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Sunday, May 23, 2004

NEW LAPTOP In the HOUSE EVERYONE !!!!

finally my wish has come true. I have finally purchased a new laptop after such a long wait.Since i broke the LCD screen of my old laptop i was without one and every day of my life since that day i felt i was missing on something.

With the new laptop comming on Tuesday i am all set. I can catch up with the last season of Friend's and all other movies DVD pillin up at my place.

The new baby is Compaq Pres 3000 series. 3003AP

its a good P4 3.2 HT
512 MB RAM
60 GB Hard Disk
ATI Radeon 9000 series 128 MB graphic card

overall its awesome.

Its a killer after 6 months of wait INTERNET JOCKEY will be back to 24/7 online routine.

rest is all going good. things are changing around fast cant think of the changes happening around me so fast.

lets see how things shape up gotta go

Siddharth

Friday, May 14, 2004

Indian Elections 2004

The Result of the Indian Elections came as a wide shock to me. I am a true supporter of economic reforms and for advancement of infrastructure for the people in the outback india.

BJP the part ousted in this election was lead by Atal Vajpayee a man with vision. In the last 6 years under his leadership India has risen to the power establishing as a Third power which cannot be ignore before deciding on fate of any action to be taken in the world.

To be very honest if you look back from common man perspective i dont feel anything wrong with Sonia Gandhi being a Prime Minister its the INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS which is problemitic. With the old horses back in power the corruption level will rise back again. Here i am not trying to say during the rule of BJP there was no corruption. Comman man wish is take money but atleast do work BJP people also took money but did work whereas congress people which take power for granted only look at the post they sit as an industry to print money. If Congress has to lead and take advantage of being party in power they would need to change this atitude of their leaders and rather than bringing back people of age 60+ to hold portfolio's in cabinet they need to look forward to give chance to younger leaders.

With the above said i still have one thing to say let it be Nehru or Indira Gandhi. No party gave the finiest and honest Prime Minister then BJP.

I hope India will still remain "SHINING".

Siddharth

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Hi Everyone,

finally i got the SMM Project file of my desk. 3 days late but such a relief that i have done it actually according to my satisfaction.

Except for the pressure of work this week everything has been good. My work with LatWise Solutions early this year paid me off with Latwise winning the best business plan proposed in Victoria.

It was matter of great pride and honour to meet people from one of the australia's biggest goverment employer.

What i am not happy these days is with input i personally provide to SoftCraft Technologies. There is a lot of ground work which is missing from establishing it as a good Project Management Team.

When i tried identifying the problem it was not that the VISION was missing it was acutal pressure on every individual at other fronts and way everyone including myself were handling it.

Time Management has become a really big problem. Partially INTERNET and IM access to every team member is to be blamed. Also sense of responsibility in terms of everyone wants to do everyone and people's wishes to pursue individual ambitions.

Its nothing that i dont have personal goals which i want to achieve but it has never thought on the expense of others. The problem happens is you cannot blame anyone is you yourself are to blamed for half of the things and for rest your very own friends are.Being friends personal and work issues get mingled leading to conflicts.

Conflict management is which is little bit in control due to friendship but partially even leading to it sometimes.

I am not able to find a solution as i am not one of those damn organized people who would like to work by the needle of clock. I am one of the people which belives in doing things complete and better than other even which means little lag for now but great success in future.

The same mantra which i used to get working previous years way back from my school are failing.

atitude towards life has changed i have started taking issues comming towards me seriously planning the future has become part of my major recovery plan.

The thing which need to be looked at is how i can manage my PERSONAL TIME and WORK TIME. Both of them have become totally mingled.

I need to divide time equally to Cyberica and Softcraft to ensure sucess at both fronts.

Lets see how things go will keep everyone posted.

SID

Siddharth Puri

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Wifi Phone on the Role!!!

I was trying to find answer to my biggest question .To Buy a COMPUTER or a LAPTOP?

This search took me away on hike to Clive Peeters(Thomastown) morning 8:30.

Mission find out the best laptop in town.

Answer : first look felt for Toshiba Laptop which has 17'inch screen with 1GB dedicated RAM and 128 MB GeForce 5200 card. Damn Cost is too good to even make my mind change to use computers - 5000 AUD.

Immediately in mind calculations started. How much salary is comming in how much need for personal expenses how much for rainy days etc. But still short by 1500 AUD. No good.

Then the search for the next option started.

A beautiful Compaq pressario 3003 Series resting alone with 3.2 GHz HT . 512 MB RAM and ATI Radeon 9000 Graphic card. In my budget 3000 AUD. With added accessories i m looking at a figure of 3500 AUD.

The only thing is if you do some research about compaq 3003 its more of a desktop replacement laptop's. This means

- Bulky like old laptop's of 1200 series
- Battery life is still 2-3 hrs
- Graphic card sharing memory this makes only 384 MB of dedicated memory available to all

Still no comparision to the Toshiba but a contendent runner up.

