Les Aventures de Techiemaque...

A Date with an Indian Minister of State…

abesh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:17:01 +0000

It is not everyday in the “Aam Aadmi” ’s life that one gets to meet a Minister of State. And that too not in a setting where we not only get to hear him talk but interact with him. And then definitely not someone as charismatic as Shashi Tharoor. Well I have been a fan since [...]

Freebird…

abesh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:24 +0000

If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be travelling on, now, ‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see. But, if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn’t be the same. ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now, [...]

SAP MII Developement Skills podcast with Jon Reed

abesh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:11:35 +0000

We’ve been trying to make this happen for a long time and it is finally here Fellow SAP Mentor and friend Jon Reed of jonerp.com talks to me in this Podcast about SAP MII and the very first book on it, Implementing and Configuring SAP MII,which I co-authored with Dipankar Saha of IBM, [...]

Prawn Malai Curry – With a Twist…

abesh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:59:30 +0000

Prawns have always been a favourite with both me and my wife, Haimanti. So here’s how to make Prawn Malai Curry, an east indian cuisine and an all time favourite of mine Ingredients 500 gms fresh Large Prawns, de-shelled and de-veined. One-Half Coconut Coconut Milk, 1/2 of a tea-cup. Three small Onions. Three Green Chillies One Tablespoon Garlic Paste One [...]

The Wincy Code

abesh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:50:37 +0000

And more… Robert LongDan sat brooding over the naked body that lay spread eagled on the floor. His brows furrowed as he fixed his gaze on the nether regions of the body. His eyes glazed and he looked up at the glittering sky through the glass ceiling of the Loo’vre. A poke in his ribs snapped him [...]

The Alienation…

abesh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:16:25 +0000

And one more… Scene – I “So what is the least distance the fly must travel to reach from one vertex of the cube to the one exactly opposite to it ? Remember that the cube is hollow and the fly cannot fly !” – Bang ! It was like getting shot point-blank with a dum-dum bullet [...]

To Err… is Human…

abesh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:51:22 +0000

Another one dug out from the depths of the old blog…. Err… The baton has been passed. The colors of space have faded into the sunset. From the depths of Core Dumps the Error has risen… The slanting beam of highlight from the sole Breakpoint that was hanging beside a loop cast an eerie shadow on his [...]

Lighttpd + PHP + MySQL + eAccelerator = Wordpress on steroids

abesh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:49:20 +0000

Introduction I recently shifted my blog from Dreamhost to Mosso. Dreamhost was constantly throwing up out of memory errors for my blog and there was no quick way to detect why other than disabling all my plugins and enabling them one by one. That is one route I did not want to take. I was on [...]

The Ground Beneath My Feet…

abesh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:55:11 +0000

This is a post I wrote 3 years back when I was trying my hand at creative writing… It was lost in cyberspace until recently when I chanced upon it… Hope you like it… For the uninitiated, 15th of August is the Indian Independence Day… I woke up with a start… Somewhere in the background i could [...]

Scream for me Bangalore….

abesh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:56:14 +0000

When Iron Maiden performed for the first time in India, on the 17th of March, 2007 at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore, Bruce Dickinson, in a response to the ergo familiar complaint of Indian fans, “We have waited for 17 years for you guys….”, replied that it won’t be 17 months before they come back. And [...]