Learning from the art of happiness – Part I
Comments (4)After a long hiatus, due to various reasons, I’ve begun writing.
I’ve started reading the book “The art of Happiness” by Dalai Lama, and I stop to think after I read a paragraph.
A few notions that have already stuck in my being are:
Inspire than awe: How
true this is, we try to always awe people with our strength, our
knowledge, our wealth, our family, our status. Well what is the use of
doing so. Are we affecting some positive change? If not then why are we
trying to inspire, just to massage our ego’s?
So what is another way of looking at this, Inspire people show off only for them to become better people.
Tags: buddhism, books, dalai lama, the art of happiness
Feeling Strange
Leave a CommentToday I’ve a very strange feeling, Uwe, my mentor, friend, more like a big brother left back for Germany. Knowing that I would not be closely associated with him after Nov 1, gave me a kind of a depression in the heart. An incredible guy I’ve worked with, I want this to be a record of my feelings and emotions in being closely associated with him. Wish I meet him professionally sometime again in the future.
Conspiracy theory – II
Leave a CommentGoogle reigns supreme, already, latest quotes say it owns 64% of the market share in search.
Here is the puncher
SAP,ORACLE,SALESFORCE all these become defunct by 2015, GOOGLE will , by the power of its search, customize-ability, data of nearly everyone, in the form of print, photos, videos, audio,maps, gps tagging etc.., along with their hardware, would build a super algorithm to identify somebody’s needs. For example a process of raising purchase orde, will no longer be required as Google understands your market patterns and asks you to make products, also analysing the complete chain you use to make your products, and contacts various vendors for you and promises the best deal, all they would charge is a mere 10$ per transaction. This might seem small but imagine the number of purchase orders happening in the world at any given time. Consider ONLY 64% of it. After all what is a purchase order, it is data, THAT CAN BE SEARCHED
Now for some facts/or is it facts…
Some links that could support this.
Soap Operas et al.. from Vox Mee
A nice write up on Soap operas, Vox Mee definitely has as view here
Coders Vs Programmers
A few days ago, I was reading in Times of India an article enunciating the difference between coders and programmers. It went to some effect of this sort. Coders: They are the ones who code based on somebody’s design/ideas. Programmers are the ones not only they code, but also design.
Ok now unfortunately, a large percentage of the population in India(software techies) are coders. Sounds bad I know, but we are so.
Why this situation is in place: Very simple, we do not stick long enough in doing something, nor do we try and understand the intricacies of business. Not many of us realise that technology is a tool and not the end of everything. Till the day we do not explore the business/human needs of something, and apply technology it never helps. What pains more is, how many people who know Java/J2ee or any other platform are true experts of it. I mean not the certification kind, but of the passionate kind. Very few, so even if we have some geeks in a certain technology, we still have coders rather than having programmers, programmers who can change the next gen of business/human needs.
Anybody out there who are other than coders, please do something to increase others.
Conspiracy Theory
From today I’m starting a new pulp section in my blog, I call it ‘Conspiracy Theories’. As somebody said, spreading rumors is faster than wild fire.
Here is the first one.
Greg Chappell is a spy from Australia and he became the coach of the Indian team, because Australia felt that the Indian Cricket team was getting stronger and something had to be done about it before the world cup.
10th Dimension
Yowzie…. for all the fans of Quantum Physics, and want to know about 10th dimension, here is a nice link.
Bangalore Airport.
it’s been quite a while since I wrote, no reasons as such hm….
today I dropped my wife at the airport early in the morning. Somethings in Bangalore are made on purpose I guess. Last time when I travelled to Palo Alto, the airport departure entrance road had no bifurcation down the middle. Not it has one. the left one is for VVIP and the right one is for the mere mortals.
Due to this intelligent setup(which I guess was simulated using a supercomputer by the Bangalore traffic police), a new traffic jam point is born. The reason, well the exit of the departure parking lot also opens into the right half, most of the cars trying to take a left, onto incoming traffic. well why can;t they take a right, very simple, people hug and kiss each other for 10 mins with their cars parked bang in the center of the road. Kudos to all travellers and the Bangalore Traffic Police in creating a traffic jam, which was not there previously.
Cost of Building SAP Web Service
Im in SAP mood/mode at the moment. I guess it comes from having people like Thomas Otter nattering almost about how great SAP is. On this occasion, he might be right.
I stumbled across the enticingly entitled: How-To Create Dynamic & Configurable Web Services Easily With Netweaver Development Components (Part I) blog post by Baris Buyuktanir If youre a geek, Baris has pretty impressive credentials. If youre an IT budget holder, he will make your day. If your in the accounting office, he might even raise a smile. Those in marketing who get this – theres a job for you somewhere:
Creating web services in SAP Netweaver platform takes 10 minutes if you are ready to code your business logic. Its really as easy as developing a simple web site with a few pages.
iPhone
Nothing more to say, watch the video.