Doing comparision with Dell INSPIRON compaq scored at all the fronts i m concerned with.

- Loading time for IDE's like Visual Studio .NET 2003.
- Ability to run Windows Server 2003 edition and its family of software

Next question which was to be answered in your mind whenever you are making a purchase above 1000$ how long till till the technology get's outdated.

Being a techie i got a straight answer : Around 4 hrs before you start checking online comparision with other latest models online and comming soon. But the point is what all can you forsee your self doing for next 3 years. For me electronics have a deprcetion of 1000$ every year.

Answering them very straight forward helped me rule out Toshiba Laptop. But with compaq laptop i m still not able to decide should i look forward to have a better battery life so that as next i will be talking abt Wifi as technology will be dominant in the future and do i stand to miss out by not going with centrino.

Answer to this was INTEL IS BRINGING BACK NEW IMPROVED MOBILE PROCESSOR. THE "M" Power is going to be back.

I resspectively cutting short everything i will buy laptop by end of the month irespect of anything. I NEED IT.

With Laptop comming in i plan to buy a Wifi Router to go with it so that one time tension of long lan cable is also gone. With this i also open door for testing of other wifi devices.

I was reading abt Wifi phone's which has implementation similar to IP Telephony whereas you can route calls within people on same hotspot. There are some security concerns as people are still playing with wireless technology.

Evolution of Wifi at mass scale can be when this technology is started to be implemented by Telcom and Internet Service Providers at rural level so that other companies can come in an equipe people at the root level with the similar tools at urban level. Wifi answers this and if studied properly can be a real good option.

To follow better abt Wifi Phone please visit : http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/05/10/wi.fi.phones.ap/index.html

that will be your link of the day.

and now the best quote i heard today by a techie

"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?" Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! "

Best IM Screen Name :

"I Make my Own DESTINY!!!"

Have fun guys back to work

SID

Siddharth Puri

Monday, May 10, 2004

Hi,

Another night passed away and still the software metrics project remains on my desk. With passing submission date things dont look good for other projects waiting in the queue.

This week has been the worst as far as time management is concerned and all wrong selections have been made through out. Few of the things which i regret is the quality time i used to spend with my friends.

Stupid all night funny acts by Sam. Drama reasoning of jitu. NO WORRIESSS !!! ATITUTDE of PARAS.

MMS with photo's of Beau and Joel have drinking all nighter's.

Late Night SOS calls of K.T passing out on some street in the city after a heavy TUESDAY,WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY ,FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHT.

I am MISSING IT ALL!!!!!

SAM BOY Where is the laughter pill provided by you when one needs it. Stop printing so much money man its not gonna go up with you.

As far Mr Paras Jethwani bindaas try to get your hands on the design document for softcraft technologies otherwise lot of task management issues will corp up next week with your experience in conflict management also put to use soon.

Another great news for my mobile phone fans next year in australia we all will be able to own mobile phones with Analog TV Tuner and 2.2 Mega Pixel Optical Zoom for the first time.

These phone are currently being tested in the japanese market and is available for existing customers of Vodafone.

http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/cat_sanyo.php

Also if things go my way hopefully I will get a new Laptop or Desktop for home. So guys do leave a note on MSN or reply here telling me which one you see will be better and if Desktop assembled or Branded.

Or Otherwise i can go for other goodies on my wish list like IPOD Etc.

Time to heard to bed need to wake up after 6 hrs to work again on Software Metrics Project.

SID

Hi everyone,

sorry for not posting anything happening in my life for long time. Since i came back to Australia again life has been full of turns with unexpected happening.

Since day 1 of landing back i have been counting days to get back to INDIA my motherland. This time when i came back to australia to resume with my good old ozzy style life. Things were not so good. This year as my assignment asks me to be here in this country for more than 1 year i dont have anything to look forward too.

For Last 3 years i have not celebrted Diwali the Indian Festival of Lights with family which makes me really depressed. Dont know till when can i continue the life on steaks and pies.

Anyway this is life and to achieve the ultimate goal one need to compromise few things.
On the other hand few interesting things are happeining always around you which though sometime look typical to a person but are very different then what used to be in the past.

For instance while i m writting this blog my collegue sitting in cubical next to me is busy finding girls on internet to marry with. How much the internet has changed life for everyone around.

'SEX IN THE CITY' one of my favourite shows have also focused on how dating changes life and the eposide when Sarah Jessica Parker and her gang started finding guys on the internet.

How cool is the concept on first place to meet someone random and try to click in the first go as you have known each other for ages. Haven't tried it till date and dont think so this will work for me.

Though when time will come will give it a TRY as i belive in trying it first then beliving it through words of others.

Anyway i have to get back to development of software metrics for project i m working on as its to be submitted tommorow morning.

So catch ya laterz people

SID

Siddharth Puri