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Sent from my Nokia handheld device

Depression and the current scenario

depression in 1929 happened because of drought and not because the stock market tanked. It was largely an agrarian economy then and drought obviously led to what it led to. To compare that situation with todays isn't really the right way to look at it.
It will take some time (?) to ride out the current storm - the concerted global action will have its effect. The system needed to be shaken and thats whats happening so let there be only depression in history - we are fine with one reference point.

will try to look for more on the topic and post. Till then lets keep working hard and not lose our job. Do value added work, try not to get irritated by what your boss says etc etc

E71 (2 of n) - Sportstracker

Sportstracker is a cool application that helps you with your jogging exercises. I just installed it (seating in cab on my way to the office) and played a bit with it. If I get it right, the utility works using GPS. It locates your position and then tracks you through this GPS. It then provides you with much details like your speed, distance covered, altitude etc and displays and analyses the same with various graphs (speed vs distance, time vs distance etc - a real business phone, hmmm :-) ). Though I am not sure how many would actually use this utility given that you will almost always doubt the accuracy of data and using GPS means extra mobile charges (I think). And in my view ipod's add-ons might be more reliable, easier and cheaper. You might also not want to carry this device to jog (ipod is much lighter and looks cool too).

Install sportstracker from Menu>Installations>Sportstracker.

Nokia E71 (1 of n)

Really a lovely phone and really liking the ability to use multiple application at the same time. You can simply pess the menu key and then can goto any application you, the other application keeps on running in the background and there appears a small symbol on right top of the application which tells you which application is still on. You can just select exit from options and close the application. Though I am not sure how it affects you if the application keeps on running in the background.
What I am not liking is the way you save the files transferred through bluetooth - the file after getting transferred goes to your new messages, from there you open it and then save it again. Now imagine getting a bulk of images/songs transferred to your phone and then saving them individually. Quite painful. And if you want to see those pics in a sequence or listen those songs, the above exercise becomes all the more painful. I just hope there is a better way of doing the above.
Anyways I love my phone :-)

Attitude towards work

A bad start to a new week (not that Mondays mornings bring any excitement but thats not the point). First the cab came pretty late to my place (could have easily got half an hour of extra sleep, c'mon its winter, Delhi winter - you are always short of sleep) and then when it came, it was in a pretty bad shape with the spare tyre kept below the rear seats and the area not properly cleaned (see pic). I obviously asked he driver to clean the area and if its possible to keep the spare tyre in proper place. He said the cab met with an accident and the hook where which holds the tyre got broken (i didn't buy it but hardly had a choice). Now comes cleaning the area part, the driver would do it with most hesitation and then wouldn't do it properly, Here comes the stubborn side of me as I ask him to do it againn and do it properly. The driver reacts as if I asked him to do the most pathetic thing in this world in front of his girl friend and says what's wrong with this, "if you want to go then sit or let it be, I own this cab and am not a driver of this cab". Am I pissed or am I pissed. I didn't ask him to do anyhing wrong or demeaning and talks to me like that (he's got to do it) but thats not the idea of this post.
The point "I own this cab and am not a driver of this cab". I mean if you this cab and are driving this cab, you should be doing willingly all the more. In fact you should have it cleaned it at your place if you find it so humiliating. That shows the attitude you have towards your work. You need to have a positve attitude towards whatever you do. If he had promptly cleaned when asked to do, I would have felt good only and would have probably forgotten that the spare tyre is also kept at the back. Wouldn't have wasted time arguing and calling here and there. In the meantime my colleague ( a senior person in the company) tells me 'looks like its us only who would agree to all kinds of client requests...seems like only we are in need of work'. That shows his attitude to work and is probably the reason for his successfuk career.

(and in the meantime the driver finds a flat tyre and then breaks the jack while trying to fix it, is still standing there while we call a new cab and leave for office. You pay for your attitude, in this case, so philosophically, right there).

Obama and equality in India

People can't stop raving about how Obama further shows America's dynamism and link it up to the state of affairs here in India.
I pick up the following from Indian Express and a bit of my own
Facts show how slow and halting America's own march to progress has been. When Obama was born in1961, the marriage between his Black Kenyan father and White American mother was illegal in as many as 19 out of 50 states in the US: The Constitution of lndia, on the other hand, enshrined, in1950 itself, equality as one of the foundational principles - we had the first muslim president in about 20 years after partition and BR Ambedkar, a dalit, was the chief architect of our constitution, we already had a lady prime minister and so on.

No doubt America is the greatest land of opportunities and truly truly rewards meritocracy but it would not be fair to unnecessarily demean ourselves and not look at facts in their entirety.

First blog by mobile

Writing this post from my newly acquired Nokia E71 that I was presented today, didn't know much about the phone until some tech savvy people in my office had a look at it and how this is the next phone that they are planning to buy. So it seems my wife has a good choice of phone or may be was lucky to meet a nice salesman. hope former is the case but fear for the later. Anyways I get a nice present on my birthday :-)