A New Identity for Indian Rupees! - For the Growing Economy!

Rupee is to about to join the elite league of World Economy through its new symbol! Reserve Bank of India’s Executive Director HR Khan feels a symbol for the rupee was absolutely necessary. 

“Every currency has a symbol so we thought that the Indian currency should also have a symbol. It is more of a symbolic value because we are an emerging power and most countries have some symbol with acts as an identification for the currency worldwide.”

Check these finalized 5 symbols and post your comments,

 

Forget You, Focus on your Ideas

For all my blog readers out there, this is a fabulous post everyone needs to pay attention. Everyone wants to self-promote themselves and become a RockStar! But in the process of Self-promotion, most of them end up with self-adulation which in-turn sabotage your esteem.

Self-promotion may be key to career advancement but, let’s face it, cross that line into shameless self-congratulation and bragging and you’ll just turn people off in a major way. So how can you edge right up to that invisible boundary but not cross over it?

Copyblogger’s Nathan Hangen tackled this question recently and came up with a very simple but hugely useful distinction between boorish bragging and helpful self-promotion — the former is all about you, the latter all about your audience. Hangen explains:

The reason that self-promotion works and self-adulation doesn’t is because self-promotion is the art of spreading ideas, concepts, and a greater vision. Self-adulation is just the promotion of accomplishments, deeds that have already been done.

When you promote ideas, you give people something to cheer for. You give people a cause to support. People, in many ways, are selfish. They promote the things that make them feel good. Your accomplishments aren’t likely to make them feel good, but your ideas do.

Your ideas might inspire hope, thought, or action . . . but as a general rule, good ideas inspire something.

In the rest of the post, Hangen offers some tips on exactly how to broadcast your ideas effectively. If you’re interested in the topic, it’s well worth a read.

5 Tips to never forget a name again

• Make a choice to care. A kind of “first principle” of relationship building applies here. If you make a conscious decision that you are going to remember names, because you care about the people you meet, you will immediately become much better at doing it!
• Picture the name written across their forehead. Think that sounds dumb? It’s not. It was a trick used by Franklin Roosevelt and he amazed his staff with how well he remembered names.
• Listen to the name of the person you are being introduced to. If you don’t hear the name clearly the first time, ask them to repeat it. Again, this seems obvious, but some of you are so convinced you aren’t going to remember that you don’t even listen in the first place!
• Repeat the name as soon as possible. You can either repeat it as a confirmation, “Joe, right?” or in conversation, “Nice to meet you, Joe.”  Either way, say it aloud and look the person in the eyes, too.
• Use word or picture associations to make the person-name combination more memorable. For someone named Joy, picture her with a huge smile on her face, glowing with happiness.  Imagine Sandy on a beach.  Maybe Mike is singing karaoke. The more unusual the picture, the more memorable. Be creative!

10 Tips to Impress HR

• Never badmouth anything or anyone. This applies to your former employer, coworkers, or Osama bin Laden. We’re trying to screen out whiners and troublemakers. I don’t care if your last supervisor was a tyrant. Be kind and magnanimous about everything and everyone.
• Make sure your appearance is in order. Fair or not, you are judged based you based on how you look. Check your fly and make sure your eyebrows are smooth.
• Don’t smoke on the day of the interview. We can smell it. We don’t like it. There is an unconscious bias against smokers, and let’s face it, you have a reputation for being lazy. Smokers are more expensive to insure, too. Why would we want you on the payroll? Help me help you. Don’t smoke.
• Don’t be too aggressive and tell us how awesome you are. You’re here, aren’t you? A little humility, and some self-deprecating comments, will go along way with HR professionals. Trust me.
• Don’t tell us your life story. We hate it when you confuse HR with your mother, your therapist, or your best friend.
• Don’t expect us to have a timeline for the interview process. We have no idea how long it will take to fill the position. Ideally, we want to fill the opening tomorrow so we can get back to online shopping. Realistically, it will probably take a few months.
• Be prepared to talk about your strengths and weaknesses. Don’t ever tell us that you struggle to delegate. You care too much. You take on too much responsibility. An interview is a conversation, not a bad eHarmony profile. Show some self-awareness.
• When you take us through your resume, don’t gloss over the mistakes. We like it when you stop and tell us about an experience that taught you something. It shows character. Address your flaws outright and tell us how you learned something.
• Compliment us. Seriously. We are human beings, too. Scan our offices and look for awards, photos, or something noteworthy. Make a connection. This is what salespeople do, and it works. We will remember your praise.
• Make it easy for us to hire you. When you give us examples during the interview process, frame those examples in a way that relates to the job description, the issues in the industry, or the company’s mission. Be relevant and you will be remembered.

