Usability and Testing Colloquium
I got to talk at this colloquium on usability. It was a last minute thing but I enjoyed talking to some 40 people, most from software testing. Glad to see that usability is gaining popularity in this country. Recommended Books on Usability write to me: sumank [at] gmail [dot] com
AeroForce One Crashes In Bangalore
As it turned out, it was a pretty bad show. Yes, it was bad trust me. Tyler sang as if he had no interest at all in entertaining the audience. He never hit the high notes. And most times, did not even sing! Joe Perry was equal in his rather pompous display of utter incompetence. It was stunning to watch these guys willingly screw up; we grew up listening to them and watching them. It as a big let down. I was actually waiting for the concert to finish, so I could get back home and drink some beer. The only high point of the concert happened outside of it: a guy ran back from the gate screaming ‘Hey they are asking me for tickets man!’And, what’s with these guys, Tyler and Perry, advertising their stupidity? They think India More...
SKYP will be back. Shortly.
Working on a script. Day job is hectic. Been traveling a lot these days. But, SKYP will be back to active blogging very soon. In the mean time why don’t you check on some old stories?
Blast from the past: B M Reddy
On November 11 1990, the PVKN Arts College Cricket team created history. We won the inter-college tounrament for the first time in the history of the college. I don’t think the college repeated the feat. Our captain was B.M. ‘Chilka’ Reddy. A drill master, leader, and one of the finest batsmen that the town produced. He played for the state but was not lucky enough to break in to the big league. During the run up to the inter-collegiate, we practiced twice every day. Practice included fitness training and the notorious fielding training, in which each player (all alone) would pick the ball that Reddy would hit, and shoot an accurate throw into the irreverent ‘Kombu’ our keeper. If you misfielded or if the throw was wayward you had to do a lap on the ground.
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Smart Ass Reporting
Duh!Don’t you guys just love that George Khoshy? She is so cute!
The Monsters That We Feed
The Gujrat fake encounter news may have shocked quite a few of you. But it doesn’t surprise me at all. It wouldn’t surprise anyone from Andhra Pradesh in fact.
Back in the 90s when I was a college student, there was this sub-inspector who used to carry a whip. He used to crack his whip on innocent by standers and once he chased us with his whip; why? Because the four of us were having tea on a roadside shop. The inspector, ‘Jaati’ Naganna later was involved, allegedly, in the rape of a woman in police custody. Back then in Chittoor, I was scared to go out for night shows at the movies, for I was scared of bumping into beat constables: they beat you up any way, whether you show them the counter-foil of your movie ticket More...
How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control
…take an iPod and turn it in to a universal infrared remote control which can be used to control all your home electronic equipment, or just about anything that uses a remote control, for example in our place we have our iPod controlling our TV, DVD Player, Direct TV, Ultimate TV PVR, Media Center PC, Xbox, XM Satellite Radio, Roomba and a few other random things like a Robot.
Interested? Go to Engadget for details.
If you were to make a Tamil movie…
…something that’s based on the theme of vengeance, what would be your storyline? Leave a comment.