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Weekend Chit Chat, Carnival Gratitude and Roundup

September 23, 2012 — 12 Comments

When I feel uneasiness in life, I resort to Zen habits to provide me solace. Last few weeks have been like that. Something is not right with life. The only way to respond to life was a great short article from Leo, which I badly wanted. We need to enjoy happiness in life, however little it may be. Sometimes, we need to enjoy the moment without thinking about the future.

Mind

My life is little bit disturbed at this moment but, I am enjoying this disturbance. I do not want to think what’s in store. I don’t want to calculate the possibilities and impossibilities now, just like a paper boat I want to flow through the stream without thinking about the big waterfall at some distance. I want to enjoy this flow.

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Weekend Chit Chat, Proposed Site Redesign and Carnival Gratitude

September 9, 2012 — 2 Comments

Readers, thanks for sticking with us for another week. I appreciate your interest in this blog. It has become kind of routine for me to complain about job pressure and again admitting that I actually liked being that busy at work. Perhaps I started having my share of stress and fatigue now that SMB is asking me to look for another job.

I love the job I am doing, and, I take pride being an employee of this Fortune 50 finance company. I am not thinking about switching employer. The only alternative for me is to look for open internal positions. Which is not so tough to achieve when compared to getting job somewhere else. So,I started applying for positions similar or higher to my current position. I will keep you updated on the progress. Right now the deadline for my current project is fast approaching and we are still lagging behind it.

No wonder I couldn’t attend Fincon12, a personal finance bloggers’ conference in Denver. Today Is the last day of the conference. Attendees are tweeting about the event every minute. I am spending most of my time at home following the hashtag #fincon12. My blogger friends kept on updating about what they wore, what they ate and what they drank. Good that they didn’t mention about the quality of their morning output.

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Weekly Chit Chat, Good Reads an Grtitude

August 19, 2012 — 4 Comments

I again relaxed a bit last two weekends and didn’t publish a reader chit-chat. Welcome readers, I can’t thank you enough for sticking with the blog. I often write craps, I admit. But not always and intention is never to write a crap.

The project I talked about in past weekly chit-chat is now making my life miserable. It was supposed to happen that way, as we were not given much choices to decide on the delivery date our-self,  it was given to us by the  upper level leaders. We ramped up resources like anything but, still we are short of hands. And, when you hire a new resource, existing resources get stressed because of additional up-skilling tasks they need to perform.

If you are not in computer software industry, let me tell you the last-minute mad-dash is a constant feature in every project and in every company, starting from Microsoft to Google. Developers and testers spend literally their 24 hrs in office during some critical deployments. Yours truly spent quiet a few such days in office in 12 years of working life so far.

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Weekend Chit Chat Round up and Carnival Gratitude – The Olympics Edition

July 29, 2012 — 6 Comments

For next two weeks I will indulge in the Olympics. The biggest show on earth. In a regular day I never watch a swimming competition or a badminton playoff. When it comes to Olympics, I am ready to spend hours in front of TV to watch monotonous diving competition.

London Olympics

I will try to watch live the following events Men and Women 100m run, Gymnastics Team events, Men’s field hockey, Men’s basketball, All swimming and track-n-field relay races and Boxing finals.

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Weekend Chit Chat and Great Articles to Read

July 7, 2012 — 6 Comments

This weekend chit-chat edition is published after over a month of lull. I always love this not-only-money discussion that we have. Today, I want to share some technical breakthrough related to Google

The Google Glass

Ever heard of Google glass? If no, then you must read this. I am skeptical about its success an idea of having my glasses as computer screen is still unfathomable to me. But, Google glass is definitely one step toward my ultimate vision of computers being nothing but a bio implantation on our body, we can turn it on whenever and wherever we want. 

I want to see a future where this bio computer would work by only sending signals to our senses. We should be able to hear music, read news, read blogs and watch videos with the signals we turn on selectively. As of now the limited edition Google glass can only perform a limited tasks, for example, recognizing a place you look at with glasses on, giving you direction and weather info , etc.

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