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What does it take to make a person an Engineer? Going by the general crowd of Indian engineers, who have mostly sunken their careers in software development & other related services; here is what you’ll get:

• He studied Bachelors in Engineering.
• His designation is being a Software Engineer.
• Probably, his work is into developing a Game Engine.

(considering the fact that “Behind every man there is a Woman”, a “He/His” here also means “She/Her”)

Is that all? You may wonder! But, Yes! Its just these.

As Gones points out to Wikipedia for a definition,

“Engineers use creativity, technology, and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.”

Sounds cool! It should be great to be an engineer, I suppose, but not as a SW engineer! Can somebody share with me, whether we (SW engineers) solve practical problems by applying “creativity, technology, and scientific knowledge”? Bull. We (atleast, I) don’t. I use creativity in commenting code, to give out “pleasant” debug messages & in naming the functions. I use technology such as internet to dig for knowhow & blogs such as these to rant, a while. I apply my scientific knowledge to enjoy some science fictions & nothing else. <:o(

Under the section “Lists of notable engineers by discipline“, there is no mention of “Software Engineers”! Yeah! We are not that sginificant. We do no better job than the construction engineer, who builds a ghat road across the valley. He might have considered the centripetal & centrifugal forces to design the steep curves turns. We have to submit ourselves to an aerospace enginner, who designs the slat mechnanism for an AirBus wing. He sees the air velocity, temperature, humidity, metal tensile strength, etc to design that little groove. Man, you might want to rewind to your memories of your old school days; when your class miss told you about Newton, who found the apples falling to be intriguing!.

We are no life savers & do no mission critical jobs. But, we have deep pockets, prefer SMS over a talk, do some adventures by tasting varied cusine & burden the soceity with rise in prices. Time hasn’t come yet, for people to repent for their careers. Life goes on, until we cease to exist.

A few thoughts:

• The Internet isn’t the “World Wide” Web. It is a CyberVillage.
• Here the time to reach anyone is nearly ‘0′. Its the information “SuperHighWay” with no speed limits.
• A village where the house numbers can be 12 digits & seperated by 4 3 dots. The panchayat has plans to increase the number of digits.
• An equal or more number of non-humans live in this village. No animals & No aliens.
• No plants & No trees! So, no global warming. There can only be global “warnings”.
• Not everybody sleeps in the same time. There is atleast one to chat at any point in time.
• Be Rich or Poor, the only access is thro’ http/https.
• A Netizen can be - a Scientist, a Doctor, a 6 year old, a WebCam, a Terrorist, a Paedophile, a Seeder, a Student, a Spider, a Spammer, a Refirigerator, an Uncle, an Anonymous Coward …
• You need not be “you”, always. You can be me. Yes, Internet is the place to clone. A place where “Multiple Personality Disorders” can be widely seen.
• You can make comments on the kolam (rangoli) made by a girl or on the girl itself! Nobody can bash you for “Eve” teasing/pleasing. They can just only “ignore”.
• Its a play-ground, where people play “safe”. Ofcourse, there are spectators; who are contender themselves.

SPiKE writes:

Its a bright sunny morning. Both the sky & the water below are blue today. The sea is calm but for the noise from our hovercraft. Should be about 30 minutes, since we started. The dull monotonous noise changed in pitch, faded & the craft halted. A flock of seagulls flew past me. Its more calm now than before. I heard the sound of gushing water, may be from a whale & a few screeches here & there. I perceived & imagined things a lot more today. I guess, I’m right mostly! The people around me got ready for the test. I’m able to see, now. The so called captain of the craft uttered in a clear voice, “Jump, my boy! Swim for your life!”

Another guy in the group saw me jumping into the water. he offered no help, nor do I want it. I’m not scared. I know swimming. I have participated in marathon swimming competitions. Its all fun & this is just another. I immersed to wet myself completely & turned around to take account of the situaton. I didn’t know where I’m, I was blind-folded right from the start. I was keenly following the direction with the sounds from the ariplanes airplanes that took-off & oil vessels that were perched. I knew that there is a Navy Corps Academy in the bay area & also a few oil sites nearby. But now, I’m past all these. Where am I?

Hey, I couldn’t read/quote anymore of SPiKE’s adventures. I’m stopping here. He is a loafer, you know!

PS: SPiKE is just another person in me. >:O)

Was just doing some trend spotting with Google Trends. Wanna compare the popularity of various South Indian & North Indian languages? That too in comparision with Tamil? This is what u’ll get:

Does it surprise you, that Tamil has much greater visibility among Indian languages & is next only to Hindhi? Keep wondering on why New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta & even the whole of India looks for more of Tamil!

related: Tamil and Linux: U Just can’t Ignore

Looks like moneycontrol.com knows more about my Dad than I do! My dad had a heart complication some 2 weeks before & he is gonna do this.