Journey of the Journeyman

Interesting Warren Buffet video on his views on the financial crisis.

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As I was telling you earlier, I conducted a Quiz at the GE Research Center in Bangalore, where I also work. So here are the questions. This is best viewed in "fullscreen" mode.
Visual Quiz

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When I enter a bookstore, I am like the proverbial child in a candy store. And knowing this, my sister gave me a Rs. 1500 grant (Read b’day gift vouchers) at Crossword. Here’s what I bought. Now I have to print my name on these with a green pen. And read them.
 

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Yesterday, I conducted a quiz at work. Over 60 enthusiasts turned up and I was just at the brink or running out of prelims question sheets. Lazy Shourya needs some time to put up the questions of the final round (all pictures), but here are the questions from the written prelims. See how many you […]

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Strolled down memory lane today, through the archives of my livejournal. My once-upon-a-blog. Relived the past. Cherished it. Compared the present.
Here’s when I saw a movie. Here’s me learning ant. Not sure how drunk I was but this looks like an interesting post.And here’s a poem.
And when there is only a ring in your earsAnd […]

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There is a unequalled thrill in struggling late into the night, fixing a tricky bug, and (strangely) having dinner all alone. Tragic hero, programmer.
The last time I did this was in 2006, I think. Toiled at the CT bay, rewrote parts of CT install (which yours truly has contributed to in modest proportions) to fix […]

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I got an email from a certain bank educating me about the safety of statements-via-email.Your PDF Advice on E-mail is ‘password protected’ and 128-bit encrypted to provide you additional security.
Made me think:

Does the public really understand the significance of this ?
Is there really a significance ? For the end-user, its just a password.
If […]

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At work, many of us are consigned to using a Windows desktop, for reasons that are beyond our control. Linux fanatics would say, “Change your job”, but well sometimes that is not an option. At the same time, you have that itch to try out a certain se/awk/grep combo or a quick perl script. Here’s […]

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Its 4:17 am now, have been struggling since the past 1:15 mins or so. Building the latest Linux kernel from scratch. BAck at this game after a really long time. After about 9 attempts, including some aborts from yersterday, got the system to boot. Feeling like Edison. Now this customized kernel is optimized for my […]

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Slashdot carried an article on how McKesson is bringing in Linux into Healthcare.Hello, anybody listening ? GE got Linux-based CT scanners into the market way back in 2002. Yes, let me brag a tbit, please. I fought that war. We moved the whole goddamn scanner console from IRIX to Linux. We even had our own […]

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