"हे धनंजय, सत्पुरूष कभी अपनी अधिकारोंकी सिमाओंका उल्लंघन नही करते" - श्रीकृष्ण
सध्या महाभारताचे ठराविक भाग पहातोय .. त्यात ऐकलेलं हे वाक्य; श्रीकृष्णाने अर्जुनाला म्हटलेले एक वाक्य .... अर्थातच संजयच्या ’दैवी’ दृष्टीमुळे आपल्याल समजलेले. मी विचार करत होतो की युद्धभुमीवर युद्ध चालू असताना सारथ्य करताना श्रीकृष्णाला एवढा वेळ कसा मिळाला की त्याने अर्जुनाला जीवनाचं सार समजवलं ?
थोडं शोधलं, त्यावर एक युक्तीवाद असा केला जातो की श्रीकृष्णाने सुक्ष्म वेळ नियंत्रीत केली आणि अर्जुनाला साक्षात्कार घडवला ..... पण मग मला संजयचं विशेष वाटतंय यासाठी की त्याला ही सुक्ष्म वेळेही अनुभवता आली.... म्हणजे तोही gifted होता का ?
अजून एक मालिका NBC TVवर चालू आहे ... Heroes काही काळापूर्वी मी त्याचे काही भाग पळवत पळवत पहायचो ... त्यात Hiro
कडे अशीच काहीसी क्षमता असल्याचं दाखवलय .. अर्थात महाभारत आणि ह्या Science Fiction मध्ये compare करण्याचा काही प्रश्नच नाही .. असंच आठवलं म्हणून खरडलं.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Title to the post
Some times, when I really don't have specific to scribble in the blog and want to write at least 'something', I find it very difficult to give a name to the post. And that's where the story gets delayed.
Couple of things I have been watching:-
- Recently whenever I look at news papers, online reports, and news channels; all of them are reporting losses that corporates are facing or dip in their profits, sales, etc.
- Probable, colleges like mine are few of the first in India to feel the heat of the global turmoil.
- Sometime in next week, I want to write marathi post about this article I read online. I am finding some relevance to what is happening around and what worse in business scenario can be expected with it. Basically the author, in this article talks about how the financial collapse are unavoidable and government actions in supporting the banks can lead to worsening the situation.
- Google has been finding it difficult to see promising competitor in its online streaming business i.e. the famous youtube.com. The name is HULU. It's a formed with a joint venture of NBC and Fox and it is becoming popular with TV shows and movies. More importantly, it's gaining commercial support unlike youtube because corporates (like MGM, etc) are skeptical about youtube's position in respecting copyright informations. Just because HULU is more focused on TV shows and movies, it's likely to be successful in the targetted video streaming business
- Crude oil prices have plummeted below $60 to $59.39 - 20 weeks low price despite cut in production by OPEC. It's interesting to know that OPEC countries haven't cut the production by the declared number of barrels i.e. 1.5 million barrel cut was expected. But it is heard that they have cut the production byt 800,000 barrels a day. Why haven't they cut it by more 700,000 barrels? Probably, it will greatly impact their economies of scale operation (shall I call it as reverse of economies of scale ?)
- Mr. Prime Minister, Doesn't want to reduce prices of oil products in India? Indian o companies are making profit of more than Rs. 4 on sale of one liter of petrol and bearing loss of less than Rs. 1 on sale of diesel. The argument proposed for the same is, sale of diesel is far more than that of petrol.
Couple of things I have been watching:-
- Recently whenever I look at news papers, online reports, and news channels; all of them are reporting losses that corporates are facing or dip in their profits, sales, etc.
- Probable, colleges like mine are few of the first in India to feel the heat of the global turmoil.
- Sometime in next week, I want to write marathi post about this article I read online. I am finding some relevance to what is happening around and what worse in business scenario can be expected with it. Basically the author, in this article talks about how the financial collapse are unavoidable and government actions in supporting the banks can lead to worsening the situation.
