Perpetually Perplexed

As quoted in Alice in the wonderland "you have to keep running in order to stay in the same place" Happens all the time. Is it that I fail to realize the syntax errors and mistake them for logical errors?  Was trying to compile and run an android program to which a third party library jar file was added. The program compiled fine, but would not run saying it is not able to find the above mentioned third party classes. My logical mind screeched  screamed. Hey, if you find the class when compiling, why can't you find the same during execution. The IDE either could not hear the scream or decided to ignore it. I tried googling and finding some solution. Did not help much.  Next step should have been, a little more google or ask in some developer groups. Instead, me - the know-all suspected some corruption of sdk and deleted and tried reinstalling it. But now things started going even more interesting. The new sdk would not download and would not install. I might have t...

This lady either writes about roads or gods. Can't she think of any normal topics? I know this is what you will be opining. I do think about other topics. But they are just not blog worthy. And gods and roads are harmless subjects which will surely not be offended. Today I was seeing some spiritual or was it religious?, spiritual/religious channel. (spiritual is cool, religious is old fashioned and fundamentalist) There was a scroll at the bottom of the screen. Haven't visited our website yet, Visit www....... At this rate one day, even the God will have a url. He will realize that his very existence is being threatened and unless he takes some drastic action, in the next term his opponent the Satan will be ruling. In order to improve his image, he aught to take some PR exercises. As a first step he can create a website, next may be a facebook page etc. And he will ensure that if you are wearing a janivar (sacred thread - supposedly white thread to be worn by Brahmins ...

My house is clean and shining. Well at least, it was in the morning. For a change, I cleaned all the nooks and corners, changed the bed linen and made the house presentable. Well, my spouse's second cousin was to visit with her child and niece. Does second cousin mean, the second daughter of her parents or related to one in the second chain. We used to say khasa sister and bisa sister in our childhood. Anyway she was supposed to come. Hence the sudden determination to clean. One has to look as if one is a good home keeper, more so infront of in laws. Even if they are second or third. And looking at the house I thought, why can't I do this more often? It did not take too much time or effort. Then my inner voice told, whom are you kidding? You always search for short cuts. Just yesterday, you dragged a piece of paper using a mop instead of picking it up....  Stupid inner voice. And it is not worth it. See now, 6 hours later, the house is back to normal. With a thin layer o...

Why am I not writing frequently. (As if anybody cares!!!) I am not getting any time. What a lame excuse given by a jlshm. But it is true. Just now I finished cleaning the house, and washing 20 each of plates, bowls and spoons and glasses. No, we are not running any restaurant. All these dirty vessels were used by us, just 3 of us. And now I am postponing it, But eventually I should cook for the afternoon - atleast a rice and sambar. And finish that and go to bank for giving form 15g or 16g, so that they won't deduct at source the meagre interest I get from fds. Then I should go to some office where i have taken some freelance j2me project. In between these I should squeeze some time and go to library and pay the monthly reading fees.

Pi Patel is religious. Multireligious to be precise. He visits temples and mosques and churches. The priest, pandit and maulvi fight with each other saying he is theirs. He also asks his parents to perform baptism for him and buy a prayer rug for him to pray to Allah 5 times a day. His parents who are non-practising Hindus like all of us, reluctantly agree. ( If you disagree with me, consider this. We have a puja room or mantap in our houses. Our Devar puja done once in a day by one member of the family is chore which everyone tries to avoid. Our festivals are more for preparing and eating sweets and savories than for praying devoutly. We know that we are supposed to be having some religious texts in some unfamiliar languge. But we never bother to read them. So we practice hinduism but barely so. ) But then when his ship wrecks and his family members disappear along with all the animals, he is saved. My doubt is who saved Pi - Ishwar, Allah or Jesus? But jokes aside, I am rea...

Now a days drama companies (natak company ) of our childhood have all vanished. So if we want to see a drama, we should see the same old boring mother-in-law/ daughter in law serials of Hindi or kannada channels or same friends and similar serials in English. But not to worry. Our leaders are coming to our rescue. And they are providing drama free of cost. Or is it? You can watch didi drama where the mighty lady makes king dance to her tunes. You can switch channel and watch our own home grown "who wants to be the see emm" drama where two grown up people are trying to play musical chairs sans music. Or if you are inclined towards sob stories, you can watch the helpless leader drama where the hero cries saying nobody listens to him anymore. Well the title is part of famous kannada film song "Jagadeeshanaaduva jagave nataka ranga" This entire world is a stage directed by God!!!

Many a times we try to find reasons behind things ignoring the obvious. And more often the problem would some kind of miscommunication or misunderstanding. I was not able to use share dialog in my android app. This dialog must let the user send text or image using gmail, bluetooth and in some cases facebook, twitter etc. I searched for many code pieces , most of them were similar, and put them in my program. But my program would say, no program suitable. I tried to hunt for similar problems and their solutions in google, but to no avail. I started thinking that I should re install my IDE, my android sdk etc, etc. Then I installed the same program in the phone. I was testing all this while on the emulator. And lo, my share dialog appeared with gmail and bluetooth option. So the only problem was the emulator. Leave alone this coding. Let us look at some real life situation. A week back, I got a phone call. A man started shouting that he is calling from such a long time and why am ...