I am sure you have been in this situation before. You start editing a document at work on your desktop. After going home you want to access the document from your laptop but find it incredibly hard to get to the document on your desktop. You need to dial in or connect to your work… Continue reading Office and SkyDrive – what a combination!!
You might be at a position in your job where you can benefit from feedback from a variety of people you interact with in addition to your own self-assessment. You might want to get feedback from your direct manager, your direct reports, your peers & colleagues and others you interact with. The key is to… Continue reading Receiving and Providing Feedback
It is hard to not notice the conflicts across the globe that are defining (will define) what the world will look like for our children and future generations. One common theme that seems to run across all these conflicts – be it military initiated, due to popular raising or politically initiated – is a lack… Continue reading Teaching tolerance
I had an interesting breakfast conversation with my son today which made me thinking about this question. While eating my early morning breakfast I heard my wife complain that these days the kids seem to have completely lost any sense of principles and were living a wasteful life. She was commenting on some teen ager’s… Continue reading Who is the real you?
If you catch me sounding strange throwing around words like Git, Heroku, RubyonRails that’s because in preparing for an exec demo I have been messing with the exciting world of Rubyonrails (Ruby code running on Rails) and creating a Git (distributed source management) repsitory on Heroku (a hosting service for Git repositories). I have my… Continue reading Git, Heroku, rails and ruby!!
I attended the end of year banquet tonight for my son (a senior in high school) and his varsity football team. My son plays nose guard on the defense. It was as usual a grand affair with all players, cheer leaders, coaches and parents dressed up nicely. The program at the Redmond Marriott was grand and… Continue reading What if managers ran teams like high school football coaches?
Two scientific discoveries announced last week are nothing short of amazing and possibly earth shattering. The first discovery triples the number of stars in the Universe. Red dwarfs are dimmer than the other stars we see in the sky and were hard to count. Recently scientists used powerful instruments on the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to… Continue reading Fascinating scientific discoveries
After not drinking coffee with sugar for a long time I tried the combintation this morning and it really perked me up and I was feeling very alert for a few hours after that!! Turns out there is some scientific research that backs up why I was feeling all alert. Apparently University of Barcelona scientists… Continue reading Coffee and sugar here I come!!
Today is World Aids Day 2010. Please pledge here to help fight this scourge on mankind. I can’t believe it has been thirty years since the beginnings of this disease. The disease so far has claimed thirty million lives!! Larry Kramer who first sounded the alarm on AIDS is not too happy with Obama government’s inaction. While I… Continue reading World AIDS Day 2010
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