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Author: msanjay

  • The People Manager Workshop

    icope had sent me to something like this long ago by the same gentleman Kichu – then it was organised by MAYA. I’d found it pretty extraordinary – to put it in a nutshell – really started getting me thinking out of the box.

    “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
    – Einstein

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  • the irony of Vivekananda's speech

    In the Parliamant of Religions, Chicago 1893, Vivekananda had made a spellbinding speech. Here’s an excerpt…
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  • communication and understanding – with oneself

    If there’s one thing I can think of to improve Indian culture it is this – and I believe it should be taught right in school itself, or atleast during the degree level of education…
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  • ultra-serious girl

    Saw a couple of girls (for arranged marriage) today.
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  • communication among ants

    I’d written an article many years ago on ants but I regret its unlikely I’ll ever trace it again. [Thats why I’m now maintaining a blog where I have a single repository for all these kind of things.]

    Why do they walk in a straight line? I read that the first ant that discovers food leaves behind a scent trial, which is picked up by other ants. The ants keep walking over the same trial every time. Almost every ant shortens the trail a minute bit, optimises it a bit, so eventually the curved path ends up becoming a straight line.
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  • curiosity helped the cat

    The campus at Kohlapur was wonderful – a serene place near a village called Alate, surrounded by green hills. There were peacocks roaming all around the place.
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  • I'll be back

    Out of station till end of the month.

    Btw last few days that I can claim I’m aged 29 – even if I stretch it to 29.99… somehow it seems a whole decade less than 30! 😉

    Hmm no matter how many times I travel, I never seem to be able to avoid these last minute jitters – something or the other suddenly looks catastrophically wrong. Like today I suddenly wondered what if my train ticket [with status Waiting List #13] was never confirmed? I dialled the railway enquiry number 139 and found out with a relief that it indeed was ! 🙂

  • Tuesdays are bad luck

    There are plenty of people who simply refuse to do a lot of significant tasks on a Tuesday. Its bad luck… something inauspicious about the day. Even if avoiding anything becomes a great inconvenience, they still stick with it. And when I’ve heard this so many times since my childhood, naturally though doubtful, I myself generally had a tendency to avoid any tasks on Tuesdays whenever I had a choice, just to be on the safer side 😉
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  • My first IQ test ever

    Took an IQ test this morning after clicking on some ad in a web page – I’ve never ever taken one before. It took me a lot longer than I expected – hadn’t known there would be 50 questions! The results were very surprising. I’m not sure if the website, which promotes some educational courses, had made the questions overly simple – some day I would consider double checking by taking tests from other sources. One annoying thing was it made me register after the whole test, and before I could see the results which was kind of sneaky!
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  • wiki and issue tracking system

    Thanks to HP Nadig, I was introduced to WordPress and that’s led me on to some other fascinating discoveries of the opensource world such as LAMP, and here’s another example…

    This one is really relevant to my current project because we’re already using wiki and subversion, and a custom built in-house tool for issue tracking. But Trac seems to amazing – everything put together! The screenshots show a very elegant user interface!

    Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission; to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.

    It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient report facilities.