Software Engineers of Bangalore: What's with the backpack, dude?

You don't need a keen eye to spot a quintessential software engineer on the streets of Bangalore. The city's lousy with them. In fact, you don't even need an eye: just hurl a brick with your eyes shut, and you are likely to hit one (or more!). I've known Bangalore for 8 years, I know! :-)

New Lights on the Horizon!

I've already posted this on my facebook page, but I still felt like making a blog post out of it.
About a week back I bought a LED-equivalent of a 10W light-bulb (the type we use as a night lamp). It's just a light-bulb, so what's so exciting about it? Well, consider this: it only consumes 1/20th of the power of the regular one! That's right, its power rating is a meager 0.5W!
The reason for my excitement is that I've waited for the day when LED-based lighting would start to become economically feasible, when we could hope to buy LED light-bulbs for not-too-much money. And the day is upon me, apparently. :-)
Why all the fuss about LED's? Here's why.

Toying with small stuff.

I've been playing with my wooden chess board lately. :-) Here's a link to some pics of it:
https://picasaweb.google.com/117530528234240155492/Objects
Please take a look and let me know what you think of it.

Enough with the 'tips on safety'!

I find this very annoying. You hear a big news about a crime against women and Facebook is filled with status updates trying to spread word about how women can be more careful when travelling alone at night. They often mention that some "experts" say that women should lookout for this and that, and when faced with blah should try to do blah, or something else. 

Turn it Off, Please!

I normally don't like to muck about when I want to really say something, so I'll get to the point right away:
Please! Please, turn off all sounds on your mobile phones at your workplace.

'Wilderness exploring' last weekend.

I tried camping, as in complete with tents and sleeping bags, for the very first time last weekend. It was a very good learning experience for me, which is the main reason I am writing this post. 

If you are only interested in the photos from the trip, click here to go straight to my Picasa web albums. If you care for the rest of the story, read on.