July 23, 2008
Those of you whiling away at your keyboards, here is a something fun to while away with. The Wonderful Wankometer
And the wankoscores of some IT service providers as of now.
Cognizant 1.67/considerable
TCS 3.26/considerable
Satyam 3.47/considerable
Thoughtworks 3.52/considerable
Mindtree 4.72/significant wank
Accenture 4.78/significant wank
Infosys 6.23/high wankyness
Wipro 7.23/utter wank
Any takers for a wankoscore trend tracker?
July 17, 2008
Really don’t know how I ended up in Amruth’a blog. That goes into my watch list.
June 23, 2008
Caught this in The Economist. I have observed that Economist is happy to produce pretty looking graphs for most of the articles. Would The Economist be willing to put up numbers for what percentage of total shares are held by the top 1% and the rest?
He thinks South Korea is more productive than America, and that “most” investors are among the wealthiest 1% of Americans. (In fact, about half of Americans own shares.)
May 14, 2008
I am at present in Brussels. Quite a beautiful city with a good public transport network.
However, the most important thing is – holidays are very serious business here 
In just the last 2 weeks, there were 2 long weekends – one for 4 days and one for 3 days! Just my luck
My primary gripes – For a City that is head quarters for EU & NATO, there is not that much of a English speaking population 
And not much of a choice in food if you are vegetarian. You just have to make do with Club Tomate Mozza & Potatoes or a salad or falafel.
April 10, 2008
Was that really a conspiracy or was it a perfect example of The Black Swan? Is it time for communication service providers to plan for that once in a lifetime disruption to their services that results in loss of productivity and associated cascade of events due to uber-connectedness?
It would be interesting to study the communication service provider’s plans where they assumed the probabilities of such occurrences and their reasoning behind the same!
October 10, 2007
Though I am not that much of a coffee addict and can go without coffee for days at a time, me thinks Arunk is spot on! Discussed umpteen number of times with colleagues and I always come back to the same old point.
The age old tumbler-dabara coffee I used to have and still have at home is miles and miles ahead of anything served in those classy coffee joints, which may sometimes sell plain coffee. But pumpkin loaf in Starbucks and coffee cake in Seattle’s Best are yummy
Ofcourse, I am writing this right after a tumbler-dabara coffee, courtesy my mom-in-law Mmmmmmm..
October 4, 2007
Been travelling over the last week. Transited through SEA, LAX, NRT, SIN & MAA.
LAX international departure terminal sucks. Not enough space to handle the crowd, food in the food court is no better than that being served on the airlines. And P/Q is almost infinity (P – price, Q – quality).
Compared to LAX International terminal, SIN is leagues and leagues ahead. But food is just so so. Not that great tastewise and burns quite a nice hole in your wallet But the beauty is you have free internet access and you can carry your hand luggage in a trolley till the gate Those alone are worth enough to forgive any other blemish 
MAA is improving. Not the same old MAA anymore I departed from. Guess two new gates have been added and the international terminal is being renovated to handle the increased traffic.
Oh before I forget to mention. Those travelling SIA and those that belong to that subset Homo sapiens idli-chutney-sambar-tambrahm, better be prepared for olfactory adventures. To be frank, the food stinks
September 22, 2007
Ofcourse, there is another immortal verse to the same tune that was very popular when I was a fresher in college when I-got-to-know-my-seniors 
Not something that can be shared in a civilized setting though
September 22, 2007
Now what the heck would the 3 have in common? Wil Shipley & iPod – sure, makes sense. But how the heck did Ann Coulter get mixed in?
Well, if you can handle it, and don’t mind if others walking/working/sleeping near by think you have gone bonkers, you are welcome to read the connection at http://wilshipley.com/blog/2007/09/iphone-ipod-contain-or-disengage.html#c1999996922322440399
If you get hurt LYAO or ROTFL, well, just grit your teeth and bear it. You have been warned.
September 17, 2007
Well, I certainly have nothing to do with the last 3 in the list in the title Mebbe a little to do with capitalism, at least as a cog in the IT services juggernaut.
The Grand Dad of all the Fed chairmen has come up with his memoirs and seems like it is all set to light a fire under the GOP. Apparently Greenspan is one of the famous devotees of Ayn Rand. I had a colleague in the early days of my career out of college who used to rave about Ayn Rand. “Oh, Atlas Shrugged. Thats awesome. The Fountainhead. Its simply superb”. And if I remember right, I have seen her carry a copy of Atlas Shrugged with her most of the times.
I never got around to read Ayn Rand. So now you are now wondering, what the heck is the deal with this post. Where am I going. There is no point and I ain’t going anywhere. I just felt like letting the world know that I haven’t read Ayn Rand, have no intention to read her either, right this moment. Whatever I do, Ayn Rand certainly is not an influence.
Update: Not sure if Ayn Rand’s writings are supposed to be under philosophy. One more reason I may never read her.
