Archive for December, 2005

Happy New Year 2006

Team Tekriti wishes you all a very Happy New Year 2006. I am going to take a day (and the weekend) off, starting tomorrow and have decided not to check my emails even once in that period

One of the New Year resolution that I take is to start a fresh category of posts, [...]

Indian of the Year contest

NDTV is running an “Indian of the Year contest” in collaboration with Airtel. The nominees are:

Rahul Dravid – Cricketer
Sania Mirza – Tennis Player
Amitabh Bachchan – Bollywood Actor
Aishwarya Rai – Bollywood Actress
Sonia Gandhi – Politician
Manmohan Singh – Indian Prime Minister
L K Advani – Politician
Nitish Kumar – Politician
Narayana Murthy – Infosys Chief
S. Manjunath – Indian Oil Employee [...]

Paavani forwarded me this link by the PingMag team about their post on the Website Development Process.
Something very very trivial for somebody who already understands it but their explanation for non-geeks is pretty neat. They have used some real pretty (and funny) pictures – a good read when you want to unwind. Reminds me again [...]

One of the most important things about being an entrepreneur is to master the art of people management. As is the common wisdom – it’s all about getting the work done and not doing it yourself and, in fact, even resisting that temptation – which sometimes is very strong.
The definition of ‘People Management’ can [...]

Sting operations

What’s with all these sting operations? Ever since Tehelka came up with a sting operation exposing the corruption in the Defence Department way back in late 2000, there have been numerous sting operations carried out in the country. Some of the popular ones apart from Tehelka exposure are the ‘Casting Couch’ operation carried out on [...]

This had to happen – sooner or later. Joshua reports about the acquisition in the del.icio.us blog. It was very clear that somebody will acquire del.icio.us sometime pretty soon – who will that somebody be was the question.
Yahoo has done some real good acquisitions in the past year – Flickr, Konfabulator and now del.icio.us. It [...]

Sachin – I salute you

This is all over the newspapers and blogs but I still wanted to salute Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar for scoring his 35th century in Test cricket. I am not really a person who believes in the concept of ‘looking up to anybody’ – but Sachin’s patience on Saturday, 10th December was marvellous. He played amazingly [...]

Oh man!

Am I the only one who doesn’t have a life? Here I am still in the office and trying to sort resumes and talk to various people on the phone for the role of senior technical project managers and visual designers / thinkers for Tekriti. Some of these resumes are from friends, some from references [...]