Amazon Silk

Learn more here : http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/

A baby step from Amazon to do what google does ? what stops them from putting a search engine on top of the already cached pages in their cloud....

Links i like

Changed template on my blog , lost my links section.
so compiling all links on a post Shall keep updating this post instead :

Ask Tom

 

Tom Kytes blog

 

Mark Rittmans Blog

 

Jonathan Lewis

 

Steve Adams

 

Chris Foot's 10g blog

 

Dave Linthicum -Real World SOA

 

Database Debunkings

 

TDAN

 

Ralph Kimball

 

David Aldridge

 

Niall Litchfield

 

Sue Harper

 

Claudia Imhoff

 

Dan Linstedt

 

Tom Peters

 

Manager Tools

 

Malt Madness--Single Malt Whiskey

 

Waiter Rant

 

Rashmi Bansal

 

Project Gutenberg

 

800-ceo read

 

CIO magazine

 

Seth-Godin All-Marketers-are-liars

 

HBR Blog network

 

Great Bong

Structured Date

Richard Foote

architectural eye-sores

Everyday as i drive on University Road a major shopping complex that for some reason has been painted red !  irritates my eyes.

What is with the architects in India that we are aping the Western style of construction in terms of aluminum-clad-glass window - sound-proofed buildings.
In a country like ours the cooling cost for such a building will be extremely high my guess is the cooling cost will be a large percentage of their annual maintenance budget .
Contrast this with some of the PWD guest-houses we have in small-towns or even near RSI-Pune they dont need air-conditioning even in summers the colors are soothing to look at , the building is alive with bird-nests in nooks .

Why can't the newly trained architects consider those things instead of just being commercial about this , a typical structure will just be a RCC frame which is then clad in aluminium and all openings covered with double-panel think glass sheets. The construction time is less so you can start selling the space but the running cost is high leave alone the fact that these are eye-sores.

President Obama and PM Manmohan Singh

what do they both have in common : both have let go of the reins , don't appear to be in the driving seat. are not Acting.

This is a dangerous situation for anyone in a leadership position you got to be decisive , ACT , Communicate action plans . Rally people around.

Sadly i think both continue to hold on to their jobs because there is no quality opposition.

What can the PM do at this juncture

In face of the growing support for Anna , what can the Indian PM do.

In my opinion he needs to address the nation and say Why Anna's proposals are naive in nature , Must refer to Shekhar Gupta's edit page of about 2-3 weeks back for a reference.

Would definitely like the PM to act decisively on a few things , history will judge him by the actions that he takes on the corrupt netas , babus. Just pick up like the top-5 cases starting with Bofors and act decisively be it against the party he represents the message that will go out to the masses with that single-act alone can take the steam out of the mass agitations.

The question though is : Can the Indian PM act this way , or even say considering that he is just a puppet in the hands of the old guard at the party . Does he have the guts to act. The time for keeping mum and letting Mr Sibal and PC do the talking is long gone , we want to see if the PM can ACT.

Isha Kriya

A video-guide to the Isha Kriya from the master himself : http://www.ishafoundation.org/Ishakriya

Nokia launches N9

Am Still a Nokia fan at heart ( although i hate their choice of going to the MS platform )
http://swipe.nokia.com/design/ --> They make to so simple and usable.

Microsoft buys Skype !

Nothing is sacred.
First MS got Nokia to move to Windows platform and now they buy MS. MS is after all i like :)
What is next they buy Google !!!!
Mind you it is not that i dont like MS but once they "microsoftize" the product it somehow looses its charm.. I recall i had a hotmail account for a long time..but the gave up after MS complicated the UI.