The reluctant groom
Read this piece in Outlook India. Sigh! Lived through it and know the feeling. But for us now, the pressure is to "start a family".
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Read this piece in Outlook India. Sigh! Lived through it and know the feeling. But for us now, the pressure is to "start a family".
Amit Verma has blogged about Thomas Friedman's love affair with Bangalore.
I could not agree more.
Javaworld has published an excerpt from my book Jakarta Commons Online Bookshelf.
The excerpt is from Module 11, which covers Jakarta Commons Modeler.
It is great to see yourself published in Javaworld, even though it is only a chapter excerpt. :)
Shellie and her mum filmed a segment for Brisbane Extra for the bottles of hope program that they jointly run. Bottles of Hope is a free program that sends small decorative bottles to cancer survivors and their families as a token of hope and a wish for future good health.
They were filmed in Princess Alexandria hospital today and will be on air sometime this week.
I am currently reading this classic by Charles Dickens. I was afraid before I picked the book up that it would be a slow read with hard to understand Victorian English. To my complete and utter surprise, it is a fascinating read! While I wouldn't say that it's a page turner, it is so well written that I am actually enjoying reading it.
Some months back I read "The old man and the sea", a Nobel prize winning story by Ernest Hemingway. While that was a book that genuinely tugged at your heart strings, it was a difficult read for me. I struggled to finish it because in spite of the courage displayed by the central character, I could guess where the story was going. It was predictable and at the same time, so slow.
Not Oliver Twist. I am enjoying the way this story is going and love the narrative. It is fast yet paints a complete picture. It may end up being a simple story, but it would be a story well told.
No wonder it is a classic.
I have started blogging on java.net from today onwards. As you would expect, this is a work related blog. I will continue to post personal stuff here and java related on java.net. My interests, at the moment atleast, lie in Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME, technology for mobile devices) so if you are interested in such stuff then read my thoughts here.
Interesting thing is that they also use MT for publishing these blogs (as is this one). It's an environment that I am comfortable with although I am surprised that MT was so configurable.
Anyways, hope to see you there!