lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

Somewhere near Sarakundi lake
Originally uploaded by lunatech.

I am back from my vacation. It was awesome. Pics here

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I really did not want to come back to Bangalore and the only good thing about coming back here is that I am getting back to work with my extremely talented colleagues

I will be on vacation (I think for the first time since I started working) from 19th May to 5th of June. I am going on a trek with the Youth Hostel Association of India (YHAI). Hopefully, being on a trek (my first one) will be an enlightening experience.

premshree
Originally uploaded by lunatech.

Is your workplace as cool as mine ? Can you sit like that infront of your colleagues. I doubt it

Pure love

Just discovered 'blog this' on flickr and ran into this nice photo too. Simply beautiful. It really captures two people in love

Something interesting I read on Steve Woz's site
As yet another engineer working in Silicon Valley, it seems that with all the Internet startups and dot-com millionaires, no-one is out to create exciting, innovative products and technologies here anymore. Instead of "How can I change the world?", it's "How can I go IPO ASAP and get rich quick?" I see PhD's leaving high-tech to work on yet another search engine. I see folks reading The Wall Street Journal who used to read Byte. Do you see this trend worsening? Can hi-tech get out of this dot-com mind-set and back to innovation? Will there ever be anything close to a technical revolution again?
Woz:
I do see this trend increasing. A lot of the problem is that small guys with something attractive have a much more difficult time getting recognized. This is largely due to the spending of large companies, ensuring that their territory is not easily eaten into. You have a good point. Where are the engineers and scientists these days? All we hear about are CEO's. Typically they attended business schools and weren't inspired by science fiction.

Protest against ATI nearly led to the arrest of RMS. I really admire RMS for his firm convictions in the principles of free software

I was checking the scrapbook of some people on Orkut. My findings if you are a female, here is what you will see in your scrapbook

1. hello XYZ this is abhijeet I belong to banglore but live in rajasthan I like to be in touch with new people
2. hi i am from Foobar. can i be ur friend? see my profile and plz tell me ur reply
3. hi XYZ wanna b frnds
4. HELLO AM A SOFTWARE ENGR IN GURGAON TELL ME ABT U AND ADD ME
5. poems
6. ascii art
7. copy-paste stuff (jokes/stupid poems/stupid puzzles) from emails
8. hai fine? actually i saw ur cute still fine, ur studying where and see my profile about me and first make friendship then yeah fine ok cute send me a scrap.

If you are a male, don't expect anything to come into your Orkut scrapbook - thank god for small mercies.

And while I am in the rant mode - guys, here is a message from sanity department. Please take time to get to know the Real World. It is better to know girls in the Real World as opposed to trying to pick frnds in the Orkut forums. There are people I know who masquerade as girls on the forums - to serve as good material for jokes to pass time in the boring meetings.

The names have been changed to protect the fucking idiots. Am I the only one left in the world who is pedantic about spellings :-/