- Google has been finding it difficult to see promising competitor in its online streaming business i.e. the famous youtube.com. The name is HULU. It's a formed with a joint venture of NBC and Fox and it is becoming popular with TV shows and movies. More importantly, it's gaining commercial support unlike youtube because corporates (like MGM, etc) are skeptical about youtube's position in respecting copyright informations. Just because HULU is more focused on TV shows and movies, it's likely to be successful in the targetted video streaming business
- Crude oil prices have plummeted below $60 to $59.39 - 20 weeks low price despite cut in production by OPEC. It's interesting to know that OPEC countries haven't cut the production by the declared number of barrels i.e. 1.5 million barrel cut was expected. But it is heard that they have cut the production byt 800,000 barrels a day. Why haven't they cut it by more 700,000 barrels? Probably, it will greatly impact their economies of scale operation (shall I call it as reverse of economies of scale ?)
- Mr. Prime Minister, Doesn't want to reduce prices of oil products in India? Indian o companies are making profit of more than Rs. 4 on sale of one liter of petrol and bearing loss of less than Rs. 1 on sale of diesel. The argument proposed for the same is, sale of diesel is far more than that of petrol.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Relations
Some relations don't grow naturally. You, deliberately need to make them work, foster in good way!!
I don't know why sometimes I get philosophical! It is good to think so at the same time, at the end if it, I feel, it does not help much. Since I already peeked into philosophical territory, let me scribble one more sentence here - as told by one of my prof.
"The last shirt has no pocket !!"
:D
I don't know why sometimes I get philosophical! It is good to think so at the same time, at the end if it, I feel, it does not help much. Since I already peeked into philosophical territory, let me scribble one more sentence here - as told by one of my prof.
"The last shirt has no pocket !!"
:D
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Back with new machine !
This time I am writing using my brand new Dell laptop. My earlier laptop crashed all of sudden. That too while I was working for final submission of one of the courses I have taken here. I still had to complete .... really 'complete' 3 credit course submission day after that and few others submissions 'following that' too.
I was really in trouble. Anyway this wasn't my first time to be in trouble :-) I was even had better trouble times ;-) They call it - साला नसीब हो झेंडू तो क्या करेगा पांडू !
Anyway!! So with this new machine, I have regained my powers.
Mean time I was enjoying at home for more than a week. Let me tell you that one week is the maximum term break duration I could have grabbed in my life at this college so far. These 10 days, (okay, 9 days to be precise) gave me very much needed breathing space. And there is no other comfort like being at home. How could I have chose to loose an opportunity to trek any fort being at home. So I managed to trek Rajgad for one more time. Awesome is the only word to describe Rajgad.
Hopefully I will be able to post few snaps of my recent Rajgad trek in next post.
Till then Njoy Madi !!
I was really in trouble. Anyway this wasn't my first time to be in trouble :-) I was even had better trouble times ;-) They call it - साला नसीब हो झेंडू तो क्या करेगा पांडू !
Anyway!! So with this new machine, I have regained my powers.
Mean time I was enjoying at home for more than a week. Let me tell you that one week is the maximum term break duration I could have grabbed in my life at this college so far. These 10 days, (okay, 9 days to be precise) gave me very much needed breathing space. And there is no other comfort like being at home. How could I have chose to loose an opportunity to trek any fort being at home. So I managed to trek Rajgad for one more time. Awesome is the only word to describe Rajgad.
Hopefully I will be able to post few snaps of my recent Rajgad trek in next post.
Till then Njoy Madi !!
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Tuned with time
There wasn't really any such reason to prevent me from posting new entry but just happened .... got engrossed with my exams, submissions, rat race of grades (Is it really ?)....
So here I am ... back to square one or should I say .. the thing I love to do at any given time, especially when I have moved out of Bangalore and traveled to some of the places which I have always been longing for visiting. There are some really nice -butter, some bitter too, experiences on my travel-way till here ... so Dj stay tuned... to pour them here !!!
Till then ... Njoy Madi :-)
So here I am ... back to square one or should I say .. the thing I love to do at any given time, especially when I have moved out of Bangalore and traveled to some of the places which I have always been longing for visiting. There are some really nice -butter, some bitter too, experiences on my travel-way till here ... so Dj stay tuned... to pour them here !!!
Till then ... Njoy Madi :-)
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Khosla ka Ghosla
Disclaimer : The title of the post has entirely meant to what is in the post. It may be the case virtually, but different case otherwise ___ aBsTrAcT ___ :D
Vinod Khosla, as I mentioned about him in my last post is Pune born Technologist, Venture Capitalists, Commercial Environmentalist (?)
- Studied in IITD then in Carnegie Mellon University and then MBA from Stanford School of Business.
