Blind Programmers and Users

In the current era of GUI based Operating Systems, Developer Tools and Software, life has never been tougher for a Blind computer User and the Blind Computer Programmer.
This issue has been very dear to me, from the time when I had attempted developing a mail and telephony based address book application in VB using the Speech [...]

Books!

I inherited the habit of reading from my maternal Grandfather. He was a person who seemed to have read all the books in the World. I remember asking him once about some specific books which I had recently read, and to my astonishment he would have had read them all! Even on his last day, [...]

School’s Back

Have you ever noticed this at workplace?
Its 9 AM in the morning and the morning shuttles are flowing in the office compound, spilling out an endless stream of techies reporting for work, surprisingly there is sad gloom on their faces with nobody conversating!
Lets change the scene now, its 6 PM, the same office, the staircases are jampacked [...]

Gnawing Rats!

I am sure you have had the experience of the same, choosing and trusting the wrong people to be your friends. Well, I usually go a step ahead, I do not learn from my experiences, and end up giving multiple chances to the same group of people to prove themselves yet again.
Hell yes, these are [...]

The pursuit of Happyness

Its not a good movie, its a great movie. Today I finally saw the movie ‘The pursuit of Happyness‘, with a ‘y’ instead of an ‘i’.
It was stumped by the exemplary performance of Will Smith and his kid, depicting the true story of Chris Gardner and his struggle with life. The movie tells how this [...]

Earwax

The current post has been taken from a forwarded mail; I do not make any claims to the copyrights of the story below! 
This is a short story written by Dr Kishore Shah….he is a gynaecologist in Pune and a very gifted writer….enjoy this extremely funny story .

My wife is an ENT Surgeon while I am [...]

Serendipity

In the movie serendipity Kate Beckinsale believes in serendipity, while Kevin spacey doesn’t. While what I write below is not related to the movie, it is related to two individuals separated by a thousand miles, yet, linked in a way.
This is about an online friend whom I added to my Yahoo! Messenger list last year. The whole [...]

Road Trip

Another journey and another destination, yesterday a group of us 7 dudes went out for a road trip to Belur, Halebidu and Shravanabelagola from Bangalore.

We started early and reached our first juncture Shravanabelagola 140 kilometers from Bangalore, this place boasts of a 58 feet Monolith of Gommateshwara Bahubali, which is carved out of a single [...]

Holi

Here’s a video that is a MUST watch. Shared by a friend, the song elaborates the fun behind holi at a Hostel, and the end gives a message which shall touch your heart. 

Doors and Decisions

Life is cruel with sadistic streaks in it
The reason behind the above statement is the recent occurings in my otherwise peaceful and inconsequential existance. While as mentioned in the post below, I secured admission in one of the better B Schools of this country after a lot of effort and attempts, and was fairly satisfied [...]