A nice Quote to share...

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life...

courtesy 'real live Preacher' and iGoogle...

The Eleven Rules of Life!!!

Received today a forwarded mail that said 'Bill Gates' 11 Rules of Life...', just out of curiosity read it. The laid out rules were pretty common but listed in very straightforward and accurate manner. A sample of what is known as 'right at the money!!!'. The points may seem obvious today, but surely with the ongoing changes in our education system i.e. in the process of making it more 'friendly' to students, we might end up in the same position as US is because of its 'liberal' education system. I am not against making education less scary or simpler, but I am of great follower of the quote

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"

therefore making education more simpler, by abolishing exams or the fear of failure would lead to a very fragile future. Hope these rules of life would help to fight the real world out there. Additionally a small piece of information, the rules are actually not from Bill gates (See clarification here ), It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping
they
called it Opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.


RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as
you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one.

Where the Neighborhood is without the Filth

Here I present an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's poem 'Where the mind is without fear' as 'Where the Neighborhood is without the Filth' for a beautiful and corruption free India....

Where the neighborhood is without filth and the queues short and smooth;
Where civil-service is corruption free;
Where towns have not been broken into fragments by narrow potholed streets;
Where justice is given out quickly from the profundity of the courts;
Where a tireless workforce stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream from the mountains has not lost its way into contaminated rivers of dead water;
Where the economy is led forward by thee into a rate of growth higher then six percent (real);
Into the heaven of liberalization, my father, let my country awake!!!

The lines above have been taken from my latest reading venture -- Games Indians Play by V. Raghunathan....

Before I present any of my views or reviews of the book, I would like every reader to read the above lines with compassion and try to visualize our India with all the dreams fulfilled and all goals achieved........


Will soon come up with the review of the book, where the author, proves using Game theory, that how we Indians are individually very intelligent and collectively very dumb.......

The verdict: A must read for every Indian!

Are you a Managment material?

Galloping around the articles from the management blog (subscribed few months back), I came to a very interesting and light humored article. Here's what it says (points arranged in Letterman-like top ten list):

Top 10 Clues That You Are Management Material

• 10. You like not doing anything
• 9. You have no trouble telling others what to do
• 8. Work fascinates you - you can sit and watch it for hours
• 7. You like 'sweating the small stuff'
• 6. You have always been something of a loner
• 5. You don't think 'plan' is a four-letter word
• 4. Your favorite cocktail is milk of magnesia
• 3. On Halloween you dress up as Alex P. Keating
• 2. Your favorite horror writer is Tom Peters
  
  And the number one clue you are management material -
• You enjoy having people despise you just for doing your job.

A more serious thought can be found here

- Original article by F. John Reh, About.com

Google strikes back

"Google strikes back" -- Not even a month has passed since I laid my claims that Google is not yet internet and proved my point citing example that there is no browser powered by Google (for details read my previous blog), and here it is ... Google counteracting on my statement launched 'Google Chrome'!!!!! (I really didn't knew that I was so popular and Google followed my blog so closely, would have to be more careful next time :)) ). Anyways, my blog threat or not, Google once again proved its metal and advanced its internet dominance launching another flagship project (obviously as beta) i.e. Google's browser - Google Chrome.

Google chrome like all its other products is completely written a new (well at least that's what my preliminary findings show), tackling most of the present browser problem and still keeping it light. The first launch of the browser shows its still niche - minimal functionality, no jazzy settings and not much of options to fool around with, but still, the browser makes its point quite firmly, with speed, lightness and technical advancements - each tab being separate process- check your task manager for chrome, and compiled java script instead of interpreting it - to name a few.

How far and how successful this product will go only time will tell, but one thing is clear, Google is leaving no stone unturned to make its dominance felt..... A wild guess for the next product its going to launch......... Google OS - What say??