Category: Personal

IBM Employee Directory: Open to Public

Happened to pass by David Illsley’s post about IBM Employee Directory being available publicly. Using this directory, you can find out the official contact details of any of IBM’s 400,000 (approximate.) employees. Though David hasn’t used the exact words, it’s clear he isn’t too pleased about it.

Neither would I, but if and only if IBM were to make available my personal telephone number and e-mail. What IBM has made available is information it has allowed employees to use. So even though the email does have my name in it, I cannot consider this as invasion of my privacy.

Welcome Home

welcomhome.jpgWell, my temporary return to bachelor hood will be over in another 12 hours or so, much to my relief. Tina is flying in later today and I’ll be going to pick her up.

The week, I’ve had to manage the house on my own. Then there was this daily challenge of deciding what to eat for dinner, and where to order it from. My cooking skills are nothing to write home about so I preferred giving others a chance, actually it’s more like beggars can’t be choosers. I ate pizzas, burgers or biryani on most days, but now I miss the simplistic meal of dal, chapatti and sabzi that Tina used to prepare with such enthusiasm.

But perhaps I missed her most was after coming back from work. Of course, I had the TV and the computer to hold my attention. Although they are good means for whiling away time, they can’t replace talking to a human being, and certainly not Tina.

Welcome home, you were missed!

Back to Being a Bachelor

Yes, starting today, I will once again get to live life as a bachelor, just the way it was before our wedding.Tina is off on a well deserved eight-day holiday to Noida and Chandigarh. I too wanted to go but as I’m in the middle of project transition at IBM, taking leaves is simply not an option.

So here’s wishing Tina a bye bye, have loads of fun and if possible, please do visit Delhi’s Lotus Temple, the place where we met for the first time after deciding to spend our lives together.

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I am neither a developer, nor am I a designer, but this hasn’t stopped me from tinkering with WordPress themes developed by other. But never has a theme’s original author liked my customizations to be worthy of a mention. Not until now at least!

Will Wilkins, the developer of the IAMWW w2 WordPress theme has showcased my version of his theme in his IAMWW w2 WordPress Theme Adoptions and Adaptations post. This might not mean much to you, but to me, well, I am flabbergasted. Thanks Will for the mention and obviously the theme.

Also check out his latest WordPress theme, IAMWW w2 DnD, which is quite similar to the original, but is much easier to install as it doesn’t require any plugins to make it look the way it’s supposed to.

Let’s not forget to thank UpstartBlogger the guy who came up with the original idea.