Java and JavaScript over the years

This is from Dion Almaer of Ajaxian.

My book cover

I have already started writing this book and it would be useful to all nerds who are down and de-motivated for some unknown reasons on weekends. More writers are required. Contact here

two monitors

I will be getting extra monitor in office so that I can save time toggling n putty screens for log files as well lot of other regular stuff. Here is the dilbert picture related to same topic. I am not exuberant but anyways its a good news. :))

The only problem is I don't have enough work and this would further reduce the time I am spending on office work. May be I will use one for regular work while the other one for RSS, reddit, and lot of non-productive things.

Let me get first that extra monitor then may be I can utilize it for good work.

aussie revenge

Bucknor: (n) (adj)
1. Temporary blindness leading to missing out on the
obvious.
2. To be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
3. Situations leading to grave judgmental errors.
Usage: I feel bucknored by my boss; Life often throws a
bucknor at you.

Benson: (n) (adj)
1. Something that legitimises a severe bucknor.
Usage: First they bucknored me and then they bensoned it! I
am
toast.
Also see bucknor

Ponting: (n) (verb)
1. Action which represents cheating and still showing bad
attitude (Indian lingo: Chori and Seenajori)
2. Unhealthy habit of not accepting your wrongs.
Usage: He is ponting a lot despite having been caught
traveling
without ticket.

Sir Edmund Hillary is no more

Hillary, who together with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, winning him renown as one of the greatest adventurers of the last century.

Two years after his historic Everest climb, Hillary helped lead a team from the Commonwealth across Antarctica to the South Pole, carving a new path to the Earth's magnetic southernmost point.

Hillary spent decades pouring energy and resources from his own fundraising efforts into Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1982.

Known as "burra sahib" — "big man," for his height of 6 feet, 2 inches — by the Nepalese, Hillary funded and helped build hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools, and raised funds for higher education for Sherpa families.

Ice Warriors

I got this link from someone from Chakram Hikers .Must read article for any adventure sport freak. Ok story goes like this.There are around 14 8000+ meter peaks around the world and polish climbers managed to reach summit for half of them in winter during 1970 to 1978. And for the next 17 years no one bothered to climb remaining peaks in winter.Polish climbers did the 8th one too when no one else dared to finish remaining winter summits.

Last lines of the articles are

In this story of mountains and men, winter and willpower, suffering and survival, eight chapters have already been written. There are only six left—and there's no doubt the Poles will write them. Who else could?

"What if all 8,000-meter peaks could be conquered in the winter by the Polish?" Wielicki had declared in his Winter Manifesto. "Wouldn't it be great? Can you imagine that! Let the name Ice Warriors be inscribed in the history of Himalayan climbing forever."

hello New year!

Am back from the trek and Its a new year and there are lot of posts on blogosphere about good and bad in 2007 as well as what new things you can expect in 2k8. Particularly this one which predicts about google, facebook, yahoo, M$, MySpaces etc. Similar things I am pondering about myself and my friends in real life. Hence I was browsing aimlessly hmm or may be with the only aim to find something interesting to do.And now here is the quote on my iGoogle.

"The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

I am fan of PG so headed to his old posts and read once again my favorite post there.
Some excerpts for readers here...

"In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's. You may not even be aware you're doing something people want. Your contribution may be indirect. But the company as a whole must be giving people something they want, or they won't make any money."

"That averaging gets to be a problem. I think the single biggest problem afflicting large companies is the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work. For the most part they punt. In a big company you get paid a fairly predictable salary for working fairly hard. You're expected not to be obviously incompetent or lazy, but you're not expected to devote your whole life to your work."

"To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect"

"But you don't have to become a CEO or a movie star to be in a situation with measurement and leverage. All you need to do is be part of a small group working on a hard problem."

Smallness = Measurement AND Technology = Leverage

Catches:

"If it were simply a matter of working harder than an ordinary employee and getting paid proportionately, it would obviously be a good deal to start a startup. Up to a point it would be more fun. "

BUT

"When you're running a startup, your competitors decide how hard you work. And they pretty much all make the same decision: as hard as you possibly can."

There is lot more..explore the 10-15 minute dream from the cubicle nation ..just like me :)