At the time of writing this post TV viewers in India are awaiting with great anticipation & excitement the exploding conclusion to Heroes in Chapter 23 - "How To Stop An Exploding Man" due to telecast in 1 hour. Among the little nuggets they will learn today the most trivial yet interesting will be the first name of Mr. Bennet when he tells Peter to call him Noah.

As I am about to race down home to watch the season finale on Star World, I must admit watching it for the 3rd time with the only excuse that this will be the first time it will be on TV I was asked by a friend, who I just handed over my copy of The Incredibles; what is it that I find so magnetic about super hero themes. To answer his question I simply answered:  watch The Incredibles and instead of the metaphorical super powered characters  bound by law to hide their true selves think it in the context of marriage & how many people including yourself (he's married) think of it as a bounding force that makes you feel as if you lost your true identity. And the moment you make that connection with Mr. Incredible perhaps not in entirety, but you will at least to some degree; understand why I am a sucker for Super Heroes.

I believe so. It is funny in a way, and I could go on and say to all the Apple fans / Steve Jobs worshipers - "in your face suckers!" (Security flaw hits Safari (Windows) only hours after release).

But I'm not going to say anything or do anything of that sort, there's no reason for me to! Because I (and I'm not the only one who) believe that there is a direct relation between the popularity of a software and the number of security vulnerabilities that are discovered for that piece of software. May be it has to do with increased surface area to attack/defend considering which side you are or even a standing spectator. And if you are a spectator it would serve you best if you are informed!

I was actually quite excited to download Safari for Windows, as the majority of the clients I deal with are photographers or in the photo publication industry (and they have the pre-conceived notion that Macs are better suited for working with photos) I am for once happy, no more running between my desk to the lone Mac in the boss' cabin while working on a fix or during deployment/testing. Maybe someone (read Raj Shekhar) will disagree and will probably cite some Open Source app (FreeBSD perhaps) and perhaps he or anyone else would probably be right in that context. But so am I.

Ego isn't the only thing common among programmers...

I just took a Programmer Personality Test based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test on Doolwind's Game Coding Site after I read about it on Mads Kristensen's blog.

I have a DHTB (DHTL would be the correct acronym) personality. It's interesting to see an attempt to understanding and classifying programmer personalities. So kudos to the creator(s) of this test.

Here's the test result of my test for record purposes... since there is no option to save/publish on the site itself.

Test Results

Your programmer personality type is:
DHTB

You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.
You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

The Dark Knight Perspective, is an outlook towards the world, a Vista I'm sharing with the world. Rather than pulling you; the reader into my realm, it eventually happened (90 posts and 2 years later) that I decided to share my perspective of the world with you.

It is like Agent Smith finding his purpose, or Fox Mulder getting reinvested into the the X-Files, yeah yeah; I know both of them appear to be a lost cause. One - a super slow talking virtual entity and another is a guy whose purpose seems to have been diluted in a world that's filled with more pressing issues today. But from my perspective here is someone who is over zealous to finding his purpose in life and the other willing to give up everything for a cause he believed in.

And I haven't changed who I am. It's still the same old guy who is... for the lack of a better term - "Dark Knight Obsessed". It is this medium through which I share my thoughts & opinions has evolved into a more mature form. In case you're curious there were a lot of reasons that drove this change. But it was the guy I idolize who triggered it. Hope you like this new avatar.

I wish this past month never should have been, I wish it could have been erased somehow. Absolutely nothing went the way, I hoped it would in May.

Professionally - Server crashes, hardware failures, security breaches, application vulnerabilities all marred the 31 days of this month that haven't happened in 3 years I've been on the job, in fact I don't remember hearing more than 1 of such scenarios happening simultaneously or in quick successions when Raj Shekhar was the captain of this small ship nor did I experience anything of this proportion the 2 years since I have taken over his place. There are delays and there are delays!". This project; that I'm heading (supposedly last for my current employer), is at a stage today where it should have been exactly a month ago. Efficiency is one of the strongest traits of my character, and of course there have been occasional lags in the projects I've led but never so much.  Dealing with undesirable client requests for old projects and shifting of priorities enforced upon by higher management were instrumental in demoralizing the team's zest for the new interesting & challenging project.

Personally - So I can't brag about my skills with the ladies, nor am I a party animal but even hanging out with friends became so hard that we were able to catch (a rather disappointing) Mr Bean's Holiday happened after 5 reschedules by someone or the other including yours truly requesting it twice. This only added to my social misery. And even though I try to forget about it I was reminded at least 5 times how much of a productivity killer Migraine can become.