Kalipurayath Sanal Menon's Blog

Being Childish…

Menon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:34:23 +0000

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing the knowledge” – A. Einstein

In our society the word “Childish” is used negatively and it is not used as a compliment.

Being Childish is something we should consider it with awe and wonder. Childhood is a beginning of life. It is the time of growth and creativity.

American Airlines Flight 862 makes an emergency landing

Menon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:55:09 +0000

2:44pm CT: The pilot has made a superb landing via aerodynamic breaking by holding the plane’s nose up

American Airlines flight 862 is making an emergency landing in Miami due to nose gear door trouble. There are 138 passengers including the crew (there are 5 crew members). The flight was scheduled to fly from Palm Beach to Chicago. The current plan is to burn some fuel off and land at Miami International Airport.

It originally made a fly by near the airport tower at which point the air traffic control notified the pilot that the front landing wheel was 70 percent retracted.

News agencies have aired footage of the aircraft flying around the airport, they have made note that the aircraft has sufficient fuel.

It is expected that there may be a few sparks from the front landing wheel. The airport fire department will be there expecting its arrival. It is speculated that they may spray some foam on the front landing wheel or any area should anything occur.

Updated 2:20pm CT: The airport fire department has just been dispatched to await the landing of the aircraft.

AA 862 taking off from Miami in a 2005 photo (note: the news reports coming in say that it is an MD80, the photo below of flight AA862 is a 727.):

[Source: http://news.stegonews.com/2008/02/american-airlines-flight-862-makes.html]

Roles in Heaven

Menon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:16:56 +0000

Roles in Heaven :

Brahma
Systems Installation

Vishnu
Systems Administration & Support

Lakshmi
Finance and Accounts consultant

Saraswati
Training and Knowledge Management

Shiva
DBA (Crash Specialist)

Ganesh
Quality Assuarance & Documentation

Narada
Data transfer

Yama
Reorganization & Downsizing Consultant

Chitragupta
IDP & Personal Records

Apsaras
Downloadable Viruses

Devas
Mainframe Programmers

Surya
Solaris Administrator

Rakshasas
In house Hackers

Ravan
! ;Internet Explorer WWWF

Kumbhakarnan
Zombie Process

Lakshman
Support Software and Backup

Hanuman
Linux/s390

Vaali
MS Windows

Sugreeva
DOS

Jatayu
Firewall

Dronacharya
System Programmer

Vishwamitra
Sr. Manager Projects

Shakuni
Annual appraisal & Promotion

Valmiki
Technical Writer (Ramayana Sign off document)

Krishna
SDLC ( Sudarshan Wheel Development Life Cycle )

Dharmaraj Yudhishthira
ISO Consultant (CMM level 5)

Arjun
Lead Programmer (all companies are vying for him)

Abhimanyu
Trainee Programmer

Draupadi
Motivation & Team building

Bhima
MAINFRAME LEGACY SYSTEM

Duryodhana
Microsoft product Written in VB

Karna
Contract programmer

Dhrutarashtra
Visual C++

Gandhari
Dreamweaver

100 Kauravas
Microsoft Service Packs and patches

Present this to your boss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Menon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:32:41 +0000

Doctor Certified Letter

Certified that Mr./Miss _________________ , working in your organization, is suffering from ‘time-bound’ illness. Due to this, he/she will NOT be able to work more than 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. Any attempt to stretch beyond this timing will lead to severe health problems. The losses to the company due to medical reimbursements will be far more compared to the gains made by stretching beyond 8 hours.

It is also warned to keep my patient away from any kind of shocking news such as “ Come over weekend..”, “Let’s work on holiday..”, “ Leave cannot be granted..” etc. which can directly lead to heart strokes.

In view of the above, it is strongly recommended to adjust your deadlines in accordance with the convenience of my patient.

Sd/-

Dr. Impatient

Cyber Clinic

Apple MacBook – World’s Thinnest Laptop

Menon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:44:32 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds an envelope containing the new MacBook Air during his keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it’s opened. MacBook Air measures 0.16 inches (0.4cm) at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches (1.93cm) is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the new MacBook Air during his keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it’s opened. MacBook Air measures 0.16 inches (0.4cm) at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches (1.93cm) is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks

Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs holds the new MacBook Air laptop computer as he delivers the keynote speech to kick off the 2008 Macworld fair in San Francisco. Jobs introduced the wireless Time Capsule backup appliance, iTV 2 and the new ultra thin laptop MacBook Air.