Heights Of Animation

Susi Does It Again

So with all the concoctions I could create, I managed to escape from the tight spot once again. Somehow managed to arrange for a dead grandpa who was already dead for the past three years. So my guide was sorry for my grandad and also satisfied with my progress ;).But I feel very bad at having to do projects this way. Why should I always mess up things that I can do very well? Three months of hardwork and I know I can manage something that even I will be proud of having done. Most of the projects that I have done to date have been considered worthy of me by many of my peers though I know that I could have put up a far better show had I been more honest to myself. What is it with me? Why should I waste my talents like this and then play a farce with the evaluating panel when I can very easily be telling them things from my heart rather than from my brain? With this shit of a mouth that I got I have made many believe that I am indeed a very intelligent guy. People think that I can always handle projects well even if I don't get my marks. There are guys here who want to be in my team(Karthic, Vijay, Mallu,...). But I know I havent done justice to the belief they have in me though I can. This time though I am not going to let down anybody. If someone is going to be disappointed after this project, it has to be me alone. Enough of lameting I guess. Retrospection is not a healthy option now. HARDWORK is the only thing that can let me feel like myself.

The first review is on the 29th and I am a bit ready for it. That's just the point. I can be prepared even without really working. Not just my friends even my staff believe that my projects are worthy enough of passing their close scrutiny without even scrutinising fully. May be someone should find more faults with me. I am not eligible to get the accolades that I do get. May be if they do get more strict in my case, I will start to work better and my throughput may increase.

So I have written another paragraph about me again? Why does it always have to be ME, ME and ME? Why don't I write something about someone else? There are a lot of nice guys around me. Why don't I write about them? There are a lot of nice things happening around me. Why don't I write anything about them? Why must it always be the ME? May be I am so self-centerd in my thinking. Everybody is. You open a blog to write about you only. But atleast I could have reserved some space for my friends. OK. Here I go.

Vijay is one guy I feel sorry for having missed out on his IBM project. Sad thing to happen so late. But he took it sportively and is now slogging his ass out for an internal project. From another side I think it is better he does a project in the university than at IBM. I think IBM was not utilising him as they could or should. Though he feels that the project given to him was challenging, I firmly believed and still do that it was not worthy of his capabilities.

Another thing I would like to mention. There are a lot of fellows here who are hooked up with a project that is not worthy enough to be done by a student of this cadre. The panel members are looking for some project that has an IEEE base. But these guys argue and say that they ought not to be doing soooooo complex projects. But what then is a project for them? We have had enough of 'hello world' programs already for every semester. Are they thinking of implementing a web service which does nothing and submitting it? Or generating a error report tool for that matter. I am totally with the panel as regards this problem. Let us do something worthwhile for a change.

I am Running Out Of Reasons

Six months after my first post, I am justifying what I said there. I am one hell of a lazy ass. I don't have concrete reasons to attribute to this though. I know I can finish some things in a span of a few hours but my laziness drives me crazy. The thing that actually prompted me to start this post is the fact that I haven't met my project guide in the past 21 days. After my zeroth review she had given me some work and had wanted me to meet her after a couple of days. The work she had given was very small which I promptly failed to finish in the time provided. Later when it was really getting delayed, I made this fabulous awesome resolution to myself. This was my plan. Instead of going and meeting her now and saying that I haven't progressed any further, I will take may be another couple of days and show her something worth the time span. Please do keep in mind that I am indeed a fast worker -- At least a lot faster than a lot of guys around me. Now two days later, the situation was slightly different. I have now done more work than she had demanded yet the work couldn't be justified for four days. So then I thought I would push the deadline by another two days. And now the count stands at 21 days. A week back I had mailed her that due to the sudden demise of a close relative I couldn't meet her and that I would meet her the following Tuesday(I think I missed the word 'following' in the mail and may even justify it to be the next Tuesday). Another week has passed since. Now the work I have done can very easily be justified for ten days work. But twenty days have gone since then. How the hell am I going to face her now? What more reasons? By now even she should know what a lazy ass I am. I need to pacify things very soon. But how? I will have to call and give some other lame excuse at the very least. God knows what the F*** I am going to do. (There is a small rumor abuzz that the first review may be on the 22nd of this month).

Still got something to smile for.

Tidbit for the day

Turing Test
The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Professor Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence," it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. In order to keep the test setting simple and universal (to explicitly test the linguistic capability of the machine instead of its ability to render words into audio), the conversation is usually limited to a text-only channel such as a teletype machine as Turing suggested or, more recently IRC or instant messaging.

Somebody Recognizes My Hardwork

My watch says it is 6.30 in the morning. I am just back from the tea shop.

The tea master said:

"Don't you sleep at all. I saw you at three in the morning walking all alone and now you are back to the shop at six."

So the project must be coming good after all. Will have to wait another three months to see if his words bear any truth at all. :)

A Few Google Misconceptions

1. Google Desktop indexes your files and uploads the index to Google servers.
Not until you ask google to do so. Google stores index on your own computer and will send them to the google server securely only when you enable search across computer.


2. Gmail indexes your emails and makes them available for everyone.
No, Google indexes your mails so that you can search them just like other email services (yahoo, rediff etc.)


3. Google doesn't delete my Gmail messages.
For safe storage google makes multiple backups of your emails.
"You may organize or delete your messages through your Gmail account. Residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our offline backup systems." (Gmail Privacy Policy)


4. Google doesn't improve search anymore to increase its earnings from ads.
You may not see it in short time periods but google does tweak its algorithms to improve search results.


5. Search results should be ranked by people, not by algorithms.
Ask yourself, will you rank every google search result? I won't.


6. Google is spyware.
Spyware is "any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware applications are typically bundled as a hidden component of freeware or shareware programs that can be downloaded from the Internet. Once installed, the spyware monitors user activity on the Internet and transmits that information in the background to someone else. ..."Softwares like google toolbar and google desktop do send information to google servers for personalized working of the software for your computing environment. Google does protect this information from third party but still the problem lies in what does google do with this information.


7. Google Earth shows real-time images.
No, what you see "are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years".


8. Google is the best search engine that will ever be built.
Google's goal is to be the best, and it has achieved that to some extent. Still the market is big and competition is tough.


9. Google favors Wikipedia, Technorati, blogs.
No, the simple answer is that such sites have many backlinks to them.


10. Google will take over the world.
My wishes to them.