Entries from Raj Shekhar

The trek to Saurkundi Pass was organized by Youth Hostels Association of India. The base camp for this trek was the Youth Hostel situated at Babeli, a small town near Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. I took a flight to Delhi, and then from Delhi I took a bus to Kullu. All the AC buses leaving for Kullu were full and it was only by good luck that I was able to get a seat in one of them.

The next entries are about my days during the trek.

Have you been using heredocs in your php scripts ? Gopalv shows why this is bad. Gopal is one of the developers of APC, so heed his words.

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.