Well, say hello to baxiabhishek & partners, a business entity (self-proprietorship) with which I’ll do business – offering digital consulting to clients – starting August 2013. The Process I’m as geeky in anything finance as Internet Explorer 6 users are in technology. Okay, maybe I’m a little better. But I was all worried and getting … Read moreTwo Years On: From Job to Jobless to Business
So, it was a great trip to Taipei, Taiwan for Computex 2013. It is estimated that total visitor count for the five days was over 130,000! At the event, I was part of a panel discussion discussing technology in automobiles, something that SYNC by Microsoft brings to Ford cars. We talked about the scenarios, the need, and … Read moreComputex 2013 Panel Discussion: Connected Automobiles
Few months back, I finally fulfilled the long-pending wish to own a bike. I now ride a Firefox Cyclone to meetings, local market, and sometimes just like that. I’ll start with the obvious disclaimer that these tips come from an amateur biker. Never hurts to reinforce the obvious sometimes, though. Follow the traffic rules. Of course, … Read moreTips for Urban Cycling
Aamir Khan’s a great actor, and arguably one of the finest that Hindi cinema has seen. Also, fans are allowed a little liberty of biases and over the top arguments. However, one thing that keeps coming back is Aamir’s moral high ground of not ‘attending’ Filmfare Awards implying that they are biased and he’s not … Read moreAamir Khan fans and their Filmfare ire
FAQs Have you quit Microsoft? May 30, 2011 is my last day at Microsoft. Yes, I have. I joined on July 30, 2007. Really? You were always a fan! I still am. I love Microsoft. I’ve met some awesome folks and participated in some delicious discussions that have made me learn so much and given … Read moreSo long, Microsoft!
The title of this post is actually the email signature of the Amazon Kindle support representative that I communicated with. I think I agree. Here’s the story… On my recent trip, my Kindle’s display went kaput. After some chest pain, and mild heart-attack, I called up Amazon Kindle support. Customer details, and a couple of … Read moreAmazon: Building Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. … Read moreRemembering papa…
What an awesome social media success story! A young girl ran away from home; daughter of a Microsoft employee. The internal discussion lists spread the message and then social media took over. Several Microsoft folks tweeted and posted updates about the missing girl. A manager at Fairwood Safeway saw her picture and recognized her, called it … Read moreMissing Girl Found: Social Media Put to Good Use
A few days back, around the Kindle 3 (not official version name, but third generation in releases) launch, I tweeted saying the Kindle is now tempting me, and I might just take a dive into the world of eBook readers, and add another gadget to my bag. Surprisingly, several folks on my social networks advised … Read moreiPad vs. Kindle. Not.
MIX Online has released a new Azure-hosted lab called The Archivist. The Archivist allows you to create archives of Twitter topics that you can save, export and analyze. There are now over 50,000,000 tweets being created each day. But, tweets are transitory. Twitter itself doesn’t allow access into their database more than two weeks … Read moreSearch, Save, and Export Twitter–The Archivist