a brave new year

Here are some awful truths I’ve realized in 2009.
1. New year resolutions don’t work, but still I get tempted to sneak in a couple of them every year.
2. There is no rule which states that you have to keep blogging once you get started.
3. jquery is the best thing since salted cashews.
4. 93% of my peers haven’t heard about Joel Spolsky.
5. Nobody avails the “help” menu in a program, let alone read it.
6. Wii is better than the other 2 consoles out there.
7. Twitter is a site where a bunch of people write in 140 characters about what they’re doing, and it is a smash it.
8. wikipedia still does not display ads.
9. India actually has 3G.
10. vi is good, emacs is wow!
11. python 3 is an indication of how reluctant people are to change.
12. Atwood’s law is slowly becoming a reality.
13. If you put “green” before any concept, it has greater chances of selling.
14. Copenhagen accord was a colossal waste of time and money.
15. Steve Yegge is a real person. I even stumbled upon a photo of him.
16. Java still seems weird, and I hope scala takes over the world by a storm.

updates

A word of note for the few souls reading this blog. I’ve started a new one. Its more about the things I tinker with on weekends and late evenings. Warning: Not for the technically challenged. I’ll still continue to post wierdos in this blog, and try to be a touch more regular in doing so.

top weasel words which actually don’t mean anything in most contexts

I call them powerpoint words. Feel free to garnish them in your presentation and see your pointy haired boss go wild with joy!

• online learning/e-learning
• agent of change
• object oriented design(subjective)
• strategic meet/strategic meeting and any variant involving strategy and people meeting together
• collaboration
• paradigm
• write up
• synergy
• SWOT
• methodology
• proactive
• key areas
• state of the art
• mashup
• lastly, for best results  enclose all your crap in bullet points…