The Art of Excel Charting
on 27 Jun, 2007 in Excel Tips, hacks, visualization | 7 Comments
Yesterday while going through my feeds, I have landed on this post about the demographics and use-figures of various social networking (2.0) tools, et al (by businessweek) on think:lab blog. When I looked at the BusinessWeek’s graphical representation of demographics and usage figures of social networks, the first thought that came to me is, “well, [...]
Read More >>Google Life!
on 13 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Birth and Early Stages:> Look up for cool names in google> Post the newborn pics in orkut. Format them in Picasa. Share them with friends using Blogger
School & College:> Use Gtalk to chat with friends. Bye bye bfone!> Goodbye to combined studies, welcome google groups.> Doubts about what is the latest ninth planet? may be [...]
A dream that is three and half years old…
on 11 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
January, 2003:It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year.
Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were running [...]
9 sureshot ways to kill your audience using powerpoint
on 7 Feb, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Lately I have been attending campus pre-placement talks by various leading companies in India. It would suffice to say that I have attended over half-a-hundred presentations of companies “trying to sell themselves” to us. Some of them were really good, and then some of them are so pathetic that it made me feel sorry about [...]
Read More >>A new press to publish PHD Blog!!!
on 3 Feb, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
FLASH *** FLASH *** FLASH
A sting operation by our highly inquisitive and talented team in Hanuman Tekri revealed that the famous B-school blog (:P) Pointy Haired Dilbert may be published from a new press in the days to come. Various cms/blogging software companies are believed to have approached the author in the hopes of making [...]
Of career and electives…
on 25 Mar, 2005 in Random | 0 Comments
After lot of thought and reconsiderations I have made my decisions for electives. On the outset the list or electives may look like I am doing general management, but I have ended up taking all courses related to marketing. I know this is a tough choice to make as i will have to spend rest [...]
Read More >>My Hindi Sucks
on 27 Feb, 2005 in Random | 0 Comments
Travails of being a southie doesn’t start with a long name or end with an engineering degree. Till I came here my only worry is my long and historical sounding name. Ok, Lets talk about the name first. My name is (provided you dont disclose this valuable information to others),
Duggirala Raja Raja Surya Chandra Parijata [...]
