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The 'baap' of all partnerships

As I write this post, India stands for 94 for no loss in the 3rd test.

First time after spending countless hours in South Africa, India have

finally managed to create a 'mamoth' partnership. :)

posted by lokesh @ 5:17 PM 0 comments

New year eve edition - a reading feast

I always love to read 31st Dec newspaper - especially the TOI edition.

If you have missed out on any major stuff in the year - you can always

catch up with it in this editon. Thankfully 31st being a Sunday, I

could lap up the paper with leisure. I can read paper for hours. In

Crayons I used to read atleast 6-7 papers before getting on with work.

The same thing continued in BSIL. I think after books, a newspaper can

be your next best friend (I hope Suvi is not reading this!). A day

without newspaper is so unimaginable. Throughout the day you get the

feeling of being constipated, not that reading helps with your bowel

movements but I guess who relate to my feelings can understand where I

am coming from. Somehow Suvi finds it very difficult to understand how

I can spend so much time reading a newspaper. For her, reading the

headline and perhaps a para or so of the news to get a gist of the

story is more than enough. Most of the time she tolarates me with my

reading habit but whenever she blows her top, the poor newspaper gets

trashed in a corner and I am back to the business of cajoling her,

cooling her down. And for the remaining newspaper part? Well, I can

always catch that up on the digital edition! :-)

posted by lokesh @ 4:07 PM 0 comments

Nostradamus or a deserting rat?

As 2002 came to an end, I could feel that the time for me to move on

for sure had now come. I could sense that there was nothing for me to

stick on with Intiqua. So in Jan, 2003 moved to Mumbai with BSIL. Six

months later, Intiqua ceased to exist in India. Right move at right

time.

Feb 2006. The only person besides me who believed in usability

practice and helped it nurture in BSIL quits. Someone else take hold

of the mantle and the team but I could sense that the usability

practice as such won't last for long - atleast the 'seriousness' and

the 'commitment' to making usability as part and parcel of evey

project that gets shipped out from our desk would go missing. So in

August I moved on.

Jan 2007. In a hot, humid city, the winds of change are blowing again

or rather have been blowing for the past 2 months but have taken force

now. I wonder who would be the last man standing.

So am I a modern day Nostardamus who could sense what might happen in

future and took preventive steps or a rat who when sensing danger