Posts from ‘May, 2008’

What happens when you put a bunch of insecure people together? Cat-fight? Rat Race? Circus? All of them? Well I guess most of us, including the ‘cats’, ‘rats’ and other ‘circus’ material, will pick Option D.
The working class is unsure of their future, their career and their lives because they work for someone for money. [...]

Well yes, it is. It conveys so many different things to different people. For example, the graphic that I have as the header of my blog (as on May 14, 2008) is a picture of me smoking a hookah. I put it up because I thought it was cool. But today someone told me the picture ought [...]

Well I don’t know if I’m not cool or young enough, but I can’t understand why people are using Orkut scraps/Facebook Wall as a public chat. ‘Scraps’ like “Hi” and “What’s your number” are so common on scrapbooks that it’s not funny.
I thought scrapbooks were like “Visitor Books” - a one-way communication, more often an endorsement [...]

There’s a site called Browse Happy which is nothing but a campaign against Internet Explorer. That’s “hate groups” coming of age! Well disclaimer - I’m not supporting this campaign in particular… especially because I’m making this particular post from IE (my office computer ’standard built’ browser) even though I use Firefox on my home computer.
Firefox is [...]

Thank you for standing by my side through thick and thin. I’m not sure how good a son I’ve been but you’ve been a great mother. You’ve changed your way to align with mine, have ‘braved’ me often (and you know what I mean) and still never expected anything in return. Words may be all [...]

My signature (hand) has been the way it is ever since I remember. In fact it probably does not even qualify as a signature since it’s merely an angular curved line with a couple of dots. I’ve always had people, including bankers, telling me how easy it is to copy my signature. I always mocked [...]

Here’s a testimonial I put for Stan Garfield - a very respectable global thought leader in Knowledge Management who I’ve had the good fortune to work with.
I knew Stan as a KM Guru even before I joined HP - and in fact he was one of the reasons I joined HP!
Stan is a great leader [...]

Yes, believe it or not, Rs 16.71 crore (USD 4m+) was the power bill for the President of India for the past 5 years while the prime minister of the country spent Rs 37.56 lakhs (USD 90k+) over the past 3 years. Forget about the money spent imagine the amount of ‘energy’ wasted. Wonder if [...]

Someone asked this question on LinkedIn and I was surprised to see responses like - “who has the time to blog” and “its and extra overhead” etc. Here are my two cents on the topic (that I posted as a reply there):
Completely echo Andrew’s thoughts. Just to add - knowledge workers need to ‘ask’ and [...]

It didn’t take me more than a week to get what I wanted (check my previous article on this). I am on Wordpress now, and that too on my own domain. It really is a 5 minute installation. The customization took some time, and that too only because I’m sort of fussy about the finer [...]