God-Mode in Programing

A very popular cheat among gaming community is "GODMODE", in which you practically become invulnerable and unstoppable.You simply mow down hordes of enemies to complete the game but nevertheless it's a blank victory.

God-Mode Wiki

I was wondering what if there was some god mode in real life of software developers, no more nasty bugs, no more bug-fixing deadlines .. life would be simply wonderful.Tabularizing the differences/similarities the hypothetical Dev-"God mode" and Game-"God mode".

and guess what the best part is .. there is a GodMode cheat in real life, and it is

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Ta-da :)

Two Lines I will never forget

Memories.... some are vivid , while some are foggy ..

Memories of rejection are pretty harsh but in a retrospect I find them pretty funny, I mean indeed they were hard to swallow back then .. but then again time is a great friend :)

I have two instances where single lines shook my world .. maybe it's not a wise move to write them over here .. but I feel, sharing my stupidity gives me a feeling that I am normal , I do commit mistake like just another average Joe .. in short gives me a feeling that I am alive and kicking :) What's the fun in life if there are no downs but only ups ..

First (2006) -

Boy : I love you, wanna marry you..

Girl : Aukad kya hai tumahari .. ho kya tum ....

(What a stupid 17 year old kid I was .. talking about marriage, I had this strange notion that clearing JEE deems u eligible to demand anything out of anyone .. good that my view stood corrected before I did some serious damage to the society :P)

Second (2010) -

Boy : All these time, when I was taking you around .. roaming around with you .. taking out time for you even when I was bogged down with work .. why do you think I did all that .. doesn't it show how special you are to me

Girl : You had no other option but me!

(Wow .. I hope Adam had heard it before ... and I am not the first guy to hear this)

To both these one liners, I had answers ready but never felt the need to reply .. because these lines can never be answered in a polite way. Sometimes non violence do seem like a great option :)

Teleportation Protocol

From Star Wars to Stargate Atlantis all of the Sci-Fi movies/tv serial has always painted a future where the mode of transportation is the uber cool teleportation device/warp gate etc. etc.

So lets have a look at the so called teleportation device and ponder a bit if our current technology can actually be used in it :P

Teleportation consists of 3 important steps,

1. Disassembling the subject into bits of information (packet formation),

2. Transporting the packets to the destination,

3. Reassembling of packets and reconstruction of the subject .

Looks simple but step 1 and 3 are still in infancy.

However step 2, is very similar to our current day data packet transfer from source to destination.

As a network engineer I am tempted to propose the use of UDP or TCP as the underlying protocol for the packet transfer, and then I am horrified with the thought what might happen if we use UDP...

illustrated below

TCP analysis for the next time :)

Non Veg vs. Veg

This is an age old topic on which human beings have fought over .. viz. should we consume non veg items like meat, egg etc. as in the process of consuming non veg items we kill an innocent life.

Well i won't dip my foot in this debatable subject, I will just post a small comic strip that flashed across my mind during one such heated discussion.

Disclaimer : No Vegetarian was hurt during the production of this comic strip

V-day Parody

A small cartoon to demonstrate how guys and girls go about torturing each other emotionally on the various important/black day on the love calender :)

Recession Effect

Recession has shown it's ugly face last year and still continues to terrify everyone around the globe. Companies are taking strict measures to cut down the extra expenditure and minimize the losses. The Company I work for is no exception, Initially i.e. before recession there used to be free biscuits and diet coke lying around in the break out area waiting to be picked up. But now a days the biscuits have vanished in thin air and the coke is no longer free but chained with a 20 rupees price tag. And all the employees have made their truce with this fact , obviously who wants to loose his/her job over some stupid biscuit.

However something funny happened last friday, I was about to make a cup of coffee for myself and suddenly I realize that there were no sugar packets over there , and it so happened that on thrusday night I saw on television about the recent hike in price of sugar, I was terrified with the mere thought that the sugar packets might face the same plight as the biscuits. However proving my fears unnecessary, the sugar packet repository was soon replenished. :)

Learning to drive 2

Writing about others in your blog can cause you a lot of trouble, for instance when 'S' from the previous strip saw my yesterday's post, she was furious that I wrote bad about her. :(

However she is a cool person, after 5 minutes her question was , 'Where is my CAR , it's not fair that only you get to drive a fancy car'. So as a tribute to her, here is the new strip dedicated to her.

Co-incidentally this is how 'S' learnt driving :)