Life restarts after every trip, almost 3 weeks later I am back to usual. Have started playing squash again and Salsa on weekends. With not much work at office, following things are running in parallel, simultaneously:
1. I am trying really hard to get back to some kind of fitness regime, I feel like 200 kgs. Though the condition is not that bad but I am going to make sure that I utilize these summers in the best way and sweat as much as possible.
2. This project was like a blessing, I have learned so much about the current trends and how companies are looking at using Web 2.o as serious business proposition to engage the customer.
3.I have started working on developing a travel portal using open source portal platforms, have been discussing my ideas with some friends and Tarun. He has worked on some of these platforms and is going to make sure that this portal see the light of the day. Perhaps the most exciting thing now days.
4. Spending lots if time with my elder sister who went through a really low phase.
5. I am reading this book called The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. An outstanding book, he draws a fantastic parallel between Edison his inventions and the present day software business the way he pioneered the Idea of distributing electricity as a serviceand how we are moving towards SAAS and the world wide computers concept. Writing in a lucid, engaging style, he weaves together history, economics and technology to describe how and why computers are changing — and what it means for all of us. From the software business to the newspaper business, from job creation to community formation, from national defense to personal identity.
In one of the sections he says that the World Wide Computer (Web 2.0) is creating a huge economic divide. Individuals are becoming richer by using UGC (user generated content). People contribute as a hobby , their wisdom is used not by organizations but by individuals who have built these sites to earn lots and lots of money. The best part is no body feels bad about.
Look at youtube, flickr, craigslist and the latest plentyoffish.com which is run by a single person.
Why I Like Being a Business Analyst?
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Reading the last page of the book which has been lying on the table besides
the bed for months is most fulfilling. I recently completed reading *
Outlier...

2 comments:
hmmm..quite a jam-packed schedule you have. I am quite impressed by the fact that even for whiling away your time, you come up with such productive ideas and activities.
LOl... productive!!
kuch nahin ho raha..everything is just in papers.
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