Archive for February, 2006

ESPN & STAR Sports on CBNSat

This is great news for sports lovers (those who are like me, who like to ‘watch’ sports, but not get sweaty playing them, and maintain our plumness ). CBNSat is going to launch ESPN and Star Sports on thier network pretty soon. And that was the only thing they were missing.
I have been on [...]

I was put into a bit of a fix on Friday.
I was updating my OS (Windows XP SP2). I was connected to the Internet and during the update process. I was also downloading somehing else during that time. So I did not restart the computer as soon as the Windows update was completed.
But when I did [...]

I have always been a great fan of knowledge. Being a life-long student fascinates me! I have the knack for learning things, figuring things out and also to put two and two together. I have always wanted to know things; be it about the latest developments, news or politics. I just wanted to know. My [...]

I wasted one whole day yesterday trying to resolve a connectivity problem to a MSDE database on Windows XP/SP2 platform. I came across this issue when I was trying to connect as Pocket PC application to a SQL Server database. When connecting to SQL Server from Pocket PC applications using .NETCF, the connection has to be [...]

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Promoting your blog

I have been doing a little bit of research during the past week or so on how to promote my blog. As usual I did a search on google and came up with hundreds of links to articles, services and sites. And in most of those articles one particular site kept popping up. And that [...]

I concluded my 5 day training program on Project Mangement today. It was a good and productive 5 days where I learnt a lot about succesfull project management. This covers the 35 hours of education required to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.
Now I have two challenges in front of me. First and [...]

There is a post with the above title in Steve Pavlina’s blog. This is a very interesting article. Also, this article re-iterates the points I have made based on Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Steve’s article is like a summary of these three habits: Be Proactive, Begin With the End In Mind, [...]

Confidence

There were 20 software project managers aboard a new auto-flying airplane that was being tested. Each one of them was told that the aircrafts auto pilot system was developed by their teams.
The organizers were thrilled and was very happy to see that at least one manager had faith in his team. So they approached him [...]

Okey, I have come up with a personal mission statement. If I keep this till I prefect this, I may never publish it. So I thought about just going ahead and putting it on here. So if I do make changes, I will add a new version. Anyway, I think publishing it is like officially adopting [...]

One of my posts have recieved a comment from Steve Pavlina!!! I am a great fan of Steve’s Blog and I have written a few posts based on Steve’s posts. And today, Steve has left a comment on one of my posts. I decided to write this post as a response to Steve’s comment. I [...]

Ayubowan! 
Although, still not published here, I have a partially completed Personal Mission Statement, which is in the process of being refined. And one of the items in it, is to develop my skills continuously and to learn at least one new skill per year.
In keeping with this mission, I decided that I will get myself [...]