- Founder of Sun Microsystems
- Was partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of founders of The Indus Entrepreneurs
- Owns firm - Khosla Ventures funding indian households through MicroFinance
- Founded ck12.org as it quotes :: "CK12 aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Using an open-source, collaborative, and web-based compilation model that can be manifested as an adaptive textbook - termed the "FlexBook", CK12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational web texts". I am curious to see how they will be doing it so now waiting for their actual launch.
- Significantly investing in Ethenol Industry in US. What I mentioned in my last post is also part of it.
- Has invested in Praj Industries listed in India - not sure if he is also on BODs of Praj.
- Writes blog. and I am yet to figure out what is Prop 87 as he has mentioned many times in his blog.
- Is associated with Zaplet.com which is now MetricStream.com - it is Governance, Risk, Compliance, Quality Management Solution provider company. It's ComplianceOnline.com give online training for these mentioned things. By the way Tata Consultancy Services is also one of the metricstream's partners.- Serves as Directors for renowned companies like Juniper Networks, Siara Systems, Qwest communications, Centrata, Corvis Cooperation, Corio, SEEC, Infinera, etc.
What all this man has been doing. Can you sense 'Sense of Vision' in his attempts so far ?
Vinod Khosla, as I mentioned about him in my last post is Pune born Technologist, Venture Capitalists, Commercial Environmentalist (?)
- Studied in IITD then in Carnegie Mellon University and then MBA from Stanford School of Business.
- Founder of Sun Microsystems
- Was partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of founders of The Indus Entrepreneurs
- Owns firm - Khosla Ventures funding indian households through MicroFinance
- Founded ck12.org as it quotes :: "CK12 aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Using an open-source, collaborative, and web-based compilation model that can be manifested as an adaptive textbook - termed the "FlexBook", CK12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational web texts". I am curious to see how they will be doing it so now waiting for their actual launch.
- Significantly investing in Ethenol Industry in US. What I mentioned in my last post is also part of it.
- Has invested in Praj Industries listed in India - not sure if he is also on BODs of Praj.
- Writes blog. and I am yet to figure out what is Prop 87 as he has mentioned many times in his blog.
- Is associated with Zaplet.com which is now MetricStream.com - it is Governance, Risk, Compliance, Quality Management Solution provider company. It's ComplianceOnline.com give online training for these mentioned things. By the way Tata Consultancy Services is also one of the metricstream's partners.- Serves as Directors for renowned companies like Juniper Networks, Siara Systems, Qwest communications, Centrata, Corvis Cooperation, Corio, SEEC, Infinera, etc.
What all this man has been doing. Can you sense 'Sense of Vision' in his attempts so far ?
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Coskata
Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge
'Coskata-Coatue' pronounced as "co-skate-uh co-too". This Wildlife Refuge is famous for its white-sand beaches, salt/sweet water, excellent fishing environment, oak woods and also historic light house. This is a natural and partially developed ecosystem that accommodates rare and diminishing habitats, plants, and birds.
This is the place that influenced the founders of Coskata Inc who were there for visit to Nantucket island. They were amazed by the beauty and natural wonder of this place. And this visit to the land refuge concluded as booster to their effort and inclination of preserving Mother Earth in though commercial but efficient way, so is the establishment of Coskata Inc to generate bio-fuels/ Ethanol under $1.00 per gallon (whoop) that too can be ported to any part of world and it can process any material as input which include waste materials, tyres too using their proprietary bio-reactor designs.
Coskata Inc. has made available the 3 step process of converting input material into Ethanol through first converting input material into synthesis gas, then deriving energy from oxidation of the converted gas (fermentation) and finally separation and recovery of Ethanol.
You see, there is a roaring concerns to the traditional auto car manufacturers. The concerns will mostly turn out as threats to their survival of business in next 20-30 years if they don't take necessary measures to tackle the major causes of concerns -
1. Depleting oil reserves : The OPEC still rules. Recently they have decided not to expand their capacity.
2. Increasing environmental awareness : World is becoming really worried about this. As one can see the thoughtful actions being taken by different country groups G7, EU, etc. WTO is working and establishing norms for countries involved in it.
3. Country specific economic preferences: Developed countries are encouraging the R&D efforts of Private players, entrepreneurs for finding alternatives to oils/gases and reduce dependence of third countries for oil import and ultimately reduce the trade deficit.
