Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Today, 26th Aug. 2021, I got my 2nd dose COVID vaccination (Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine branded as COVISHIELD) at Chitravathi Road Sachivalayam, Puttaparthi. Please see below pic (some sensitive data is blanked). Note that the certificate uses the first dose location for the "Vaccination at" field. My first dose was taken at Puttaparthi PHC (Primary Health Centre) but second dose was not taken there. [To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] In fact, I first went to Puttaparthi PHC (at Yenumulapalli) today morning but I was told by some staff there that I should go to the Sachivalayam (municipal ward office), and so after checking with my municipal ward volunteer, I went to my municipal ward office - Sachivalayam - on Chitravathi Road in Puttaparthi. There was no crowd and I was immediately vaccinated. The nurse/ANM staff who vaccinated me as well as the...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================    Good to see Hon'ble Supreme Court justices including Chief Justice, stepping in to ensure that proper and timely investigation will be done of the judge (ADJ) murder in Dhanbad, Jharkhand by a hit-and-run tempo/auto (see https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/3180167618866460 for details). Dhanbad judge death: SC seeks report from Jharkhand within a week, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/dhanbad-judge-death-sc-seeks-report-from-jharkhand-within-a-week-101627630149244.html , 30th July 2021. A small extract from above article: A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and justice Surya Kant took ...

[Warning: The movie is full of gun violence and killing. Readers who do not like such topics may please skip reading this post.] Bandidos | SPAGHETTI WESTERN | HD | Full Movie | Free Movie on Youtube | Spaghetti Western, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjIfa_lusas , 1 hr 34 mins. Movie's wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandidos_(film) . It is a 1967 Italian and Spanish co-production movie. I liked some of the dialogues in this movie. Of course, the spaghetti movie is NOT realistic. So one has to leave one's critical faculty a little aside and go with the flow and drama of the movie, knowing it is fictional (make-believe).  I have given below related key parts of the movie story: The movie's opening scene is a very gory train robbery and massacre of almost all of its passengers & crew by bandits led by Billy Kane. There are two groups in the bandits - one is Billy Kane's group and another is Vigonza's group but with Vigonza and group accepting Billy Ka...

Informative 1960 video (enhanced) about IBM 1401 which I think I had heard/read about in early 1980s in my student days in Bombay/Mumbai, even before I got into software field: Computer History: IBM 1401 Mainframe Data Processing System 1960 ENGLISH version (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIIMElB2Wo , 8 min. 17 secs.  [I did B.Sc. Physics followed by half a year or so of M.Sc. Physics (in 1983-84) before I dropped out of M.Sc. Physics and started looking out for a job in software field.] I think IBM 1401 was the first computer model name that registered in my mind. But I have never physically seen an IBM 1401. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401 tells us, "During the 1970s, IBM installed many 1401s in India and Pakistan where they were in use well into the 1980s." I think that explains why I had heard/read about IBM 1401 in the early 1980s in my student days. I think the electric (& transport) company in Bombay then - BEST, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihan...

Readers may want to see my recent post on another blog of mine: Stephen Covey's quote on promises broken or kept and trust destroyed or built; My thoughts on it,  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2021/07/stephen-coveys-quote-on-promises-broken.html .

Wonderful to see this! Congratulations to Dr. Lalit Kanodia! Datamatics was the company that trained me in software development and allowed me to grow into a software developer and project leader. I was with Datamatics from March 1984 to May 1990. I am very, very grateful to Datamatics and its founder Dr. Lalit Kanodia for having provided me that opportunity and giving me a solid professional software development career base. So I am really happy to see this lifetime achievement award being bestowed on Dr. Kanodia by IMC (which I think is Indian Merchants Chamber, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Merchants'_Chamber ). IMC Honours Dr. Lalit Kanodia, Founder & Chairman, Datamatics with Lifetime Achievement Award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIzeu8hSo1E , 4 min. 36 secs, published by Datamatics on 8th July 2021. FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021, Digital Technology Awards By IMC entry in https://www.imcnet.org/press-releases covers this award. A small extract from it: The coveted L...

Last updated on 27th Sep. 2021 This post has some quotations of An Wang from his book, "Lessons: An Autobiography", written with Eugene Linden, https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Lessons.html?id=CSTxxSaJPGQC&redir_esc=y , that are general in nature and may not fit in, in the post I have been putting up about An Wang and Wang Laboratories. However, there may be some quotes of his which are mentioned here as well as in the above mentioned other posts of mine. I will be adding to this post as I continue reading his book. From "Introduction" chapter: "But if there is anything that compelled me to write this book, it is to show that success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius". "Progress does not follow a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary (which is why we speak of the computer revolution). It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often...