Coffee Break Talk

I recently listened to the album "The Melody of Rhythm" and was very impressed with the track "Bubbles". Béla Fleck plays the banjo, Edgar Meyer plays the double-bass and Zakir Hussain the tabla. I didn' t know tabla blends this well with banjo and the double-bass. Listen to this amazing piece of fusion.

Whenever I talk about the Elephant estimation program, a wave of emotions cross my mind. During that period, I had a roller-coaster ride of emotions - I was happy, sad, excited, bored, terrified, calm, bold, afraid, irritated, pleased, all within a span of two days. I had learnt few life lessons, came to know about lots of new things and got loads of experiences.

Yesterday, I told my friend that we usually miss out on small things when working on a bigger issue and that would ultimately lead to failure. It reminded me of a rhyme I had learnt in my formative years called "For Want of a Nail".  This rhyme is sometimes quoted to explain butterfly effect and chaos theory. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

The news about Oracle acquisition broke out on Monday evening at 5. There were lot of things running in my mind and wanted to blog about it. Meanwhile, Puspha had mailed me a blog entry and it was more or less on the same lines as my thoughts. I have reproduced the blog content below ...

I had recently stumbled upon this video of a Malayalam rock band called Avial. I didn't understand the complete lyrics though but the music was A.W.E.S.O.M.E. Here is the song "Nada Nada" from their debut album.

D-day has finally arrived and all the dear and near ones in office are packing their bags. SUN Fire e4900 Server I didn't know the D-day was today as I happily came to office after a 3 day break. People here were already prepared and had brought their cameras.