Visited Anands webpage after a long time. Its interesting and concise as usual. The blog on Dr.Adbdul Kalam is very interesting.

I started this Blog called CAT blog for the people interested in CAT.

You can use this nice utility to check the performance of your computers. Stop at the PC PIT STOP

Bought a pair of vizucci sun glasses and a pair of metal frame glasses with plain glasses and got a pair of soft contact lenses for 2K. Also had a hair cut a couple of days ago. The hair falling over my ears is a bit too irritating.

Tag-Board Message Board aka TagBoard Tag boards are a new means of communication on the Internet. They are not a replacement for high-end message boards or forums, but rather they have far different uses. Got to check this out. Have added on one here on the RHS. Maybe a add on to the CAT blog i am thinking of.

See right on top. I added a new user- friendly feature to the Blog: It opens new Windows if you check the Box.

Addictive from the album Truthfully Speaking has a Hindi Track on the background!!

Think i should have added this yesterday. Makes good sense to add a To Do/ Wish List on the first day of the week.
The Work List (should go on the SCM Blog actually)
1) ReLearn Demand Planning
2) Learn IPPE
3) TCS perdiem: fight for it ;)
4) Check out the resources for the APICS exam

The Personal List
Things i need to do: 1) Repair my bike 2) Watch some good classic movies 3) Make some MP3 CDs 4) Book ticket for Bend It Like Beckham
Things i need to buy: 1) Collapsible Rack 2) Filament Stove 3) Pan (yeah rite feel like cooking some Maggi/Tea etc in the room) 4) Bedsheet Set
Things still on hold : 1) Buy a new pair of glasses?/ Evaluate contact Lenses (Cost Benefit Analysis)?? 2) Make a visit to Hyderabad to meet sam? 3) Ride down to some place this weekend

I just noticed the small Ad stating that I can shift to the Beta version of Yahoo mail. So I shifted. Looks good. Has Calendar and Address book incorporated into the mail. Lets see how useful it is......as long as they still give it free :)

Found all this info for Nokia 7110 in a site called mobile.box

*#06# for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
*#0000# To view Software Version.
*#3370# - Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) activation. It will automatically restart.
*#3370* - Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) deactivation. It will automatically restart.
*#4720# - Half Rate Codec activation. It will automatically restart
*#4720* - Half Rate Codec deactivation. It will automatically restart
*#746025625# - Sim clock allowed status.
*#92702689# [*#war0anty#] - takes you to a secret menu with 6 choices:

1. Displays Serial Number.
2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture (0997)
3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)
4. Displays the date of the last repairment - if found (0000)
5. makes you capebel of transferring user data if you have the gear for it
6. shows how many hours the phone has been on
But the half rate codec doesnt work. thats sad cos i have heavy battery depletion.

Paid the Examination fees for the CPIM (Certificate in Production and Inventory Management) exam conducted by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society ). This exam is held four times a year and is conducted in India by IMRMI. It has five subjects: Basics of Supply Chain Management, Master Planning of Resources, Detailed Planning and Scheduling, Execution and Control of Operations, Strategic Management of Resources. The exam I am appearing for is the first two in the list on the 14th of Sept. (Gotta prepare a lot cos it needs 300-330 for a pass outta 330)

I also bought some plants for the room. Need to get some money plant too from home.
Planning to go home to Chennai next month for Onam festival. Check out these Onam Recipes.

Bought a CD Player. Some make called KAWA. Its got some good features . Its a Mp3, Radio, CD, VCD player and has some game mode also. The Radio is not all that good but it works.Has an inbuilt amplifier in it.
Saw Shallow Hal. Not a great movie. Quite average. Its a comedy about how shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
The new movies i want to see are Bend it like Beckham, The Road to Peridition, MIB II, .......
I would like to see the following older movies sometime: The Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, Seven....any more suggestions??

This is a Great Excel Resource.
Microsoft Excel Formulas Tips Tricks and Spreadsheets . You will find here lots of tips, tricks, formulas, functions and many other useful aspects of Excel. Some of the most popular pages are Handy Hints for Excel (Data Validation and Conditional Formatting), Excel Tips and Tricks, Array Formulas and Dynamic Ranges. There are also some free Workbook examples that you can download at your leisure if you wish.

