random musings...

Week 4 was interesting and Bears won at close contest against Eagles. Orton was good at first half and argus-eyed Bear’s defense played extremely good to stop Eagles for touchdown at 4 th quarter. I really liked McNabb’s throw to Jackson for first Eagles touch down, it was classic throw from McNabb. It was the ball descended smoothly towards Jackson’s hand, in between two Bears, very good to watch. It would have been a different outcome if Westbrook played. But anyways it was a great come back for Bears after a heartbroken lost against Bucs. Favre thrown 6 touch down passes and it was his career high, hard to believe that this dude didn’t thrown 6 touch down passed still yesterday, having said that he played for 17 years. But that makes sense also, because Packers always loves running game. This is what Jerricho Cotchery told to reporters after the game. “I asked him if he had tied a career high and he said, ‘I’ve never thrown six,’ said Jerricho Cotchery, who h...

Yes, I want to write about it a long time ago. I’m a light stutter (in British English, Stammer), lot of times I think it is good to be a stutter, because we don’t speak a lot and we do lot of thinking and work. Each stutter is different and unique. For me, I had great days, most of the times I’m able to talk without any interruption or block. But sometimes I would totally black-out or small blocks, mainly under stress. Based on my decade long research, here are the events or situation that makes my stutter worse, this might be helpful for those who stutter like me. 1.      Change in routine : If something got changed, that triggers some stress. For example, today I went to one place, normally in lobby they take my id and let me in, but today the front desk lady called the place where I want to go and asked about me, yes bingo!, that created some stress and made my stutter worse.With that delay, my stutter came rushing and it solid one minute for me tell for what reason i came.  Tip:...

This is what president Bush asked people today at his prime time speech. I read some where,  that capitalist don’t want to share anything with others but they want to share evenly their debt and stress with others. That’s exactly happening now in this nation. 2 top administration executives were grilled by lawmakers. Paulson and Bernanke are pressing important bail out plan to pass in Congress. Actually I think lawmakers using this time to impose more strict laws. Paulson keep on sending message to lawmakers about economy imbroglio now. But lawmakers keep on adding supererogatory regulations. CEO pay is point of discussion now. I think CEO pay is internal to a company. Government’s intervention of top executive’s pay is not good for business, which is not even done in communist China or other socialist countries. But this time the CEO salary cap applied to bail out companies, not all. Source: http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/24/news/economy/paulson_frank/index.htm?cnn=yes http://www.mar...

Last 5-6 days stock market pattern is zig zag, extreme roller coaster ride. This is good for day traders and retail traders. Security exchange commission banned short sell on finance stocks, which should be done soon after Lehman's constructive destruction as TSC's John Berlau put it. But this action from SEC was too late, and that itself pushing stock price down further. Today oil price spiked $25 , and it was a record for oil trade. It clearly indicates that all investors are nervous and don't know how to react with this uncertainty time. Who ever sold stock on last Monday because of short seller's induce, realized about their stupidity on last Friday because market leveled on Friday. The same would repeat now this week. Today's reaction because of Congress leader's 44 page response to Paulson's 3 page $700 Billion bail out plan . Nobody knows it is just a politics or congress want to protect tax payers. Any way congress has this week end to pass some ba...

I attended one home buying workshop and one thing they mentioned is, buy a house at good neighborhood. Location, Location, Location is main. Especially next door neighbor, I have no clue how to find it and what if a good neighbor moves and wild crazy comes. I think the next door neighbor can be easily ignored and that is not at all an issue. I had lot of bad experiences with crazy next doors. One time, I bought a lightened entrance tree to place in front of my rented town home, my next door who is irascible, knock our door and asked why did you buy this, because of us they have to buy the same. Oops…what can I do? Is it my mistake to decorate my own home? Or they don’t have money to buy it or too much envious. I don’t give damn about it, what can we do if they are impecunious. Same happened 3 months ago, one of my friend’s friend’s friend (yea, that’s very funny to find how he got my phone number), called me and asked me that he want to rent an apartment in my apartment complex, he wan...

