BYOD... the next hype cycle...

Bring Your Own Device. A neat way to reduce IT costs of an organization by tricking the employees to fend for themselves as far as computing devices are concerned. It is not even new, as some form of BYOD has been there for a few years even before people started calling it BYOD...

The current hype cycle belongs to BYOD... 

The curious case of 1366x768...

HD ready? Whatever!

Don't understand why it is the most common screen option in everything starting from an 11" ultrabook to a 17" desktop replacement...

The current MacBookAir 13" has better specs than most ultrabooks, and the price difference is not very much... And it has a 1440x900 LCD... An MBA for around 75k (INR)...

Firefox 1111...

Still do not understand why the Firefox folks had to change how the product is versioned. Something is seriously wrong. What's the whole point of pushing out multiple major releases within a span of only a few days!

Code search laid to rest....

Buzz had died down, that was a while back... Wave was a still birth...

Now, something useful, Google Code Search, has been shutdown...

Going to miss you!

Un poema........

The poem, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, by Yeats kind of captures my feelings towards my work.

I love programming, but somewhere along the line, the fun goes away. From then on, it is about the money, position et cetera.

I mean, I need the money. Seriously. WTF!

Still...


I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

New kid in town...

And it is called Buzz. Google buzz. buzzzzzzzzz.......

I fail to get excited. Or was it, I refuse to get excited? Is that so bad?

Why would my rants be of any interest to anyone else? Why would someone's rants be of any interest to me?

Damn. Oh well, I have the option of staying away!

Right. Shall exercise that.

By publishing online. Like this.

QED.

Ganymede to Galileo... to the moon and back...

Callisto to Europa to Ganymede to Galileo... The trend has been set... The next version of Eclipse is gonna be different... It is going to weigh more... Soon people will be forced to download a 500MB file as the IDE... and then the next version will be even bigger...

Great!!

Am loving it!!!

Thoroughly!!!!