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Dad you should become a writer…

Saket just came out of his bath a couple of minutes ago and caught me. “He said, dad you should seriously become a writer. You write really good blogs and stuff and you should become a writer!” Felt a thrill go through me…that saket would think about it, and tell me about it too. Thanks […]

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“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality." –Walter Gropius, German architect

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“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it." –François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer

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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try." –Peggy Noonan, U.S. presidential speechwriter

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“Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious." –B.C. Forbes, Scottish financial journalist

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The Agile Manifesto…

I read this in a blog on agile embedded… and it reminded me of the way some of the work I used to do earlier. A lot of that came from XP and the Spiral Model, but this is about fundamentals as to why you program. This does not mean that I don’t believe in […]

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“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” —Zig Ziglar

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A target met…75 kilos–May 21st 2012

I reached my target weight of 75.0 kilo’s today…74.6 actually… For the longest time I have said, “Before I got married I wanted to be 75 kilos (I was 73.1) and worked out long and hard; after marriage the target has been the same but I was coming at it from the other side!” I […]

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Developing Specialised Devices for Intelligent Systems–Windows CE 7 Seminar

I am writing this at the Microsoft Windows CE Compact 7 one day seminar on Intelligent Systems. One caveat as you read this, you are going to find that there is really no continuity in this blog entry because I am writing this as it happens. A definition of Intelligent Systems…

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What we sang throughout the weekend…

I write this message at 9:45pm on Sunday. The weekend is over, and we are getting ready to begin the next week. Saket is singing as he gets ready to sleep. And that is what this post is about. All of us sang this song throughout the weekend. I cant believe how addictive it is! […]