WASE – Wipro Academy of Software Excellence is an innovative way to exploit people. Few of my friends have joined Wipro as WASEians. Here is my simple comparison of how it works out better to Wipro to have such people on board. Here goes the deal. (more…)
Archive for August, 2008
WASE – an innovative way to exploit people
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Where do I belong to?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008It has been a month now. On 26th of last month at 14:15 I ended my dream ride – K2K. When I stopped the bike in front of my house, I had covered more than 19000km in 92 days. It took me about 1000 hours on the road to touch all 29 states and 5 union territories of mainland India. When the ride ended, it seemed like an abrupt ending – everyday, for past three months, the ride had always ended with either frustration or happiness. It ended with a serious learning for the day and some strategic planning for the day after. But on 26th July, it was all blank. It seemed as if I had lost the purpose of my life… for few days I was without any thoughts about future. Office work seemed dull and meaningless. I started to miss the kind of life I had led for 3 months – a life which was constantly on the move…
How meaningful would it be to have a life just as a bike ride – always with a direction, with a destination in mind and falling in love with the journey itself
You will love this for sure
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Form past three days I have started to download and listen to programs from 
. Size of .mp3s varies from 50-70mb. Try at least one programs. I am sure, you will get addicted to this station.
The wait is over, is it?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008When Manju told me about how addictive ‘Lost’ can get, I did not believe him till I started watching it myself. Just as last three seasons, I started with season 4 yesterday. I started at 10:00pm and continued till 3:00am. I stopped because I had to be in office today. The season is thrilling as ever. But too much of back and forth into present and past.
This evening I will go back and will not sleep till I finish the entire season.
The wait is not over yet.
When was Google Maps updated for Bangalore?
Thursday, August 21st, 2008When I started my K2K trip, I could not locate my house on the satellite imagery of google maps. Now after four months, I can see it. Google has updated its imagery somewhere between May and July 2008.
So, how old is the imagery for Bangalore?
I am using NICE road as the guide post. If you look at NICE road and presence of my house, the imagery must be an year old. This is my guess.NICE road is still not a part of ‘Street Map’ of Bangalore.
Please don’t design any development policies around this data and later on blame me for any inaccuracies 
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Change of virtual realm
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Migrated the blog from http://sharadaprasad.name/blog to http://sharadaprasad.name. My first migration was from blogger (http://sharadaprasad.blogspot.com)
Having to links – http://sharadaprasad.name and http://sharadaprasad.name/blog seemed redundant. Now WordPress is very powerful. I don’t need two links anymore.
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Upgrades
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008- Upgraded to WP 2.6.1
- Changed the Theme
- Enabled Flickr RSS
- Enabled Geopress
Celebration of Floods and Draught?
Monday, August 18th, 2008Monsoon has been playing with farmers throughout the country. In Karnataka, lack of rains during the beginning of the season caused several crops to fail. On the other hand, in past two weeks there have been severe rains leading to flooding. Karnataka had never been hit with this kind of flooding in the near past. Crops were lost, people were drowned. What is the state government doing?
Government has announced some relief measures. But around 150 people representatives (including chief minister Yadiyurappa) are going to USA this month end to AKKA convention. Each representative will eat upto $4000 of tax payer’s money per day. So 4 days X $4000 X 150 representative – is a huge money for India. Instead of spending time with flood affected people here, these uninvited representatives are going to USA. Is it to celebrate draught and floods?
This has happened even in the past it seems. Representatives frequently travel in tax payer’s money to foreign countries. There these people don’t even attend the intended convention but go sight seeing, gambling etc…
Some stories from newspapers:
http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/11/stories/2008081159780300.htm
This is world’s largest and most helpless democracy.
Reverse Geocoding
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Geocoding is a method of assigning lat long info to objects. The new ‘Reverse Geocoding’ is picking the lat long info from an object e.g. a photograph, and looking for name of the place, country etc. related to that info.
I use RoboGeo to process my pictures and upload them to Flickr. RoboGeo offers ‘reverse geocoding’.
Circumcision and HIV
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Today I came across an article in The Economist that relates Circumcision and HIV.
The XVIIth International AIDS Conference | Win some, lose some | Economist.com.
It was this sort of careful science—starting with a scientific hypothesis, following it up with observations in the field and ending with clinical trials—which proved that circumcision protects against infection. Indeed, amid the gloom about microbicides and vaccines, circumcision is the one bright spot in the field of AIDS prevention. Most forms of prevention have to be pushed on to people. But there are already parts of Africa, including South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia, where men are queuing up to have their foreskins cut off. The scientific basis of all this is that foreskin tissue is rich in a particular sort of cell that HIV likes very much. The field observation is that, within Africa, one of the two best predictors of the intensity of the epidemic in any given place is the prevalence of circumcision. The clinical trials suggest that circumcision by itself reduces a man’s chance of becoming infected by 50-60%. The upshot, according to Brian Williams of the World Health Organisation, is that if, in some ideal world, every sexually active man in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised, 2m new infections would be avoided over the course of ten years, and 300,000 deaths prevented.