Aditya Kumar’s Weblog
I will be hosting a Windows 7 launch party at my home sometime around the 22nd of October - The official launch day of Windows 7. The aim of the party is to see Windows 7 ultimate, the first day, first hand. Those of you who have had their experience with Windows 7 RC should [...]
While I have been away due to affairs related to matrimony (no, I am not married yet!) there have been things happening around.
One such thing that caught my notice today, in my inbox was a petition against the fair usage policy that has been set out as terms and conditions of broadband usage by at [...]
In the three weeks that saw this blog, the writer of this blog and the world’s largest democracy grow an year old there were a few things that we could have done without. To name a few:
1. The bombs in the city were too many and enough to spark a debate, yet again, on how [...]
Sometimes at work, I pause.
And I wonder, if this is the thing that excites me. If I like being here in the first place. Because if it does not then there is a problem.
Apart from one or two instances when I was really down, I have never doubted my decision to be a programmer. [...]
So I haven’t been spending much time on the internet updating my blog and not reading much of others as well. A few other things keep cropping up that need my attention and I have seldom had this sort of “break” or “time-off” from blogging. I can’t promise regular updates for now!
Anyway, I had this [...]
Though I have always believed that Indians have been, on the whole, more open to changes related to technology, I have also found out how various (Indian) organizations, which would have otherwise benefited from people using more technology, have failed to realise this and have lost a lot of money and goodwill, on the way.
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A friend I know, one of the many programmers in the city, told me over dinner that he is facing problems with his job.
What kind of problems I asked.
The company he works for has barred the employees from using the Internet. It is common, of course, network administrators keep on applying policies to block certain [...]
