Lyrics of Rubaroo from Rang De Basanti

Ae Saala, Abhi Abhi, Hua Yakeen
Ki Aag hai, mujhme kahin
Hui Subah, main jal gaya
Suraj ko main nigal gaya
Rubaroo, roshni
Rubaroo, roshni hai

Rang De Basanti

*ing: Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Kunal Kapoor, Madhavan, Atul Kulkarni, Sharman Joshi, Soha Ali Khan

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Music: A.R.Rehman

Hall: DT Mega Mall in Gurgaon

Date: 26th January



Category: Entertainment

Is changing the User Interface of your E-Mail website a good idea?

For all the early users of GMail, they will remember that to delete an E-Mail, there was a "Move to trash" link in the "More Actions" drop down list. Thus the process to delete the E-Mail consisted of three ticks:

• First tick on checking the box of the E-Mail that you want to delete
  
• Second tick on the "More Actions" tab
• Third tick on the "Move to trash" option

For people who got used to it (and those people includes me), it is quite annoying when I have to delete an E-Mail now considering the fact that the option has been removed from the drop down list. Now, instead a TAB for Delete has been added to the left of the "More Actions" tab. Though if I were a new user of GMail, I would have appreciated this considering that it just takes two clicks to delete the E-Mail.

But, unfortunately, I also suffer from the age-old problem of "Old habits die hard". Instead of getting used to deleting E-Mail through a single click, it now takes me three clicks and a feeling of annoyance to delete the E-Mail. Thus the process to delete the E-Mail with the changed User Interface has now become:

• First tick on checking the box of the E-Mail that you want to delete
• Second tick on the "More Actions" tab
• A fraction of a second feeling of annoyance that I once again FORGOT that the Interface has changed
• Third tick on the "Delete" tab

Maybe after writing this particular piece, my instincts would tell me not to hate myself for forgetting that Google has changed the experience of the user and customize my actions to the two-click offer that G-Mail has provided.

Training on improving your presentation skills

Venue: Hero Mindmine in South Extension, New Delhi

Day: January 20 and 21, 2006

Attendees: Some un-suspecting individuals from Conexant

Facilitator: God bless him

What do you expect to achieve if you are planning to attend a training on a presentation skill program?

• How to win a girlfriend in 5 days? (You bet)
  
• How to get rid of a girlfriend in 10 days? (And the moron in me thought that destruction was much easier than construction)
  
• How to become a millionaire in 10 days? (Why take 10 days to do something when with KBC, it just takes an hour?)
  
• What women want? (No second guesses on this one)
  

If just after reading this you are shocked, then imagine the plight of the un-suspecting individuals who went through the ordeal.

God forgive the facilitator and bless the un-suspecting individuals. If God had not taught me to be a decent individual who respects the individual in front of him, then the session on 20th January would never have completed. Of course 21st January for Conexant at Hero Mindmine premises never came.

Positives

Yes, there were some. Afterall it was fun, maybe not for the reasons we had gone there for, but certainly for all the funny incidents.

Some comments of the day

• Why are you looking at me?
• Bhupendra has two feathers and he loves to fly
  

Some new stuff learnt

• KOPSA technique
• Park
• Reflect-Deflect
• Throw the monkey off your back

Category: Official

Category: Wishes

Planning to launch a new product - Use this template to come upon the vision statement for it

Courtesy: Joel On Software

The product vision model helps team members pass the elevator test -- the ability to explain the project to someone within two minutes. It comes from Geoffrey Moore's book Crossing the Chasm. It follows the form:

• For (target customer)
• Who (statement of the need or opportunity)
• The (product name) is a (product category)
• That (key benefit, compelling reason to buy)
• Unlike (primary competitive alternative)
• Our product (statement of primary differentiation)

For example,

For embedded customers who require high performance and low cost wireless functionality, the MixMAC is a new architecture that uses “Minimum MIPS on the host and Minimum Memory on the NIC”. Unlike SoftMAC or BigMAC, MixMAC maximizes the performance by maximizing the utilization of available resources.