Saw this video of Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon on YouTube recently. This is probably the most inspiring thing I've ever watched on youtube. Watch it when you have some time, I am sure you will have a lot to learn from this guy. This lecture is the last one by Randy at CMU. I hope to lead a life like Randy... One can only wish and work hard. Thanks to Vinay [ my colleague at Yahoo!], who pointed me to this video. … Read more… about Childhood Dreams – Randy Pausch
Dot5hosting migration review
My current domain & webspace is hosted on dot5hosting services. They are pretty good all these days until my account got transitioned to a new v3 platform. Earlier, my account was on vDeck v1.0. I had a real bad transition experience to new platform. I use my site mainly for blogging and 'WordPress' is the blogging solution product. All these days, I was using WordPress v2.0.2 without any issues. Since dot5hosting was migrating me to a new platform, thought of upgrading wordpress to v2.3.2. … Read more… about Dot5hosting migration review
Big fat indian wedding
Today I will write about 'Yet Another Big Fat Indian Wedding'. This wedding took place over last weekend in southern part of Bangalore. Both the bride & groom are my relatives. Hence I was forced to take leave from work to look after the pre-marriage arrangements and rituals that usually take place in hindu community. I have to say, this is one of the costliest weddings I have eye witnessed so far. Starting from the shopping of silk sarees, golden ornaments, silver articles, air-conditioned … Read more… about Big fat indian wedding
Live-in jeans funny ad
Saw this Ad on a wall adjacent to a Live In jeans seller store. Found it very funny for many reasons... few of them may be 1. Dangerously Low Priced 2. Smiley with bones 3. Trade mark issues What ever the promotional banner looked like, I did really found Live-in jeans punch line. It reads Live - in : Can't Live without Did you notice anything more? … Read more… about Live-in jeans funny ad
US recession good for Indian IT firms?
I read this article on net recently which goes like this Bangalore: India should look at the possible recession in the US positively as domestic IT companies are more cost effective, Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy said. “The fact that there may be a slowdown in the US means people will become much more concerned over better value for money...we could look at it as an opportunity,” Murthy told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. According to some reports there would be a … Read more… about US recession good for Indian IT firms?