Atlast Yahoo caught the CyberSquatter Flicker.com

Wikipedia terms "Cybersquatting" as

" Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. "

Typo-prone photographers appear to owe Yahoo a "thank you."  After making at least one generous offer and then resorting to a lawsuit, the company's acquired Flicker.com, presumably for the sake of saving people who misspell "Flickr" from visiting the wrong site.

Flickr should start seeing more visitors before long, though, and this move may boost Yahoo's reputation in addition to its traffic stats, since helping people reach their intended destination isn't such a self-serving act. Still the site has not been redirected!

6 Online Networking Mistakes you need to Avoid!

I find many HR's looking around the Social Networks to make a best fit of the project to the Employee's area of interest, thereby giving the employee a well-known platform to work with and use their creative skill and latent interest in the work assigned to them. In this context, there are many online gaffes possible which can sabotage our career advancement. Check out this article where you can avoid the 6 usual mistakes @ social Networking!

Check Out : 6 Online Networking Mistakes you need to avoid!

Top 10 CEO's in Prison

An article recently interested me; yes it's the top CEO's commit Frauds and feeling guilty behind the bars! These guys do it basically due to Evil, Arrogance, Evil, Stupidity, Personal Disorder.

So, if it’s a behavioral disorder, that sort of begs the biggest question of all: Can you somehow identify these people before they actually commit the crime? Any thoughts on that?

In any case, here are my Top 10 CEOs in Prison:

1. Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron
   Serving 24 years for fraud, insider trading, and other crimes related to the collapse of Enron
2. Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom
   Serving 25 years for accounting fraud that cost investors over $100 billion
3. Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco
   Serving 8 to 25 years for stealing $134 million from Tyco
4. John Rigas, former CEO of Adelphia Communications
   Serving 25 years for bank, wire, and securities fraud related to the demise of Adelphia
5. Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates
   Serving 12 years for obstruction of justice and securities fraud 
6. Walter Forbes, former CEO of Cendant
   Serving 12 years for fraud
7. Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth
   Serving 7 years for bribery and mail fraud
8. Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications
   Serving 6 years for insider trading
9. Sam Waksal, former CEO of ImClone
   Served 7 years for securities fraud (released last year)
10. Martin Grass, former CEO of Rite Aid
    Served 6 years for fraud and obstruction (just released this year)

Today @ Sathyam Cinemas: Unlocking the Sands of Time

“an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess [Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton] to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.”

The Adventurous, Fantasize, Action game "Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time" , now crafted by Disney as a complete Movie is running houseful in all theaters here at Chennai. I with my friends went to Sathyam Cinemas and enjoyed the movie. Hatts of to Director Mike Newell who unlocked the sands of time and carried us back to the days we played the Game! Fantastic Casting!





Plot: A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

                      

Had a great day with my friends. Comming Next in the Movie Column: Ravanan! Letz Wait for the until June 18th.

{DAY-2}- FSF, TN Conf @ SSN : Take the Plunge....Breath Free!!!

{Day-2} @ SSN started with Ajax followed by most exciting Linux Distribution Making and Hands-On lab on making Linux distros. After the lunch, we had sessions on Patents and then came the most awaited project session where each team were assigned a project under FSF and brief timelines where given to us on project submission. What's more than these fabulous sessions, we had our refreshments and concluded FSF Conf.

