Programmer's reply

I got the below contents as part of a forwarded mail. Definitely worth reading it and of course having a check on how many of the answers we have given so far! Btw, I have said almost everything at some point of time! :)

Top 20 replies by Programmers to QA when their programs don't work:

20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"


And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don't work would be:

"It works on my machine"

So howz life after marriage?

I had to create an exclusive post on this as I have been confronted with this question atleast close to a thousand odd times over these past three months.

I would really love to hear what other married folks would answer when thrown this question at them. In the initial days, it used to be fun to answer this question and I tried to give different answers(sometimes funny ones) to folks. But after a while, I really ran out of options and just started saying "Itz fine!". The first few seconds of exchanging your handshakes when running into any of my friends, acquaintances, relatives or colleagues has resulted so much in a stereo typed conversation that I sometimes do pre-preempt their question; "Marriage life is good". And now, I am thinking my answer should be different.

Married life does not leave one to grapple with the Herculean task of becoming a couple. If left to its own way, I guess life should not be any different from what it was pre marriage. Yes, you have another person sharing everything(or should I say almost everything?) in your life, but you still get to do things you have always been doing and living life in the way that you have always been living. Marriage has its one fringe benefits but does not take away your existing ones at all.

So after beating around the bush for a while, my answer to the question will henceforth be "Life after marriage is as good as it had always been" I am sure all married folks will concur

Reaching the magic number of 100 days

Honestly, I don't know what is magical about 100, but most seem to celebarate the mark of 100 days, the most notable being the Indian movie industry. Recently, even our chief minister Mr. Kuamarswamy celebarated his 100 days of being the CM! Celebaration for what joy is something to be questioned, but I will eschew such thoughts lest it should steer me away from the point of this posting.

100 days into my marriage, I feel good about a lot of things that has transpired over these days since the day I tied the knot. The occasion has been a thing of unending joy for my kith and kin and even today, there are folks who are as excited about it as they were on the so called 'D-Day'. Expanding your relative circle to accomodate a whole set of new folks, visiting them and knowing them better, participating in more family and social occasions have all been a great experience and most importantly of the lot is setting up a new family in a new place.

The ride has been good so far and I am optimistic about the remaining n-100 days for the ship to be sailing in a smooth course. Now, who is going to tell me what the exact value for 'n' is?

Rise of the Phoenix

Is it appropriate to compare my blogging activity with that of a Phoenix? Well, time can only be the answer for that, but attempting to emualate the characterisitic of a Phoenix is fun! Call it cunctation or hibernation; my long silence over these past many months has finally been broken. I am glad today to be filling up this space once again and there will be more to come as the clock ticks. Gone through an ocean of transformation in my life both officially and personally, I have been experiencing a tumble down roller coaster ride comparable to the one from the tower of Stratosphere!


While I will start filling up all the details in my future postings, I will also need to fill up myself with all the othe postings by fellow bloggers.

Here I come...