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Is Your Brain in a Box? “You know how it goes: The left brain is logical and analytical; the right brain is spatially-oriented and creative. Careers and fortunes have been made off of this one, and people tend to get passionate about it. But the real story is much more complex. While there are clearly differences in how the hemispheres of the brain process sensations, neither side is %u201Cspecialized%u201D to the degree that more popularized left brain/right brain theories suggest. A normal brain acts in an integrated fashion whether it is focused on painting a masterpiece or analyzing a profit and loss statement.”

Twitter Quote “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”

Do Ocracy “A do-ocracy (also sometimes do-opoly, which is a more obvious pun on %u201Cduopoly%u201D) is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials.”

How to Stand Out in Any Job “Leadership rarely involves telling people what to do. Instead, it's usually about helping people and teams create synergy and accomplish great things by working together.”

“This is why Erikd insists on the fact that writing quality code in functional languages requires from people coming from OO backgrounds to discard old habits and ways of thinking and to ignore object oriented and imperative programming features for as long as possible.”

Bill Joy's greatest gift to man “People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore”

If you're not blogging, you're wasting your life “You should be sharing the things you learned so other people will learn from it and maybe teach you something new.”

Searching with find “The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful. The biggest problem with find is that it has more options than most people can remember — it truly is capable of doing most things you could want”

Naked Objects “Most people who believe they are doing object-oriented design and development are doing no such thing, because they are ignoring the most important principle of object-orientation. We describe that principle as 'behavioural completeness': an object should completely model the behaviour of the thing that it represents. Instead, most people continue to design business systems that separate procedure from data, albeit dressed up in the language and technology of object-orientation.

Why is this distinction important? Because behavioural completeness is the key to realising the principal benefit of object-orientation: the ability to cope with unforeseen changes in requirements.”

The Game Within the Game “People were complaining that a game was ruining the quality of virtual life inside a game.”

More people in India travel by train in a day than travel by air in a year Topics : india, people, travel, airline

Bollywood's Long Tail I get a bit annoyed when people equate Indian movies with Bollywood. There is so much happening outside the hindi film industry in India .. Topics : bollywood, demand, distributed, longtail, malayalam, movies, india, tamil, telegu

People do not believe something is saved if it happens too quickly Topics : human, intuitive, javascript, xmlhttprequest, mind, understanding, usability

Jason kottke

Jason wants to do blogging full time! Here is what he has to say about this whole “blogging thing”,

Looking back on it all, this little hobby of mine has been the most rewarding, pleasurable, maddening, challenging thing in my life. I've met so many nice, good people, formed valued relationships with some of them, traveled to distant lands (and New Jersey), procured jobs & other business opportunities, discovered new interests, music, movies & books, and lots of other stuff, all for putting a little bit of me out there for people to see.

Camel corp

india rajastan camel corp

Originally uploaded by FriskoDude.

The newest way I avoid getting bored is by browsing through the photos in Flickr.

Endless

Kerala-2

Originally uploaded by Little Johnny.

As regular readers might have noticed, I like photographs which capture kerala's rustic beauty. Flickr has quite a few of them of which this one caught my eye.

TCS to expand in Thiruvananthapuram

“Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country's biggest software-service exporter, will expand its training centre at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala to accommodate new global recruits and employees.

TCS, which concluded the country's biggest initial public offer last week raising Rs 5,382 crore, will invest between Rs 50-60 crore by the end of the current fiscal to expand the training centre.

Currently housed in a picturesque two-acre campus, the centre, which provides training to domestic recruits, will now be spread across an additional 10-acre campus with approval from the Kerala government to construct over 50 per cent of this land.

The software firm, which aggressively plans to acquire firms after it lists on the stock market, will hire over 5,000 people in the current year to March 2005. TCS, which last year hired about 3,000 people, currently has an employee strength of 30,121 of which 29,177 are based in India.”

Read more.

Feels good. More so because I am typing this sitting in Thiruvananthapuram.

India

“…its diversity weaved into a unity, a myth which became (is becoming?) a reality… the belief in a ‘concept’ of India which perhaps exists (and is taking roots) only in the minds of its people, a contradiction which is internally consistent… a belief, which is simultaneously ridiculous and sincere.”

Madhukar's Musings

A blog to watch out for.

Idle Talk

Got a bunch of great snaps of kerala from a website. A weekend cable blackout meant I had enough time on my hands to whip up some new designs to go with them. Nothing complex. Just some photos and colors to go with them.

Sreekanth has been sending horror stories via email about life at IIMA. Put together a bunch of smart people and you are bound to get a challenging competitive environment. But I didn't expect it to be this extreme :)

Bought a bunch of ghazals from landmark a week back. The Jagjit Singh ( live in singapore ) CD is heavenly. One of the good things about buying a live recording is the variations the singers bring in while rendering their hit songs live. Hariharan & Jagjit Singh are two singers especially adept at this.

If you are feeling really bored today, follow this link.

To end with, lines from a song I am currently listening to,

tum itanaa jo muskuraa rahe ho
kyaa Gam hai jisako chhupaa rahe ho
aa.Nkho.n me.n namii ha.Nsii labo.n par
kyaa haal hai kyaa dikhaa rahe ho.

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