with work for the past one month. So really needed somemeans of relaxation. Initially Sudhan suggested we go to Belum Caves (Kurnool),but keeping in mind the distance

Travelogue: Ride to Srisailam

2005-05-11T01:21:00.000-07:00

Blogging after a long time. This one is about my recent ride to Srisailam on bike with my colleague Uma Sudhan.Total Distance Covered : 480 kmStarted : 5.45 a.m 01-May-2005Reached back home : 8.00 p.m 01-May-2005Bike : Pulsar 180 cc DTS-I It all started with this colleague of mine buying the bike 2 days back. Hewanted to give away the bike for the first servicing as early as possible. Sofour of

2004-08-03T00:00:00.000-07:00

One Reason why I would wish to lose my bachelorhood Writing out of anguish...that we (the so called "BACHELORS") had to suffer to fulfill one of the three basic amenities of life (" roti, kapada aur makan"). There might be very many good reasons why a bachelor would love to lose that tag...It could be due to the basic instinct, or could be _fill_, but what I felt the most driving one was the

2004-07-23T10:53:00.000-07:00

Important Date Looks like the 23rd day of every month has got lot of importance in my life. Hereare some events:-January 23 = Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose born (year 1897)March 23 = Martyr's day (Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru & Sukhdev, year 1931)April 23 = Joined Pramati (year 2003)May 23 = Brother's b'day (year 1980)June 23 = Sarithakka's b'day (year 1979)Lemme see this list grow.

2004-07-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

Amity Recently went to Jammu for visiting the "Vaishno Devi" Temple. If at all there's one thing that I wont ever forget about this trip, that would the following event that happened with us. Shows how kind people can be. While roaming around the hills of the villages Krimachi & Mansar, (Udhampur district) we (my brother, cousin and uncle's son) were close to being lost, but luckily

2004-07-09T22:08:00.000-07:00

Bhagat Singh : A Great Leader / Enterpreneur Saw the movie "The Legend of Bhagat Singh" made by Rajkumar Santhosi in Muppi's PC at home. I was so impressed by Bhagat Singh's and his abilities that I was so sorry about myself that till this age of 22 I wasn't aware of what really Bhagat Singh was. At most what I knew abt him was that he was a great freedom fighter who was hanged with another two

2004-07-09T08:05:00.000-07:00

Have been looking for the cvs command to list the modules available on the server. Finally got it today. cvs co -c cvs co -S but need to understand the output a little.

2004-03-31T05:58:00.000-08:00

Two Victories (Reflections on Kolkata and Adelaide) - by Harsh Bogle. Published in the January 2004 issue of the "Wisden Asia Cricket" magazine I remember the day well. It was the 15th of March 2003, a young man of 28 was replaying in his mind the most famous win in cricket history and watching the attention targeted at two others, younger and more flamboyant. Cameras, words,

2004-02-11T01:31:00.000-08:00

Interview with Dr. U. R. Rao on the current state of technical education http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/feb/11bpo1.htm

2004-02-05T05:26:00.000-08:00

This ones about the importance of punctuations in a language in it's written form - from the book "Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly puncutated wildlife manual and tosses it over his

2004-02-05T01:06:00.000-08:00

Positive views on Outsourcing by Chris Anderson (ca@wiredmag.com) Wired's editor in chief. It's not hard to see how outsourcing to India could lead to the next great era in American enterprise. Today, even innovative firms spend too much money maintaining products: fixing bugs and rolling out nearly identical 2.0 versions. Less than 30 percent of R&D spending at mature software firms goes to true

2003-12-21T07:37:00.000-08:00

words from the man whom I adore greatly both as a person and a cricketer - Rahul Dravid A reason for that is the way Dravid approaches every ball. Yes, not every game, not every innings, but every ball. In an interview before the 1999-2000 Australia tour (incidentally, his worst tour; he scored only 93 runs in the series at a dismal average of 15), he explained his philosophy in simple yet lucent

2003-12-12T10:45:00.000-08:00

Here's a nice interview with "Richard Gabriel" bringing out the similarity between between software and poetry http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html

2003-12-09T07:28:00.000-08:00

I am Dhiraj Kumar Dwarapudi from Hyderabad, India. Currently working in as a Software Development Engineer in Pramati Technologies. Recently came across this concept of blogging. Looks great. You get inspired and do inspire others or just another way of making yourself known to the outer world