So, what’s keeping me busy these days? It’s office work, of course. Working on quite a challenging and bigger project has its side-effects as well (working till late and missing daily fruit juice doses in my case). Other than that, I am enjoying the work as it has to do with web development, my area of interest.
Being a strong advocate of open-source and Linux, I read a lot of articles on these topics daily. And I hate when people use words like “switch”, “migrate”, etc. when referring to making the move from Windows to Linux. Why do people, who try to compel people to switch from Windows to Linux, forget that there is always an option called “dualbooting” and that Windows still has the astronomically largest market share? I really hope people use the word “dualboot” more when advocating the use of Linux to others. By the way, I am also writing an article highlighting this matter (Why Switch? Dualboot!), which I intend to share pretty soon.
Talking about Linux, the latest Ubuntu release (10.4; Lucid Lynx) has been getting good reviews from all around. I can hardly wait to get my hands on it. I am planning to install it on my home PC (the one currently in use by my Dad and sister).
Also, two of my good friends, Chandan Puggal (working at Aricent) and Amritpal Singh (working at Accenture) recently joined me in Gurgaon (my present work location). 
Finally, I did mention it earlier also, but it really is a frustrating life without a proper Internet connection. (Looking upward) God, please me my EV-DO back. Amen.
Saw this today as “Quote of the day” on my office’s notice board.
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous
That’s 100% right, Mr. Anonymous. Very well said.
So, that was about the quote.
- I recently got an Internet connection at my place, in Gurgaon; it’s a BSNL EV-DO based connection. Quite happy with it for now.
- Got rid of 1185 spam comments today. Had to go through each one of them to spot out genuine ones stuck there.
- Today, finally, Microsoft certifications lost my trust. On doing MCTS and MCP, all by myself, I felt very proud. But on looking around in the office, I found out that anybody can clear these certifications given they have proper dumps for that. Now that really hurt me.
It’s been a week now since my Accenture training got over. Now, my real office work has started.
Missing my friends (back in Bangalore) that I made during my Accenture training there.
Waiting desperately to get my hands on an Internet connection at home. I’ll go with either of Airtel broadband or BSNL EVDO.
My CAT exam is on 29th November. Will be going virtually without preparation. Let’s see what happens.
Will resume my Granular development as soon as I get an Internet connection. Meanwhile, the Unity Project has been going good, as it would seem.
After losing their bilateral Cricket series to Australia, I hope India will perform a lot better in their next series (India vs Sri Lanka), scheduled to start on 16th November.
With Twitter blocked in my office (*sigh*), yes, it’s a tough life without it! 
Since I landed in Bangalore, my schedule has been extremely busy. Yeah, I had heard in the past that the training period in an IT company, especially Accenture, is very tough, I am experiencing it only now. I have yet to take out some time to go out and explore that grand city that is Bangalore. Most of my time everyday is spent preparing for in-training tests. But anyway, the first phase of my training ends today, the last test of first phase being on 28th Sept.
A ray of hope in my frustrating daily schedule has to be me getting .NET stream, that is, I would be doing my second (and final) phase of training on Microsoft .NET technologies, and eventually be getting projects based on it. I am curious to begin my stream training, more because my stream is more web-development oriented (yippie!). By the way, it would be ASP.NET + C#.
That’s all for now. I’ll try to keep my blog as updated as possible.
Recent Comments