a little proud of my Google gadget

He he! I must say, I'm a little proud of myself. Just about an hour of effort helped me create this neat new Google gadget. Something that I can use and others may be willing to use too.
Do you have a customized Google home page yet??? If you do, then here's something that might be of use to you -
See "DonationPeople" on your Google homepage »

This also means one more step towards the NuRide Google gadget!

Today I bought myself a Taylor Made golf club. After staring at the prices and the variety of available clubs for 30 minutes, I took some help from the salesman. He was very patient in explaining what the heck all the numbers on the clubs meant. And after he was done confusing me, he suggested the Taylor made #3 wood. Supposedly I'll be able to hit the ball straighter with a #3 than with a #1. I believed him and will prolly get to know for sure by tomorrow.

720 (50, 38)

worth its weight in Silver (n.a.k.a. Gold)

A new favoritism

The Civil Rights movement helped the cause of equality in employment. Businesses were required by law to hire based on merit rather than based on personal relations. Partly influenced by the reason that only the wealthy and the networked had more access to education and educational merits than most others.

But now the businesses have caught up with the game. Now that more meritorious candidates are available, a new kind of favoritism has born - relations and networking of the meritorious candidates.

The MBA makes you party to it.

retro thoughts - I

Every once in a while the thought comes to my mind whether I did the right thing to move out of Infosys. And I recall memories from my colleagues to my clients, from my offshore experiences to onsite, from team building to team management. Even Swami ji's remarks - yup, a Swami ji from the Chinmaya mission had some things to say about my switching jobs!

Today, I realize one more thing - Infosys would have given me a bridge to career development. I have to hand it to the company! But they could never have given me personality development the way I find now.
'think out of your cocoons'...those infamous words of wisdom. Well, I'm glad I did.

one more week

Just one more week to go.

If i don't do well, I'm screwed. If I do well, I'm still screwed!
Well, better get screwed having done well.

The biggest problem with me and exams, all my life, has been that I never know how prepared I am. I have burnt my hands with over-confidence; I don't do that anymore.
As they say - only your results can tell how well prepared you were.

God bless me (please!)

yuppp, that sums up my world cup!

DonationPeople and web 2.0

Its kinda late in the race, but better late than never. I think DonationPeople should move to the Web2.0 model.

I sat thinking why DonationPeople is not being used and here's what I came up - This is in order of decreasing levels of popularity! -
1. Its too complicated and not worth my effort
2. I didn't know about DonationPeople
3. I don't want to put that extra effort
4. I don't care about non-profits in India

Surely the next step was finding out how to make everyone aware of DonationPeople, how to make the process simpler and worth the effort.
Web2.0 comes in. What If this were a community driven effort such that evangelists could play their part and we could make the site worthwhile for those who just wish to help with little effort on their parts? Would the problem be solved? I'm eager to find out!

Here's *a* plan -
- Create a discussion board
- you are someone who wishes to buy a product online (worth >$25) but do not know where to find the best deal
- you come and post your requirements to the DonationPeople discussion board
- me and other member evangelists do a little research for you for the best deals on the internet
- then we post the results of our research on the board and also tell you if you can use DonationPeople to get that deal
- you may/maynot use our suggestions. no obligation
- If you do use DonationPeople, then a %age of your purchases go to non-profits in India

Do you think that'd work?

DonationPeople

Have been on a pretty hectic schedule lately, and did not find much time to work on the site(s)! But i'd really love to get things started, and running. I've kinda begun to understand the logistics behind the obvious now.

I need to fix the site, and keep it updated. I need more people to know about DonationPeople, and not only that, I need them to use it.

Am i asking too much. How can I make it more simpler?

Help! Drop in your ideas and suggestions.

and don't forget to use -

http://www.DonationPeople.com

matrimonial? not required...

Is this a joke?!

This guy must've put a matrimonial advertisement in the Hindustan Times and the smart-alec that he was, put my email-address in the contact info.
Great! The next 4 days have meant a flurry of emails from fathers, brothers and brides-to-be inviting a match.

While I run an online ride matching service in my real real world, someone just played a joke on my virtual world. The web-mail.

What else is coming?

long time huh!

Heya blog!
wusup?

had been pretty busy, mind-overrun, and a lot pending in the last few days. Still not out of the slump but have time for blogging and creating new blogs :-)
- AnkushTech - stuff that teases me, and imbibes in me - the forgetfulness of useful information :p...goes in here. If I can use it later, why da' hell can't somebody else too!

fultu.com is live. wanna buy it? am only hoping that some nerd in India comes up with something to use this slang of a website!
Its up for sale - $501 starting bid.

Trying to get hold of things in office. last week was miserable with so many things going on and getting out of hands too.
Cable modem conked off at home, and I was out of internet for a couple of days. Man it was getting hard to get by!

Good news - I cooked. And I cooked about 4 times in the last 10 days. whoa!! surprised myself ;-). Just got sick of eating out day after day and then tried my hand at cooking after useful tips from Akshia and Shuchi and the great magic sabzi masala recipe from ma. Am proud to say i can c0ok french beans as well as Aloo-gobi. That added to my arsenal of Chicken, Daal and Maggi etc.

Just reading about 'Rich Jerk'. He must've made an amazing amount of money selling BS to people.
Do I believe in him? Yes, I do too. But I believe in his idea of selling BS, but not in the BS he sells.

peace

Akshia gone back

Akshia was in the house! He has gone back to school now.

I never thought I'd say this, but here goes -
I had home cooked food while Akshia was here!!
He he! Not trying to take away anything from Akshia. He is a great cook. Thanks for the chole, the bhurji, the aloo gobi, and the aloo matar!
Bhabhi will be very happy...i.e. if she finds out.

We had a nice time, nice ladai, gapshup etc.
Went to this tex-mex cafe called Coyote Blue. A nice place with great food and pretty strong Margaritas. We had the Shrimp Quesadillas, ummm...yumm!

300 - the IMAX experience

The movie demanded an IMAX experience even before I actually saw it. The only real objects in the movie were the character in person; everything else was computer graphics! Amazing what else you can achieve with the silicons these days ;-)

This one scores a 6.5 outa 10. The story depicted is for real alright, but overplayed. I admire the graphics, I really do. But the whole movie experience just didn't cut it. And prolly not worth the extra bucks we spent for the IMAX.
And while I only realized when a co-worker pointed it out to me, it is still funny - the Spartans wore hard metallic helmets to save their precious heads, while wearing just a jockey for the rest of the body! lol!