I really enjoyed these two days and I thank all those who were behind this initative. HariShankar (my jnr) and I had a really log drive in his Passion+ and finally he dropped me @ Guindy while other 3 guys had SSN Route Buses to drop them home.

Working Technologies into projects is more important than learing them through Workshops and Conference. In this context, FSF and SSN has helped us to work on technology rather than just learning them. I have no words explaining these days in my life rather than start working on projects told to me on these two days, which I feel is the real way in which I can thank SSN Engg college and FSF Team.

FSF Rockzz!!!

FSF Conference @ SSN {DAY-1} - An Splendid Start

It was 6:15AM, 5th December, 2009 when I started from my home to take the Route Bus to SSN. I reached the college @ 8:15AM and the Greens and aesthetic beauty of the campus greeted me as I entered. I was joined by 4 of my college guys (my jrs) and we made ourself present at Mini-Auditorium for the sessions.

Previewing Big-Bucks Bunny Movie the session began by a fabulous talk from Mr.Siddharth (Core FSF Member, Cognizant Employee). His talk helped us to know better what Free S/w is and what Open Source software is. He explained how important not to patent our innovation, as it prevents development of Science for the next 20 years from our date of patent. His talk made us to visualize the generations of human development from primitive-industrial-modern.

Next we had a talk from Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, IITian aand FSF Promoter, where he briefed out Filesystem and their implementation and steped down Ubuntu Installation process.

We had an Community person from Tamil Computing Team, Ubuntu Mr.Thangamani Arun briefing us on Android Architecture and its SDK's. He showcased a demo on how to work on Android Development Toolkit in Eclipse IDE and to use a Emulator.

Android session was followed by Shell Scripting by Mr.Bharathi Subramanian, FOSS Evangelist, ILUG Team. This session was really gr8 as I explored the basics of SHELL programming. I will surely work on this scripting a lot more than just listening to it.

We were served with refreshments in-between the sessions and {DAY-1} was really excellent. Tomorrow {DAY-2}, I am waiting for even more exciting stuffs @ FSF.

FSF RockZZZ!!!

ChennaiPy Session - I @ AUKBC-MIT

This is really a good start for chennaipy as it conducted its 1st session @ AUKBC- MIT Campus. This time, I reached the campus early and had my seat prior to the session start-up. 14 Members were in the session as it went and the session was filled with novice python group. Ms.Rajeshwari took the web-scrapping session and Mr.Jaganadh took Bio-Medical Text processing with python.

To my surprise, the talks were over very soon and I was given a chance to share my experience in python programming. I was not prepared to face the audience, but still,  I managed to brief out my D-Bus Project and we had good discussions from all the attendees.

I am happy that from now ChennaiPy will regularly conduct session and I shall be a part in bringing out the sessions @ MIT which complements to better understanding of the language.

This was a draft posted by Mr.Jaganadh, Professor @ MIT on the session:

"This months chennaipy meet started at 3.10 p.m 28-11-09 at AU-KBC Research Centre MIT Campus of Anna University Chennai. Total 14 people attended the meeting. The first talk was given by Rajeswari S on WebScraping with Python, Santhosh give a talk on D-Bus programming with Python and Bio-medical text processing with python by Jaganadh G. There was discussion on IDE for Python, python web programming etc... The meeting ended by 04.50 p.m"

I thank Mr.Jaganadh, Mr.Surendar, MIT and NRCFOSS without them this session would have not been successful platform for us learn. I wish we must continue these session in future and bring out the best Python programmers in Chennai Region.

Sun Microsystems 25th Anniversary - The Road Ahead

This year Sun Microsystems celebrates its 25th Anniversary. I am really happy to be a part of Sun Technologies as I hosted the Sun Club in my college and gave students the in-sights of Sun Products. As the Company's Maxim - "The Network is the Computer"- has been true today. Sun Unleashes the power of Networking as it has developed software, storage, servers, network computing technologies which allows people to connect to internet and participate on the network. Sun is now poised with another 25 years of innovation, delivering new open and Eco responsible network technologies which will empower people and organization.