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First run of 2010

I kicked off the 2010 running season with the Shamrock shuffle held on March 21st. Jhanvi was going to run it with me, but was not able to due to health restrictions. She is planning on joining me for a couple of half marathons this year :). Hopefully, she won’t beat me as she did last year :).

I finished the 8K (5.1 miles) a couple seconds short of 1 hour :). Official chip time was 0:59:51. Results are published here. Looks like I am going to settle in the 12min/mile pace. That has been my pace for the last couple of races.

April 5, 2010 by Running Sports Uncategorized 0

Lessons of the Trade : Easy method to detect lame salespeople (companies)..

Some background.. I get an email from a sales rep from one of the biggest telecom provider. The sales person attached a 4 MB document that shows the services offered by the company in one page.. Yes, a one pager document that is 4MB in size!!.. And this document tells me how this company can do everything other than wash my dishes for me..that they are biggest and baddest out there.

Do you think that this person even gave a minutes thought before filling up my mailbox with a 4MB attachment? Nope.. will he be getting my business? Nope.. It is not that the sales rep sent me such a large attachment, but because the company that can supposedly offer the best technical solutions out there cannot figure out a way to show their offerings in a single page without bloating it. Shows that the company is not innovative and thinking of customers.

Maybe I am being harsh here.. but then I have pretty high standards :).

April 2, 2010 by Management Rantings Uncategorized 2

Foods of India

Ran across this picture showing the best of each state’s food in India. I think I only tried 10% of these dishes… and I consider my self a food junkie on top of being an India :).

Click on the picture to get to an enlarged version

I will try to convert the data in this picture to an excel spreadsheet when I get some time..

The data in tabular form..(work in progress)

[gview file=”http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tWM60O2i56vebN-13Jkel9g&single=true&gid=0&output=html”]

March 5, 2010 by Food Uncategorized 1

Marketing video from work..

One of our customers at work, the Hoxton Hotels, runs a promo every quarter during which they sell a room for £1 a night.. Imagine the load on our infrastructure :). Over the last two years, were able to partner with the customer and make the promos a “non-event”. We usually sell out the rooms in less than 10 minutes.. The customers gets great visibility and we get a free load test :).

TravelClick HOTEL CONVERSATIONS | The Hoxton from AboutFace Media on Vimeo.

February 7, 2010 by Travel Uncategorized 0