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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Democratizing the life-cycle

Jason Zander, general manager of Visual Studio, Developer Division, Microsoft Corp. claims so for "Rosario" (code name for VS 2010).
Well..Visual Studio 2010 TS is going to cover modeling, testing and collaboration while levereging the power of .NET Framework 4.0. As MS says, VS 2010 will help in developing next gen of next gen applications.
Got a bit of glimpse of its capabilities and user interface in one of the Microsoft Webcasts.
Well...the moment developers start getting hold of one product, there is already another in market making the other obsolete. VS 2005 is already forgotten!! :)
Parallel computing/programming is one area which still confuses me and am yet to recover from shock of hearing jargons like cloud development!!

The VS 2010 Page.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Drives and Rides

Three of my finest trips:

Jaipur 2008:



Jaipur 2009:



Kullu 2009:



Camera work Courtesy: some of the finest shooters i know!!

Sunday, April 26, 2009

12..nice one..



Good ad. Clear message. No nonsense!!

Heard about the 2009 editions pulsars lately. Increased power, increased wheelbase..technical patches and a bit of cosmetic. Worth a test i would say!!

Friday, April 24, 2009

LM's worst nightmare

Well..the IPL boss never thought that this can happen..and in this way.
This Blog has already create sensation and has almost 20K hits in within April itself.
Couldn't help noticing the number of comments on each post.
Guess who actually owns the Blog!!??
Hilarious posts though!! :)

WTF

What the hell bajaj was thinking!!??
They totally killed the free biking tempo they created earlier!!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

1000 KMs - Gurgaon - Delhi - Chandigarh - Kullu - manali ...and back

A long drive happens everytime we screw up some other plan. same happened again...the plan got messed up and we ended up with another long drive.
This time it was much longer.


we had a delayed start and were heading out of delhi by noon. Getting out of Delhi took around 2 hrs itself considering the huge amount of traffic on highway borders. A more than smooth cruise was required after that to have any chance of reaching manali the same day. Well...easy guess..it didnt happen :)


We reached chandigarh at around 5 and managed to head out of mohali by 5.30-6, but chandigarh is just half way through. So, it was already 6hrs till chandigarh and we were in for another 6 hrs, at least that what our calculation suggested.


Now, the event of the day, a 25 km off-course drive. We actually went straight were we needed to turn right, thanks to absence of proper signs. Well..an hour wasted.


Now after that turn, we realized something, its not just 5hrs remaining, its gonnna be much more than that, reason being "me driving on proper hilly highways for the first time..that also in night". Well..it took 10 hrs on the hills itself and our time of arrival in kullu was 2 AM of next day!!

A 16 hr drive, not what we expected but anyways it was a memorable experience when we fianlly saw the ice caps shining bright in full moon. The guidance from the guy from the resort in kullu was extremely valuable.



The resort's most amazing part was the view from it. It was facing the river beas and icecapped mountains.

Next three days included whitewater rafting in river beas, visit to the snow point in manali, a bit of shopping in kullu, a bit of local delicacies (siddu rocks!!), visit to a local art meuseum, a roll in the zorb ball, and a visit to the hadimba temple in manali. Rohtang pass was closed, which was a bit disappointing.

Return journey, well this time it was done in 13 hrs :) no wonder i can still feel the steering wheel in my hands!!

Anybody in urgent need of some adventure sport, try driving to kullu in one go and start from delhi around 11AM :)


Pics to follow soon!!