Quotes & Notes.

“The freedom to fail is essential to the freedom to succeed” - Margaret Thatcher

"A picture is worth thousand words. A video is worth a million words" - Anonymous.

Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council, said that he talked with Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s largest company, after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Washington in mid-2005, and asked him what would be the best way to demonstrate the new partnership between the US and India. “He said, ‘Let’s launch a man to the Moon together.’”

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." From his book, "The Road Ahead," published in 1996. - by Bill Gates

dream
is not what you see in sleep
is the thing which does not let you sleep - Abdul Kalam, President of India(?)

Top 5 Telugu Film Personalities

Old Movies
N.T.R - actor
A.N.R - actor
Gantasala - playback singer
Savitri - heroine
Relangi - comidian

New Movies
Chiranjeevi - actor
S.P. Balasubramanyam - playback singer
Vijaya Santhi - heroine
Brahmanandam - comidian
Ravu Gopala Rao - Villain

Java - One liners

// replace the text between two tags with *s.
System.out.println("12345".replaceAll("(?)12345", "*****"));

Automate random audit.

One of the innovative ideas to improve performance of some IT services is to 'randomize' some of the aspects which are currently being performed once-in-a-while by human resources.

Automation of 'random audit activities' is to me the next "aspect" of IT.

Match - High Valued Customers and High Performers

As part of 'tiered services' strategy, there should be a way for organizations to match a 'high-valued' customer to a high-performer in the company at every possible business-interaction.

Here a high-performer can be a top-employee in customer support (via email, phone or web chat) or an IT service with high QOS (response time, availability, activity).