I couldn't sleep well last night. Got up at 12:00. I should have actually studied but was too depressed to do that.

It rained heavily yesterday evening. I was scared that I will get struck by lightening while driving. It was dark, and quite still. I still need to check if my van roof got damaged by hail storm.

Today I heard Farewell to Arms -disk 5. Now Lt Fredric Henry is retreating. Very interesting description of how military police catches retreating officers and executes them. There is a poignant small scene around two young girls, 14 and 15 year old, who are trying to find refuge and are stuck with this group of army men.

Roses are doing good in the garden. Little bird is getting aggressive about her nest. I need to take care of weeds. And also big dead tree in backyard.

Fahrenheit 451 - Interesting for most of the time, slightly boring at end, full of lectures. I expected more of Clarice but she was taken out of book very early. I was sympathetic to Milfred, poor Millie as Montague called her. She came out as helpless person trying to avoid a hopeless situation. At one point I thought that author Ray Bradbury was complaining against emphasis on minority rights. Later however he came out against dictatorship of majority thought.
Overall 3.5 out of 5.

Audio books - Farewell to Arms

I have been listening to audio books for more than a year. I wonder how or why I didn't start that earlier. I have already finished Spanish lessons, of more than 30 hours, Freakonomics, few books on management and also Fahrenheit 451.
for last three days I have been listening to Farewell to Arms. It takes care of my driving time, one hour either way. Earlier I wasted lot of time just sitting in traffic. At other times I heard NPR, or songs, or when desperate, heard 750 AM, listening to idiots like Neils Bohrtz and Shawn Hennety.
Now back to Farewell to Arms - to Lt. Fredric Henrey, "Tenente", Catherine Barkley, priest and Renaldi. What a story teller Hemmingway is! I earlier read his "old man and the sea". It was good, but not that good. but this book, what a yarn he has woven. I almost see & smell Miss Barkley. Though I know how it is going to end (my impatience! have already been to Wiki!!) it is still going to be fun to go through complete story.

standard exchange format

http://www.edidev.com/SEF.htm

The Standard Exchange Format (SEF)

  EDI Tool for Developers

The Standard Exchange Format (SEF) is an open-standard, computer readable, text format that contains the schematic information of an  EDI document.  SEF files are used to convey the EDI implementation guidelines of trading partners.

The purpose of SEF is to standardize the format of EDI implementation guidelines, so that it can be programmatically read; and thus making it possible to create EDI applications that can directly import and read the SEF files to obtain the rules and instructions contained in them for constructing, translating and validating EDI documents. 

The advantages of SEF over other file formats (e.g. pdf, doc, html, and paper) are:

• It is an open standard, which allows you to create your own SEF files and distribute them without any permission or having to pay any royalty fees.
• SEF files are immediately useable by both users and computers.
• SEF files are small electronic files that can be transmitted easily over the Internet.
• SEF files can be edited with  a text editor or with our SEF Manager, and can be read with the SEF reader.

A Synopsis of different EDI standards

http://www.theedizone.com/edi_resources/edi_standards.html

Different EDI Standards
EDI incorporates standard layouts for all business documents. However, there are different standards available. The decision as to which standard to adopt is usually determined by what is already in general use within your business sector and by mutual agreement with your trading partner.

There are four main technical standards:

• UN/EDIFACT - the main standard supported by the UN
• ANSI X12 - common in USA, Canada and Australia
• TRADACOMS - predominantly used in the UK
• ODETTE - developed in the UK for the motor industry.

Each standards body publishes definitions of the documents, which may be exchanged electronically. An EDI message represents common business documents and its definition specifies the content and sequence of the data to be included.

 

June 7

Rati's marriage

Photos from Mendoza Argentina

Loan is with Alex

Sleeping looking person is our tour guide.

We are in front of St Julia vineyard.

Inside winery

In front on Winery

Operations class

BMW case study! Shift to manufacturing, but I am feeling sleepy
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stunnel

I am trying to follow "The web applications hackers handbook" by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto. It is an interesting book. I also tried stunnel software at "http://www.stunnel.org/examples/" . Purpose of software is to create tunnels for TCP traffic. I wouldn't make it work.