Sunday, June 17, 2012

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted...!??? (Anti-social networks of rackets involved in digital and real life vandalism)


This blog airs concerns on the atrocities committed on innocent people when their privacy is infringed now in the Information Era (the Golden era of white collar crime) as well as when it was in the earlier times. It condemns the deplorable trait of these unethical bullies who do or do not hold formal power, abuse it, people who lack guts, do not stand up to them and spread the sewage. I have seen more spine in jellyfish than in people who bow down and act to the whims and tantrums of unethical tyrannical people engaged in organized crime. Power (and lust for power) corrupts and how!



(NOTE: I am NOT associated in any way with Shivam homeo pharmacy in Pune with the email address jyotichitre@gmail.com. That is a misrepresentation.)


"If you don't stand up for something right, you will fall for anything!"


"Management (& "Leadership"!) must not oppose the virtuous and support the wicked. " 
- Chanakya (a great thinker and diplomat) 

"Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders(?) <"Head" or whatever they do under the guise of "leadership" whichever way they "influence"> encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt and using political sleight of hand to gain and sustain power"
-Stuart Wilde 

The mark of the coward is that he attacks the defenseless.

A team is where a boy/girl can prove his/her courage on his/her  own.
A gang is where a coward goes to hide. 


“Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!”

"The majority of men and women are a spineless breed. They dance to the tune=bark of some bitch" 
-Me (original)


I recall that when I was young, I used to stroll around in the area where I lived. Mumbai was not as densely populated back then and there were properties that were not occupied or there were those where the owners did not welcome visitors. I would read boards there that said, “Trespassers will be prosecuted.” I never ventured to transgress those sections. 

Eavesdropping, indulging in malicious gossip and bullying (sly traits that surface on the playground during childhood) too was neither my forte nor of interest really. But unfortunately these traits could be observed in a lot many folks.

Today I am an IT professional. The old vices like trespassing, eavesdropping and gossiping are still prevalent and also have assumed a new form in our IT world right in our work areas and outside too. Passwords are hacked, cell phones are tapped and security boundaries are disregarded. People are bullied and harassed in this new class of torture. The internet too is used by malicious minds who can destroy reputations of innocent people. It hides the heinous crimes of the hackers. These bullies get the feeling of being powerful getting and misusing information that is in no way their concern and spoil lives and reputations of harmless innocent folk. Our world is an open field for low mentality sadists – akin to vultures who seldom attack healthy animals, but kill the wounded or the sick. These perverted rodents infesting our world teach others to despise people they don't even know. Innocents bleed as anti-social rackets thrive. Sinister demons lurk behind social facades. These destructive, dangerous, remorseless, narcissist, sociopathic megalomaniacs also misuse the dias to bias method to influence people. They scream till hoarse, shrill and make comments with crude  sexual overtones- every lowly tactic to hit below the belt. Haughty sensational speaking criminals who are cybercriminals too. And I wonder, “Will the trespassers ever be prosecuted?...!” 


"Tyrants who stoop to conquer
Vultures with never satiated hunger

Are guts such rarity?
Why do people feed the scavengers' vanity?

Why does amoral conduct run riot?
Scattered sycophantic vultures, bitches, rats and parrots...

Oh, an entire jungle put together
Unevolved neanderthal beasts in human attire!

So, crimes remain unreported
Silently suffer the souls who are tormented...

Why has social and moral conscience waned?
Why is justice so brutally maimed?"





Thursday, March 22, 2012

Info Mapping and My Musings...


During my tenure as a tech communicator in an IT company I was introduced to a tech writing technique called Information Mapping. In a nutshell, Info Mapping is all about structuring information. 


As I muse over this methodology, I wonder...if anything in this world can be utilized, cherished if abstract...
  • Is a poem not a structure spun from beautiful ideas?
  • Does a diamond not become a precious, cherished stone once it is cut into a shape? 
  • Do our feelings of intense pleasure or pain not assume a form when tears trickle down our eyes?…

Monday, February 9, 2009

Mapping DDLC to SDLC


This blog is aimed at the project managers in the software development arena by a technical communicator. It  urges them to include technical communicators right from the feasibility study phase of project management.


  • Meeting difficulties as you install, configure or operate new software? 
  • Approached your colleague or contacted the concerned help desk? 
  • Ever tried reading through the complete user manual that accompanied that new software we successfully installed on our notebook ? 

True, user manuals are referred only when your colleague in the next cubicle is not available and whose assistance you rely upon largely when you are stuck at some point, or when the help desk operator is not available or too busy to attend to your last-minute-resort-frantic-calls . But, when you design software for your client, technical documentation is a very cost-effective method to reduce the number of help desk calls to your support team.
 
So, speaking about user documentation, technical authors (Information Developers or Technical Writers) who design, develop, deliver and maintain these help notes via any media, print or online are either involved in the project more often than not during the final stages, when the product is almost ready for release, viz alpha, or approached just before the beta release. This proves to be a very frustrating experience for and drains the energy out of the technical authors involved, since these envoys who educate your end-users about your product are themselves left with little time and resources to grasp the larger picture…read architecture down to the nitty-gritties of operating instructions and tips, cautions, copyright notices, indexes et cetera…the list can be never-ending. This usually results in delivering only the release notes followed by readmes and half-baked technical documents. Like I have mentioned, this may turn out to be an unintentional callous approach to the services that you provide to your client, help systems and manuals being so cost-effective and critical, and when there is no help desk and support team to assist your clientele, ignorance about the features that the developers so thoughtfully designed might attribute to losses your business may eventually suffer, sooner or later!

Hence, designing a help system for the software applications you develop is as important to your end users as the indispensable tool box that accompanies the new gadgets you purchase. While the IT department painstakingly works on planning, designing, developing software, it often overlooks this crucial aspect that the end users consult when they require assistance. This aspect usually should be taken into account right from the project initiation phase of your SDLC. Educating the fraternity in software organizations about mapping information development that results in the traditionally termed as or may I use the more familiar term ‘Help’, to the corresponding phases of the customized SDLC process that your organization follows while they design software, is as critical a step as creating the product itself. Ignorance about the operability of your product and its features will lead your customers to lose faith in your product who might in turn explore newer avenues, unaware that you and your team had long ago thought about and implemented the features they wished had been a part of the product they installed on their own computer!



I write technical literature
On reams and reams of digital paper...

Transforming the code from the technical maze
Into easily comprehensible users’ language!

You don’t have to worry about constant calls for tech support
When with users my documents have established a rapport…
:)


My next blog is available at http://jyoch.blogspot.in/.

You can reach me at jyotiapply@hotmail.com.