No wonder GM motors , Ford motors and now TATA motors, M&M in India have started emphasizing on environment friendly ways to drive/sustain their business in future. So it's clear that GM has extended strategic partnership with Coskata Inc. So are Khosla Ventures, Advance Technology Ventures and Great POoint Ventures.
Coskata claims to have their processes and bio-reactor design being validated by world class research labs, universities and companies. It has sought help of academicians from various universities.
Founded in 2006 by Todd Kimmel and Dr. Rathin Datta, the company has compiled a strong IP portfolio of patents, trade secrets, know-how and assembled a first-class management team ... Wow !! So in all this company, as experts are saying, will be bringing revolutionary changes in Ethanol industry.
Remember Vinod Khosla ? The same techie and businessman who was founder of Sun Microsystems is involved in Coskata through his ventureship.
Also we have Praj Industries which is one of the leaders in Indian Ethanol Processing industry and to an extent can be called successful one. So long way to go for Praj looking at the pace with which the companies in US are moving in Ethanol processing.
'Coskata-Coatue' pronounced as "co-skate-uh co-too". This Wildlife Refuge is famous for its white-sand beaches, salt/sweet water, excellent fishing environment, oak woods and also historic light house. This is a natural and partially developed ecosystem that accommodates rare and diminishing habitats, plants, and birds.
This is the place that influenced the founders of Coskata Inc who were there for visit to Nantucket island. They were amazed by the beauty and natural wonder of this place. And this visit to the land refuge concluded as booster to their effort and inclination of preserving Mother Earth in though commercial but efficient way, so is the establishment of Coskata Inc to generate bio-fuels/ Ethanol under $1.00 per gallon (whoop) that too can be ported to any part of world and it can process any material as input which include waste materials, tyres too using their proprietary bio-reactor designs.
Coskata Inc. has made available the 3 step process of converting input material into Ethanol through first converting input material into synthesis gas, then deriving energy from oxidation of the converted gas (fermentation) and finally separation and recovery of Ethanol.
You see, there is a roaring concerns to the traditional auto car manufacturers. The concerns will mostly turn out as threats to their survival of business in next 20-30 years if they don't take necessary measures to tackle the major causes of concerns -
1. Depleting oil reserves : The OPEC still rules. Recently they have decided not to expand their capacity.
2. Increasing environmental awareness : World is becoming really worried about this. As one can see the thoughtful actions being taken by different country groups G7, EU, etc. WTO is working and establishing norms for countries involved in it.
3. Country specific economic preferences: Developed countries are encouraging the R&D efforts of Private players, entrepreneurs for finding alternatives to oils/gases and reduce dependence of third countries for oil import and ultimately reduce the trade deficit.
No wonder GM motors , Ford motors and now TATA motors, M&M in India have started emphasizing on environment friendly ways to drive/sustain their business in future. So it's clear that GM has extended strategic partnership with Coskata Inc. So are Khosla Ventures, Advance Technology Ventures and Great POoint Ventures.
Coskata claims to have their processes and bio-reactor design being validated by world class research labs, universities and companies. It has sought help of academicians from various universities.
Founded in 2006 by Todd Kimmel and Dr. Rathin Datta, the company has compiled a strong IP portfolio of patents, trade secrets, know-how and assembled a first-class management team ... Wow !! So in all this company, as experts are saying, will be bringing revolutionary changes in Ethanol industry.
Remember Vinod Khosla ? The same techie and businessman who was founder of Sun Microsystems is involved in Coskata through his ventureship.
Also we have Praj Industries which is one of the leaders in Indian Ethanol Processing industry and to an extent can be called successful one. So long way to go for Praj looking at the pace with which the companies in US are moving in Ethanol processing.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Yoga with Shipa Shetty
The follower of Yoga and Baba Ramdev - Shilpa has completed her video on Yoga. I think she has signed the contract of shooting this video immediately after winning Big Brother in 2006-07.
Shilpa Shetty featuring in Yoga video would definitely give commercial and glamour value to it.
Surely, I am not the guy who can have 'say' about whether she has done Yoga Steps properly or not :D but it has a reason for me to be able to induce a thought of practising Yoga one more time ;-)
Shilpa Shetty featuring in Yoga video would definitely give commercial and glamour value to it.
