HPQ crosses the $50 barrier

wow - HPQ traded at 50.14 yesterday, whats happening?

First go at Outlook 2007

These two days have been hectic and very satisfying. I have been travelling to the e-city HP site to get trained on SiteMinder Administration. The day starts with the wakeup alarm ringing at 6:00 AM. A shower, a quick breakfast comprising of bread toast and a cup of ginger tea. 7:20 AM: board the company bus to e-city. 7:55 AM: short and brisk walk through the scenic HP campus. 8:00 AM: Inside Purdue - 0.09 and logged on to Jabber.

I noticed Outlook 2007 installed on the training machine I had been allocated. I was impressed with the new look and feel of Word 2007. Got so hooked to it that I started preparing my training notes using Word 2007. Will try and download Outlook 2007 from the Microsoft site some time next week.

आ री आ जा, निंदिया तू ले चल कहीँ

I finally got time to blog this। Yes, Pranav's lullaby which papa loves to sing to put him to sleep. It is a song from the movie "Kunwara Baap" featuring Mehmood called "Aa Ri Aaja Nindiya" sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. You bet, he dozes off in minutes ;-)
Here's the song lyrics (I only knew the first two lines; got the complete lyrics at the earthmusic.net site):

आ री आ जा, निंदिया तू ले चल कहीँ
उडनखटोले में, दूर दूर दूर यहां से दूर

मेरे यार बड़ा दुख दे
पर मुझको जहाँ में मिला
सुख कौन बड़ा तुझसे
तेरे लिए मेरी जाँ, ज़हर हज़ार, में पी लूँगा,
तज दूंगा दुनिया, एक तेरे संग जीं लूँगा
ख़ूब ? नज़र के नूर

आ री आ जा, निंदिया तू ले चल कहीँ
उडनखटोले में, दूर दूर दूर यहां से दूर

यह सच है कि में अगर
सुख चेन दिलाता हूँ
तेरी दुनिया से में फिर कहीँ
कब दूर चला जाऊं
नहीं मेरे daddy, ऐसी बात फिर से ना कहना
रह जाना जब तू ?
फिर मुझको भी नहीं रहना
ना जा तू हमसे दूर

Raksha Bandhan

It was raksha bandhan yesterday and Pranav received his first post. It was a rakhi posted by Sonali. The photos shows the rakhi his sister Aishwarya sent from Pune. Incidently, Pranav completed 10 months yesterday. Click here to find how Google calculates that in days. how time flies.

Been listening to Bob Dylan whole day to get inspiration. The song goes like this...

Wish I could play the guitar or the mouth organ. :(

Experiments in Web2.0 - Integrating my blog with Google, Amazon, Feedburner

I succeeded in adding my Amazon Wishlist to the blog template that I use(see left pane). I did this by burning my feed with FeedBurner and allowing them to post a template(the Chicklet Chooser) onto my blog page. I then tweaked the resulting HTML snippet and added the Amazon Wishlist HTML snippet. Also added Google AdSense on the left pane so that I can earn some revenue from my blogging and hoping that it drives traffic to my blogs. I also enabled these feeds to be redirected to FeedBurner so that I can analyze Statistics. These blogs are now mirrored on FeedBurner. While researching this, I hit upon the Official Google Blog and Google Analytics.

Pranav

Pranav, originally uploaded by koolkarni_ash.

My chiklet. Ah - A lazy Sunday afternoon at Hubli and I finally subscribed to a flickr Pro account by shelling out $25 (see how Google converts US Dollars to Indian Rupees) and linked it to my blogger account. Now, I can upload unlimited snaps onto flickr and blog them to blogger. howzzaattt. This snap was taken from my Kodak analog camera.

Pranav logged a whopping 469X4=1856Kms of travel in the past 4 months with two trips to Dharwad and back. Preparations are on for the next visit in a fortnight's time - for his Jawla(Mundan).

Pulse Polio

I was searching about the Pulse Polio immunization drive after I saw a TV commercial on Zee TV which said that there is a Polio drive organized on Aug 5. I came across these ads on the subject starring AB: दो कदम - दो बूँद जिन्दगी के ! and पोलियो के बूथ में इतने क़ुम लोग !
This one is too good: Two drops is all it takes - Eradicate Polio