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SFO gives young Miles, keys to the city Nov 15. Calls the day Batkid day! Batkid saves the day, thumps his fist in the air to the cheering crowds as they burst into joy! What can be a better feelgood story than this one.

Happy Fathers Day. Miss you.

With all the unreasonable Terror in the world, We should look to Random acts of these "Humans" to be inspired. To have faith, that there is good, still in this world. Happy Long weekend everyone.

Yes. Life is swiftly changing towards even more happiness. This new year, Our family will bring a cute bundle of joy home. We know it is going to be a boy. I'd like to thank my wife for bearing with me during these difficult (but exciting) months. Mom, she is going to be, is such an amazing feeling. She is doing well so far. Dad, me - I am excited, nervous and  happy all at the same time. I'll hope to be back blogging soon. 

May this be the year of joy, success, prosperity, peace and harmony for all you. -Sarath Chandra and Family.

బంధు మిత్రులకి, సమస్త లోక జనులందరికి  శ్రీ నందన నామ సంవత్సర  శుభాకాంక్షలు సర్వే జనా సుఖినోభవంతు   Wishing everyone in the family,  all our friends  and everyone everywhere.. Happy Ugadi photo credit: kalyan

Today is Engineer's Day in India . Happy Engineers Day..

Archana.. Amulya..

Here is one company committed to Green alternative fuels and reducing carbon foot print. Google is no less a real life research lab. Plugin Electric cars are the fastest way to remove dependency on oil. They may eventually become energy hogs (if everyone will buy these), but for the moment, they are a viable solution. Advances in renewable energy may make electric even cheaper, easy to produce - until then, its only time for ideas.. like these..

మీ ఇంటిల్లిపాదికి ఈ ఉగాది సుభాకరం కావాలని, ఆరోగ్యం, సౌభాగ్యం, శాంతి, సామరస్యం మరియు ఆనందం తేవాలని ఆసిస్థూ…   ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు - జ్యోత్స్న & శరత్ (చందు)

EDIT1: Mar 4 2011, 11:23 EST - At this time, This list seems to have been incorrectly credited to Bill Gates (thanks for pointing out, @Mat ). MICROSOFT’S billionaire Bill Gates recently gave a speech at an American high school at which he spoke about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Well looks like He copied from Mr. Sykes. To buy the book click on the image. Life is not fair — get used to it! The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. You will NOT make US$60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vicepresident with a car phone until you earn both. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. they called it opportunity. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Befo...

Enjoy your weekend!

For Everyone who is celebrating Father's Day.. May you have the best friend from god, close to you, close to heart.. Miss you Dad. I love you.

Don't buy those water bottles again. Bobbles – is a pet bottle that can be your very own personal water filter – on the GO!! It filters out chlorine and other contaminants as you drink. The filter , replaceable, lasts for about 300 bottles. Does the job for about two months. The filters are available separately. The Bobble is also a good idea environmentally speaking. As the Bobble website notes, 1.5 million barrels of oil are used annually to make plastic water bottles, most of which are then casually discarded. We had been buying bottled water. Looks like now we'll be drinking from our Bobbles. (This trip to India this time lasted 6 months. I wish I came to know about this before. I would have saved so many water bottles)

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Jyothsna and I love biking. Yesterday we *surprise* visited Annapolis. It was sudden, so, I dint know where to start. So we stopped at the visitor centre. Found out US Navy Academy was a place worth going to. And there was a college football game that had just begun. We had a more naturalistic view on spending the evening. So we started walking to the Market space, to the dock. At the end of the dock, We were surprised to find Free Wheelin' . They rent out bikes for free. Really. Its not a 16 speed mountain bike of your childhood dreams but, a simple one speed cruiser enough to have fun. All they needed was our Photo Ids and a Credit Card. (They make a copy of these and shred it when we return). They even gave us a Annapolis Transit pass each, in case we had a flat tire or just were to far to bike back. I did a similar thing in SFO two years back. A friend and I rented a couple of bikes and biked the Golden Gate. But that wasn't free. We rented from Bikeshare.com. They cha...

disclaimer: I consult (Enterprise Applications - Software) at AARP. Although, the views expressed here are solely mine and do not represent AARP. I am following the whole health care *issue* moving fluidly from a thought, to a presidential campaign material, to a perceived *can-wait*, to a must-do now, to a political opportunity, and now to a furiously moving going-hot town halls and debates. I can't tell if this effects me much. I don't know completely if the reform is needed. But sure I do realize there is more than just money and politics involved. And People, Mostly, are driven by motives and myths than reality. Here is AARP's stand, clip from O' Reilly factor. Like DividedWeFail.org , AARP's new commitment to this reform is expressed in a new site. HealthActionNow.org . It tries to address some clarity on myths that are going around. Side note: Creative or what?

Dont print that email/document. Its not a request. Its a real, honest, warning. Dont do it. You must be really out of this world, or of the last millenium, or simply a silicon dimwit to use that printer instead of using it electronically. In the first place, you are consuming (carelessly) yet another enviromentally expensive resource. No, not the paper. The Tree (do you know how long it takes for a tree to be ready for paper manufacturing? and all those chemicals used to make it?). On the other hand, it is much easier to search an electronic catalog than manually looking up a drawer full of business requirements in hard copy. Instead of printing those comminucation emails, jira tickets, corporate bills, use case documents (and the list goes on..) - scan them / store digitally. Many of these start off as electronic documents. Use those. You can make it worth even more by using Google Desktop search or similar tools. Much worse is printing books/study material for *reference*. Are you...