I was watching Simpsons the Movie today morning before coming to office, there is a scene in the church where the Grandpa has a vision or what you choose to call it and blurts out somethings. Though the movie was sort of ok .. not a good movie by any standard but an average one with a simple message. We need to protect our environment in order to survive.
This is the greatest realisation that every person on this planet has to have imemdiately and work towards making the earth a better place to live in.
Just walking a few hundred meters to my office from the bus stop is becoming a real pain day by day. Why? Its not that i hate walking .. its just that walking in all the dust & exhaust fumes makes me want to take a bath every time I get out of my house. The level of pollution within the city has reached alarming levels and no one in India seems to be bothered about it. Everyone goes on about their lives as if nothing is happening. No one really cares for anything.
We need to realise and realise fast that its only a matter of time before we become like Springfield citizens of The Simpsons. Trapped Forever in our own polluted place.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems & MYSQL
Oh ... What a news. IBM's loss has been Oracle's gain. Oracle in one sweet move has bought one of the most valued and respected silicon value companies. A company with a very large IP and research base.
Java gets the best part in this deal. With Oracle looking increasing towards Java for enterprise solutions this makes the acquisition great, and the future for Java looks rosier then ever before.
What about other open source products of Sun. Mainly the open source community has to worry about MYSQL and Open Office. What happens to these two? In one shot Oracle has defeated one its major threats in MYSQL and has entered in competition with Microsoft in its flagship office business. Then what happens to the Sun Solaris servers? Lots of questions to be answered yet.
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is much better placed to provide enterprise solutions. With an entire range of software and hardware at its disposal, from programming language to OS to DB to Servers, Oracle has given a clear indication of where it wants to grow.
Lets just hope that Oracle continues support for the Open Source community and products the way Sun did.
Java gets the best part in this deal. With Oracle looking increasing towards Java for enterprise solutions this makes the acquisition great, and the future for Java looks rosier then ever before.
What about other open source products of Sun. Mainly the open source community has to worry about MYSQL and Open Office. What happens to these two? In one shot Oracle has defeated one its major threats in MYSQL and has entered in competition with Microsoft in its flagship office business. Then what happens to the Sun Solaris servers? Lots of questions to be answered yet.
With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is much better placed to provide enterprise solutions. With an entire range of software and hardware at its disposal, from programming language to OS to DB to Servers, Oracle has given a clear indication of where it wants to grow.
Lets just hope that Oracle continues support for the Open Source community and products the way Sun did.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Technological Loneliness
Man... its said that what separates man from other beings on this planet, is that man is the social being. A being able to work with others of his species for mutual benefit and progress.
Well compare that with todays humans. Men and Women who spend more time on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, World of Warcraft or Rapidshare than with their friends. So what are these? ... Non Social Human Beings :) ?
Lets take a moment to review and see where exactly technology is taking us. Yes it had made communication easy, yes it has made transportation easy and yes it has made our lives a lot easier.. but has it made our lives a lot better? I don't think so. You ask me Why? Have a look around you. The air we breathe is more polluted than ever. We have loads of time to send messages to our friends on twitter, facebook or MySpace than actually going out and meeting them. We may have a thousand friends on Twitter or Facebook or MySpace but how many of them would be able to emotionally connect? How many of these friends would stand by you in times of need? How many of these would actually care for you in reality, if things were to go wrong.
Technology is supposed to help us get better as a species instead what is it doing? We are being driven further away from our emotions and humanity then ever before. We are losing touch with ourselves. We live in a virtual world where all emotions and just ones and zeroes coded by some software professional.
Dont trust me? Just have a look at what science fiction authors and hollywood shows us. Well if u say.. you are an Idiot believing everything that hollywood shows.. let me just say.. movies and sci-fi books are just ahead of time. All their predictions might not come true but most of them will. Just read the sci-fi novels of the last century and you will believe. Spacecraft and Submarines were first created in sci-fi not in real life.
Sometimes i just miss the old days before mobile phone, before computers and before all this technology. An era when people would spend weeks or even months for a marriage, spend days with friends just chit chatting, taking a walk around the farms, breathing fresh air free of pollution and dust. Enjoying the seasonal rains. Wow.. where are those days. Days when we used to be so technologically backward but so forward as a species.
