I was standing in line to get into a plane yesterday and heard this comment made by a gentleman to his friend
You know.. funny thing about work, it has to get done!!
The guys were discussing about how their wives don’t understand the pressures of work 
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Have you ever seen an Indian Samurai? No, I don’t think so . I have been fascinated by Samurai ever since I was a kid. So I asked my friend, Buffy (awesome artist) to create a personal profile of me in Samurai attire . And what do you get? An Indian Samurai . 
Moving forward, this is going to become my profile on all online services (other than LinkedIn, because I like my job ). Everyone can put up a picture, but very few can put up their own personalized icon .
Want to get your own personalized profile icon? Send a note to Buffy at http://www.handmadebybuffy.com/. You won’t regret it.
Other than a bunch of movies being released on this date.. everything seems to be normal . Stock market is volatie, Europe seems confused, Revolutions going on in middle east.. I keep gaining weight .. yep.. things are normal..
We were getting a free t-shirt at work and I requested a medium.. response from the person giving the t-shirt
You used to be a medium, when you started working here!!
And I was given a large..
Ouch ..
I was reading this post (http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2011/10/state-of-railway-e-ticketing-in-india.html) by Rohit Agarwal and happened to check out the official site for the Indian Railway (which is a public enterprise).
And what do I see there? Ads for dating services and Penny Auctions!! Last I checked, the Indian Railways was one of the most profitable ventures in the pubic enterprises in India. What gives? Here’s a screenshot for proof 
Ran across this error message on Flickr, when I was trying to get to my photostream
I am attending the Camp DevOps conference in Chicago over the weekend and one of the speakers was Zack Steinkamp. Zack manages the operations tools group in addition to information security at Groupon. He spoke about a custom configuration management tool called “roller” (http://steinkamp.us/campdevops.pdf) that is used at Groupon. He said the tool is scheduled to be open sourced soon. roller is very similar to puppet, chef, bcfg2 etc. I am not sure if we need yet another configuration management tool, but Zack made a good point for why there is a need for a simpler and secure configuration management tool.
Anyways.. this post is not about roller, but rather about some tidbits that Zack shared about Groupon’s infrastructure in the talk
I am hoarder .. Esp for free stuff. That’s one of the reason, I have the Amazon Android App Store on my phone. Amazon gives “away” a free app every day. Even though I don’t really use/need the app that Amazon gives away, I get it, just in case. It is free , so why not?
The apps usually cost something if brought in the regular app store, but Amazon makes them available for free for a day. So yesterday, I was surprised to see a free app appear in the free app of the day section. What gives?
I confess.. I am a nerd . Pictures of my new office toy. And if you want to make your co-workers jealous, head over to Josh Welton’s site (http://www.browndogwelding.com/) and order yourself a piece of art.
Thx to D for the great pictures..
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