Pranav's First Bus Ride

Today evening, Pranav had his first bus ride - that too with Grandpa. It was a bus ride from University Cross to Dharwad bus stand and he freaked out.
We (me, Deepa and Dad) decided to catch an auto into town to get the repaired Philips mixie and buy some vegetables & fruits. As we neared the auto stand, a bus glided in and Dad commanded that we hop into it - so it was unplanned and I shall cherish it. I asked Deepa to preserve the bus ticket so that we can show it to him when he grows up.

69 Delimited Assembly Constituencies of Karnataka

Last fortnight, I voted for the Karnataka Assembly elections 2008. The assembly constituencies have been redrawn after delimitation. Karnataka is the first state to hold the elections as per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies by the Delimitation Commission of India. I need to check and confirm if my name is listed in the Electoral rolls for Bangalore at the CEO, Karnataka website.

The Eight districts: Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Bagalkot, Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri went to polls in the Phase III on 22nd May, 2008.

1-18: Belgaum District
Nippani, Chikkodi-Sadalga
Athani, Kagwad,
Kudachi (SC),
Raybag (SC),
Hukkeri,
Arabhavi,
Gokak,
Yemkanmardi (ST),
Belgaum Uttar,
Belgaum Dakshin,
Belgaum Rural,
Khanapur,
Kittur,
Bailhongal,
Saundatti Yellamma,
Ramdurg

19-25: Bagalkot District
Mudhol (SC), Terdal,
Jamkhandi, bilgi, Badami,
Bagalkot, Hungund,

26-33: Bijapur District
Muddebihal,
Devar Hippargi,
Basavana Bagevadi,
Babaleshwar,
Bijapur City,
Nagthan (SC),
Indi, Sindgi

34-46: Gulbarga District
Afzalpur, Jevargi,
Shorapur (ST),
Shahapur,
Yadgir, Gurmitkal,
Chittapur (SC),
Sedam,
Chincholi (SC),
Gulbarga Rural (SC),
Gulbarga Dakshin,
Gulbarga Uttar, Aland

47-52: Bidar District
Basavakalyan, Homnabad,
Bidar South, Bidar,
Bhalki, Aurad (SC)

65-68: Gadag District
Shirahatti (SC),
Gadag, Ron, Nargund

69-75: Dharwad Disrict
Navalgund, Kundgol,
Dharwad,
Hubli-Dharwad-East (SC),
Hubli-Dharwad-Central,
Hubli-Dharwad-West,
Kalghatgi

82-87: Haveri District
Hangal, Shiggaon,
Haveri (SC), Byadgi,
Hirekerur,
Ranibennur

The affidavit filed by the MLA from Hubli-Dharwad-Central, Mr. Jagadish Shettar would have been interesting to understand - wish I could read Kannada. A detailed analysis of the Karnataka Assembly polls can be found with Election Commission of India

The directory of official websites of Government of India was helpful.

Matchbox Front Loader

I purchased this Matchbox Front Loader truck for my 1.5 year old son in the Learning Express toy store in Atlanta and he loved it! It is very well made and looks like it will last a long time. I picked it at a discounted price of 14 USD.

Updating my resume - herculean effort !

Today, I finally got a chance to work on my resume after 5 years. Wish I had regularly updated my resume - it wouldn't have been a herculean effort now.

America

During our F2F meeting here in Alpharetta, I came across this american expression: "Hindsight is 20/20". While researching this expression, I found this interesting site phrases.org

Yesterday, I had my "Wal-mart experience".

I have been noticing various things American - like the Coca Cola Classic 12oz Can. Measuring things in Fluid ounces is so alien to us - no wonder they call the foreigners as aliens. The other thing I noticed was the television commercials that advertise these cars which have a milage in MPG - Miles per Gallon

Coincidently, I was reading the copy of NewsWeek back at the hotel which quoted - America, Myanmar and Liberia are the only three countries in the world that use the Imperial System.

During my stay here for the past 10 days, I frequently used the Georgia 400.

Everything is BIG here.

Next Generation Data Center

Just got back from a visit of the HP Next Generation Data Center. It's awesome !

First week in United States of America

It was my first week in United States of America.
Today, we kicked-off our EEM move to the NGDC. I also coded my first web service using WeLogic Workshop - was suprised how easy it was to do it.