Hurricane Indra

With female Hurricanes creating havoc on the American Coast and Media, the headline in The Herald screamed 'Hurricane Andhra'. Now is Andhra a female name? For convenience we have Indianised it as 'Hurricane Indra'. Indra-The Hindu God of Rain.

Indra does know how to devastate, Goa received the pounding from the lord for 3 days, 11 inches in 33 hours.

Teacher Blogs

'A student spends 25,000 hours in the campus. The school must have the best of teachers who have the ability to teach, love teaching and build moral qualities' - A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM

Compliments on Teacher's Day.

Some interesting questions on blogging by faculty members have been raised in Chronicle careers. Is it right for a faculty member to use blog as a publishing tool? What happens when a faculty member maintains a personal blog, that can go against him during tenureship? What happens when a blog of a faculty job applicant is seen by the selection committee. Can blogs be used for job evaluation and a selection criteria? Should faculty blogs only be of academic nature or further research? Read here

I feel a blog is a great way to educate and share knowledge. There is great potential in open access to ideas and thoughts. Blogs go a long way to fulfill accessibility without constraints.

Address to the Nation by Hon. President of India on Teachers day is very inspring. Read here

Soft wares in Bloegs

Joel on Software

In my search for Software Blogs, Joel has some interesting writing. I should thank Toji Leon for showing up some good links and snippets on Software Project management. Softwarebyrob looks at developer dilemma and has some good links to other sites. Panopticon Central gives some snippets on how to be a project manager at Microsoft Eric Meade goes Agile, and Kent Beck's (XP guru) ideas on developer testing is available at IT Conversations. Some good blog entries on testing is available at Software Test Engineering. Cem Kaner's Blog has a comprehensive look at managing software development environments.

The trail is never ending. I shall be starting a teaching and research blog. See you there.