M4

It has been a long time since I've written my last post. Life had been one hell of a ride - these past few months, literally and figuratively. The first of the several good things started to happen to me this January, when the results of the CAT (for admissions into IIMs) were announced on the 11 th . Strangely enough, I got a score of 90.95 percentile; meaning I was better than about 91% of the people who took the test this year. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that about 91% of the people were too over-prepared or too under-prepared than I was. This is particularly true as my preparation (if at all you can call it that) is almost non-existent, what with the depression (due to job loss) and the feeling of failure I was experiencing in the few months leading to the exam. I guess most of the other test takers got carried away by the simplicity of the exam paper and attempted more questions than they could risk- the result being they lost marks in negative score for ...

With Steve Jobs’ unfortunate demise last year, speculations were rife that Apple will not be the same again. Many even went to the extent of saying that it would no more be able to create extraordinary products, market at equally extraordinary prices, that it would gradually lose market and soon be relegated to the crowd. Besides Jobs’ charisma and showmanship, what was indeed missed was his business strategy which could be called maverick at the least. Apple has always launched gadgets which were way ahead of their time, thereby showing the way to the world. Over and above this, Apple always released the later versions of their devices even before the competition has caught up with their previous releases, effectively proving that their only competition is themselves. Post Steve Jobs, Tim Cook came to the helm of Apple when it was one of the best technology companies of its time. Having to match Steve Jobs’ charisma and exceed expectations in the inevitable comparison ...

Blogging thru an android app.. This is soooo coooolll ! Easy n handy..

Social Networking Service (SNS) as I knew started off in a big way with Orkut, then moving on to Facebook, Indyarocks and a few more. Other genres in the SNS scenarios are LinkedIn- Professional Networking and Twitter- MicroBlogging, to name a few. We have seen how popular FB is and how fast it became that what it is today. Fb achieved that level of usage and popularity as Orkut in about half the time. And a recent article in a reputed magazine reports Google+ users as a little over 3 million in a few weeks after launch, 20 million in the first month and over 25 million a few weeks later. So, it would only be logical in saying that a(any) new SNS would become very successful provided it is competent enough in the primary criteria (looks, ease of use, features etc.). One other noteworthy revelation is the demography of users in the SNS and how it is evolving. Primarily, that concerns the ratio of men to women; also it may deal with the age groups of the people registering an...

"Many of life's failures are people who didnot know how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Alva Edison True indeed.. After working for 10 hours trying to fix a connection problem in my program, I almost gave up.... I kept at it, and 1 hr later I found the fix... And all the trouble vanished in a moment... Giving up is a simple, temporary solution to problems but it is Persistence that pays in the end...

Old wine in a new bottle.. G+ is just that. My reasons of saying so: 1- G+ has The look of Orkut beta, layout of fb, similar features.. the names are different though.. 2- Not many new things, perhaps they haven't included many things in it yet.. And the bad part is, G+ hogs bandwidth.. it ain't for people with slow internet connections.. But the good news is that G+ works pretty well on my Android phone and a 2G GPRS internet.. its pretty faster than the fb android app.. But Do we really need another SNS when we have so many already? One that offers many new stuff?

Trying to set up a database server for 5 hours on a Saturday night... Is it wise, in the first place? And is 5 hours too long to be trying it? Would it have been better to let go of it and get some help later? There is only a fine line between perseverance and foolish stubbornness.. But we are human, after all.. and it is so very easy to miss out the difference...