I am Getting Married

Yes, its one of the most important thing of life that should not be overlooked. Its one of the lesson in life that must be practiced. Finally I am all set to marry next month. I got engaged in the end of the February this year with the lovely lady chosen by my family. I see that from there on my post on the blog has been almost silent. No change happen without other change and change is what remains permanent. No change is bad. Its all depends on the person’s attitude about the change.

With this change, there has been a sudden rise in my telephone bill. I was never that talkative before, I never was that much patience to listen so much. Things are getting changed. I am setting house; cleaning, getting basic family needy things and on her nature setting the ambiance. Will be buying a car and bike will be in garage for the time. Hah!! I have spent a long bachelor life and enjoyed to its full. I am looking forward to enjoy the other part of this life by embracing the change to come.This is a brief post, I will update the things related to my marriage stuff.
 
Dear wanderers to this blog, I invite you to be part of this ceremony.

Mix 09 Quick Video Links that I pinned

Coolthingoftheday just like the pdc2008 has all the video links for Mix09.

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List

Videos at Vistmix.com

[what I am doing; no twittering]
I am on an assignment to understand the Vista security enhancement feature and similarity to Windows7 security feature that will make me to discuss the plan for application migration from Windows XP to the next OS platform.That said, I am looking after options to port both legacy and new managed applications either to Vista or to design migration path to Windows7. There are huge amount of information is available on the net, and I am badly challenged when I look after the fleet of mix kind of applications to port. 

There is a PDC-2008 talk on the same topic that I am interested to ear.

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/PC51.wmv

The success mantra in 8 words

Its 3 minutes video on success presented at TED
 
What are the real mantra:

• PASSION -get derived by passion (love) not for Money
  
• WORK-All Hard WORK
• GOOD -Do something Damn GOOD
• FOCUS – focusing yourself to one thing
• PUSH -yourself (shyness, self-doubt)
• SERVE -for novel cause
  
• IDEAS (Listen, Observe, Curious, Questions, Problem Solve, Connections)
• PERSIST – (Failure)
  

< video here:-http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2009/03/how-to-succeed-in-8-words-and-3-minutes.html>

A-Z guide for frugal living: linked and pinned

Wow!! This is awesome compilation at timelesslessons.com. Suits the time/situation we are in, I mean the financial uncertainty.

Some cool quotes from the same post, just to drench my eyes.

The below list,I just copied from the main post too… to notice the A-Z list at a glace. The brief and crisp description is out there in the main post.

• A void impulse buying. — from Think Simple Now
• B orrow and share. Everyone wins! — from My Dollar Plan
• C urb your consumerism! — from Billionaire Woman
• D on’t let greed and deceit get the best of you. — from The Change Blog
• E at out less. — from Zen Habits
• F ind a better deal and actually SAVE the difference. — from The Wisdom Journal
• G radually prepare yourself for a rainy day. — from Yin vs. Yang
• H ungry shopping. — from Zen Habits
• I nvolve your friends. — from I Will Teach You to Be Rich
• J oin up with a volunteer program. — from The Simple Dollar
• K eep your freezer full. — from Ririan Project
• L earn to value simplicity. — from Pick The Brain
• M ake one large trip instead of several small ones. — from Get Rich Slowly
• N ever top off. — from Ririan Project
• O rganize. — from The Digerati Life
• P lan ahead. — from Zen Habits
• Q uit smoking. — from Zen Habits 
• R edefine your definition of “rich”. — from Frugal Dad
• S top going to the mall. — from My Super-Charged Life
• T ime is money. Properly manage your time. — from LifeDev
• U nplug your TV. — from The Simple Dollar
• V isit the library — from Timeless Lessons
• W rite down your financial goal. — from Dumb Little Man
• X plode your finances with a strong foundation. — from Getting Finances Done
• Y ou should ride the bike. — from Positivity Blog
• Z ap the “easy street” mentality. — from Forever Change

You need breakthroughs at this time of dud

Few of the attendees of the SXSW captured the motivational goodies presented by Kathy Sierra to our pleasurable reading.

Here are links that if combined will not miss anything:

Change Your World: Making Breakthroughs Happen with Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra’s Guide to Making Breakthroughs Happen

SXSWi2009: Change your World in 50 Minutes: Making Breakthroughs Happen

Why I liked the talk? Who does not like to be reminded of our hidden power even if its the same punch line but has sharp intention. At this time of slowdown or fear of recession, things looks going stupidly slow. Such talks is more required even if I read books of 1000 splendid gurus. No doubt such talk will be hit in this time and its never bad to redeliver or to reread.

I will see if I can do a breakthrough into my world by trying extraordinarily something for few weeks. It would be fun to update this page with the action items and breakthrough that I put into.

Cheers for the time!!!

If not Nokia E71 then E63

I was dreaming to buy this Nokia E71 mobile for last one year but price was not in condition to fit in my pocket. Nokia E63 is the new version of E71 which is cheaper by good bucks in compensation to no GPS, no metal case, and camera with 2 mp only.

