Al Green has released a new Album

Came to know about Al Green's new album "Everythings Ok "while watching the Daily show on comedy central with John Stewart.
am a big fan of the reverend's voice but have to wait for atleast 4-6 months before i will be able to get my hands on the CD here in India !!

some of the reviews on amazon dont sound too good but still it is an Al Green album :)

Check out the Radio 2 documentary

An Integration Competency Center

Harriet Fryman group director of integration technologies at Informatica Corp. has an interesting graphic for the 4 integration approaches that he proposes in a recent article in Teradata Magazine.

It is the Shared Services approach which intrigues me because many companies work on a Shared model most of the time and a factor that Harriet Fryman has somehow overlooked is the role of outsourcing partners in this model. An outsourcing partner currently plays a mission critical role in many of these 1 billion dollar companies that the writer mentions; in that the partner with his team of skilled developers monitor,maintain the integration processes and also play an important part in the actual development of these systems by working with subject matter experts.

sony's new phone

I got directed to Sony's phone the W800 from a Sun blog http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/hinkmond/20050301#steve_jobs_better_watch_your

This one is surely going to shake the market , hitting the portable music player + the digital camera companies and at the same time challenging Nokia to match the offerings
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=platforms&id=1969

I personally find the Nokia handsets are unbeatable but when it cames to media players a Sony is a Sony ..now if only we could have both at the same time .. Imagine the products that would have become available if there was a partnership between Sony and Nokia instead of Sony-Ericsson....