My blog IRohitable has a new sub-branch now: life.irohitable.com.

 Note the new category on top with the title My Days My Life.

I am struggling with stiffness in neck along with migraine from the last six years. It has worsened now. I got it X-Rayed a couple of times. The reports show signs of stiffness in the muscle spasms. Programmers have to sit for very long hours in front of PC and it demands more caffeine intake and junk food like Pizza and Burgers. My To-Do lists are impressive but of no help when the stiffness starts and migraine triggers. Trying to save a few bucks by not buying a comfortable chair and not joining a good Gym, I have wasted a lot of money buying medicines.

I am happy to add a nice feature in my upcoming application to automatically monitor and tune the health of database but I regret the same software is not available for me. May be some day a software developer gets equipped with a software which can automatically display health stats of the developer while he is writing code, eating pizzas and continuously glaring at the screen.

Well, I am an unknown personality of the industry but here are the neck pain stories of few personalities of the software industry you may be aware of:

Scott Hanselman

Mike Gunderloy

Paul Lockwood

Better late than never. Below is my daily diet and work-out routine started this month:

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• My first exposure to computers dates back to 1990. In my school we had computers as one of the compulsory subject. The class was once a week and it used to be the last class of the day. We were asked to line up and march towards the computer room. We were asked to take off our shoes and enter the room quitely as if Mr. Computer would get angry. In the computer room, there were PC XT computers with hercules (green display) monitors sitting on top of the CPU. I used to look at the keyboard mysteriously. Sometimes I used to press the ENTER or SCROLL LOCK button and waited in silence for the computer to speak to me. I had a picture in mind that computers can communicate with humans in their language as shown in a popular TV serial for kids.

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In my previous company, I was a part of a team. My team included two HRs, few web-designers, few developers and testers along with a team leader and a project manager, like any team in a typical IT company.  Most of the things were handled in an unplanned way and the To-Do list was just a messed up list. No deadlines, no targets and sometimes no tasks clearly defined. Staff just looked tired and occupied by fatigue due to lack of interest. Our boss often commented: “Don’t do donkey work”, but the staff didn’t follow and continued with their donkey work.

I started finding ways to try to improve the way we collaborate and the way other things were handled in our office. I wanted to simplify things and make work interesting for me and others too. While coming and leaving office, ideas filled my mind and I started thinking of a concept, I named: Innovation at Work.

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