Diary of a Software Engineer

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Heroes of My life


Isnt it surprising that you are always the hero of your story? I mean, there is always a rationale to your activities. It doesnt matter how evil an activity you are doing. To you, it seems the most sanest of action. Hitler must have thought he was Rambo or something when he set out to start the Second World War.

Monday, April 24, 2006

History of My Project


Most of you wont believe me when I say that I have been working. But I have been doing that and worse still, I have been working hard. There were times when I came early to office around 8 (shudder!!!) and left at around 7 (double shudder!!!). But whats been happening here? Why am I working so hard?????

I attribute all these unnatural phenomenon to the unnatural diligence of my unnatural peers. And the unnatural thing about it all is that it is totally not natural. At least not in my project. Our clients actually made this project for the Hippobram species on the third planet of the Heredion stellar system. The Hippobram species is somewhat like humans but the difference lies in the fact that these alien species vomit out their brains when they dont need it and carry it around in a suitcase. The motto is: dont unnecessarily use your brains for unnecessary reasons.

Our clients had such elaborate plans for this project. They visualized a testing world wherein zombies would be doing their jobs for them and whom they could easily convince to do the work (the zombies didnt have the brains to understand the deciet that they were falling into). They would market this deciet under big market names like Wipro, Infosys, TCS and such. The gullible employees of these companies would come running to do the work, vomit out their brains, keep it in an air conditioned cooler specially made for storing brains. There would be special incentives for storing brains like if you continously keep it in the cooler for 5 years or so, you get free combo's in multiplexes.

But unfortunately, just before our client could outsource it to the Hippobram species, they got wiped out when some stuffs like a broken tire, a boot, some dirty clothes, a stained curtain and a couple of gloves hit their planet at super speed and the whole planet erupted because of this. So they outsourced it to us instead.

So thats the whole story of how our project started out. But it turns out, humans are not at all like Hippobram. They have a brain which is used like 24 hours a day. Unfortunately since, the project does not require any 24 x 7 brains, the brain pursues other avenues. And the dismay of it all, guys, I have actually spent a couple of minutes thinking. The contents, of course, are nothing too worthwhile. But that is beyond the point. The point is I have actually been thinking. And that too for more than one minute. Hence, my concern.