My Highs & Lows of 2008

Posted by anas on Jan 4, 2009 in Life | 16 comments What’s good about a new year? To be honest, nothing is good about it given the extra effort needed at the time of speech delivery to make sure you don’t say next year to things which are suddenly going to happen in this year and the added mental effort of making sure you jot the correct digit when writing down the date. However, the new year, or end of an year can serve as a benchmark...
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Weekend Nights

Posted by anas on Dec 14, 2008 in London Diary | 15 comments A weekend night is something we all yearn for over the whole week and the plans for such nights can be numerous varying from person to person but nothing trumps the fun of sitting late in the night with nice background music, sipping coffee/coke/red bull and eating doritos while trying to figure out a way to reduce 20ns latency in my program!! Any programmer (software and hardware) can testify...
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You're An Engineer If….

Posted by anas on Dec 13, 2008 in Humor | 15 comments I found these interesting points about engineers on a website which I’m reproducing here with my own comments in italics on some of them. You’re and engineer if: You have no life – and you can PROVE it mathematically. Atleast we can prove it You enjoy pain. We can take it! You know vector calculus but you can’t remember how to do long division. Errr…true!! You...
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Clutter of Mind

Posted by anas on Nov 11, 2008 in London Diary | 4 comments I don’t know what to write. There’s a lot of clutter on my mind. My last post was 21 days ago!! I can’t remember that long hiatus before. I’ve been tagged, twice, but I’m yet to respond. I feel so damn lazy here! It has to do with the weather I think. The cold weather and quiet nights (which begin early!) are a perfect combo for a nice long sleep. And then I’ve...
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