This is my first trip to USA. Am living in Austin, Texas.
Voice Blog
WhitePages.com recently acquired Snapv!ne. Ofcourse, it doesn't really matter me. but the interesting aspect here is that about Snapv!ne. This is a voice blog and i just started my voice blog. This seems good as long as you have all the facilities towards voice blogging, but not sure how this will work when am back in India.
Anyhow, you can find my blog here. I started my first post. Did you see this? do you have account?
Do let me know your comments.
Team Lunch - GL Group
This post is from Austin, Texas, America. Recently, i've moved to Austin, Tx, on a business trip. I'm currently in USA on B1 for about 3 months from 20th Aug 2008 to 17th Nov 2008. During this trip, i would be placed with our client GL Group, and study their technology practices. Once i go back to India, will start my own team to develop application for GL Group.
With in the current group am working with, there is a regular practice on Wednesday's, ie., Team Lunch. according to Mr. Mehar, SW Dev Manager (As his signature on mail says), it is optional that any one can attend and every one can attend. But every individual pay pay their own bills. And this day being my birthday as well, i thought to join them and give them a party.
Mr. Mehar is so friendly and (honestly he is very kind / humble / down to earth / blah... blah .. what ever you can see in a matured personality) volunteered to pay the bill on my behalf. i guess it would be about $100, what ever is the bill, he took it on the bills of the organization. i dont know how.. but mentioned that. here are the few pics from the "Team Lunch"
This is the lunch that Mr. Mehar ordered for me.
Mr. Mehar, Curt Lansing , Elliot O'Hara, Aiden Povedano
I took this picture, that's the reason you could see my seat empty. Ajay Guatham, My Seat, Clint McCulloch and Aaron Whatley 
Aiden Povedano took this picture assuming that wanted to have every one. As i already took the one side of the table i wanted the other side. Anyhow, as this didn't come well, i've asked Aiden Povedano to take only the other side. the next one is some how better.
After lunch, Mehar and Elliot left early due to meetings, and we left behind.
We are walking back from lunch.
CEOs Forum Meeting
On 2nd August 2008, I've attended the mentioned meeting conducted by hySea at Motorola India office, located at Hitech City, Madhapur. The speaker of the event is Mr. Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Corporate VP and Head of Software for Home and Network Business, Motorola. He spoke about, "Leading Innovation.. the challenge for Leaders"
By sharp 8:25am, am there at the venue. It took about 7 minutes towards the security clearance and other formalities. And after that I'm straight away there for the conference room. To my surprise, as it is CEOs meeting, it should be that every one has to arrive late. Unaware of that, being the head for Indian operations of Obsys Technologies and never used to the CEO kind culture, looked for some one to receive me by the organizers. Though there is no one there to receive, Motorola's security person took me straight to their cafeteria.
Slowly one by one joined me there, and started introducing one other. Then i got to meet big shots, and learned about their products as well as their companies. Incidentally in the crowd that am sitting are all live in US, and they are all here in India just for business. i felt alien in their crowd. Anyhow, managed. Later we proceeded towards breakfast.
Breakfast includes, aloo based item + idly + vada with water melon juice.
While we are breaking our fasting, there came a gentleman. Slowly talking to every one, except me. For some moment, I felt embraced. But later, recovered and ignored. To my surprise, this is the guy who is speaking that morning. Slowly after the breakfast, around 9:10am we reached the conference hall. After a small talk by some Motorola's senior person and introduction of Mr. Sudhakar, the actual talk started.
Mr. Sudhakar's main idea for the talk is all about "Innovation". His tag line is, "any thing that is Better, faster, cheaper is innovation". Yes!! for some time I felt the same. but for me innovation is doing our own way, but in an extraordinarily. Most times, I quote as
Innovation doesn't consists of doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things extra-ordinarily well
Thus said, i do the same thing that every other does, but in my own style with more effectiveness. anyhow, let me not continue with my ideas. As this is the post all about the meeting and Mr. Sudhakar.
According to Mr. Sudhakar, over the time the innovation becomes discontinues with in the organization. Hence the organization has to take the responsibility to dissolve such discontinuity. There is a necessity for the management to keep the innovation as a continues activity. One has to find different means and ways to keep the Innovation as a continuous process. He gave couple of examples out of his experience as how he made that a regular practice.
