Monthly Archives: April 2005

An engineer’s incentive

From Webster’s New Dictionary :
incentive a. : arousing. -n. something that arouses to feeling or action.
It didn’t quite start out as a normal day. I was somehow not in the very best of moods, today was one of those days where you feel right from the start that something will go wrong.
And I didn’t make [...]

Letter to a friend

This is a true account of what happened tonight. I am the “first person” below.
No, it’s not what u r thinking ;) !

But it was interesting, nevertheless. I watched Malcolm In The Middle till 12:30, got down to study SP, couldn’t understand much, so started reading Potter. Finished it off by 3:00. Then started playing [...]

"Deception" Dan

Finished Dan Brown’s ‘Deception Point’ today. Again, it was a marathon reading – I couldn’t afford to give the book more than to-day, as it would eat into my study time (if you are searching for logic here, you are doomed …).
It’s a nice book, and although the plot is again mostly predictable, it is [...]

TCS

TCS was in our college today, for an “interactive session” with the students. Was mostly useless … all that was told is easily found on their website. And it lasted barely an hour, simply not enough for us to judge them or them to judge us. The HR person probably had a good lunch though, [...]

Debugging the world

Here’s a few ways to do it …

Musings of an idle mind

What have I learnt in all these days?
Engineering colleges in Mumbai are worthless. At least when it comes to computer engineering. Rohit had written about this a long time ago, about the growing irrelevance of computer engineering. Not that I disagreed with him then, but sometimes some things just make those beliefs stronger. Like the [...]

Knock knock …

Question : Is this really you? Answer : Yes, this really is me, Sandesh Singh.
Q: Where the hell were you all this while?A: Well, the modem I used was a borrowed one, and one fine day the person who lent it to me found use for it, so I was left without …
Q: … But [...]