Quizzing at office

I hosted Quiz at office today. These were the questions for the prelims. I realised, it’s no easy task to come up with a set of 20 questions. This is inspite of the fact that there’s a plethora of information and ready-to-serve quizzes out there on the net. You have to find a fine balance [...]

TT Champs

Yups ! we won the match. TT Doubles. And the event comes to an end.Say congrats now !

TT Tournament’s Big Day : The Final

The Final Four

TT Tournament has reached it’s final stage. Here are the last four battling for the title in semis. My bet will be on right most top cornered guy, Girish. He defeated me last year. My chances are slim. Let’s see. Update : I lost against Ravi and that brings my winning spree to the end [...]

Winners win a crown

We play some 5 TT matches a day. Results of the matches are published the following day in a visual. Winners look like this. Isnt this a nice idea to to superimpose the winners with a crown ? Giving them a bit of high and yet make them look funny.

Tennis on the Table

Table Tennis tournament is starting today at office. It’s part of our fast-approaching Annual day celebration. Past few days, all of us are warming up to this big tourney. Table Tennis is a big draw here. Table being the only source of recreation, there are plenty of decent players. I am participating in both singles [...]

Virtual Lan

Been very busy at office. Playing around with the network. Something which bothered me over the week was, virtual lan configuration. You can read loads of pages on the web. But before you start, take a look at this picture. You may not have to spend as much time as I did.

Left is right

7 years in IT. Innumerable number of mouse clicks in a day. Countless. Single Click, Double clicks, Scroll, drag and moving around on the pad. Thumb and the first finger of my right hand are tired. It started showing up a week back. Unbearable pain with repetitive injury inside.Paapa. I needed to give them a [...]

Glorious two years

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 [...]

10-20-30 : Vital stats :)

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 [...]

Google bidding for wireless spectrum

I am presenting this topic tomorrow at office. Here’s a quick primer of the story behind the news. What is so unusual about this news?Google is a search company and spectrum is normally bought by Telcos.That’s why this news is worth a look. So why is google doing this ?Google is just expressing an interest [...]

It’s Revathi now

Back to Back exit at my office. First it was Dipu. Now am losing another colleague in pursuit of their further studies. This time it’s Revathi.Me n Revathi got face to face first time during our Annual day celebrations. We hit it off well with plenty of ideas to make our annual day a sweet [...]

We will miss you Dipu

Dipu had been working with us for nearly two years. Today is his last day at work. He is leaving us to pursue further studies at CMU/Purdue ?!Brainy, Funny, creative and a Good chap…( Is that enough Dipu ?)We all will miss his wit and humour at the lunch table. All the best Dipu. From: [...]

Album of the trip to US

All my pics of the trip are now available on the picasaweb.

Better visual for boring data

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 [...]

This one for my folks at home

Best time to be in US is May – Nov. Sun will be out. Spring green is a treat. This afternoon at Westford Regency, Company All Hands Meet. I was lost today again while looking out for the hotel. Thankfully, understanding of a bit of road map helped me locate myself

Two Movies. Three similarities

Two movies since I came here. Three similarities. - Watched both of them on the day of the release.- Both are sequels # 3- Both were disappointing SpiderMan-3 and Shrek-3

Lost+Found

This is the satelite image of the route we take from Hotel to reach Office. Google Maps comes very handy if you are new to US and do not know how to drive around. You just have to trust and blindly ( with open eyes) follow the instructions. You make one single mistake you are [...]

Boston Weekend

Have seen just two cities in my short visit. So I pick Boston of the two, leaving NewYork at the second spot. City is pretty. People are warm and the city walks. This is my first experience with travelling in commuter train in US. Took a commuter train from Billerica to Boston. I was expecting [...]

Drive Taste

I must post this before this moment fades away. I drove down from my office to the Hotel using one of the busiest national highways 495. It must be some 20 kms drive. I must congratulate myself for the dare. I never drove in the busy streets of Bangalore. But I did not want to [...]