Tendulkar Magic & Sehwagism

Tendulkar Magic, in my words, long back.
Rahul Bhattacharya on cricinfo writes about the same.

Also sometime back I wrote, Virender Sehwag & Zen Lesson,
and now there's this priceless interview of man himself on cricinfo :-)

The start-up checklist

Pure WOW stuff this is!

The start-up checklist


Source: Indexed

This should be on Twitter?

Over the weekend

Read Parva - Interesting.

Half way through - Inside Steve's Brain - Steve Jobs surely thinks different

Spotted, fiat 500 - Cute

Watched The Hangover and agree with the review.

RIP MJ - There will never be anyone like you.

Three new exciting addresses on the web

Check, if you haven't already

Wolframalpha

bing

Google wave

'Just Lather, That's All' & Some Thoughts

Internet is a one of the best things to happen to our generation.
Well, I just tripped on this, one of my favorite short stories, which’s a part of my 2nd P.U.C (12th) curriculum.
This is one of those chapters that stayed with me even after the exams were over (:P)
Part because we had such an amazing teacher who kept us interested in ‘English’ class, which’s generally ignored by 'Science' students.
Will leave you with this.

Classy

Btw it's Big B with the Dog :-)

Links

The Latest Incredible India Commercial

Fake IPL Player

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

Thanks to Web 2.0

I come across stuff like this

1) 3D UI Interaction and some more of the very smart RIAs @ outsmart

2) Ignore Everybody @ gapingvoid

WOW

1) Sixth Sense Tech

2) Quote “A Karan Johar film attracts audiences in a way that a pile of shit would attract a swarm of flies”
:D
(Source PFC)

Storytelling...

Here's Bhimsen (episode 10), Mahabharata from the point of view of the Pandava Bhima , an English-language re-telling of M T Vasudevan Nair’s Randaamoozham, as a series of blog posts, by Prem Panicker.
It’s just brilliant.
Archives in sequence here
(Note: the website is problematic, so refresh/reload a couple of times if it doesn't open at first try.)

I am hooked to it, events unfolding as if real.
Takes me back to childhood days, reminding me of my grandpa, a narrator par excellence. Apart from Ramayana & Mahabharata, which he translated to mother tongue from Sanskrit, he had his own amazing hunting experiences to narrate, which’s still so vivid in my memory.

With the choice of words, voice modulation, gestures and pauses, storytelling is an art tough to master and listening to a master storyteller is such a wonderful experience. Ah, those days...

Links

Two recent must watch movies

Kung Fu Panda

Dark Knight
This one’s awesome. One of the best movies of all the time, close to cinematic perfection, belongs to the rare category of 'Critically-Acclaimed Blockbuster'.

The third one I am waiting for (yet to be released in India)
Wall-E

And some real good books @ Personal MBA

The Last Lecture

A lot of professors are asked to give “The Last Lecture” as if it’s their last.
On September 18, 2007, when, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he’s diagnosed with pancreas cancer with few months of life left.
But the talk he gave “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” wasn’t about dying.
It was about living one's childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and some lessons.
In short it was about living.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon and so is his book based on it. Here’s the pdf & video.



Inspiring.

Doomed if it does, damned if it doesn't

One of the best articles I have read in recent past, informative, precise and un-biased analysis of the economy The coming collapse of the US dollar
Bottom line?
Doomed if it does, damned if it doesn't
Damn it

Update - Here's a follow up
Rise of the rupee: What India must do

Check this

Here's my friend Pavan's very interesting website www.srushtisoft.com and blog.
Have a look.

God resigns

God resigns

Interesting links

Deepika Padukone
Levis Strauss signature JEANS Ad
Some of her best photographs
(Yeah, I am a Fanboy !)

Existence of God is proved!

For Steve Jobs Fans:
Business Review article on the Fake Steve Jobs Blog The Secret Dairy of Steve Jobs

Some Funny Commercials

Some interesting links

2 weeks back, had attended a talk by Prof Ramaswamy on Living a Balanced Life & Expanding Horizons
Take a look here

Wish this kind of honesty’s true
Note From Boss To Employees

For those of you fortunate enough to not have had a brush with this monstrosity, called CAT, read this

Unfinished Tales-4

Shree Kumar's @ it again!
This time, Cycling in the North-East.
Crazy, damn cool, or just plain awesome...

Wishing Shree n KP a wonderful time.

Unfinished Tales-4

Path to Knowledge

Yeah, I am huge fan of Subroto Bagchi's writings. Finally, today I could nail down one single place from where I can access all his writings in various media. Whenever you find time, go through each one of them n each word's worth cherishing...
KNOWLEDGE CENTER
Hmm...Well, I am busy reading...

Go Soul-Searching!

While organizing my Internet favorites list, came across some awesome links. These four are the best, in the inspirational category.Worth taking time to read and you might end up doing a little bit of soul-searching!:-)

How does one build a successful technical career? Subroto Bagchi(co-founder and COO, MindTree Consulting) gives the nine key factors.
Upgrade yourself from the world of coding...

The amazing Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, to the graduating class of Stanford, delivered on June 12, 2005. An absolute must-read-and-think-about.
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says...

Welcome Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting Delivered to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, July 2nd 2004.
Go kiss the world...

Words Of Wisdom from Goals Guy
Ten Things Every Kid Should Know ...