Bill, Hillary and the gas station

Remembered an old joke while chatting with a group of friends. Nothing against Clinton. Infact he is one of my favourite but this joke is a worthy mention.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are travelling on a long ride to their hometown. They stop over at a gas station to fuel up. They fill up the gas and when they are about to leave, the guy at the gas station says a big hello to Hillary and waves her a goodbye.

Hillary : You know who he was. He was the guy who proposed me first at college.
Clinton : (proudly) Imagine , if only you had accepted his proposal….you would have been the wife of a gas station guy.
Hillary : No way, By now he would have been the president !!

Of C’s and C plus plusses

Only 35% object oriented featured in kuro5hin is a well-written short story I should say though it is a real life account of how a project went bad because of the buzzword lovers. This article has tons of comments and brickbatting happening. Very interesting.

As ucblockhead accounts in the article Buzzwords are not goals. If you let buzzwords overrule your requirements, you are in for a world of hurt. I agree totally to his point of how buzzwords rule the game and send projects to trash.

Being a die-hard fan of C programming and a pretty-ok programmer in C, I had issues of how-2-look-at-C++ from a C perspective. The perspective what I had was mostly academic and it wasn’t helpful when I was working in a C++ project. To unlearn the C++ which I learnt academically and learn the practical way of C++ took a long time but was fairly beneficial. And only then I was able to appreciate the OOP in C++.

Madurai Veeran – Warrior of Madurai

Kamal is getting back to work after Anbe Sivam. His latest film Sandiyar‘s start happened among a huge crowd of his fans in Madurai’s Medical College grounds.

Madurai has been a historical place for a lot of cinema icons in Tamil Nadu. But for Kamal it is yet another film starter with a different dimension. He said he had been roaming around in and around madurai for the last few months to get some new faces for this movie. Also he had found some new habits and some tidbits about the place which he plans to use it in the movie. Incidentally the movie is also set in Madurai he planned to have it started therei.

Despite the violence in the film, Sandiyar focuses on non-violence. Being Kamalhassan‘s directorial venture after Hey Ram, illayaraja comes back to score for the film.

This diwali break-free for Sandiyar!!

Google’s Googly – Dano

Dano- the new version of blogger will be out in few days. Arnab Nandi of TimePass Town was reviewing Dano and he was inviting co-authors to review it. And now along with him, I am also reviewing it here.

This blog is an exclusive one which was created and maintained in Dano. It is a cool interface especially for me who has been blogging with Blogger Basic for more than a year. I had felt at time to switch to other interfaces but I kept tight hoping Blogger being the a sure leader in this blogging world would come out with a much better version.

After Google took over Blogger this is the first significant change happening. I had felt other important changes in terms of speed and less downtime after Google‘s presence. This is specially a Google’s Googly for other competitors and would clearly set blogger ahead in the race.

Any one who wants to review Dano, checkout with Arnab.

Do you believe this or have you encountered this. This morning when I was listening to a song from ‘Mughavari’ which was released during 2000, I went back in time and felt like I was still working in Citibank. Had a similar feeling which I had 3 years back and felt like I will start, go pickup my Hreo Puch and travel all the way to Shakti Towers in Mont Road. But currently I ride a splendor and go just the opposite direction of Mount Road.

It is slightly tough for me to describe that moment but I remember having such experiences happening before even with a smell of books and houses. I have no clue what they call this in pshcology but this memory travelback fascinates me as our brain has capabilities of such complex operations and it can actually make you travel back in time for a moment.

My friend suggested it to be a Deja Vu experience. Is that so?