Tete-a-Tete with Dr. James "Java" Gosling

This was such a dream come true in my life when I had this excellent oppurtunity to sit with the "Father of Java" and have lunch with him. It was none other than Dr. James Gosling who blessed the Sun India Engineering Centre with his august presence on the 19th of May 2004. I had this once in a lifetime oppurtunity to interact with him on that day, share his views about Java, get an autograph on a book written by him and finally crack some jokes on a dessert of vanilla ice cream.

The next day (20th of May 2004), I once again has an exclusive oppurtunity to interview him for the newsletter (I am glad I took up the editorial post for the Sun newsletter). Sitting in a S-class Benz Car with him and sailing through the morning traffic of Bangalore saw us through the entire part of the interview. The two days of spending those invaluable time with him is an indelible milestone in my life - some thing that makes me proud of Java, Sun and myself (for being part of this).


Me with Dr.James Gosling

Say no to Plastic

I was in Ooty a couple of weeks back and I was surprised to see sign boards all over the place saying "NO TO PLASTIC BAGS". It was quite pleasing to see that all the people in this town are quite conscious about using plastic bags which has made quite a difference to the whole place.

Though many of us know that plastic bags are an environmental hazard, non biodegradable, how many of us actually refrain from using them? I was thinking about this a while back and decided not to accept plastic bags from shops anymore. Also, I strongly feel that supermarket chains like FoodWorld, Monday2Sunday,etc should encourage usage of paper bags as against plastic bags. If big chains like these discourage plastic usage, it will create more awareness amongst us and make us conscious about our actions.

Let us try and do a bit to save our environment - SAY NO TO PLASTIC!