One of my friend’s IM status message
It’s better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, than to lose the one you LOVE because of EGO
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Six Signs that you aren't cut out to be a CIO..
The first five reasons are in this video.
The sixth reason.. you are actually watching the video above to decide if you are cut out to be a CIO :).. Come on people!!
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)
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Satirical take on arranged marriages..
My colleague/friend KP wrote a hilarious post on arranged marriages in India. Check it out at www.kprabu.com/2010/01/great-indian-arranged-marriages.html .
PS : Yes, people do speak with each other before agreeing to get married and No, elephants don’t walk around in the streets in India :).
DID YOU KNOW : Number of weekdays in February 2010
Fun fact from a chain e-mail sent by one of my friends..
February 2010 has exactly
- 4 Mondays
- 4 Tuesdays
- 4 Wednesdays
- 4 Thursdays
- 4 Fridays
- 4 Saturdays
- 4 Sundays
And this happens once in 11 years!! 🙂
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.
Burj Dubai is down..
Not the building :).. In fact, it just opened up officially today. But it looks like the IT team of the Burj did not anticipate the traffic spike to it’e website http://www.burjdubai.com/, when the building opens. The site has been down since early CST.
All the free publicity the site is getting from the media is wasted because the site is down (OK.. I am exagerrating things a bit 🙂 ).  If only the IT team at the Burj thought about this and deployed the site on a CDN, they could have averted this downtime. Using a CDN to power your site is becoming more of a norm than a luxury now a days. And with all the options in the market you have for a CDN, there is no excuse for any IT team to not implement this for a customer facing website.
Welcoming 2010
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 🙂 and hooping this new year will bring you joy, luck and health. Isn’t it amazing how quickly the first decade of the 21st century passed away. I usually don’t make new year resolutions, but last year for some reason, I decided to. Here’s a recap of them
Write at least 3 times a week on this blog
How did I do with this? Not as well as I wanted to. Here’s a chart showing the postings per month
I started well in January, but then as with most new year resolutions it didn’t last for more than a month :). But I started picking up again at the end of the year. Hope I can continue the trend.
Run one half marathon ever month in a different state
Don’t laugh :).. seriously this was something I have been wanting to do for a long time and I thought this was the year. But alas little did I know that I had to work so many weekends :). I barely managed to run 3 half marathons and that too in only two neighboring states. Won’t make any promises..but hope to do better next year. I should mention that I did register for 3 races in different states for the first three months of 2009.. Just didn’t make it to the races 🙂
Even though I didn’t stick with my resolutions, 2009 was an interesting year. Accomplished a lot at work, but more importantly gained a life partner :).
Morale of the story.. Don’t make resolutions. Just do it!! :).