Design of design

A new book by Fred. (Mythical Man Month) Brooks is out in the market.

The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist

Mythical Month is a great book ... will this be a worthy successor of that book ??

i am going to find out soon.

bahut din ji liya maine

mohabbat tark ki maine garebaan si liya maine
zamaane ab to khush ho zahar ye bhi pi liya maine

abhi zinda hu lekin sochata rahata hu khalvat me
ki ab tak kis tamannaa ke sahare ji liya maine

unhe apna nahi sakta magar itana bhi kya kam hai
ki kuch muddat hasin khavaabo me kho kar ji liya maine

bas ab to daaman-e-dil chod do bekaar ummiido
bahut dukh sah liye maine bahut din ji liya maine

Old habit die hard

If one thing i have to learn than i would learn how to fight back from dada aka saurav ganguly. Everytime he is pushed to corner he fight backs like a tiger he is . go dada go !!

Quit TRDDC

Its long time since i last time a posted a entry. Many things have changed since than but biggest change is this.
its almost a month since that happened... but its one of those things that you have to blog about... initially i thought i ll write a detailed post with the reasons and my half baked plans, then i thought i'll write an emotional one, then a funny one... but now i have had enough of thinking about it... so there you go... i just put it in the title :-)

5400 rpm vs 7200 rpm hard drive for laptop

I am planning to buy a laptop. How much speed difference will it make if I go for a 7200 rpm hdd (solid state is still a dream object for me). What about the battery cost of 7200 rpm hdd. Heat generation ?  noise ? my desktop hdd was like a monster crawling.

New Google Search

Check out new Google search engine code-name caffeine
http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

Way faster than Bing shing ping ;-)


It looks a new search war is brewing just there
will talk about it later ...

Javadoc search plugin

For those of you who use firefox to refer the javadoc, the following search plugin will make a handy way to locate the javadoc. Just type the class name/method name in the firefox search bar and bingo !!

It is a neat hack which uses Google I’m feeling lucky function

So just copy the xml in yours <Firefox Install Dir>/searchplugins and restart the firefox.
Same plugin should also work for Internet explorer

The icon image I have taken from the http://java.sun.com/favicon.ico .

Download : http://hacker.asif.googlepages.com/javasearch.xml

Cheers,