Switching off lights for earth hour

I had switched off all the electrical equipment at home for an hour between 8.30 p.m and 9.30 p.m on 27th March, 2010 to show my support for earth hour

I not only switched off all lights at home, but also messaged more than 50 friends and relatives to do the same. A few called back to say that they did the same. Some called up to say that they switched off everything but kept TV on and a few switched off everything except one light as they had small kids at home.

As it was quite hot inside the house (since all fans were off), we all went out for a walk. I was happy to see that a few people in my area were doing the same. Some had switched off all lights and were sitting on the front porch.

Interesting profile for BBMP elections

Dr Shankar Prasad is standing for BBMP elections from my area. He had come home for campaigning and distributed pamphlets. I was very impressed by reading the profile. Our country should be ruled by such educated class.

You can read about him at here

I am pasting the site contents here

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Dr. Shankara Prasad

Chairman & Managing Director
INKROMA E-Business Solutions
Bangalore 560041
Shankara.prasad@inkroma.com (P) Ltd

Dr. Shankara Prasad is the Chairman and Managing Director of Inkroma E-Business Solutions, in Bangalore. The company focuses on developing Enterprise Portal ERP Software and Knowledge Management solutions for Indian and Commonwealth Government organizations. Dr. Prasad’s educational background includes an M. Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York. Dr. Prasad is an active e-governance evangelist and his passion is to bring Six Sigma process methodology and philosophy into the Indian government domain. He and his team at Inkroma are the architects of the ERP / BPM software solution for Indian Government organizations, which is specifically developed to make Indian government organizations e-enabled and paperless. The team has developed the first Indian ERP product to meet the requirements of the government vertical. The product has been developed completely based on Open Standards, international software and communication standards. Dr. Prasad has been involved in many standards organizations in the USA, Europe and India, between 1982 and 2004. He was the Chairman of the SEMI Standards committee in the US, Member of European Union Standards organization, Member of the Rosettanet E-Business Standards in the Semiconductor vertical and active participant in the ebXML standards group. He has been actively advocating initiating the e-gov standards group in India since 2002. Prior to starting the software product company in the e-governance domain, Dr. Prasad has spent more than 20 years working in the computer chip manufacturing industry working for major semiconductor companies including Intel, California, Cypress Semiconductor, California, Robert Bosch, Germany and most recently as Vice President of Engineering & Technology Development at CS2 in Belgium. Dr. Prasad has traveled and consulted with more than 30 companies in 17 countries including Brazil, Switzerland, Singapore, and Italy. Since 1983 and he has developed and taught computer technology courses to more than 3000 technicians, engineers and managers worldwide. Kluwer-Springer published the 700 page book on Advanced Chip Interconnection Technology by Dr. Prasad in 2004. It is sold world wide and is available on Amazon. He has developed and published more than 10 interactive e-learning CDROMs.

Dr. Prasad was awarded the 1998 IEEE award for “Major Educational Innovation” for innovation in the delivery methods of engineering education. He was adjunct professor at California State University, San Jose and Advisor to Center for Electronics Development & Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has published more than 40 papers in major international technical and trade journals and conferences. He has been Chairman, Secretary and Member of many National and International Organizations in India, Europe and the USA. (1980 – 2005); Most recently he was the Member, Karnataka IT Task Force for Rural Advancement (2002).

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IPL tickets buying spree

I watched RCB was Rajasthan Royals match on Thu, 18th march. I bought 19 tickets for RCB Vs DC on 8th April and 16 tickets for RCB Vs Mumbai on 17th Apr. All matches in Chinnaswamy stadium Bangalore.
Full family heading towards the stadium. I am planning to take my 3 year old son as well. Visited all the places where they sell tickets. Bought few from forum, few from RT Nagar cafe coffee day and a few from mobile. Did a lot of research and a lot of phone calls to find out where all tickets are available in Bangalore. Emptied the stock at both forum and at RT Nagar cafe coffee day outlet :)

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