All in all I am happy owner of this gadget and hacking everything possible to know. I have th blue piece.

Microsoft Research TechFest 2009

Microsoft TechFest brings its worldwide researchers from the lab to Redmond to share their passion to their Microsoft product teams. The researcher who publish their papers, who files disclosures, who put patents; either develops the prototype or proof of concepts demonstrates to the product team to bring the science into form of technology and then to a markatable product. This is sound and cool way to allow research.
Microsoft TechFest 2009

A good summary of the techfest is right here at arstechnica.
[Excerpts: significant research highlighted]
    * Real-Time Stitching of Mobile-Generated Videos
    * Recognizing Characters Written in the Air
    * Tools and Services for Data-Intensive Research
    * Social Media and Learning Theory
    * Social Desktop
    * Lightweight Software Transactions for Games
    * Image-Centric Advertisement Platform
    * Social Views of E-mail
    * SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
    * Audio Spatialization and AEC for Teleconferencing
    * Predicting Performance Problems in the Data Center
    * Codename Viveri: A Platform for Search Incubation
    * Commute UX: Dialog System for In-Car Infotainment
    * User-Interaction Advertising Platform
    * Algorithms and Cryptography
    * Helping Writers Find the Right Words
    * Color-Structured Image Search
    * Tool Kit for Visualizing Large-Scale Data
    * Concurrency Analysis Platform and Tools
    * Gale-Berlekamp Light-Bulb Game
    * Content Services for Minority Languages
    * Digital Past to Digital Presence
    * Opinion Search
    * Mobile Content-Casting and Social Exchange
    * Low-Power Processors in the Data Center
    * Closed-Loop Control Systems for the Data Center
    * Interactions with an Omni-Directional Projector
    * Situated Interaction
    * Solver Foundation: Mathematical Optimization
    * Renlifang: Web-Scale Entity Summarization
    * GeoLife 2.0: A Location-Based Social Network
    * Sticky Notes in Augment Reality
    * Specification Inference of Security
    * Profiling the Performance of Distributed Systems
    * Closing Thoughts

I have not yet done digesting all of PDC2008 developer conference materials and I have another suite of research articles to consume. Either I am too much consious about the technology and research or its really accelerating to prove the singularity or the space of technium.

McKinsey Quarterly: about Web2.0 and its adaption strategy

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work
(http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/Application_Management/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294)

[My stance, tools and experience: stance- is about what I see and want and what is desired from me, tools- is about how I use my skills and trainings to support my stance, experience- is about my past leanings as I lead my life to this front. I use this three views to check the progress or growth of something, its experimental.]

Stance: Its hard to implement web2.0 in to companies which is not in IT but uses IT like hell and with fear. Even participatory technologies gets dust in such business sectors. Only the embracing from the bottom-up level and removing the tag of fear can flourish this shift in web. I though see free open sourced office software in free flow to such organizations after this recession. I also see use of cloud computing as platform to host corporate business.

Tools: I have been using web2.0 since year 2003 when atom and rss formats were taking shape. I use plenty of web tools apart from social networking. I have learnt Ruby and desire to learn Python, AJAX, JavaScripts to contribute to the web technology.

Experience: This speaks to my judgement based on my experience either as a domain expert of from outside. I stand in the domain expert circle and my instinct pushes me to embrace this and be a innovative contributor.

Looking for a To-Let sign

“TO LET” or “To Let” this is what my eyes finds easily now a days. I have to relocate my flat by end of this month or just after 6 days. Its been a tough time finding a right apartment in this tough financial downturn. As life is shaping to a new need the criteria for the apartment has been added with few more parameters.

Hope to get set in the month of March. Amen!!

2008 Best Companies for Leaders during Tough times

Below excerpts taken from the main post:2008 Best Companies for Leaders

“During tough economic times, best-in-class companies create clarity,
encourage development, drive accountability and recognize successful
leaders.”

“In tough economic times, employees’ desire more communication and
clarity around goals. They want their leaders to become more visible
and to be leading from the front. Typical leadership styles which
accomplish this include authoritative with some coercive and
pacesetting when needed.”

2008 Best Companies for Leaders
1. 3M Company (15)
2. Procter & Gamble (2)
3. General Electric (1)
4. Coca-Cola (5)
5. HSBC Holdings (14)
6. ABB
7. Southwest Airlines
8. IBM
9. Hewlett-Packard (10)
10. PepsiCo (7)
11. Nokia
12. Accenture Ltd.
13. FedEx
14. Infosys Technologies Ltd.
15. McDonald’s Corporation (18)
16. Caterpillar
17. American Express
18. Cisco Systems
19. Oracle
20. Intel Corporation

Wow!! Infosys made it to the list as only Indian company. Sounds GE just fluctuates between1-3 ranking in all other surveys. Where is Microsoft, Google and Yahoo?