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Zero percent interest rate on 4 week US T-Bills !

December 11th, 2008

When all Trust is lost and Fear rules the mind !
http://tinyurl.com/57kh5p

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Hope tommorow would be a lot like yesterday !

November 28th, 2008

With the siege of the Taj Mahal Hotel now lasting almost 2 days, a picture taken a few years ago to help me gain the confidence that even this will come to a pass !

Hope tommorow would be a lot like yesterday ...

Hope tommorow would be a lot like yesterday ...

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Linux CDs/DVDs for sale on eBay

May 12th, 2008

To help out folks who would want to try the latest versions of Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware and various other flavours of Linux, I am selling these on eBay India (payment through credit card / internet banking). The idea is to make these available to those who do not have access to it via their friends and don’t have the Internet Bandwidth to download it

You can find the items for sale here

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Y! BSOD !

February 17th, 2008

Looks like almost the entire world is puking at the thought of Microsoft taking over Yahoo!, for me funnily enough, I guess this is a good thing to happen to the ‘Intertoobes’ in general. About time Google had someone / thing to worry about

Via Amber Mac’s blog

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The evolution of Man – Mentos style

February 16th, 2008

This is one of the coolest ads I have chanced upon in recent times, an ad by Mentos taking their ‘Dimaag ki batti jala de’ theme forward uses the evolution of man thanks to a Mentos

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Brand Managing your Career

February 10th, 2008

Chanced upon a very interesting article on Fastcompany.com about how to treat your own career as a Brand manager treats his Brand in the physical world:

The tenets of Brand management as applied to managing careers :

Identifying key markets to understand where your skills and passions are transferable.

Market research to be tooled with the required skills to be competitive today and tomorrow and to identify market trends (or create them).

Build product/service solutions that add value and separate you from your perceived competition.

Pricing strategy to understand the value of your skills and results as well positioning for negotiations for your service offering.

Building brand awareness on and offline to be a known commodity and provider of value – sought after as an expert in your field.

The important point to note here is every Brand in the market stands for something which is its Positioning statement
Individuals, as they manage their careers also need a Positioning statement, and this must be derived out of what that individual values in life
The question we all need to ask ourselves is ‘What do you stand for ?
Is it Innovation ?, is it efficiency ?, is it Leadership ? etc

Brand Manager for Your Career | Fast Company

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6 tips for the Career Jungle

February 10th, 2008

I had the opportunity to spend time with students of IT, Computer Science & Mass Media from Kirti College, Dadar, Mumbai yesterday morning and share with them my tips on how to manage their careers

These folks are extremely raw and lack perspective on what awaits them in their life. Am sure there are thousands of others like these in colleges across India and I do hope that I can get to spend more time with them coaching them and preparing them better for their future. Afterall, the future of India lies in their hands

Here’s the 6 tips slide from my presentation to them

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Twittering the India Vs Australia Cricket match @ MCG

February 10th, 2008

Lazy Sunday morning, nothing else to do, what better to do that waste my time twittering the India Vs Australia Cricket game @ MCG

Join in & lets have some fun commenting the game together on twitter

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Where do you want to go today ?

January 27th, 2008

Found this while shopping in Shanghai

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Twitter a story, a ballad, a novel ?

January 26th, 2008

A very interesting thought came up last night when I was getting back home form work and listening to Tom Merrit, Molly Wood & Leo Laporte on CNET’s Buzz out Loud podcast. The folks on the podcast discussed how novels in SMS lingo is rave in Japan and then tossed up a concept wherein Twitter can be used (by one or more users) to serially micro-blog a novel. The challenge of course is that every sentence of your can only contain 160 characters. I find this entire concept rather cool and am willing to give this a shot. For one, it helps me find a creative vent to my energies and also helps because while I have always wanted to write a book, I dont quite have the patience for that

Looks like BOL crew have started something off. Keep checking it and if you want to micro-blog a story with me leave a comment here

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