Moved to Wordpress from Blogger
on 23 Dec, 2007 in blogging, hacks, technology | 5 Comments
4 days of Christmas break without a thing to do. The first thing that came to my mind is to revamp my blog. I have been thinking of upgrading the blog (yes, thats right, upgrading) to wordpress from blogger for a while now. Since my blog is hosted on another site through ftp, there is [...]
Read More >>PHD Regular Blah - the Nth installment
on 20 Nov, 2007 in personal | 0 Comments
Last few weeks at work have been really hectic and full of activity. I had to go to Bangalore 4 times for some workshops and project issues. I was also busy with my US visa processing formalities.
I am moving to US for a few months starting tonight. My wife will join me later during December. [...]
Fresh MBAs and IT Companies
on 30 Mar, 2007 in b-school | 0 Comments
The combination sounds as inseparable as ctrl+c and ctrl+v. But when it comes to making a career choice there is a fair bit of confusion as to what an MBA will do in an IT company, especially in the first few years. Marketing companies have it easy, in the first 18 months, you would be [...]
Read More >>Say NO to Default Charts Forever!
on 20 Mar, 2007 in Excel Tips, hacks, visualization | 1 Comment
or Excel Charting Hacks # 2Roughly 35-40% of my working time in office is spent with powerpoint. As one of my mentors said, powerpoint gives neither the power nor the point. Apart from writing truck loads of bullet points and using auto shapes, I also work alot with numbers and charts. Obviously I resort to [...]
Read More >>newsXXX
on 14 Feb, 2007 in media, wonder why | 0 Comments
I think even on world sxx day also we dont see so much attention to the production process. Either every journo / news writer / news maker has woken up with the worst errections ever or all of them had some raunchy virus taking [...]
Read More >>PHD’s regular blah # 2
on 17 Nov, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
I got engaged to my college sweetheart, my love of life, Jo last saturday, it was one of the most beautiful and simplest functions that I have been to. I am so happy. Marraige is on Jan 21 in Vizag. Will post a detailed marriage invite later.
Its still raining in chennai, and like mad [...]
3 Cheers to IIM Indore
on 4 Nov, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
My alma mater has created another “world record in IIM Indore” with the summer placements for the class of 2008. Even though the press release is not out yet, we, alumni got a sneak peek at the report and all I can say its a massive hit. [Will place a link here once its released.]
For [...]
