Bangalore Route 335 Again

As usual I took the 335 BMTC Volvo service to office. It was very crowded when I boarded at the HAL. It was very difficult to stand and it was not at all a pleasant experience.

The bus was just taking off from the Wind Tunnel road signal. A sudden break!! Half the people standing fall. The guy who was standing behind was on my back. Oops!!! A Silver WagonR (KA 03 MC 1543) car jumped from left lane to in front of bus and zoomed. The brake was to avoid an accident with the car.

The next signal bus driver caught the car driver. He went out of the bus and started shouting at the car driver. The car driver very a stylish dressed guy with a Bluetooth ear phone also came out and started fighting with bus driver. The fight went till signal turns green.

My back is still paining!!

Advt as News

I always felt lot of AD comes as news. I see most of it in TOI. Saw this article on hoot.

The job of the media is tell you that you that you suck, because you don't live best apt in town, You don't drive the latest car, You don't fly often or vacation often!!!.

News and movies are all about creating a market and communicate that you such because you don't buy things.

Most of the media today belongs to political parties or Business houses. Is there any difference between both ? Both has clear agendas. Not hidden any more.

The Story of Stuff

I saw this The Story of Stuff today. Very thought provoking. If you have 20 mins you should watch it.

Does human race in this planet is designed to sustain for ever. No. I think what we facing today is the evolution cycle for our extinction. We cannot escape from it. But we can delay it? But how much?

I am paid how to make you to use the phone more and talk more. Let me think about it.

the-3-mistakes-of-my-life

I picked up a copy of the 3 mistakes of my life from cousin and read it yesterday night. This work is much better than the FPS or "Call Center". A good story to read and I finished it 4-5 hours of continuous reading.

It is more than a story. It draws the recent events in Ahmadabad embedded in a beautiful story of dream dare and love. It is a great attempt. Cricket is Religion or Religion is Politics in India? I only felt bored while reading the last and long fight to save the life of Ali. It should have been presented better!!

Some times it becomes a documentary while explaining the Australian sports. But over all I just liked it. It might not be classic but It is good to read it.

Note: I read in the Authors post hat half a million copies of book sold in a month. !!!

Cast System in Software Development.

Last week two fresh engineers from college joined our group. Our group is a product team 25 people (2 sub teams Dev team and System Validation Team). All the members joined for quick stand up meeting to introduce the new guys to the team.

It was interesting. The Dev team members introduced themselves as they are an elite group. It was obvious from the expression and language and more obvious if the engineer is less experienced. While most of the testing team members avoided saying their team.

I always felt that there is a cast system existing in the industry based on the Job category.
The following is order from top.
1) Programmer / Developer (In these two groups. Maintenance engineer is belonging lower group than Dev)
2) Testing
3) SCM / Release and Build Management
4) Tech Writing
5) Product Support

Might be the product management folks and sales folks think Dev is low cast job? Does the higher cast produce more value than the lower one?

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