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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Did You Share Yourself Today?
I have been reading Times Life. The theme for today was sharing. A few of the captions particularly caught my attention as I myself believe in that. The author was trying to convey the message that not having enough money to donate is not a reason to hold back on sharing. You get the meaning [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
ACM India Launch
I was attending ACM India Launch at Taj Residency today. ACM India was formally announced today though ACM India was active for over 3 years now. The program started with a brief introduction by Dr. Anand Deshpande. Co-Chair, ACM India, Prof Dame Wendy Hall, FRS. President, ACM and Dr. John White CEO, ACM. Dr. Rick [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Eye Safety During Solar Eclipse
We just viewed our first Solar Eclipse of the year 2010. As usual, there were many reports of losing the eye sight if you view the eclipse with a naked eye and ways of viewing the eclipse. I didn’t see much of scientific evidence to the above arguments. Why would I lose my eyesight? UV [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Using Airtel International calling card
I have been using Airtel International calling cards for a while. Rate to US is relatively cheaper compared to the full international calling rates. Only problem I had was the long dialing procedure which used to take almost a minute to get into a conference call. I worked around the manual dialing process by storing [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
My Experiences with Sony Reader Touch
Like everyone else, I watched for the release of Sony Reader Touch with great enthusiasm. Though I prefer to read while traveling and during my free time, I was not sure that I will be that comfortable with a digital device. I checked out Sony PRS-505 at Staples and I must say that I was [...]
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Google Buys Gizmo5
Rajesh brought this news to my notice. This is interesting for me as Gizmo5 is my VoIP provider and Google Voice provides me connectivity to all US numbers which I bridged through my Gizmo5 account. Great to see this development.
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Timezone changes while you travel
I’m just back from a business trip. I had to be in 5 different timezones in the last 2 months. The most annoying thing was to change timezones in each of my desktop and web applications. For eg. Google Calendar Google Voice (Funny that these two are still not integrated) Gizmo VoIP Desktop applications System [...]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Team Velocity – Right word at the wrong place
Agile development methods are overly hyped; probably after cloud!!!. I happened to read SKORKS today. I agree with his observation, ie. measuring velocity does not replace planning and scheduling on an agile project. Velocity is just a metric to measure team productivity. I would compare this to kloc or design complexity metrics of the traditional [...]
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Building Software Development Expertise – Using The Dreyfus Model
Jon shared this blog two days back. I could relate to many things that we do in the organization. I was also surprised to see some of my thinking patterns reflected in the blog. Some of the points I particularly liked in the context of software development are: Majority of people will be most advanced [...]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Google Voice: Another Innovation from Google
Google’s acquisition of Grand Central a while ago was seen as a smart move by industry. They took almost two years to invite fresh accounts to try out their new beta program, . The good thing about Google Voice (for that matter Grand Central) is that it lets users integrate all of their existing phone [...]
