Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Term papers and Final Essays: The post-college version

« 12 February 2010 at 4:17 am | No Comments
Personal, My Work | Tags: »

tenders, college, hard work
I remember dozens of term papers, final essays and project reports I had to write and work on during high school and college.
They took up lots of hours, editing, formatting and re-proofing. Making sure you adhere to the prescribed formats (seriously, if it asked for double-spacing and you did it differently, […]



Firing an employee is never easy

« 13 July 2009 at 12:40 pm | No Comments
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Job cuts? Pink slips? Layoffs?
Firing an employee is never easy for the owner of a company. It doesn’t matter how the media portrays the evil business owners. What you read may be true very very few times. In cases where the business owner was backed into a corner where it was either fire a few […]



What a Trekkie geek I am

« 18 June 2009 at 5:17 am | No Comments
Personal, Techy | Tags: Star Trek sony ereader »

So I get to play with Surabhi’s new Sony eReader and the first thing I want to do it take it out of the protective casing and walk around the office running diagnostics on random systems and using the PADD in my hand as a portable display device.
 
Of course it’s all in my […]



The Innovators Dilemma: No, really

« 15 May 2009 at 9:17 am | No Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

With my current focus on providing real world (read: ready to use) RFID applications to clients, it often becomes more necessary to take an existing solution and replicate it rather than start from scratch or provide lots of innovative thinking.
As far as I am concerned, this isn’t always cool, but usually necessary.
Market and competitive forces […]



Don’t do that. Or that. Not now. Or later.

« 15 April 2009 at 6:32 am | 8 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: lazy bored busy doing nothing »

I wish there was more flux to life. A better, simpler and easier way to make sure things kept moving along.
*warning* I like you; dear reader. So it’s only fair to warn you that this is probably one of my rare rants about nothing in particular and everything in general.
Lately, things have […]



My Flux Capacitor problem

« 13 November 2008 at 12:40 pm | 7 Comments
Personal | Tags: »

No, seriously.
Though not directly related to going back in time and changing history, it does involve taking my (now) dozens of cousins back to the future, the way I remember it.
For example, I was just reading this article on engadget and they have a reference to a the Flux Capacitor. Now, how on earth do […]



Embedded Glass in VB

« 14 September 2008 at 4:37 pm | 5 Comments
Personal | Tags: »

No, this isn’t a post about a new type of extension or tool called Glass embedded within Visual Basic.
It is, literally, about a piece of glass that was embedded in my chin for a few years, and just came out today!
Some history:
A few years ago, I was sitting in the back seat of a car […]



What the hell happened to Professional IT?

« 13 September 2008 at 3:21 am | 3 Comments
Personal, Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Pretty close to my sentiments regarding the downhill education of the Professional IT people.
I expect that “professional” IT people are professional. I expect that they have a desire to learn, a technical competence to achieve the tasks they set out to do, and a constant need to push the envelope of what’s achievable and always […]



My Deep Thoughts. Or lack thereof

« 11 September 2008 at 8:42 am | 2 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

I’ve not really been blogging in the traditional sense … you know, like the kind of articles I would really write in a journal/log. I feel my blog’s become more of a scrapbook (not even a good one at that).
Add to that, there have been atleast 3 tries at revival!
So much for 3rd time lucky!
It’s […]



Being a good friend vs best friend

« 24 August 2008 at 3:21 pm | No Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Being a good friend is about knowing what that person likes.
Being a best friend is about knowing what that person dislikes.




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