Railway optic completes 100 cities

I was reading "The Hindu" and found that railway has 25000 miles of fibre optics connecting almost 100 cities. This is a nice piece of article, the fact is US has just started to do their fibre optic connectivity.

The fibre optics in US is started by Verizon (where i worked earlier) in place called Keller in dallas. This is the first kind of thing which happened in US.

Read this article here

ode to Dr. Shukla

I would had prefer to call you madhukar, if only I had not met you in person!! The writings on your musings made me feel small and made me think that you are not that old as you appear. After reading the articles, if someone had asked me to guess your age I would have undoubtedly said around 30. The writings rejuvenate me and brings out the aggression which I had thought I had lost. Thanks for your writings, links and all other stuff.

You made me start writing again.. Otherwise i would have stopped without any inspiration. All my pet projects will be in here once again. Thanks for being there!!

49 Gmail invites

I have some 49 Gmail invites. Drop me a line at ajay.kumar@gmail.com for an invite.

MSF and beyond!!

Microsoft Solution Framework is one of the SDLC Models in the IT industry. This is a typical model on which Microsoft's solutions are built. This model is based on the TCO approach and to provide value realization process.

There are 3 flavours of MSF available.

1. SDLC
2. SDLC Light
3. SDLC Agile

where they differ is there internal implmentation and the methodology of each phase. The difference in each model is attributed to the different phases that are for each model. In a typical quality circle scenario, each phase is equally important as any other phase.

In a MBA school, there would be a subject on production which deals mostly with manufacturing and would impart quality as a main subject in which Kaizen and other stuff are thought. I was wondering how these quality can be imparted with a six sigma level of manufacturing in my industry.

As a program manager in Microsoft, you will come to learn the MSF thoroughly i cannot stop appreciaitng the way quality is maintained in MS. Each SDLC Model has its own course, for a quarterly release of things we can use SDLC Light and if we need to build a quick model we go to SDLC Agile. The obvious question would arise saying is not everything in this industry quick and fast? But you know the answer when you ask such a question.

Ask can;t things wait for perfection ? its a question of giving right things and getting right things, that is what any process would do, but what any solution should do is when you give wrong things and getting right things thats where the solution is termed as the best solution in the market.

if you look at any MS solution lets take an XL (this is not XLRI, but MS Excel) ; for all simple things XL would prompt you sayin probs you wanted this and you are trying to do this, want to try the other option in the form of Smart tags!! This is an amazing not only doing the right things in the right way and helping you differentiate the right and the wrong, MS-Solutions helps you to achieve perfection and usability. Will try to write more on usability after completing my work on that!!

Westernization of Indian TV Programs

I seriously dont know where this young (40+) indian generationis going. People are becoming more americanized. I would not besurprised if yahoo chat opens up a new chat room for Indian idol event(they already have one for american idol event). I was speaking to one of my colleagues day before, and found a similarity betweenwesternization of programs in our culture. It was KBC and now its I2(Indian Idol).

It all started with the prasar bharti's DD Metro way back in 1990 pro-liberalizaiton the coming of Junoon at the prime time (there was no prime time earlier) and the subsequent upcomings of many soap operas. It was like the period of BSNLs monopoly.

I consider Will and grace, friends and other soaps coming to India in the form of Gopal and Gopika, Dosts and probably sex and the city (probs mumbai and the sex) in another couple of years time. Anyway, India is no way behind America when it comes to things like TV and the TV channels. Today we have more number of channels than the American TV has. The coming of Robert Murdoch's STAR , Subhash chandra's Sahara, Zee and Regional players like SUN Network are making India a global player in the Advt. Industry.

On the other day i was watching the ad. This is the ad where narain karthikeyan (Indias First F1 Driver) was driving the car for the Bharat petrol Speed. This is the same ad in the america for BPCL but a different player altogether (i dont recall the player).

So not only the TV Serials, but also the ads are going western. Soon in another half a decade i wont be surprised if US President comes down and sees some of his favourite serials and ads in the Indian TV :) We are not lagging. Chin up india.