Life before the current Computer Age :D

How to interpret a binary clock !

I was looking at the Google gadgets and one thing that really struck me was the Binary clock. It was interesting and a new thing that liked me a lot. I was curious to know how it worked.
The working goes something like this in just three simple steps :

1) It consists of 6 columns - first two are hours, next two are minutes and the last two are seconds.

2) Each row represents the binary equivalent value as 1,2,4,8.. from the bottom.

3) Then, we need to covert the highlighted dots (1's) in terms of decimal system by multiplying it with its binary equivalent.

4) Now sum the values of each column

Bingo !! There we will get the time in HH:MM:SS (24 hours).

Something like this below

How easy is our job !

I have been to a railway reservation counter recently and while standing in the 'Q', i was wondering the amount of patience the executives there should be having. They need to interact with sooo many customers, with sooo many queries.. each having their own requirement. On an average, the executive must be handling at least 10 people in an hour and just hats off to those people. Same is the case with all those people who interact with the customer for soo long, like doctors, sales executives, etc., They may love their job but still...
In comparison with the software industry where the client interaction will be every now and then or at the most once per day and for that only we may get frustrated at times... we will be nowhere to these people.

Wonderful test match to watch

While watching the Indians bating - first innings of the 2nd test match Vs Aus, i just loved it. It was very exciting the way Sachin, Laxman and other players played their innings. Though i watched the match only every now and then, I just felt i should watch the match for the entire day completely.... Each day of the Indian innings had its own beauty. Sachin made his century after sooo many misses and shut the mouth of soo many critics. Laxman known for his bad running between the wickets as well as good player vs aus - again proved himself.
Ha... and all that was spoilt because of whatever is happening...
This is definetely an even that none of the indian cricket fans can forget nor can the players..
Lets hope things will get better and we will have fair players and a fair game

Why is Dravid eating so many balls? Is he so hungry ?

I feel a Test Cricket opener should use or face as many balls as possible. This will make the ball used and it will ease the other batsmen who can play later to play better.
Why are we not understanding this but blaming Dravid for eating up so many balls and scoring few runs.
In the first test match of India Vs Australia, Dravid used 66+114 =180 and scored only 5+16 = 21 runs and there were many talks on changing Dravid from opening to down the order.
I agree that batsmen needs to keep the score board running or atleast walking ;) (second test Dravid scored 1 run after 40 balls - in the middle of his innings) but there is other side of the coin that we were not realizing.
Is he not making the ball lose its shine and become an old ball. Wont it not be easier now for other batsmen to play better. Why are the other batsmen unable to continue the game better ??Looks like Million $ ?s ?? ;)