Today marks two years in my current company. This is the second longest duration of my stay after lucent. These two years have been special than any other periods for few reasons. - From being 51st to join and seeing the team grow to 125 is new to me. - Setup, Install, configure and manage [...]
August 7, 2007
When somebody writes a ‘what-is’ and ‘how-to’ primers I feel much of the text goes unread when there is no illustration. I happened to read one such article in the morning. Web 2.0 primer And thought, let me add my bit to the article by sketching these cuties. Click on the pic to see the [...]
August 4, 2007
Am running a talk-format in office for over a month now. It’s nicked as 10-20-30, invented by Guy Kawasaki. I have tweaked a bit and applied at our office. This is the email message footer which goes out for that talk-invitation.___________________________________________________10-20-30That is for 10 slides, 20 mins and 30 people.Internal Knowledge Sharing Sessions. It’s open [...]
August 2, 2007
Click to see the enlarged image How do you normally prepare ?! Any other tips ?
July 13, 2007
IP addressing and subnetting. Any number of times you read and try to apply, the basics evaporate in no time. Subnetting is little tricky and hence needs working through it to stick in the head. Let me make an attempt to give you some help in grasping the concept. Get this one right. Subnetting is [...]
June 27, 2007
I pulled out a recipe from one of my old collection this evening for the dinner. MavinKayi Chitranna ( Masla Rice out of raw mango…?! ) Had the rice been little fluffy, it would’ve been more delicious. Print the recipe to try out. Translators. Any one around ?!
June 10, 2007
I had to send out an email with a list of teams for our company team outing. This was the data. I thought about it a bit. Sending a spread sheet attachment with names in six different columns would have been the most obvious way of representation. See how much difference can it make when [...]
June 10, 2007
In my month long stay at US, I had not spent anything on books and I was curious to visit a bookstore and experience how different they are from one in Bangalore. But that didn’t happen until the day before I was leaving to India. I visited Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Nashua in NewHampshire, [...]
June 5, 2007
With sify broadband connection at home, I wanted to set up wifi at home with netgear wgr614v7 wireless router. It took me almost 10 hours in continuous sitting to get it working. It was not until late 3 in the morning that I found out that you need sify’s support to have wifi. If you [...]
March 28, 2007
Am very bad with conversions. Very lazy.But am equally fond of approximations. That saves a lot of brain energy for better purposes. Just to illustrate this…This one is for Bytes to MB conversions. Most of our unix systems display the file sizes in Bytes and it takes few seconds to figure out and get a [...]
February 15, 2007
I learnt how to tie a tie this morning.This is a regular knot.I have learnt this time and again. But I forget easily.And Invariably I look for some educated help.This time around I have this picture for my help.
January 3, 2007
Communication Satelites are nothing but mirrors at very high altitude.You send out the signal from the earth station all the way to the satelites.( Uplink)Satelites ( transponders) in turn pick up the weak signal which travelled long distances,boost them and retransmit back ( downlink) to many earth stations. Tata Sky DTH provider has leased 12 [...]
January 2, 2007
During my primary school days there were verfy few TV channels. Infact two.National and Regional Language Channel.There was one boom and People swtiched from Doordarshan to cable TVs.People watched more channels 24Hours. Early TVs received TV signals using Antenna on their terraces.Reception used to be poor to receive regional langugage channels.We used to increase the [...]
November 10, 2006
I was to tell them the importance of logging in softwares.Especially in a call processing software.Can there be a better imagination than this ?
October 27, 2006
You pack your house in boxes and put your new address on them. The moving company picks them up, makes a list of the boxes, and ships them across country along the most efficient route -this may mean putting your dishes and your bedroom furniture on different trucks. Your belongings arrive at your new address. [...]
May 17, 2006
Few days back I made a mention of “Say it with pictures”I presented few slides today to the team with the same technique.Sample here.
February 20, 2006
Lovely graphical ads of make my trip. Ek se Badkar Ek. Click here.
August 16, 2007
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