How much I hate shopping for clothes

This is one area that I am really bad at.
Not sure if it is only me or is it something that a lot of people face in their life - I like wearing new clothes but the endless process of section and trials haunts me like anything.

To office on a bicycle

An amazing start of the day as I came to office on a bicycle for the first time.
At first I was kinda scared that 20 kilometers will be too much for me but it went prity fine. At this point I am not exactly sure if I can come regularly like this but for sure if I can do this even two three times a week it will bring a drastic improvement in my fitness and stamina.
Few things that I feel are important ...
The office bag should be as light in weight as possible
Tyre air pressure should be perfect
Helmet is a must for safety
At least 500 ml water glucose mixed
Should be wearing shorts and t shirt

Corporate lies

Have you ever seen attrition statistics of a company, no I am not saying they are made up numbers, they are real. but there is a lot of interesting things that go behind the scene.
Generally a company will list only those people who quite their organization and join some other organization under attrition figures. The rest of the people are the ones who left the organization due to health/personal reasons or higher studies etc.
This point also all these figures are correct and there is nothing wrong here. The interesting part of the story starts when we learn that even though a large chunk of people who said that they are leaving due to  personal/health reasons were actually joining other organizations.
What could have made them tell lies.
Company will generally have a notice period, this can range from one to three or more months, and generally the candidate who is leaving wants it to be as short as possible, and the easiest way to make it short is to say that you want to quite due to health reasons or you want to go for higher studies.
The company is also happy that such candidates are not getting counted in their attrition rate, candidates are also happy that they are getting relieved quickly. :)

Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

These are the steps I followed to upgrade my Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7
1.Take backup of the live website
1.1 DB backup
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -u --password= .sql
2.Copy your site to a test site


Sorry to finish like this, I am not able to migrate my application. My learning is that it only works if your application only uses the core modules. 

Google appengine

I have Always been a fan of Google applications, when Google started appengine few years ago I was very excited, the only problem was that it supported python and I was not much familiar with python. Within a year while I was leaning python GAE started supporting java.
The features and services provided were tempting enough for a developer like me to jump in right away. I started using it for one of my website, migrated it from php to java and while I was doing that it was always in my mind that the code is becoming increasingly coupled to gae, but I was stupid and lazy to write the code smart enough that could avoid the trap.

Could not initialize class com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.Could not initialize class com.ibm.rational.team.client.ui.model.common.ImageManager, If you also got stuck in this thing then here is the solution.
Start eclipse with -clean option it works fine.

Save the best

Even though we may be unaware of it but most of us have this tendency - to save the best. I recall my school days when I was very much into western music I used to collect and maintain a decent collection of music tapes.
In those times where Hindi music cassettes used come for 22Rs English cassettes used to cost over a 100Rs, even though this luxury was quite beyond my reach I still used to save for it and buy my fav ones, The bigger problem in those days was that you have so many friends and if they know that you have all this great stuff it goes into a circulation with no return guarantee. On the other hand I used to love my music so much that sometimes with the fear of a tape may go bad, I used to first make a copy of it and then listen the copy.
Eight years ago, one day I left my hometown looking for a job in Delhi, I still remember that day clearly that I could feel my baggage and how I have no option but to shed some of the load of it in order to move ahead, it was a very sad day of my life as all the feelings that were coming while leaving my town I was also feeling down that I will never be able to use my stuff ever again, two box full of rare oldies music - and my bag was too small to carry the boxes along.
Each day life keeps becoming complex and busier, and these old memories and hobbies keep fading.
Bangalore is a place with heavy traffic on roads, my 14Km office commute take over an hour, I usually watch movies and TV serials in bus, This let to another hobby of watching movies and TV series.
Within a short span of less than a year I watched hundreds of good movies and download over 3 TB movies on my machine.
Last week I was thinking of buying a new Disk to accommodate more movies and this is when I again felt the same thing about music tapes - That even though it is going fine for the time being will I have enough time in future to enjoy what I am collecting. I don't have an answer to this and so this leads to that instead of buying a new disk I should delete the movies that I have already seen and free up space.