6 shades of brown and what about corporate ethics?

Today, I went to the premier Indian matrimonial site shaadi.com to create a profile as I have decided to enter the 'market'. In the process of filling up the form, I see a very interesting required field* - choose your complexion ! The choices follow : very fair, fair, wheatish, wheatish medium, wheatish brown, dark. 6 variations of the brown band. How much more differentiating and segragating can we get? I have heard my friends in the U.S talk about racism. What exactly is that shaadi.com is trying to get out of us? I am sure that they claim that they are only the means to promote a social evil prevalent in India and hence not responsible. We have heard similar arguments from cigarrette companies but they dont take away our will to buy or not to smoke. Shaadi.com does so by not providing us an option to say - I dont want to disclose my color, neither do I care about my mate's color. What more am I trying to say? I am trying to reflect on our race's inability to break away from a pattern even after we know how we think and that we think wrong.

'' unit tests

How long will it take for all the unit tests to be part of the framework? Why not introduce a standard set of tests as a part of the development environment!

dynamic getters and setters?

I wonder if it is possible to expose properties of a class written in any .net compliant language based on certain conditions. For example, expose the count property of a class only if an instance exists or expose the getter only if the value has been set. I have to research.

Hiking on trail 2005

I feel that year 2005 will be eventful from how it kicked off. I did not get drunk. I met with 2 of my best friends and spent a couple of days with them hiking through the Conashaugh loop near Milford,PA and a part of the Appalachian trail (The Sunfish pond Trail) at the Delaware Water Gap. Of course, we discussed world politics, business, software,French foreign policy, useless people who waste time discussing French/US foreign policy. We also cracked old jokes from movies/stand up comedies we'd watched while growing up and laughed. Best of all, this trip taught me the value of being focused and the importance of excelling in my chosen field. I will log more about my trip in a few days and also put up some fotos and maybe even a video! I am back!