Archive for the year 2006

What is the purpose of my Personal Development Blog?

This blog is aligned to the purpose of my life. The purpose is to take the message of personal development far and wide. This blog is the medium to take my message to you, my fellow human being on planet…

What is the Purpose of Your Life?

Do you feel overwhelmed sometimes, wondering how to cope up with the pressure that your job and life puts on you. Are you thinking of changing jobs to find interesting work and more money, hoping that more money and different…

First Post and Sense of Gratitude

This is my first post here. This post is dedicated to the people who have shaped my life so far. I can’t owe my learning to one single person. I owe it to the parents I was born to, the…

Robert Scoble | Moving On (Microsoft to PodTech.net)

There are bloggers and there is Robert Scoble, the man who I think did a lot more good than all PR experts put together to the image of the Giant of Redmond. He is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net…

Pixar’s CARS – Life is a Journey, Enjoy the Trip

Somebody’s loss is somebody’s gain. The point in discussion is Steve Jobs in year 1986 when he purchased erstwhile computer graphics division of Lucas Films for $ 10 million from George Lucas and established it as an independent company christened…

BarCampHyderabad2 kick-started at JNTU

Yesterday Rajan, Rajat, Ramesh, Poorna Shashank, Vijay, Bhanu and I met at JNTU to set the plan of action for BarCampHydeabad2. After an initial check, we settled on following for BarCampHyderabad2; Where: 1st floor of…

Lessons from the Life of Richard Branson

For past week or so, I was thinking of finishing Screw It, Let’s do it by Richard Branson. Finally, last night I sat down and finished reading it. I have been a voracious reader for many years now. But…

BarCampMumbai – All Set to Rock

Camping at Mumbai to finalize arrangements for BarCampMumbai. Things are hotting up. As of now more than 100 campers and 17 speakers have registered on the wiki. Sponsors have been generous in their support. Infact, they collectively have chipped…

Blogging…. 1999 to 2006

Check out this Economist article on blogging.…

BarCampBangalore Update

BarCampBangalore as expected was a success. The pull effect was enough to attract campers from US (Chris Messina, Tara Hunt, Chad Dickerson…), France and closer home from Chennai, Hyderabad (Rajan….), Delhi (Amit Ranjan…

Ethanol — The next BIG thing??

If you drive a vehicle that runs on fossil fuel (read: petrol, diesel, gasoline) this should interest you. A fuel called E85 is catching the fancy of investors, environmentalists, oil, and agribusiness giants alike. It contains 85% contains ethanol hence…