Warren in India

The Guinness That Might Have Been
Last night we went out for St. Patrick's Day. We went to the only Irish Pub in Bangalore, and most (if not all) of us who went were looking forward to a nice pint of Guinness. Alas, it was not to be. The Dublin does not carry Guinness, or, for that matter, any other beer not brewed locally. This was explained to us by the waiter, who said that "it's a lot of ocean between here and there." Strange, then, that they had Bud Light and a South African (!) brew. Rumor has it that they carried Guinness a while back, but that it was about $20 for a pint. This story may have been nothing more than an expatriate Irishman having a bit of fun with one of my colleagues, so please salt to taste.

In other news, I've been re-assigned to a different internal project. This one is an internal marketing tool, rather than the internal resource management tool that I had originally been assigned to. Right now, I'm waiting for an e-mail from the project manager to tell me what's up. Supposedly the project will last for 3-4 weeks, then I'll be on another internal project. I have no idea what any of the other details of these projects are, let alone how they might affect my departure date.

We finished Object Bootcamp on Wednesday, so we developer bootcampers have been working out of the office since Thursday. It's nice to be back in an office, but I've been in limbo since this morning. Bootcamp was an overwhelming experience. The consensus is that we all learned about the equivalent of a semester-and-a-half of university material in just over a month. We learned what was essentially a completely new way of looking at programming, which takes the JIT approach that I mentioned earlier. We develop so that projects can be planned in much smaller chunks than the much longer (12+ months) plans that more traditional approaches require.

I've now got another reason to want to come back before June 5 -- New Order are playing in Chicago on May 3. It's their only show in the midwest (at least for now), and their first stop anywhere near there since 1993. It figures that I'm scheduled to be on the other side of the world. I'm going to buy tickets anyway and just hope for the best.

We're having a "Bootcamp Graduation" ceremony and party tonight. I'll post more on that after it happens. Our bus leaves for Mysore at 6:30 tomorrow morning, so I'm sure it won't be a late night for me.

I've been struggling to try to get more money into my pay-as-you-go cell phone account here, so those of you with whom I haven't spoken in a while will probably hear from me next week.

Have a good weekend!

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