Yahoo! Bangalore QE Conference was held on March 7th ’08. This marked the 3rd annual meet of Yahoo! India R&D quality engineering group. I have been fortunate enough to be a part of all the QE conferences in the past as well. As usual, there were a bunch of visitors from Yahoo! offices including UK, France and US. Unlike last year [where we had the conference in Wonderla amusement part], this time it was within the city at MLR convention center which is located inside the Brigade Millennium … Read more… about Y! QE Conference 2008
Yahoo!’s 13th Birthday
Yahoo! completed 13 years on March 2nd. As anyone would celebrate their birthday, we too celebrated Yahoo!'s day in our office cafeteria. Birthday cake was well designed. Inside this white creamy layer, there was a purple and yellow cake base to reflect the true colors of Yahoo! Pranesh & Vish K took the honors of cutting the cake. It is always great to celebrate such milestones amidst volatile media news. I was one of those lucky ones to receive the cake from Pranesh soon after the first … Read more… about Yahoo!’s 13th Birthday
Survey on Questnet
Dear all, Questnet related posts on my blog have been flooded with a huge number of comments. Some or in favor of questnet while others are against this business model. It is annoying to see that many of comments had such a bad language, I had to delete them and moderate many. Because of all this, I have removed the commenting option for those posts. Now here is an opportunity for all the readers to participate in a survey that would depict the true opinion of everyone in a simple format. Hope … Read more… about Survey on Questnet
BESCOM Rocks!
BESCOM [Bangalore Electricity Supply Company] has improved a lot in terms of their customer service. I couldn't believe that a govt organization has changed so much in the recent past. Today we had a low voltage issue, this was the same for all the houses in our lane. I picked up one of the electricity bill to complain about this and called their complaints lodging telephone numbers [080 - 22287118 / 22287119] and gave the location details. Customer service person was available on saturday … Read more… about BESCOM Rocks!
Global warming – Go Green
Planet Earth is slowly getting warmer. Yes, our globe is warming. Whether you like it or not. Whether you are responsible or not. Even so, I know that it is happening. The temperature is rising, and there are going to be many consequences. Recently glanced through a Global Warming related headlines on a website, It was alarming to read those articles and future is certainly scary if we don't act now. Well, why am I writing about Global Warming here today? Because of a thoughtful ad that I saw … Read more… about Global warming – Go Green