Surely, I am not the guy who can have 'say' about whether she has done Yoga Steps properly or not :D but it has a reason for me to be able to induce a thought of practising Yoga one more time ;-)
Old pick
I normally access rediff 5-6 times a day, more than I do with bbc and maharashtratimes.
While surfing came across old stuff on rediff..... hmmm ... not really too old but in case of rediff, which people normally access mainly for recent news, happening and money, career related information and buying activities, (email - I left it). That's why I don't think people dig much in older stuff available with rediff.
This business quiz is about Infosys. Revisited interesting facts :)
While surfing came across old stuff on rediff..... hmmm ... not really too old but in case of rediff, which people normally access mainly for recent news, happening and money, career related information and buying activities, (email - I left it). That's why I don't think people dig much in older stuff available with rediff.
This business quiz is about Infosys. Revisited interesting facts :)
Mia Rose
Just around that time I was addicted/fascinated towards/about youtube. And happened to watch MiaaRose video. I liked it in first go. Time was somewhere in Feb 07. And after couple of week, I again tempted to see if there is any related video of her being published or not. I was surprised to see that her Heaven video was being most favourite and wached on youtube.
Almost a year passed, I didn't follow much about her. Not that I forgot about her but apperantly didn't happened. Just recently I came across her video again. Now her video is being posted my many of her followers-fans.
But now it really shows the kind of platform youtube has given her and many such aspirants. Just with couple of music instruments, a camera given this nice voice and beatiful face a chance to release her own album, 3-4 sites of her won, huge fan following.
Great going !!
Kudos to youtube for this proposition given to new-bees and even more for following the ethics of the game to possible extent. It has restricted sensitive contents across board. It i s good to see that hentai followers are not flooding it.
Really it has brought a transformation phase in internet era and still a lot to be exploded. It is very easy for any common user to have his video on web and sharing it with others, see how easy - friends go for bowling, shoot their excitments, upload it to youtube and they can watch whenever they want share with anybody. And it have become possible just because of Youtube and Adobe.
Almost a year passed, I didn't follow much about her. Not that I forgot about her but apperantly didn't happened. Just recently I came across her video again. Now her video is being posted my many of her followers-fans.
But now it really shows the kind of platform youtube has given her and many such aspirants. Just with couple of music instruments, a camera given this nice voice and beatiful face a chance to release her own album, 3-4 sites of her won, huge fan following.
Great going !!
Kudos to youtube for this proposition given to new-bees and even more for following the ethics of the game to possible extent. It has restricted sensitive contents across board. It i s good to see that hentai followers are not flooding it.
Really it has brought a transformation phase in internet era and still a lot to be exploded. It is very easy for any common user to have his video on web and sharing it with others, see how easy - friends go for bowling, shoot their excitments, upload it to youtube and they can watch whenever they want share with anybody. And it have become possible just because of Youtube and Adobe.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Unmaad is On
Unmaad is here. I consider, it was at its peak today.
Santy came down to IIMB campus to enjoy Satarday evening. Arguable he has missed the ecstasy of Yamini happened in earlier month and Zero, Mother Jane show happened yesterday.
Erlier, I have never been able to apprecited Rock songs much. But magic of live programs is something different. I actually loved the show by Mother Jane band. Their lead vocalist ' Suraj' is good. First thing I noticed about him was his generosity and his humane nature. Their guitarist 'Deepu' was also very good. It's great enjoyment to listen and appreciate the skills of the guitarist in live program.
Strings were also here. But despite of being an international band, I didn't find it so fascinating. Mainly because, I have not heard many of their songs and only partially been able to recollect their popular numbers.
Santy came down to IIMB campus to enjoy Satarday evening. Arguable he has missed the ecstasy of Yamini happened in earlier month and Zero, Mother Jane show happened yesterday.
Erlier, I have never been able to apprecited Rock songs much. But magic of live programs is something different. I actually loved the show by Mother Jane band. Their lead vocalist ' Suraj' is good. First thing I noticed about him was his generosity and his humane nature. Their guitarist 'Deepu' was also very good. It's great enjoyment to listen and appreciate the skills of the guitarist in live program.
Strings were also here. But despite of being an international band, I didn't find it so fascinating. Mainly because, I have not heard many of their songs and only partially been able to recollect their popular numbers.
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