Doldrums of Life!: September 2005

చిరునవ్వుల వరమిస్తె చితినుండి లేచివస్త
మరుజన్మకి వరమిస్తె చిరునవ్వుతొ మరణిస్త

Engineer's Poem

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the system's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM
Quicky turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!

Three Men and A Temple

Truly powerful ambition, in an individual, carries others along with him. Ambition comes from a unique perspective on life. In some, it is limited in horizon. While some others can have a large-hearted, all-inclusive ambition. What is your type? About a 1000 years ago, a sage was drawn to a construction site. He watched from the edge of a clearing in the forest as the workmen bent over their individual tasks. Finally his curiosity drove him to one workman at the edge of the site, whom he asked "What are you doing, my good man?" The workman looked up briefly and went back to his work "I'm working" he said curtly. Not satisfied with the answer, the sage approached a second workman to ask him the same question. "You can see I'm breaking stones" he replied. The sage was made of stern stuff and he wasn't leaving without an answer, so he walked over to a third workman with the question. "I'm building a temple" replied this workman smilingly. The incident opened the sage's eyes, because all three of them were breaking boulders into smaller stones, but in their minds they were not doing the same jobs. The third workman was working for a cause much larger than himself and it showed in his approach to work. You can just do a day's work, or build a career, a team, an organization, or a nation An individual's overpowering ambition can be the glue that holds together and powers forward a team, an army or a country. This has been proven time and again by various leaders from history. Alexander The Great, and Gandhi are just two names from the past. If we look at corporates today, examples abound of ambitious leaders who built great institutions. Narayana Murthy of Infosys enjoys creating millionaires in his organization. When he could have focused on making himself a billionaire and then a trillionaire. Those who share your ambitions should share its results In the movies, treasure hunters and bank robbers fall out at the end, and one of them tries to make off with all the loot. The corporate equivalent of this goes on all around us. The rewards of a whole team's work gets unfairly distributed. A leader who's in the business for the long haul, makes his people shareholders in the fruits of their efforts. Today, that seems to be the only way to build a lasting institution. Grow people at a rate that keeps them from striking out on their own. Expand your ambition and your horizon Grow the small pictures that others see, so your big picture gets progressively even bigger. You can choose your perspective and your role in life. Be the one who builds the temple.

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