Shi = Number 4 in Japanese. This independence day, I complete four years in my current company. Not to reiterate this had been my longest companion of my previous three associations. More I worked and hung around, more I felt the loyalty pays off. What is the average span of an IT guy in a [...]
March 5, 2009
Working at Japanese offices for an outsider is not easy. An outsider is always assisted by an interpreter. ( a mediator, who is conversant in both Japanese and English). There was no interpreter helping me yesterday evening. This Japanese guy was trying to ask me this question. ” Can you tell me the current temperature [...]
February 12, 2009
I hate this. But helpless. I have not been posting anything besides complaining about being overworked. Even when I had something to share, I consciously stayed away. When you are not in that ‘zone of mind’, that’s the best thing to do. Some update here before another period of lull. Am off to Tokyo tonight [...]
December 26, 2008
This two minute video was done by Revathi, Pradeep and me two years ago for our office annual day. Our office was still small and just handful of colleagues. Now we have moved on to a bigger facility and there are countless unfamiliar faces. This video was lying somewhere in youtube with bare 19 views. [...]
December 19, 2008
It had been a culturally inactive year. Thanks to the program I was working on at office. There was abosultely no time for extra-curriculars. To make it up, I bought this keyboard (Yamaha-I425) a month ago. Thanks to Suresh sistla. Big influencer. Kept this news under wraps till I could really play something with the [...]
November 7, 2008
Have you noticed this ? Your PC’s IP address at office. It generally starts with 10.X.X.X or 172.X.X.X or else with 192. X.X.X. Why ? Off all the zillion options to pick the IP address, why only these three. The reason is RFC 1918. Each address is a reserved pool in each of the Class [...]
September 20, 2008
If you are a trotter then wikitravel should be your first companion on the web. Almost one stop for all your travel needs. From History, Facts, Climate, transport to what to see and what not to miss, all told in a tourist friendly language. It’s too late for me to use it for Seoul. But [...]
September 19, 2008
I have not had anytime to look around in the city. Probably this visit was meant to be pure business. I did not have any time to upload these pictures and regather my thoughts as well. Just four more days to go before I say good bye to Seoul. 1] That’s me 2] Korean vegetable [...]
September 5, 2008
24 X 3 = 72 2 X 3 = 6 72 – 6 = 66 Wondering what math is this ? It’s crazy. I broke all my past records. Six hours of sleep in past three days. I still cant figure out how did I manage it. This was for demonstrating and Bench marking for [...]
August 21, 2008
I have seen a bit of west, but never been to east. I would be visiting Seoul, South Korea for next three weeks, starting this Monday. Before you say wow, let me tell you it’s a zero-pleasure-trip. Language and food are the other concerns besides the fact that it is my first ever date with [...]
June 16, 2008
Drew on a Monday to deal with mundane Mondays. How do you tackle your Mondays ? Free-to-print-poster for your cube.
June 7, 2008
IPSec/Ike is a difficult-to-grasp security protocol. Because it is one protocol which does many things. Authenticates, encrypts and establishes a secure tunnel. I have been trying to get a understading of message exchanges between the initiator (eg: mobile) and responder (eg: security gateway) before the tunnel is established. In the most simplified form this is [...]
May 30, 2008
It’s the team I work with at office. Team lunch this afternoon at Jalsa. Tried putting symbols to match the personalities!! (Click to enlarge)
March 28, 2008
Tania Biswas, is a best friend, than just a colleague of mine. Her last day at office today. We worked together for 2.5 years. My best mentee so far Ever smiling, enthusiastic, full of energy and jumping to learn …and yes argumentative ( Bengali ?, yes ). Very quick witted and easily outpaced my thinking [...]
February 17, 2008
It was a very very very hectic week at office. I was to implement a network using two Cisco catalyst switches with virtual redundancy routing protocol (VRRP) enabled. This too over bridged MRV switches. Sounds geeky ?! It isss…..It took me two full weeks right from working it on the paper, to all the way [...]
February 4, 2008
The entire nation was gripped by the superbowl mania here. We also watched this three hour showdown on the TV between the favorites, New England Patriots and NewYork Giants. It was difficult to make any sense of the game in the initially… but as game progressed we had some sketchy clue. Am still not sure [...]
December 10, 2007
Wear the headphones and give few mins to load the video. Handmade video to be featured in our Annual day.
December 9, 2007
I did not take any pictures at the function, though I had the camera. But took some time out and sat down today to capture the annual day with a pen. This was the best. Kids had to open their arms when the instruction was “small fish” and had to close when it’s “Big fish”. [...]
December 8, 2007
Annual day of our office today at Royal Orchid, Airport Road. Playing my part a bit by participating in dance, video screening and song dedication. Expect some snaps and videos here tomorrow.
December 4, 2007
Seven day weekend by Ricardo Semler This one is off my Manager’s shelf!. On borrow.I am not sure if he has read it completely. But I hope the content influences him more than me. I stay out of office all the time and he inside Semler runs Semco, where employees choose their own salaries, set [...]
August 20, 2009
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