Then he stopped his speech and let the floor talk about how they made the innovation as a reality in their respective organizations. Every one expressed their success stories. The following are that i could recollect
- Bug Meter
- Idea Forum
- i = i + i (Some Senior person from TCS.. guess)
- i = i + i + a ( By Mr. Sudhakar)
Mr. Sudhakar, concluded his talk with the following note
Managers do the Right thing, Leaders do the thing Right
Overall, that is a cool discussion that i ever had. But honestly, I don't know how all those high profiled people will nod their heads in this room and be dumb in their own work place. Anyhow, as i don't know them from their respective organizations, it is wise for me to be silent and play a diplomatic game.
Insipred by Uma MRL
As mentioned in the title, inspired by Umamaheswara Rao L, i too took the personality test from the given link. As a result you could see the below graph. Ofcourse, i don't trust all the statements given by these kind of online tests, but they are fun to attend and you could enjoy. Did you gave any try?? Try once..
Your score on this personality test was 71%
Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural lead, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.
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Birthday Cake - 2007
This is my first ever birth day cake of my life. Friends and colleagues, have taken many pics. but out of all, only these two survived and reached me, after many followups. Thankyou all of you .. for the cake as well as pics.
That day, they had applied the cream every possible exposed part of my body, except the dress, every other place. Somehow, that's a nice experience.
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This is just out of my collection, if you have any objections, drop me a mail at dskcheck@gmail.com
Luck - Joke
Recently, I've read a joke about Luck and interview. The story says that it is published in Readers Digest magazine, not sure how far is that true. But some how, it made me to post here... and also i feel that it has a point.
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Situation: With a pile of 300 resumes on a desk, as well as a necessity to recruit few among them quick.
Boss: Pick up the 50 resumes beneath the pile and make arrangements for quick interview
Interview Panel: What shall we do with the rest of 250 resumes
Boss: Dump them in dust bin
IP: Throw away 250 resumes ???!!!##$$$%%^&*@@## ...
Boss: Do it with out much of time waste
IP: We are shocked to listen such response. What if the best candidates are there ??
Boss: You have a point ..
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Boss: But then again, I don't need the people with bad luck
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I don't know how to interpret this joke... but just as a joke.. don't take any morel from this story, except fun
Car - Sar Dar
Sardar: What is the name of your car ?
Lady: I forgot the name ... but , it starts with "T"
Sardar: Oye !!!! Kamaal ki Ghaadi hai... 'Tea' se start ho ta hey... hamara ghaadi to PERTROL se start ho ta hey...
4 New Tools on a single day
After a long time, I've installed 4 new tools on a single day. By this, you can understand how free am on that day. Am free not just because of lack of work, but due to lack of concentration on work. I don't know how this happened, but when i look back, i realise that last Friday is my worst day at office. The list of the new tools as mentioned below.
1) Spice Bird : Spicebird is your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility.
What made me to install this tool is about the time widget.
2) Rocker : Rocker is a mouse navigation tool that lets you perform common tasks, like moving forward and backward in your browser, by simply rocking your fingers across your left and right mouse buttons.
I didn't really find the purpose of this tool. Though it talks about lots of things, none of any that i experienced. Am a dissatisfied customer for them.
3) Xobni: Xobni Insight is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers effortless email management and provides instant access to the most important information in your email.
Apart of all the other tools, i found this as more interesting. This has some good features such as .. converting mails as Conversation, list of people those are in-connection with the source mailer and between, .. list goes on .. I recommend this to give a try.
4) MindMapper: Mind map is simply a visualization tool which helps you think and learn more proficiently. A mind map is a graphic diagram used to represent your thoughts and ideas, tasks, or other items linked to a central key idea or theme.
But I uninstalled this today.
Did you try any of these ?? let me know if you find any interesting tool.
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| This Is My Life, Rated | |
| Life: |  7.26 |
| Mind: | 7.1 |
| Body: |  8.6 |
| Spirit: | 7.1 |
| Friends/Family: |  8 |
| Love: |  5 |
| Finance: |  7.8 |
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This is the office where i'm working currently. I'm sitting on 7th floor, right 2 floors above the "Welcome to the UAE - Dubai" floor.
And the photo which is hanging to our building is of the current ruler of Dubai.
Here every where you will see their photos, just like Gandhi, Nehru, bla.. bla.. people...
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