Adventures of an High Elf Sorcerer

I've been working quite a bit on x3270 recently. Adding in some enhancements, helping its deployment in Infosys. And the efforts have started to pay off, literally. We are looking at savings of a thousand US dollars per license. Personally, I'm at the threshold of another milestone. I'll be sending my enhancements to Paul Mattes, the current maintainer of x3270 ver soon. Lets see whether the changes make it into the next release. That, as hackers would know, is the ultimate reward for your work!

Whoever designed this SQL language is a nut. That was the opening statement of "Close encounters of the Fourth kind" and I still stick by it. It was about a year that I wrote that story, and my opinion has still not changed. After a year I had to actually read and understand an SQL query. I was unhappy that I had to read tripple nested queries of 10 lines then. Now I have queries that span 2 printed pages each. Yuck! How on earth is any human supposed to make sense of it? And how the hell did that author manage to write it? Probably must have had a fight with his/her girfriend/boyfriend/spouse. And to think I have to bear with one whole week of this. I shall overcome someday!

When you go for a movie that is based on your all-time favorite book, you obviously expect a lot from it; and 'I, Robot', the movie doesn't disappoint. Special effects are no longer a benchmark to measure English movies. What is good about the movie is that it maintains the spirit of the book intact. Asimov fans will like this movie. Contrary to what the trailors suggest, the 3 laws of robot have not been compromised at all. Also, a lot of issues raised by Asimov have been touched upon in the short span of 2 hours. Also prominent in the movie are a few hints taken from 'The Bicentenial Man'. Even though Donovan and Powell don't feature here, there isn't a shortage of humour. Just one point that I don't agree with ... Dr. Susan Calvin should *not* have been shown to be pretty at all! All in all, I rate this movie very highly.