Friday, April 28, 2006

Isolation...Interesting !

This is from the other side of brain, Iam writing this blog .... So, nobody has to panic if blogger.com has messed up blogs by any chance ! Concurrency - Concurrency is the ability of a database management system to allow multiple users to access data at the same time while maintaining the integrity and consistency of the data. How much should I "isolate" my application from others ??? Few interesting stuffs that I feel so.

1) Am I okay to get any ..any..any data from database whether its not really appropriate or need not be accurate ? - Do an "Uncommitted Read" .. U tell DB to read data even thats not being committed to be complete. Then, why should we query database if we are not bothered of accuracy. Yes, you might do that in real life,but have not noticed. Railway enquiry... Price list for online auction/purchase sites .. you just need to get details but, not accurate at the time.

2) Should I be including ALL available information @ a particular time even it is okay that no new information could be appended ?? - Do a "Repeated Read"..... When I am accumulating information at a time and at the end of it I can say when I did nothing has been left. If I dont say "Repeatable Read", there is possibility that new info could be added to database apart from what I accumulate.

3) Be safe as I could be ! - If I need to be noting touching extremes ... Just ensure I am getting consistent data when I am fetching ?? Juse Cursor Stability... Although a lot of table rows are qualified, you allow other application/users to modify data unless you really fetch them.

So, what strategy should I follow ? Each has its own pros/con. Thinking of concurrency needed, performance, availability of data, volume of data..the isolation should be chosen and not a generalizable one !

Friday, April 21, 2006

Cooking - Whose business is this ????!!!???

















These are scenes that put me on thought for a while ..... In every day life, my mom...my aunts...my in-laws (sister-in-laws) all take up kitchen role. And, apart from occassional "take-over" by my dad I do not see many males doing the cooking job on regular lifestyle.

But, when it comes to cook job...be it from people shown above or in any marriage halls... you get to see almost all men team .... "Ungalukku palaghat mani iyer theriyumaaa ? " If "theriyadhu" is what your mind murmurs... "Avar oru cook'anum... ingae oru periyavar vethalai petti kaanum'nu thaedindirundhaar illaeyaa..avar thaan!" Be it Mani Iyer or Kameswaran.. I had thought why men take this cook role when it comes to big sizes ???

A normal instance to show chauvinism in society - that male think cooking is no proud thing if it is not getting money in returns ???? *** Raised eyebrows ***

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Well said !

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200604191662.htm

This is following to scenes developing in this democratic, secular country !!! Last year, I witnessed stone-throwings (where else ????) in the hi-tech city of the country. Demand is - "All IT companies should have reservation towards localites !!!" I ask, what the hell is the politicians or the social activitsts organizations thinking of IT companies. Or, the so-called-outsiders (are they really outsiders ? foreigners ?? are they stealing your job ?? Haven't you run to Bombay or chennai decades back to get jobs ???) !!!! The public demand is that IT companies should not bring people from "outside" when they find labour in their own state ! Fine, IT comapnies are n't government bodies they can put any policies to woo voters !!

I wouldn't be surprised when a day arise where the community of people would demand entry pass to their state in this country !

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Thambi - Paarka vaendiya Thiraipadam

Today is one of the risky days. Before you wander your minds thinking what it is, I tell you... I wished to take my mom & sis take out for a movie. So what, why is it risky ? Was it coz of summer ?? Nope ! This is high time risk to attempt a tamil movie in theater with the ladies in home. Recent trends - All songs "pakka kuthu" songs including the romantic duets, perverted dialogues for inducing humour..its going highly bad.

I'd been to Thambi ! Movie is just good for my mindset and recent time attitude. It is not from an ace director so, I never had high expectations. R Madhavan is one of very few actors I like on-screen/off-screen. I know the music already..I was already fan of jaggamma, kaadhalithu paar songs. The movie is somewhat usual and age-old vengence story but, with a message and difference. Madhavan has made few changes in his looks. Long hair, kurta tops..costume that repeat in a movie. Be it lover boy or angry youth or gangster or a-father-for-two, he excels ! He has done it again. Thayir saadham has its taste always ! :-)

Whether he has a big tummy
and..made his gal mummy..he is now a daddy
But, always he is same old maddy !

Movie's plusses are Dialogues, Madhavan, Music ! Three of the major songs although them come hindrance to flow of the movie, are enjoyable and melodies. Few scenes are highly predictable and dragging..after all this is a mass movie with madhavan. So, gals would be lil disappointed. A typical flash-back where the hero loses his loved ones drags the viewers a big time. But, sarcasm on the tree-cutting-episode is interesting. The director proves in few scenes like heroine's token of love, climax where the bad-guy's ploy backfiring himself, maddy's counter attacks on blazing busses, hero knows karate so he could hit powerful and could handle guys, intermission scene where maddy claims he could be that single match to ignite the whole nation, restaurant scene where maddy comforts the heroine.

Of course, movie lacked so logics and impractical but, he never deviated from the theme.. no comedies although Vadivelu was there ! Hereoine is glamour factor, hardly makes any sense with expresssions..falling in love with couple of encounters with hero. But, I would say this is powerful presention than a costly Anniyan which eventually made people remember what REMO did and forgot what Anniyan said !

Keep coming movies like this and keep reminding people to care human/society/country. I had a nice movie.