Growth and Comfort do not co-exist

You have to keep reinventing yourself and that can happen only when you take risks. I couldn't agree more :)

Here is "Ginni Rometty" the new IBM CEO replacing "Sam Palmisano" on taking risks

Got to appreciate this man...

What a leader he is, no wonder why Sachin recommended him to the board when he was offered the second stint for captaincy.. I love this Ind vs Eng series and the next 5 days will be very interesting :)

IBM Centennial Film - Wild Ducks

World Cup Cricket 2011

I think i am slightly late to the current world cup cricket party but i have been watching the streaming in the internet once in a while, reading reports, watching scores in HTC (they have a ESPNCricInfo app) and watching video blogs ( like Harsha's daily). When i start to write this, this reminds me of the good old days when i started playing cricket.

For people who know me personally you know how much i like cricket in the earlier days.. I used to play lots of street cricket in my very early age in 80's. We started going to school and college grounds to watch and play cricket using cork and cricket balls without mat. We all move as a gang in the morning and come home in the evening times to get some good scolding and at times beating from parents. Our faces would look red after playing almost whole day and mind you, it's not cold out there, it's damn hot but hey when you are young no one would give it a thought whether it is hot or cold.. All these things happen in the week ends.

During the week days, we play at our school using whatever we could ( rubber balls, tennis balls, plastic balls and sometimes even those corn stems, dried ones are good for hitting). All the team selection and the toss would happen during the course of the class and the matches begin during the lunch time. Haha, it was way cool.

Apart from this we love to play book cricket along with our own commentary. Those days we also listen to radio commentary a lot when players like Srikanth, Shastri, Kapil and Gavaskar plays the game. My class mate, Faizal Mohammed was among the greats in book cricket, he loves Kapil dev a lot and he himself is a fast bowler too. We take our science book which is the biggest of the lot and play cricket during free times. It's so very interesting, we have some dedicated note pads only for the team score cards.

Then came the B.Sc college days and later during my B.Tech university days, my playing has come down a lot but started watching, reading and commenting about cricket a lot. I love reading articles by R.Mohan from Hindu paper (now i think he's not there), Prem Panicker, Avinash subramanian from Rediff, and last but not least Harsha Bhogle and they are the ones who inspired me a lot in terms of writing and talking about cricket. Those days we do lots of debate about who is the best batsman and all that stuff :) People who know me personally would know that I always love Sachin Tendulkar both as a cricketer and as a person (some one who doesn't let success to his heads) and I personally always consider him as the best batsman in the world.

I also had written some odd cricket articles in the past, I will have to dig it out from my notebook. Will be doing that some day.. So these days i rarely play cricket and even watch but mostly read articles and watch videos clippings etc. 

Anyways, for this world cup Cricinfo has introduced the concept of Harsha's daily a summary of the day's game which i like a lot. He'll bring most part of the match through his ever smiling way and I feel like i have watched the entire game.

Follow this for the rest. Thank you Cricinfo for this.

HTC Desire First Impressions

Finally i have settled with HTC Desire after contemplating between this and iPhone 4 for some time and few friends stated to go for Android than iOS. Thanks to them. So i just bought this Chinese New Year, there was a bit of promo from Starhub for many phones including HTC Desire and i happily settled with one.. Here are my first impressions after using for about a week..

Pro's

• Quick and very easy setup.. Just provide the Google account everything is taken care. Mails, Calendars ( I haven't explored tasks yet) and it even syncs your Facebook account including the events there.. So you can see everything at one place in your calendar. FB contacts will sync with your phone contacts.
• Seamless connection between Wi-Fi and 3G. Picks up automatically based on your location.
• Email client is cool, and at the moment am using only Gmail . Search also works pretty good highlighting the word that you searched for and also saves the word for next time search.
• Browsing is breeze and the screen reacts sharply to pinches etc for expand and collapse very well. 
• Big screen means a lot when you want to read while commuting in MRT
• Android market place app is way too cool when compared to Ovi store. Now i remember someone mentioned Ovi store is a joke.. Ok, am not bashing Nokia though b'cos i still love my E71.
• 5MP camera is good and have taken nice shots in day light.. Not tested in night times.
• Overall phone looks are great when it is in hands. 

Con's

• Not many but one noticeable thing is the battery,, drains like rain water , very fast even though i don't seem to run any background tasks
• Am not sure how Android works though, when i have finished using an application, does it still run in the background and so taking lot of battery life etc? 

Overall it's very good and at this moment, i don't i regret not using iPhone b'cos in this part of the world almost everyone carries that.. Is there any specific thing which iPhone does very well when compared to HTC Desire? May be iPhone fans will know :)

The Nostalgia has dropped suddenly

but only temporarily. I have been doing some Lotusphere nostalgia things just for a while and then came to end abruptly.. Well, i normally i am a good basher of myself but this time around i am not going to do that. I had to handle quite a few things in between and just couldn't sit and blog.

Frankly, it's a little bit hard to keep with things that's happening around you and then also allocate time to write about it.. But i would like to tell you this, i enjoy doing this work and so i can make some time. It's just that i am a bit lost in organizing all this properly. At times, i will think a bit complicated and cannot think SIMPLE. 

Meanwhile, i am finding my way out to manage all these and already doing some home projects towards that. Having said that, there is indeed some good news that is coming up. Please stay tuned. I will try to update as and when things happen or may be a bit later ;) 

As far Lotusphere 2011, there were some excellent all around news from LS2011 as well. I will have to read all the contents available and hear from friends before writing anything about it. But one thing is clear to me, IBM is  taking more of the Lotus Connections route to re-brand the entire Lotus portfolio which will compete with Google more than MS. I think the strategy is very good indeed and a very long term vision. With all the push from MS around SharePoint I think companies are discussing more about Google than MS. At least IBM is giving that sort of a feeling but will have to wait and see.

Another certain thing is Lotus UI is going to change in the years to come and end users will start getting a feeling that finally the software is their own rather than only for developers and administrators. This will surely increase user adoption rate and we will hear some day from CIO's that my users are asking for Lotus and so we have to make a switch. The perception is going to change sooner than latter :)

Good day people... Cheers

Wishing all the readers of my blog an

EXCELLENT NEW YEAR 2011 AHEAD AND ON THIS DAY I ALSO WISH EVERYONE TO LEAD A HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS LIFE AND MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS,WISHES COME TRUE IN THIS YEAR AND IN THE COMING YEARS :-)