The morning chill, the place, the coffee, the long deep breaths and the sound of the
temple bells..Blessed were we to witness it..

p.s : I never thought I would like Chennai..

Awesome video and not to mention the incredible background score..Violin!!

So, what is the universal language? math, music, nature or…food

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4 stages of life as written by Thomas Reilly..Enjoy…

For the non kannada folks..it goes something like below,
The first stage is when a person thinks he(or she) is bad and the world is a

crappy place too…
The second stage is when the person thinks he is of no good but is in awe

of the world..
In the third stage, he thinks he is really cool but the world around him is cruel…
Finally, he realizes that he is good…and the world is nice place too..

Very simple and easily understandable as it covers all the valid input conditions

of a 2 input (the person and the world) digital circuit. You can think of it as a

2 input “and gate“. Output will be 1(life is good) only when both the inputs are 1

A beautiful song from the same movie…nenapugala angaladi…

There was a time when my birthdays were Happy Birthdays.

There was a time when I used to feel elated when people sang the happy birthday song.

There was a time when I used to get something called post-Happy-Birthday-depression, the very next day of my Happy Birthday.

There was a time when I could not wait for the next Happy Birthday and wondered why it took so long.

There is this time when, for the first time I felt my birthdays are coming a lot frequently

I have crossed quarter century and I desperately wish to go back a few years,  not because I want to do           anything different but because I want to have more of those years ( and because I am not sure I could manage that in the coming years).

This is a special moment folks , things are changing and I have a feeling that others expect         me to be more responsible now.
Sigh! I don’t want to grow up!!

I assume you remember Kevin Arnold, Paul Pfeiffer

and of course Winnie Cooper. If not, keep checking

Typically, I am not continuously logged into twitter/facebook/orkut
(I find it too distracting..I have a job you know ), but I
usually have my Reader open just to read anything interesting from
the subscribed sites. Now, whenever I write something cool on
my blog (as I am doing now ) or I read some crazy stuff,
I would love to share it across Reader,twitter, facebook,blogs etc
with just one click. Currently, the easiest way to do it is to get
stuff on my Reader, share them. There is a 3rd party application
called twitterfeed which connects Reader to twitter. Have a twitter
widget on other sites/blogs which will show the shared items.
But  twitterfeed is too clumsy and at times, not realtime and limits
the number of items that could be shared. With Google Buzz, Google
has addressed the problem but not completely solved it. We now seem
to have a one way traffic from twitter to Buzz but it would be good
to have seamless two way traffic across multiple platforms so I can
share them with just one click and people can view them from whatever
sites they have logged into.  Amen

It is always important to know this about people while
dealing with them to avoid any surprises.

Now what applies to a person in  microcosm also applies
to an organization in macrocosm. Also, in general the
core philosophy changes form being specific to generic
as we move from an individual to an organization.
Based on the above loose premise , let me come
to the topic of this post…

While Motorola and Google are two big companies and
obviously would have known each others core business,
I am still surprized that they(MOTO) were a bit taken
aback when Nexus one came along.

Sometime back, Google developed Android OS for cell
phone systems, Motorola which had an ailing cell phone
business at that point and increasingly pressurized
by the foray of new smart phones coming to the market
(led by Iphone of course)was too happy to embrace
Android and introduced Droid.
Was Google more than being selfless in opening up the
Android source code? The assured answer turns out to be
a big yes though their publicly made comment was
something on the following lines “to have a healthy
competitive ecosystem in Mobile OS platforms and to
ensure Apple doesn’t become Microsoft of Smartphones”.
Anyway as we all know, Google did introduce a new
smartphone called Nexus one based on Android. Now, why
would google which was marketing Android to the cell
phone companies started to compete against its customers!
Did Google decide to enter  a new industry?

A brief history…
Google has been gobbling most of the market share in
search based ad revenues over the years and things
were fine as long as the most of these searches were
PC based. Enter smart phones and you have a gradual
shift in more and more searches from PC to these phones
and google definitely wanted a piece of this (as they
were quick to recognize that smartphone based search is
the future). The profit google makes through ads is so
huge that they really don’t care if they give away turn
by turn navigation application for free (a move turning
out to be a death blow to leaders in specialized GPS
devices/apps) along with Android.

Till, apple introduced iphone, except for a couple of
companies like Palm and Blackberry, no other cell phone
companies were too keen on this high end market (since
most of their revenues came from selling low to middle
range cell phones) and were suddenly caught unaware by
Iphone which changed the whole cell phone game. They
did not have the OS/software to actually get into the
smartphone market on time while Apple with its head
start was sitting pretty. So it was not a surprize that
Google having the Android (with its varied features)
almost ready and free was too good to be left untouched
for the cell phone companies.

To summarize, the birth of Android followed by Google’s
entry into Smartphones was mainly to extend the search
spectrum for Google. Note that there were also these
rumours which made Google to have a more direct control
of its smart phone searches by having its own phone which
inevitably meant competing with other Android based phones.
This was a high risk decision and until now, it has paid
off well for google as we see that smartphone business is
increasingly turning out be a 2 player game by the day.

Coming back to Motorola??? If Motorola had known about
Nexus, would it still have embraced Android, I guess it
did not have any choice at that moment but atleast it
would have prepared for it or negotiated a better deal
with Google. And we all know once you start using
something which is good and cheap (Android in this case),
it is always hard to go back. All izz not so well for
Motorola but atleast it is good to see it is doing
something and then there is this.

If you have made it till now, I think you need get the
above s**t out of your system, don’t worry Google has a
solution to that via Google toilet ..

A friend of mine had set the below quote as his signature for his outgoing emails.
I am not sure who the author is but here it goes

“Failure doesn’t define a person , what follows does.”