Politics...Here I come

This is getting frustrating...No secure ID, no Office mail access, and to top it all, I do not have a BlackBerry. I am completely out of touch with the real world and just 3 days into my vacation. Man, can life be more boring than this? And to top the frustration is the news that the FBT is now on the employee. Which means, my ESOP would get taxed, if I get a car from the company I have to pay the FBT component on that as well (which was previously held by the employer). Now I am thinking, why not to try politics for a change.

There was a nice news today morning, which made me even more determined to try for the post of MLA or MP. All the relatives of MP's now get to travel for free by Air within India. And all the friends and relatives of MP get to travel for free by Air within India. And this bill is actually passed in the Parliament. So now, it pays to be a friend of an MP than work your ass off in a 9-6 job. I am still checking if I have any MPs in my family bloodline. Surely there should be one...No family is perfect :D. We all have our share of hyenas and wolves.

Now, I might sound that I am rambling and ranting out of frustration. But the truth is, Politics is a more profit making business than any other job. Consider this:
1. You do not need to pay for the accomodation
2. You do not need to declare your wealth
3. You do not need to be a BE, MBA, IIT Grad (Well if you are, it means you are over qualified)
4. You do not need to pay for the fuel (The idiots called tax payers would do that for you. Infact, you might even see a Software Engineer filling up your tank in a Shell gas station (thanks to the rising inflation))
5. You do not need to work on deadlines. (Hey, you are a politician. You could hire 10 MBA grads and get them to work on your deadlines. And then take the credit. Afterall, you managed the MBA grads)
6. You do not need to pay for vegetables, fruits, liquor, schooling, No parking fines.

In short, the outflow from your purse would be inversely proportional to the inflow. And in this case, the inflow would never tend to negative.

Lord, if you could make me an MLA of any one constituency (maybe Andipatti would be the best, closer to my home) in the next 10 years, I would break 108 coconuts for you (Out of the tax payer's money, ofcourse)

MS Does not trust SilverLight :)

Saw this ad in rediff.com when signing out:

Does this mean MS simply does not trust SilverLight? Or something else cooking? (ehehheheheaaaaa)

Adobe Flex: The Perfect example of how a framework should not be

There is a growing discontent amongst the developers I have interacted with. And one common thing that bound our discontent is one thing, one thing only (as quoted by Lt. Aldo Raine): "Adobe Flex 3.0"

There is a saying "You realize the importance of something only when have the need for it and it is nowhere around". When we were working on MS .NET Framework with VS IDE till some years ago, we used to crib about the performance of the IDE and other non-important factors. Now when we are stuck inside Eclipse + Flex Builder plugin, "Oh VS 2005 where art thou?"

The point is, Flex is not all that bad. It is just the hype around it that makes it an evil component. And it all starts with the Ux. They use a simple tool like Photoshop (another sin from Adobe's factory) to design jazzy stuffs that it is impossible to achieve the same kind of look and feel in the UI framework code that you have no option but to hack your way around. Now Flash player is sort of Buddy Buddy with it's counterpart criminal Flex. So if it finds we are trying to play with it, it just spits fire and vengeance.

My rantings on Flex would go on as long as we are using it. Once done, I would love to put the following statement on my wall, as a warning to Flex and anyone who uses it"

"The path of the righteous is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the week through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I shall strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison my brothers and destroy them. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee".

The hands of the Lord rest on those who hate Flex.