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The Thin Line Between Personal and Professional

2009-04-03T10:44:00.001-07:00

Quite often these days, I'm confused. Confused about what needs to be shared and with whom. So, I decided that this blog will be a personal one shared only with a few; I might even password protect this. The other blog will be more general and more unrelated to my personal life.

Random Musings

2009-02-27T14:42:00.001-08:00

Warning: This post is heavy on 2 word sentences. Most don’t make sense ;-).

Friday afternoon.
Code Freeze.
Bugs Galore.
Severity 2!
Slow Techmeme.
Ruby Red Grapefruit.
Silence = Sleep.
Monitor Staring.
Constant tapping of keyboards.
Gmail – Inbox.
Gmail – Inbox(1).
Report Spam.
Gmail – Inbox.
F5 on Techmeme.
Blinking Cursor.
Stationary Mouse Pointer.
Alt-Tab.
Ringing Phone.
Overheard Conversations.
Acting Busy.
People Crossing Cubicle.
1 Meeting Reminder.
Dismissed.
Google Finance.
Sleep.

:-).

My favorite musician won an Oscar. Yet I’m unhappy.

2009-02-23T00:39:00.001-08:00

So, Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Oscards and A.R. Rahman (India’s favorite musician) won 2! Well, every Indian I know is celebrating and is feeling proud. Yet I’m not.

Slumdog Millionaire is what I would call a B-grade Bollywood flick. Even Lagaan, India’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film for 2001 is way, way better than Slumdog Millionaire. I guess it would have won an Oscar if the theme was based on baseball or Amercian Football rather than the lesser known Cricket (which is like a religion among us Indians).

Slumdog Millionaire depicts everything that is not India. Yes, there have been numerous discussions and debates on how the movie creates this image of India as a slum dwelling nation. But, personally, the movie itself is a big disappointment for me (and thousands of other Bollywood film followers) and I’m really surprised how the American movie going folks liked this movie. Is it because they like the so called ‘masala’, the rags-to-riches miracle – things that are so typical of all Indian movies?

That Rahman won 2 oscards is definitely a reason to celebrate but the fact that he won it for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is definitely a let down. Rahman is a great musician and he deserves many, many Oscars, but for ‘Slumdog’ not.

Coffee Thoughts

2008-12-22T10:09:00.001-08:00

What do you do when the coffee machine breaks down in your floor?

Simple, go to the next floor and get your coffee. :-)

Random

2008-12-17T17:48:00.001-08:00

You have to solve a problem that you don’t even have any freaking idea about. Even better, you have been assigned that problem. You think hard, try to understand what the problem is all about. Nothing that you try makes sense and yet you are driven by the pressure to perform, to deliver. So, you try day and night, and then suddenly it starts working. You are amazed and you look closely. False Alarm. And then you try to repeat that, you wonder “how the hell did it work that 1 time?”. Then, you realize what the problem is and you think “I must be a fool not to have figured this out much earlier”. So, the moral of the story. “Don’t worry. Life’s like that.” :-)

Now Playing

2008-12-12T20:04:00.001-08:00

Akon – Freedom
T.I. – Paper Trail
Usher – Here I Stand

Infinite loop going on with these songs.

Weekend Plans

2008-12-12T20:02:00.001-08:00

Costco :-)

Finally, Friday. Not!

2008-12-12T20:01:00.001-08:00

Was overloaded with work today. Still hooked to the corporate network from home :-( .

Finally, Friday

2008-12-12T19:58:00.001-08:00

Today, we had our annual holiday party and potluck. The theme this year was charity, so we had an auction, bingo and drinks – none free :-(.

The Simpsons - Mapple

2008-12-11T13:05:00.001-08:00

This is funny, really funny. For you in High Quality

Meme-o-randum

2008-12-11T12:44:00.001-08:00

The internet meme for all the political news. Check out http://www.memeorandum.com/

Google Chrome Minus Beta

2008-12-11T11:14:00.001-08:00

It’s official. Google Chrome ~~BETA~~. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-chrome-beta.html

Google Chrome is my default browser!

My Google Talk Feed

2008-12-11T11:08:00.001-08:00

My Google Talk status message feed http://friendfeed.com/saishank . Ah, I’m proud of myself.

Twitter-like post update

2008-12-11T11:05:00.001-08:00

In fact, I’ve decided that I will post many twitter-style messages every day and not just 1 post a day, to keep you all happy.

Twitter-like post

2008-12-11T11:02:00.001-08:00

Gr8 news! I’ve decided that I’m going to limit by blog posts to 140 characters. And I’ve also decided that I’m going to do this everyday.

Gmail Themes!

2008-11-19T17:31:00.001-08:00

TechBytes - I

2008-11-11T14:22:00.001-08:00

Yay! Google launches Voice and Video chat right through Gmail, that’s right – right through your browser. Get Google Voice and Video Chat at http://mail.google.com/videochat. The CNET reviews haven’t been great for this new Google product, but for avid Gmail and Google Talk users like me, this is great news. I’m yet to see the “"Video & more" menu at the bottom of my Gmail chat window”, but I can wait.

VMWare launched their Mobile Virtualization Platform yesterday. Click here for their press release. Imagine running Windows Mobile, Google Android and Symbian on the same phone! The geeky part of me is getting goose bumps ;-) .

In other news, the iPhone 2.2 upgrade (yawn!) is expected to be available on November 21. And check out the HTC Fuze (from AT&T) review at Mobility Site.

More later.

Blogged using Windows Live Writer!

A new try at writing

2008-11-08T10:09:00.001-08:00

So, I started off this Saturday morning trying to find out tools to blog right out of Microsoft Word. And bingo, I ran into Windows Live Writer. This is my first post from Windows Live Writer and I already feel so good about blogging now. Guess, I might actually realize my dream of becoming a regular blogger. :-)

Friends at Work

2008-08-13T11:59:00.001-07:00

Say hello to my friends at work :)

There you go.

Life - Now and Then

2008-08-12T15:20:00.001-07:00

Statement 1: There used to be a time when I used to sleep at 5 in the morning and wake up at 10. I'm not able to do that nowadays.

Statement 2: I look at the world and see selfish people. They still remain the same - now and then.

What's the correlation between statement 1 and statement 2?

I don't know. Why don't you figure that out?

Home @ Mountain View

2008-07-31T22:35:00.000-07:00

Mountain View, California. Home to the greatest internet innovator - Google. And guess who else lives there? Me. :-)

This is my home.

Well, this is more like the view from ground zero.

Travelling to work is fun.

Hello World

2008-07-21T23:45:00.000-07:00

Hello world! Like the first computer program I ever wrote, this is my tribute to the world's greatest 2 words - "Hello World" :-)