(I should post this yesterday but due to NFL game i was not able to finish it, because my voice has been heard and now people stop selling stocks at low price) Last 2-3 days people were extremely trepidation. Like any other average joe, I’m also loosing money from my 401K, ETF portfolio and Unit linked insurance etc. Oops…that really hurts. Guys and Gals it is not end of world, don’t press the panic button. Just have 2 chewing gum, I highly recommend Trident and chew until get tired. Just kidding…trying to be sang-froid. I agree that bankruptcy by any company is very bad but that’s not end of everything. I think short sellers utilizing this situation to make more profit. One analyst said that this is not a usual bankruptcy like airlines, this is end of capitalist. I believe he just tries to cover up his short sell. What happens to this market is an open secret. As usual, Fed Reserve started this mess, they started tighten interest rate to cool off inflation after 4 years. Due to series...

Freddie and Fannie rescued action by government was considered as end of “tenebrous” period. The final lingering issue of Lehman also will be resolve and then we are fine. So are we learned any lesson from this episode? Are we ready for next boom cycle? This time it won’t be technology, real estate, banking, energy and transportation. What else we have now to boom? We tried all and there is nothing left for us to try and boom. But don’t be pessimist; there are still lots to do in this mysteries world. Next big thing could be from agriculture to health care revolution. We have to feed our growing number of population and to invent more life saving medicines. Next growth, (i believe) will be for a good cause like all others, such as end poverty, reduce killer diseases etc. There are many drugs patent expire on 2010 onwards that helps other countries to produce and use the medicine, fuels some growth. Technology side there won’t be any uplift, because technology revolution is now subsidin...

An unforgettable date. 2,974 innocent souls died on this date at New York City. It is not an attack against U.S.A but against whole humanity, civilians more than 90 countries died on this attack by bunch of coward guys. I bought God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything book 5 days ago, but have not read it yet since I’m still reading on My father’s dream by Obama. Is it all because of religion and god? Is that fundamentally wrong here? I don’t think so. The issue we are facing now is power struggle, human want to control other human to show off his/her strength or fame. Even though we are saying that we are human with sixth sense, some of them are still at Stone Age, in other words animals. We will never forget this date and event.

Republican national convention had soggy start because of Hurricane Gustav . I felt until Sarah Palin’s electrify speech, this convention was soporific. Sarah Palin made an excellent speech and she is definitely a great leader. Her speech was packed with mordant, and yesterday McCain’s speech was comprehensive. But I don’t agree with Sarah Palin’s pitch as community organizer. She was selected for mayor post so community service is a job for her, where Obama choose to volunteer community organizer at Chicago South side. But experience wise both are count. I think now experience is out of scope. Here best speaker award goes to Sarah Palin’s speech . It was great. The speech was specifically written to Sarah Palin, who is natural deipnosophist. But I think McCain campaign just experiment with this whole new pattern. Instead of centralizing theme, they changed the theme 180 degree within a day. McCain was talking like an independent and Sarah was talking like a pure Republican, in the ...

Excellent as usual a great product from Google . The most appealing features are 1. Home page dashboard .  The most visited sites and bookmarks are placed on home page as portlet. Good idea and very intuitive. 2. Each tab is a new process . As a software engineer, we need to look into details of this feature, how we are going to maintain state between different windows. Now it is something not well defined in document. 3. Speed, because of each tab is a process, different memory space, the speed is amazing. An unscientific test result, IE 7 took 22 Sec to load Cnn.com and Chrome took 14 sec to load.  4. Security, as per documentation Chrome is very secured and automatically find phishing, key monitoring etc.  5. Simple, clean and easy to use . It took me 30 secs to download installation file, 20 secs to install, 20 sec to import already existing bookmarks from IE, 2 mins to see new feature, thats it. 6. Chrome specific task manager is something everybody going to talk about it.

2008 travel season comes to end on last weekend. This season was great and travel budget was very tight because of high gas price. To compensate high gas price, there was no long trips and cruise control was set at 65 MPH most of time. I think if we follow small things like cruise set, tire pressure etc, that would make lot of difference. 14 week : Starved Rock State Park 70 miles from Naperville, a must see place. Greener, Greener and Greener. There are several trails to see park overview. The one we choose was Lovers Leap, 0.7 miles trail. It was great and we can see Illinois River and Starved Rock from this view. The 45 mins boat ride also great but not highly recommended. A small museum, cafeteria also there. 13 Week : Pool Party, Hang over - No travel 12 Week : Chicago Air and water show, but no parking, watched from distance. 11 Week : Friend's Kid birthday party, Great one, at Gilbert Park. This park is really good and well maintained, basketball court, kids activity all...