The Top 10 Top 10 lists

There are so many top 10 lists out there that I needed a top 10 for myself.

1. Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations
   Talk about imagination. This one just shook me from my seat.
   http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-lego-creations
   


2. Top 10 Free Email Services
   If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. I didn’t know about half of them…
   http://email.about.com/cs/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm
   


3. Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops
   Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader. But even Microsoft's Chairman hasn't been right in all of his bets.
   http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1977870,00.asp
   


4. Top 10 Deadliest Animals
   Creatures that scare the socks off everybody
   http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/top10_deadliestanimals.html
   


5. Top 10 Celebrity Entrepreneurs
   Magic Johnson, Sean Combs, Oprah Winfrey they are all in there.
   http://www.inc.com/slideshow_INC/slideviewer.cgi?list=celebrityentrepreneurs
   
   
6. The Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes
   The United States gets about 1000 recorded tornadoes every year. Today, only a few are killers, but that has not always been so. About 200 US tornadoes have killed 18 or more people. Devastating.
   http://www.tornadoproject.com/toptens/toptens.htm
   


7. Crabby's Top 10 spam-fighting tips
   If you have an e-mail address, it's just about impossible for you to eliminate spam completely. However, there are steps you can take to reduce that pesky, unsolicited commercial e-mail. Here are Crabby's 10 favorite methods for hitting spam where it hurts. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010701261033.aspx
   


8. Top 10 Strangest Computer Setups
   Which ones are your favorites?
   http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-computer-setups
   


9. Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
   Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
   http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html
   


10. Top Ten Tips on how to Save on Legal Fees
    When it becomes clear that your marriage is over, and no amount of pretense or counseling can fix what is broken... you'll add one more worry to your ample list of stresses - the high cost of divorce!
    http://www.divorcenet.com/states/nationwide/how_to_save_on_legal_fees
    
    
    

Others worth the mention :

• Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design :
  The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. This one comes up top on Google.
  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
  


• Top 10 Places to Find Free Images For Your Blogs
  If you're not a camera buff or you simply wish to use other people's images in your blog, then you might want to look in to free stock photography sites and services.
  http://weblogs.about.com/od/writingandcontent/tp/FreeStockPhotos.htm
  


• Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments
  Nominated by physicists, the most beautiful experiment of all time. 10 winners of polling and accompanied by short explanations with computer animations.
  http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/top_ref.htm
  
  

And Finally

• www.tenmojo.com
  Largest collection of top 10 ten lists on the world wide web.
  http://www.tenmojo.com
  

Induction

Oh my God they make you sit in a classroom for 2 weeks !!!

Come on !!! I am a programmer !!!

This whole week went through like lightning. Sapient has this fantastic induction program in which they tell you a lot about Sapient and its people and core values.

The first day was all about Logistics like transportation, documentation and stuff.. Pretty much standard boring stuff… And a little tight in terms of time.

Then all through the week we went through a series of presentations by... fantastic speakers... from people really high up... like the MD of a big business unit... the manager of another function... The really noticeable feature of all of them was the way they held their audiences attention. Some of them were dominating, some were really soft spoken... and if was anybody else the crowd would have just started dozing off...

The crowd was about 50 strong with 2 batches of experienced and trainees...

I have not come across such a cross section of really intelligent people. People on whom you can depend on and would like to lead and be lead by the same people... The fact that such a concentration of high IQ brains would have made the life of the induction assistance team hell but they too are sooo good that we had a great fun time... A lot of this credit goes to the lead facilitator Divya whose energy and enthusiasm has already made my decision to shift to Sapient a good one.

In the past I have had a hard time finding topic for this blog but I swear I could have written a blog entry for each hour these five days...

The team… We named it Team Salvo

I had the hardest time remembering all the names of my batch mates.

Debleena, Amit, Rachit, Sumit, Naveen, Rachna (Very Soft spoken), Suman, Suhail, Nitin, Prashant and all the others whose names I can’t remember. I will always remember them and hope we continue in our friendship.

We had an individual feedback round yesterday and I got I guess the maximum feedback both positive and negative… Sohail called me a future CEO in the making... I have to start working on that now…

The End - The Beginning

They are giving me a farewell today...

Even though tommorow is my official last working day but for some reason they have decided to do it today.

New Job

I have been looking for a change for quite some time. Now that’s difficult because I am very picky.

I finally got an offer from a really good company. It wasn’t easy but was definitely worth the wait. The “wasn’t easy” part will be good conversation material when I am in a mood to brag. I put in my papers roughly 2 weeks back and have to stay here for 2 more.

I am anxious to join the new job. The new organization is a huge company with over 30000 people in it. I would have considered myself lucky to get an associate level job but they gave me a senior team manager post and that’s one level up from my current profile.

So basically now I am an official guest here. I am giving trainings and handover to my colleagues. A typical day begins with login and checking my mails and forwarding them to the colleagues for action. Then a game of Table Tennis. Then back to the system and reading all the junk mails… Today I am also writing this blog entry. Then I go for lunch and play some more TT. Then some meetings if any and more TT and then back home.

The team has planned a weeklong party for my farewell and I will let you form your own inferences from this.

Thank God its FRIDAY

Its been a pretty rough week these past 5 days.

Lots of meetings and Lots of work.... But I guess it hasnt killed me...

My brother and my cousin sister had their birthdays yesterday and I have to buy gifts for them
Cant think of any yet.

Funny Incident

Our team at the office is a clever lot. We handle development of custom applications for our company and the group is a mixed bag of programmers and database specialists. We have a lot of fun on the job, with jokes and humor flowing around keeping everyone’s spirits high and the work is smooth. No one feels Monday blues or tiredness.

So yesterday one of the guys called me from my desk and asked me for my help. He said that since I am good at SQL, I should be able to help at this difficult SQL problem. So I walked over and he asks me to configure a printer at his system. Man am I flabbergasted / pissed / amused at the same time. I asked him what the relation of SQL and configuring a Printer is. He says that they are both to be installed on the same machine.

So anyways we are all laughing and then I help him to setup the printer and he opens word and types “Hello” and gives a print. Some problem with the security and so I configure the second network printer and when we are about to test this one, another co-worker (who was watching and laughing) says it wont work. We ask why and he says that you should write “Hello World” and then it will work.

Long Delay

Havn't had a lot of time or inclination to update this blog for past few days...

today I got an invite from google analytics and thought that i would shift this blog (which has some readers) from www.statcounter.com to www.google-analytics.com

Lets see how this turns out...

I will update my month gone by in a couple of days.