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I noticed that for this month November, Chrome is very close to IE. Interesting that many have opted for Chrome than Firefox.. Hmm, let me see.

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An important announcement

I am very happy to announce to the world that i have taken up Independent consulting role after working for more than 12  years in Cambridge solutions pte ltd Singapore (Advanced business partner of IBM). It's been a very long journey with the company from the level of programmer to presales consultant / project manager / solution architect  all in one role :) I should say i had enjoyed most of the time but at times you feel tired of going to work especially after very long hours and some week end work. (They are some of the reasons to take up Independent consulting role but doesn't mean IC will need you to work less though the feeling is truly different and it's been some time i have been thinking of Independent consulting)

In any case, i have taken the decision and am going to enjoy the journey and look forward to it.. I am taking up work in my core areas first mostly with IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal technology projects consulting and Project Management services while am also working with some Business process re-engineering projects etc. But i am very sure i would be evolving a lot in the years to come.

Hence, i have a request to my readers.. If you know of any work related with IBM Lotus technologies, Project Management requirements or BPM / BPR related work please let me know. I live in Singapore and would be willing to travel also. You can hire me on a project basis or for a specific duration. Drop me a note skumar75atgmaildotcom and we can discuss :)

Some changes in the site

I will be making some changes in the coming days and i have started doing some already from changing the theme to removing the blog roll. I just got the feeling it doesn’t make much sense when you list a few gentlemen blogs whereas in reality you tend to see many other blogs. I will be making further changes in the days to come and very soon will write in detail about the reasons : )

LTAP 2010–A Lotus Technical and Professional Users Virtual Conference

And the good news is Registration is Free. Please go ahead and register. It’s for 2 days on 27 and 28th of October. Gentleman by name Alan Forbes clarified most of the sessions are on demand and hence this part of the world need not worry (it will be 1AM for us in Singapore..)

I didn’t had a chance to attend events for a while now as I am fairly tied up with other activities. More on that part later. I have been wanting to write more on that but somehow i feel i need to do lot of things before i can go and tell anyone..

Anyways, meanwhile let’s enjoy LTAP with some great speakers in the list..

ROBOT Indian Movie

I don’t generally blog about movies as i am very picky in watching movies. I used to watch many movies during the early days but have become very choosy for the 10 plus years or so..

Having said that, i should say this is one of the most awaited Indian movie that many people are looking forward for a long time.. The movie took about 2 years for production and some of the great people joined hands in this movie and releasing in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil languages in tandem. Looks like HBO is releasing with English sub titles in the west.

Firstly 2 Oscar award winners A.R.Rahman and Resul Kutty and then Superstar Rajnikanth arguably the second highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan opposite with Aishwarya Rai Miss World in 1994 directed by one of the box office hit director S.Shankar produced by SUN pictures with a whopping budget of around Indian Rupees 160 plus crores which is around USD 35 million and in comparison to movie like Avatar which is around USD 235 million is no way near but for an Indian movie this is one of the most expensive movies done in recent times. If one has to believe what the production house and other media is saying this is the highest budget  movie ever made in India film industry.

Atleast 40 percent of the budget is on the special effects and animation and is done by Stan Winston studios the team that has worked in Avatar movie. The movie action sequences are done by Yuen Woo-ping who did for movies like Matrix and other Jacki Chan and Jet Li movies plus lots of other talented technical crew including Randy the movie cinematographer and it seems that without him the movie would have taken a longer time to complete.

I wish the team Good Luck..

Here is the trailer which is set to release on 1st October 2010.

At the time of writing this i noticed in Singapore the movie is releasing tomorrow and is fully booked and in India all theatres are full for 1 week.