Its the end of the world? Not really, I think

Today’s topic at our office water-cooler(or at our gigantic, old and rusty coffee-machine)  is the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). From the news articles I’ve been reading and from my costly undergrad and masters degrees in science related topics, I have come to understand that it is going to be ‘turned on’ (yes, I believe that’s the [...]

women & tech careers

What made me enter CS & Engg as an undergrad (apart from parental pressure) was the prospect of having fun working with technology and trying to come up with solutions for complex problems. But lately I have started having doubts and after talking to my female friends who are at about the same stage in [...]

GTA in EDI

I am no gamer. Although I pretend to be a serious coder from time to time for professional reasons, gaming has never been one of my interests. The closest I come to playing games is Mah-Jong on my Vista (I had no choice, people!) laptop. Ok, maybe I should just keep some things to myself. [...]

debugging

Its not often that I think my job sucks – badly. But I’ve noticed a strong coincidence between the days when that feeling occurs and the days when I am stuck trying to debug a piece of software I’m working with. I understand its part of what I do and given that its not even [...]