India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development,

As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.

Lilah did little more than sleep and eat and cry, which to me was the most fascinating thing in the entire universe. Why did she cry? When did she sleep? What made her eat a lot one day and little the next? Was she changing with time? I did what any obsessed person would do in such a case: I recorded data, plotted it, calculated statistical correlations. First I just wrote on scraps of paper and made charts on graph paper, but I very quickly became more sophisticated. I wrote computer software to make a beautifully colored plot showing times when Diane fed Lilah, in black; when I fed her, in blue (expressed mother's milk, if you must know); Lilah's fussy times, in angry red; her happy times, in green. I calculated patterns in sleeping times, eating times, length of sleep, amounts eaten.

Then, I did what any obsessed person would do these days; I put it all on the Web.

There is only so long business can absorb higher production costs. Something has got to give and what's most likely to give is prices.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.