Abondaned !!

I am in destructive mood these days... after deleting facebook account, disabling google buzz, removing everything from orkut profile .. i guess its time to abandon blogger as well.. will create a fresh blog somewhere .. just don't know where and when ....
Alvida..

Status Update

It is not new for me to try new things.In fact yesterday i told saleem that im like air always changing direction always try something new. but in past 2 months im experimenting in far far greater speed.I dont know whether it is good or bad but im experimenting and will continue to do that.

I have tried erlang(a funtional language), C# (big step for a (ex?)M$-basher), python in the gap of few weeks. Pair programming, Agile, Test driven development are new practices that i learnt. But the best thing happened to me is my growing interest in Distributed applications. For past few weeks im trying out a project called Hadoop.

It is an opensource projects under the umbrella of Apache foundation. If to put in a single line, it is opensource implementation of the MapReduce algorithm which is the core of Google empire. Hadoop opened a plethora of questions to me. What is Big Data? How it affects me ? Why we need a non-rdms approach towards information-retriewal ?

So i am starting a new journey to get answers to those . If i dont show here soon , assume im still looking for the answers ;-)         

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.