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Posted by Abinaya as Uncategorized
The last few days have been really really bad.. i just felt even suicidal at one point.. n much worse, there has been no specific reason..Pre-occupied with my own thoughts, i tried my level best to divert my own self by listenin to songs,the usual books.. but then, there was somethin still wrong with me..I […]
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Hi…
Posted by Sharu as Uncategorized
*Mike testing 1 2 3…. **Good to go sir… you’re online**Clears Throat*Friends, Romans, Countrymen…*Egg lands squarely on face*Oh wat the hell… chuck the glorious eloquent stuff… i’ll have lots of time to kill you people with that later… anyway first meetings warrant introductions… so lets begin. I’m Sharu… the guy who started this blog and […]
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Political Mess(age)
Posted by Hariharan Sriram as media, politics
This is an era of political messes. Not just in India but everywhere across the globe. We have gaffes being committed by politicians cutting across nationalities. Recently, Obama was forced to apologize after his campaign team had distributed videos which showed Hillary Clinton in bad light. Another incident involved Sarkozy denying allegations that he was […]
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Why I’m a Computer Geek!
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What are you passionate about?
Movies? Are you the kind that, given the name of a movie, or maybe even its initials, starts reciting the entire cast and crew, the result of whose sweat and blood it is that you see on the screen? (I am, though I generally start with the actresses)
Soccer? Has never a […]
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New work place
Posted by a fan as Uncategorized
well, i have joined my new company on monday.how do i feel? SCARED….yes, it might be surprising to hear that i feel scared…it’s not because of any incident which happened or things like that.i am scared because this is the time when first impressions get created about me in this new environment…and also after college, this is my second job…so change in itself is new.donot know how to go about doing things… donot know how others feel about us…yes, i have got a few friends now…and HR people are very friendly…and also it’s a small company…but still, i think it’ll take some time to get the comfort feeling…and i think this period is very crucial.and another problem is i donot know what to talk with every person, because i donot about them…am i talking too much with a person or am i talking a boring subject with him?yes, i might console myself that i am in the learning phase and can’t expect things to fall in place in these 3 days…but still the problem is, i need to be a bit skeptic in every activity i am doing…or maybe, as my brother says, i am thinking too much…maybe i should learn to take things as it comes…
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Nittwits
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“He is a silent,ever-smiling, sarcastic b*****d who loves tearing peoples’ reputation to shreds with his blogs”Hmmm (*enough adjectives used ,i guess)..Thats a very common opinion you would hear about me from most people in nitt. True enough, the 4-yr stay in the vast campus had given me enough to write about. But like most people, […]
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Making The Line Follower
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After successfully making a ‘coin picker’, we decided to try our hand with a line follower..We decided to start out with a simple line follower.. using not gates and only two sensors..For a more detailed look at the theory behind this take a look at this http://www.geocities.com/xjroolz/myrobot.doc or mail me…Anyway this time around things were […]
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One Year Over!!!!
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Oh wow i cant believe one year of college has flown past so quickly..Its been a year since many things happened.. exams admission councelling tensions.. whew..And looking back it has been a great year.. Enjoyed it a lot..Dono wats coming up in the next year.. and the dumb results will also be out soon..oh boy..Anyway […]
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Long long ago, so long ago I thought of making a blog entry and also promised myself to update it regularly. Months were wasted, thinking about what to write in the space and how to start it.As I was taking the usual evening walk today,listening to FM radio I heard the jockey talking endlessly on ways to celebrate “The world lazy day” which was today!!!!. So, it immediately stuck me that I would not get a better day to start off my blog.So, here I am, joining the blogger community of the world who continuously try to do something new,interesting and creative.Join you sometime later………………..Free Blog Counter - Lentz Home Design
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Indian Railways
Posted by a fan as Uncategorized
This week, I read an article in Outlook Business about IndianRailways.I remembered a mail which i sent to my friend in 2004. Here is the email.From: Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 9:17 PM To: Subject: Getting India’s railways on track by Christoph Wolff Check this attached Mckinsey article. When i was returning back to hyd in train,was thinking that Indian Railways is one typical example of a govt Organization 1.with Huge employees and hence with less productivity. 2.with lot of untapped growth areas like goods carrying. And this thought got strengthened,when i saw the Railway goods area last week,when i went to get the vehicle sent from CBE. Strangely,it is still not computerised and the godown is just so horrible with improper maintainence and they track the goods by the sketch writings on the sack. There were so many old uncollected goods and the place was a real mess. This author has captured all the thoughts and expressed it in such a structured manner…it’s really great. (maybe thatswhat they’ll learn in MBA!!) But at the same time,he hasn’t covered or expressed the varying fields in which Railways can earn revenue.(maybe this will be explained,when the government appoints them for consulting :)) Below one is an example of a missed out thing. There were plans of laying down fiber optics cables across the railway network…such a great idea…but don’t know to what extent it’s really happening now…check this site for further details on this… http://www.tenet.res.in/rural/rail.html Hope our government does something to Railways soon,instead of trying to split into several more regions.It’s a great organization with untapped potential. rgds, ——————————————————————————And strangely the article which i read about Railways was how IT is changing the way Railways is working….Below mentioned are 3 such cases…It talks about something called CRIS(Center for Railway Information Systems). Strangely as per this website, http://www.indianrail.gov.in/abcris.html this was established in 1986 and the effects are slowly seen only now…The another one mentioned is FOIS (Freight Operations Information System). Railways has made good profits this year thanks to the improvements due to these systems in place..A good case study about this is present in CMC website..http://www.cmcltd.com/case_studies/transportation/fois.htmAnd one other obvious example of IT in Railways is IRCTC website. Nowadays, i think anybody who has access to Internet, books tickets only thru the website. And this is supposed to the No.1 online website in India. Imagine how much revenue can be achieved by advertisements, reducing resources…Infact after reading the article, i really felt happy that not everything is bad in our system.Thinking is in the right direction…but the problem lies in planning and execution.Why does a CRIS setup in 1986 took so much time to really execute things?This delay would’ve costed thousands of crores as loss to Railways and also the productivity of the industries which are dependent on Railways.And i think this is the one of the problems in Infrastructure development side…First of all, there are not many highways being constructed….still the major blunder is, the few parts where highways are being constructed, it is only 4 lane…this is not right, it should be atleast 6 lanes..the cost involved in making a 4 lane highway to 6 lane might be equivalent to coming up with a new one…and 4 lane is really not enough in a country like india where we have all type of vehicles being driven on the highways…when something of this scale is being done, it should be done right at the first time..
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