Saturday, December 19, 2009

good to see the back of this week

One of the most hectic and frenetic week has just passed. It was a week where in there was a lot to do and there was so little time to complete them. Add to that 2 recalcitrant workers who have put in their papers and who don't want to stretch, 1 boss who doesn't want to take a NO for an answer and you have a potboiler, albeit rather common in this part of the world. The target seemed innocuous initially, run the updated shill server and run the tournament on Rounders. Well, the shill server ran fine here and then on the d-day when it was uploaded on the live server, it crashed, froze tables and hung the game. Wow !!!! Then the Rounders tournament... every time we ran it we ran into a new issue. it almost became a joke, well actually a very bad one, reflecting the way earlier people treated this code. Anyways, when the shill server crashed on live server, I presumed there would be trouble, but nothing, not even a whimper. I couldn't figure that out initially, but then i learnt that VijayD and AjayN are both leaving and soooo, there was no point in giving them a dressing down, you see and I am fairly new to this code so giving me a dose won't help the matters either :-)
Well, the good news is that tournament on Rounders worked great. We achieved what LokeshK and his team couldn't. Lokesh had even gone on the records saying the task is unfeasible. Well, so much for that forecast :-)
Meetu has become a fan of Raaz pichle janam ka, where in a volunteer is made to undergo past life regression so that he or she revisits his/her old life and the expert seeks to find answers to questions that the volunteer might have had. To be very frank, most of the stories seem to be conjured up, work of the feverish mind. The volunteer seem to have already crafted the story and he/she just retells it. So far I have not found any observation worth remembering from this show but one has to keep an open mind.

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