God I want those days back.
Well compare that with todays humans. Men and Women who spend more time on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, World of Warcraft or Rapidshare than with their friends. So what are these? ... Non Social Human Beings :) ?
Lets take a moment to review and see where exactly technology is taking us. Yes it had made communication easy, yes it has made transportation easy and yes it has made our lives a lot easier.. but has it made our lives a lot better? I don't think so. You ask me Why? Have a look around you. The air we breathe is more polluted than ever. We have loads of time to send messages to our friends on twitter, facebook or MySpace than actually going out and meeting them. We may have a thousand friends on Twitter or Facebook or MySpace but how many of them would be able to emotionally connect? How many of these friends would stand by you in times of need? How many of these would actually care for you in reality, if things were to go wrong.
Technology is supposed to help us get better as a species instead what is it doing? We are being driven further away from our emotions and humanity then ever before. We are losing touch with ourselves. We live in a virtual world where all emotions and just ones and zeroes coded by some software professional.
Dont trust me? Just have a look at what science fiction authors and hollywood shows us. Well if u say.. you are an Idiot believing everything that hollywood shows.. let me just say.. movies and sci-fi books are just ahead of time. All their predictions might not come true but most of them will. Just read the sci-fi novels of the last century and you will believe. Spacecraft and Submarines were first created in sci-fi not in real life.
Sometimes i just miss the old days before mobile phone, before computers and before all this technology. An era when people would spend weeks or even months for a marriage, spend days with friends just chit chatting, taking a walk around the farms, breathing fresh air free of pollution and dust. Enjoying the seasonal rains. Wow.. where are those days. Days when we used to be so technologically backward but so forward as a species.
God I want those days back.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Ooty
Ooty
Well the long weekend falling on April 10, 11 and 12 zoomed by. We (Me, Upendra and Rajagopal) had been to Ooty and surrounding places. Initially the people we enquired, that is, the bus reservation people, the hotel guys all said there is lots of vacancies so dont worry just show up in Ooty. Then on thursday evening we go to a KSTRC reservation counter to get tickets and he says "There are just 3 tickets available for today and tomorrow .. that too on a dakota bus .. non sleeper.. one like our BMTC and that too last seats." We had almost decided to go home and sleep the weekend. Then we found a Package tour @ 1850. Costly.. for individual not .. but as 3 people.. yes. .damn costly for 3. Anyways so he said 2 tickets are booked third he will adjust.. We reached Shanthinagar bus stand at 8 and we get two tickets for 9.30 bus. Man I havent seen shanthi nagar bus stand so crowded since it was built. It looked like the whole of bangalore was going to ooty. every couple of minutes a bus to ooty pulls up and picks people and leaves. all buses were following IST, so out 9.30 bus left by around 10.30 or 10.45. All this while we were stuck in the stupid bus stand without a place to sit. Anyways.. finally got into bus and started journey. We reached Ooty friday morning by 7 .. 7.30. Damn it was cold and we didnt even have sweaters. We were all in summer wear.. going by the advise of a friend who said.. ooty man..it was hot like hell in january only when we had gone.. now it will be even hotter.. oh damn.. how wrong he was.
Once we reached ooty the tourist guy picked us up and dumped us in a hotel where the rooms were still being checked out. So we had to sit in the lobby while a room was vacant. Finally we got a room. We freshened up and then had breakfast in the same place. The person at travel desk of the hotel offered us one more trip on friday.. as our sight seeing trip was on Saturday and Friday was our free day. We took that up.
First stop... Outside of the golf course in ooty. He gave us some explanation about it and showed us the fences and off to next.
Then we went to Pykara Dam..... Again no entry inside or near the dam.. just a show from the road a few hundred meters off .. "See thats the pykara dam".. and throughout the trip the guide kept blabbering about which all movies were shot in those places.. all useless trivia which we really did not care.
Then we went to a place where there were lots of nilgiri trees were there beside a nice lake. That spot was good.. again we got some useless trivia about films shot there ..
Then we visited a place called pai mund.. .well it is supposed to be a tribal area.. this time we got some useful info about the native people there and what they do..
