Decluttering from the inside out

Junk breeds junk goes the saying. It is apt. I never realized the amount of junk we had accumulated over the last 4 years in our 1050 sqft apartment, until we moved yesterday. It took the packers – 5 of them – 8 hours to pack the stuff  and it took us another 4 to [...]

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Essence of Meditation

Ramesh Baleskar on Meditation in his book, "The One In The Mirror":
Meditation is not traversing along a path leading to an imagined bliss of some sort. Meditation actually happens when the mind watches the flow of life, seeing and listening without opinion, without any judgement, wholly attentive to the movement of life in all relationships. [...]

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Rescuing Projects in Trouble

I wrote about Sanjiv Purba’s book on Project Rescue in my previous post , here is a brief review on the same.
Sanjiv Purba et al do a fabulous job of writing a very practical and handy book that serves as an aid to Project Managers. The book outlines a four phase rescue framework that can [...]

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Disaster Prevention in S/W Dev

William H. Roetzheim cofounder of the software cost estimation company, the CostXpert Group, writes about Disaster Prevention in Software development [requires registration].
"You might think that the trouble lies in the schedule delays, but this is merely the surface manifestation of a deeper problem."

He then goes on to introduce the value of technical audits and [...]

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Undeployed Inventory

[Via Jason Yip] Ron Jeffries writes about the business impact of infrequent deployment.

If we’re
not shipping our software when it’s ready, it’s poor business practice.
If we’re
not sure whether our software is ready, it’s poor software practice.

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The miracle @ Tiruchendur

Take a look at this temple in the picture. It is the Tiruchendur temple right on the coast in Tamil Nadu. I wrote about it in my previous post that it escaped the Tsunami. I have been told that the normal sea waves come as close as 100 metres of the temple in normal times. [...]

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The SC has an amazing opportunity

I generally avoid writing anything about Politics and Religion – though I do have strong opinions – but the recent, TN govt appeal to SC not to allow Shankaracharya anywhere in South India set me thinking. I am of the opinion that SC should uphold this appeal, it will go a long way in cleaning [...]

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The Joy in Poems

Malini – my sis in law – has a wonderful knack of picking up some great books to read. Last I wrote about was on  "A Short guide to a happy life" in October. On her trip to Bangalore this time, she brought along another wonderful book "Teaching with Fire: Poetry that sustains the courage [...]

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If you want to buy a book….goto the bookshop

I bought
books from Amazon quite a few times, but had them shipped to India only three times. Twice they were lost in transit and Amazon replaced it free of cost. No Questions asked. Great service! I usually place the order using the cheapest shipping option
and it typically takes 7-15 days for books to reach me [...]

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Healing the wounds

A disaster of this magnitude has left thousands psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives.  The relief material if distributed well may help alleviate the material suffering to some extent, the real healing has to happen from within and I am not sure if scars like these can be erased in a lifetime. This [...]

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