Bay area traffic map on the halloween evening

and yes, that is my iphone ;-)

Indians and cricket - Religion or Stupidity?

Recently India won the much celebrated and a new cricket world cup format Twenty20

I could not be more happy after a humiliating defeat in the recent normal (one-day) world cup, but look at the sheer media attention, and the amount of money that each of these players made in comparison to our national Hockey team players who recently won the Asia Hockey Cup 2007 beating Korea 7-2 to defend the championship!

People are all ga-ga over it. Cricket fans might say that 'Cricket is a religion in India', I would really say - you are in some kind of crazy funky religion where mass hysteria is rampant, you hate the team when they loose, and worship them when they win - give me a break!

Our hockey team is pretty distraught by all this right now! And it is not really fair for them.

10 great things about testing

Click: 10 great things about testing

I have seen some people frown on a testing career! Simply put it, they are just naive. Although my business card says "developer", I could have been a great QA personnel. I have great respect for any individual with a passion for QA, which makes any product presentable to the customer.

If it were just for the developers.. well, let me not write anymore

Those are some reasons why testing is great, as Murugan Pal spells it out very eligantly. I bet that the list does not stop at 10... but this is a start.

Red means STOP!

oh! crap. That is my car. Plain and simple, I am going thro' hell with the insurance company right now. Even though the other driver accepted fault that she jumped the red, with the cop on scene, and the incident report clearly says so, the insurance company "respectfully denies liability"!

Now, after being robbed off my transportation vehicle for the next 2-3 weeks, I have to run around for no apparent mistake of mine!

Update [Nov 11, 2007]: The car is all fixed now - and the other driver was declared guilty by the arbitrator. Yay! I got some of my money back. But, nothing to replace all the turmoil we went through without a car for a month and a half.