Tuesday, February 22, 2005
David Bradley is retiring on Friday after 29 years of service at IBM.
The man did a lot many things, but he will be most remembered for inventing "CTRL+ALT+DEL", also referred to as the three-finger salute.
Yes, he is the man who wrote the small segment of code, which for the last quarter of a century has been forcing obstinate computers to restart when they no longer follow other commands.
This is what he had to say about his relationship with Bill Gates,
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous by applying my formula when ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him CRASHES. Thus I win when ever he looses".
Labels: Revolving Doors
Monday, February 14, 2005
From the 24th of this month I am taking over the Toyota Project.
Yeah, I am IBM’s youngest Team/Project Lead.
The walk from Old Tiruvalam Road, has been pretty good so far…
I don’t know why I am being such a conceited trumpet blower.
Dunno …Really.
I didn’t write this, cause I wan’t it “read”, just wanted to put it down somewhere.
Labels: Revolving Doors
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Siesta in the mellow afternoon.
The citrine sun draining into city lights.
A well-known street, an unknown city.
The Moon River under a clear night sky.
The movies that were never made.
A drifter coming back home, looking around the bend.
A Street band playing their songs on the Chapel stairs.
Applause in the darkness.
Memories of the land of golden sands.
Colored kites in the summer wind.
Silent squares and shuttered shops.
Strangers in your night.
Friendly voices in unknown languages,
The girl from Ipanema, living next door.
The happy cobbled street, and the board which read,
“The Starfish Sonata OPEN till your eyes close.”
Labels: Fiction