The best part there were the fresh carrots that were being sold by the locals.. damn they are tasty..though u got to wash clean before u eat..
Next stop... Pykara lake and boating... It was a nice and big lake .. but somehow the water was green and i was convinced that it was dirty (god knows what and all .. :P) .. so never put my hand in water when we went boating.. though rajagopal and upendra felt the water was clean and the color was natural... they put their hands in water and .. u know played with it...
Next stop .... Rose Garden...... Oops we chose a totally dismal time to visit Rose Garden... of the 2500 odd types of roses in there only some 250 odd were flowering.. and by god they were beautiful...
Finally we roamed around ooty trying to find some food.. well thats one problem.. and upendra managed to pick up all types of natural oils that were being sold there.. like nilgiri oil..eucalyptus oil.. .etc etc.. Then back to hotel and sleep..
Day 2: ...coming
Well the long weekend falling on April 10, 11 and 12 zoomed by. We (Me, Upendra and Rajagopal) had been to Ooty and surrounding places. Initially the people we enquired, that is, the bus reservation people, the hotel guys all said there is lots of vacancies so dont worry just show up in Ooty. Then on thursday evening we go to a KSTRC reservation counter to get tickets and he says "There are just 3 tickets available for today and tomorrow .. that too on a dakota bus .. non sleeper.. one like our BMTC and that too last seats." We had almost decided to go home and sleep the weekend. Then we found a Package tour @ 1850. Costly.. for individual not .. but as 3 people.. yes. .damn costly for 3. Anyways so he said 2 tickets are booked third he will adjust.. We reached Shanthinagar bus stand at 8 and we get two tickets for 9.30 bus. Man I havent seen shanthi nagar bus stand so crowded since it was built. It looked like the whole of bangalore was going to ooty. every couple of minutes a bus to ooty pulls up and picks people and leaves. all buses were following IST, so out 9.30 bus left by around 10.30 or 10.45. All this while we were stuck in the stupid bus stand without a place to sit. Anyways.. finally got into bus and started journey. We reached Ooty friday morning by 7 .. 7.30. Damn it was cold and we didnt even have sweaters. We were all in summer wear.. going by the advise of a friend who said.. ooty man..it was hot like hell in january only when we had gone.. now it will be even hotter.. oh damn.. how wrong he was.
Once we reached ooty the tourist guy picked us up and dumped us in a hotel where the rooms were still being checked out. So we had to sit in the lobby while a room was vacant. Finally we got a room. We freshened up and then had breakfast in the same place. The person at travel desk of the hotel offered us one more trip on friday.. as our sight seeing trip was on Saturday and Friday was our free day. We took that up.
First stop... Outside of the golf course in ooty. He gave us some explanation about it and showed us the fences and off to next.
Then we went to Pykara Dam..... Again no entry inside or near the dam.. just a show from the road a few hundred meters off .. "See thats the pykara dam".. and throughout the trip the guide kept blabbering about which all movies were shot in those places.. all useless trivia which we really did not care.
Then we went to a place where there were lots of nilgiri trees were there beside a nice lake. That spot was good.. again we got some useless trivia about films shot there ..
Then we visited a place called pai mund.. .well it is supposed to be a tribal area.. this time we got some useful info about the native people there and what they do..
The best part there were the fresh carrots that were being sold by the locals.. damn they are tasty..though u got to wash clean before u eat..
Next stop... Pykara lake and boating... It was a nice and big lake .. but somehow the water was green and i was convinced that it was dirty (god knows what and all .. :P) .. so never put my hand in water when we went boating.. though rajagopal and upendra felt the water was clean and the color was natural... they put their hands in water and .. u know played with it...
Next stop .... Rose Garden...... Oops we chose a totally dismal time to visit Rose Garden... of the 2500 odd types of roses in there only some 250 odd were flowering.. and by god they were beautiful...
Finally we roamed around ooty trying to find some food.. well thats one problem.. and upendra managed to pick up all types of natural oils that were being sold there.. like nilgiri oil..eucalyptus oil.. .etc etc.. Then back to hotel and sleep..
Day 2: ...coming
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