OOPs.. I Don't have to do it again

This is one extremely frustrating dish to make. A tiny mistake and 3 hours of work tastes forgettable. I used to make really good ones.. that too the 'kacchi' type. Then suddenly I found that the touch was lost.. a bit like the form of Vinod Kambli. Whatever you do, the triple centuries never come back. I dont have a knack to keep things in memory, especially recipes. Always prefer to look up on my scribblings saved txt with Notepad. The losing of 'touch' was mostly due to a lapse of not writing down what I was doing. Anyways.. what is gone is gone and I still dont remember what I used to do to make it smell, look and taste decent. Many attempts (disasters) followed which were based on one or the other of hundreds of Biryani recipes floating around waiting to be BINGed. Today I was too tired to refer to yet another recipe, and needed to do something quickly & get back to work. Had to rely on instincts.. although I admit I did refer to the list of spices. (Please not

This one took me a year to realise. Yes a bit thick! It is so simple, one wonders why it was not visible before. I had to design a database table for charges against a service. The charge depends on various parameters. The usual way of representing would be to put the parameter values and the results in single unique record Eg: Z= f(x,y,z) Z= 40.9 when x=1 y=2 z= 3 Record Z x y z 40.9 1 2 3 Blow up the same methodology for cases like 3<=x<=9.5 For this, you would need columns such as GEx GTx EQx LEx LTx Populate with values and you can define a condition Repeat for each variable. You will end up having a table with fairly large number of columns. I did not want this. Also I was wondering about cases where say Y is a string and not a number. This was posed as a question to ether space via this blog in an post made in Apr09 Z = 80.345 when x=1,z=3 and Y contains string "Singh" Say it defines a taxi rate to the airport when your name is same as the driver

Whom do they address in the books they write? Is the primary aim to convey the insight received during thought Or to use tedious vocabulary that appeals to peers but obfuscates the message to laymen Maybe I am a bit thick, or I picked up a book not intended for me. I wanted insights but ended up spending more of my time trying to decode the language and understanding what the author is trying to convey. *Essay 1 - Why communalism is about caste* I did not get the answer. The analysis was not convincing enough. One problem I found in most of the book is the over emphasis on static analysis. That economics, technology, Time, changes the way people think does not seem to be considered. The views of 1920 is extrapolated to 2000. What drove the actors a century ago drives another set today. Reforms, Internet, Industrialisation, English.. what effect does these have? I want answers for Tomorrow based on insights derived from events of yesterday. Analysis of yesterday based on yesterday does

A quick one. Mr. S seems to be changing from whines to actual reporting!