The Grandfather of Self Help - Creating Action

Many claim that self help boosts self confidence, but may not fetch results.
Now these critics have to eat their words. For now here I am revealing one of the biggest secrets. The secret to action. It is such a big revelation that I fear the repercussions that may happen. If it were a matter of a few briefcases of cash, I wouldn't have bothered much. But it is pulling the trigger of a gun. Heavens will shake and hells may break loose. Such is the power of this secret. A secret that has never been told. A secret whose time has come. A secret which needs to be told. To be told without the temptation of earning money.
But I do not want to go to hell. There is fear of punishment. For revealing this secret may change the mind of God himself.  Are you strong enough to take in this knowledge? Are you prepared to accept the challenge of a lifetime? By saying yes to getting to know this secret.

In Step With Windows Phone - All the Time !!

Imagine a game where you have pressed the 'Start' button. The demon is up. He has been up the moment you pressed 'Start' button. The game now will never end. What you want to sleep? The demon may not want to sleep. The moment he wants to sleep, you too can. But otherwise he is always there. He will be always there.
The mobile may be treated the above way. You can have accounting, diary, blogs, calorie counter, rss etc all running up. The moment you fail to enter some information it goes haywire. Maybe you are unable to account for your weight gain, because you never fed in details of chips packet you ate in the calorie app. Or maybe unable to explain the bulge in your purse. Or maybe you feel incomplete because you missed entering some information in diary. Welcome to the modern world !!
There is a beautiful app called Counters in windows 8 phone.  It steps up or steps down by 1 everyday. Also you can step up or step down by 1 manually. Let us say, you plan to stop alcohol by 15th August, 2013. In the counters app you create a counter. You enter "Stop Alcohol" and enter date 15th August, 2013. That's all !! You can pin this counter to your start screen. The Counter in the screen will show "15th Aug 2013 ; 49 ; Stop Alcohol". The next day it will show "15th Aug 2013 ; 48 ; Stop Alcohol". It can be used as also "27th Jun 2013 ; 1 ; Did Jogging". Tomorrow it will be "27th Jun 2013 ; 2 ; Did Jogging".  If you missed then reduce number manually.
The above is a brilliant app of Windows 8.
 

We Chat with Anyone, Anywhere !

If given an opportunity to imagine and chat with five people, I would rather imagine that the five people are Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Ang Lee.
The issues are space, mathematics, IT and exchange of ideas.
I would want the discussion to be debate like. Therefore it will be only appropriate that two teams are there. The highly educated Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose and Larry Page on one side. And Bill Gates, Ang Lee and I on the other.
Though I would like the discussion to have its own flow, still there is one topic which is important and relevant. It is the relevance of logic in this social sites era.  I am sure this topic will be interesting to most of these gentlemen and the discussion could last for a couple of hours at the least.
It is also interesting to know that there is no need for translator as all these gentlemen speak English. Will the Chat ever happen?
Indiblogger, I am sure will arrange for such a meeting should there be enough enthusiasm from these men. Over to you, Indiblogger. The ball is in your court.
(In response to Indiblogger contest)

My Dream Business

This post is in response to the invitation by indiblogger contest on "Your Dream Business" using Microsoft Office 365 products. http://www.office365.in/.
Microsoft Office 365 is about OpenXML standards among other things. OpenXML is a standard for including database objects in your word document, excel spreadsheet or in a powerpoint presentation.
A asp.net program can be developed with a supported language like C#. This program can embed data from a table into a word document or an excel spreadsheet or a powerpoint presentation.
There is scope for using OpenXML in Indian business scenario. What do small business offices look out for? They mainly want information stored in various formats like access, excel, text to be suitably presented in a powerpoint slide or maybe as a report in word. They also expect such a system be dynamic and change with the change in data. And they also expect that a datum presented be editable to maybe round off figures or maybe change the font size.
OpenXML programming is most suitable for above need and Office 365 supports OpenXML. I have developed a prototype using OpenXML in Visual Studio 2005.
Though it would not be a dream business, I will definitely treat it as an exciting option and a challenging entrepreneurship assignment. And of course a step towards . . . . . Everything At Once.
 

Hobbies

Cartooning is one of my hobbies. Below is a sample:-

The sheet is normal A4 sheet. Pencil is HB pencil. Background is my black briefcase. The signature on top is mine.
Hope you like it !!
 

Common Sense

Hello, World. What is common sense?
You are correct as usual Mr. Spock. It is the knowledge of 50-50.
Common Sense, the most uncommon thing in the world, is nothing but the knowing that a thing or an event is 50% favourable and 50% unfavourable. It might be an English thought, but England has laid the foundation in almost all the country of the world.
Which is the midpoint is a matter which is local in perspective. A banana peel which may make a man fall or which may not is as seen by someone. It is at the most a personal observation and personal reference drawn by the person. The mid point here is to fall due to banana peel. To another person the midpoint may be uncleanliness in the city.
Finding a mid-point to a lot of common situations is a challenging exercise. To a Delhi walla stopping a car in the middle of a road is OK. The middlepoint to him in this situation is the scratch on his car and whether to deal with the other guy with his fists or not.
What do you think is the middle point to some of the common situations that happen in our city?
 

Friendly China

Chinese president has proposed five point formula for improving Sino-India relationship. But China is reluctant to solve the border problem with India.
China's perception of border is amazingly beautiful. They "feel" for the people and environment and draw a boundary where the "feel" ends. India has had a boundary problems since independence. Most of the borders have been marked by Britishers. India does not have a feel for boundary like China. Many states adjacent to Pakistan like Gujarat feel Pakistan is acceptable. Some Indians even talk of "Akhand Bharat" which is India and Pakistan together as one country.
I take the China's perception of border very seriously and it is also fearful.
Another thing Chinese president talked about was business relationship. Cooperation in this area is possible. What I envision is, for example, what China makes in steel India need not make sort of cooperation. Also in electricity we can have an international grid from China. This will make the world less polluted as India is mainly coal powered electricity producer.
But these calls for visionary business thinking and what we see today is businessmen like Ruia and all involving in corruption. The business community is shameless and sell their own daughters for money.