Top 7 reasons why I joined IT…

1) I hated sleep.

2) I had enjoyed my life enough.

3) I couldn’t live without tension.

4) I wanted to pay for my sins.

5) I believed in the Bhagwad Geeta principle: karm karo, phal ki ichha na karo.

6) Everything in life has a reason; I wanted to prove it wrong.

7) I wanted to take revenge on myself.

Too much workload

“All work and No Play” has become a norm in IT industry today.

A picture is worth thousand words

I never developed an application without errors. It’s so difficult to understand these errors. Why don’t we have something like this…

 

Techie John
I was having trouble with my computer.
So I called John the computer guy, to come over.  John clicked a couple of  buttons and solved the problem.
He gave me a bill for a minimum service call.
As he was walking away, I called after him, ‘So, what was wrong?’
He replied, ‘It was an ID ten T error.’ 
I didn’t want to appear stupid, but  nonetheless inquired, ‘An, ID ten T error?  What’s that … in case I need to fix it again?’
John grinned ….. ‘Haven’t you ever heard of an ID ten T  error before?’
‘No,’ I replied.
‘Write it down,’ he said,  ‘and I think you’ll figure it out.’
So I wrote down:  -  I D 1 0 T

 

 

 

Forbes Top Global Firms — 2008

No.. I will not list forbes list of top 2000 global firms here. That data is overwhelmingly available on forbes home page.

The big news is that 48 Indian companies has featured in that elite list. What!!!! just 48!!! Oh common.. our economy is growing at a stupendous rate of 8.7 %. We are the next superpower. We tout ourselves as a country whose 4 gentlemen complete the list of World’s 10 richest persons. This is not fair (sarcastically).

RIL and ONGC are the two companies in top 200, holding positions at 193 and 198 respectively. I am not keen on improving anybody’s general knowledge but to highlight the fact that there is a big difference between organizational and personal achievements. There are some over-performing organizations run by some under-estimated creatures who never bothered to make it to the list of richest human-beings. Ironically, in India, we have the opposite. Barato (the famous Italian Economist) who gave the 80-20 principle (which says that 80% of people hold 20% of wealth) seems to be in India when he carried out research on his theory.

Neverthless, we, the Indians, never give importance to things that discourage selflessness. What if 5 % doctors in US, Canada and UK and 4 % doctors in Australia are from a country which is short of 60K doctors and 1 million Nurses and where patient to doctor ratio is 10000:1, it is our promise that we will never be short of human resources.