Do you know how it feels to be to be from Indias best B school. IIM Bangalore is the India's Best B-School according to Business today. But then IIMA did not participate (because of the gujarat violence). Anyhow, we bet IIMC.
and IIMKozikode has made into the top league. Surprisingly IIM Indore is the countries highest average pay earner?? and IIMC got the highest number of students placed internationally.

I was searching for the Good Bad and Ugly ringtones. And found some noice tones here....
Free James Bond Nokia Ringtones The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Tempo 45) here are the keystrokes...
1888*, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 58**#, 6#, 49, 08, 1888*, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 58**#, 6#, 29*#, 08, 1888, 0, 2#, 4999, 588#, 08, 5, 08, 48, 0, 2999#, 08, 1888, 4, 1, 4, 1999, 68**#, 49
Check out the James Bond Cars, James Bond Gadgets, James Bond Posters, James Bond Villians
Also there was this page with the dossiers of the complete list of James Bond Women that looks interesting. And this page on James Bond Sound Tracks
the best is the JB time line

I was visiting the Far Eastern Economic Review site and found this nice music composing applet. I was'nt able to load it here. Click here and compose your own music and listen to it.

Remembered this wonderful tool called puzzlex i used to use to Solve Crosswords, Anagrams, Scrabble (tm), Countdown, and other Word Puzzles. Actually yahoo games seems to be an interesting site for a lotta games. But I think I cant access it behind a firewall.

guess what? I heard some really bad news on the net about myself. You know what Harish means? Behind the name says this:-
HARISH m Indian:: "lord of monkeys" from Sanskrit hari "monkey" and is a "lord". This is another name of the Hindu god Vishnu.
HARI m Indian:: "brown, green" or "lion" or "monkey" (Sanskrit). This was another name of both the Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna. It was also borne by the son of the Garuda, the bird-like mount of Vishnu.

This is a post that i am doing to get blogchalked. So dont try to read something into it...
Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, India, Bangalore, HP, Harish, Male, 26-30, SAP APO consultant, MBA IIM Bangalore, Engineering REC jamshedpur!

Felt like listening to some hindi songs on radio and got it at this site called dishant.com. Nice new Hindi songs but hope your connection is good or you get buffering pauses. The site also gives the addresses of some FTPservers to download desi music from. But the best music find of the day is letspops.com. The site has a huge collection of somgs thats streamed. Cant find out how to rip it with ripcast.

Have to set the navigation of my webpages right. Added a few more pics (mostly of myself) on the Yahoo album.

Before i was through for the day got this post from a unknown friend called "The Brahma" in my guest book.It asks where Bangalore is Unfortunately i dont know his mail id so let me poist it here hoping that he gets to see it when he visits sometime: Bangalore is a city in the South of India. Its called the Silicon Valley of India.

Things i want to do to the house am living in:
>> Get a rug for the room ( cant stand the sand that accumlates)
>> Get a stand to keep the things i generally pile up on the TV
>> Get a couple of potted plants inside to give a green room look :)
>> A flexible shower Hose? am Tired of washing from the Bucket

Things i want to do outside the house
>> Get my bike modified (a bit -stretch the budget) : Better-looking Headlights, Different Handle Bars, Change the Body??, Front wheel guard?? and Those small fancy blue lights.
>> Get a microwave over. But what can i cook in it? And will i get the time and patience to so something. What about washing the utensils?
>> Get a all CD player.something that can play MP3,VCD and AudioCds.

Things i want to do other than these
>> Travel to NewZealand
>> Travel to places in Karnataka: Hampi, Halebid, Ranganthitta....

Listening to a lot on the Alternative Rock station on yahoo.launch and am getting to like it.

Downloaded Age of Empires trial version. Dont think I will play much but still its something that I have always wanted to play in IIMB.

This is a cool site "sodaconstructor" which you can dabble if you have a lotta time in front of the comp and want to pretent to be busy.

Finally i got a look into my brother Girishs webpage.. Cant believe the things he has written about me.Anyhow its all incomplete and guess he is too busy to fill it up.

Am 28 and what have i done?? jeez look at these guy's accomplishment At age 28:
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr published his revolutionary theory of the atom.
French novelist George Sand published her first novel, Indiana.
Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof of Warsaw invented the artificial language Esperanto.
British physician Thomas Wakley began publishing The Lancet.
Jamaican reggae composer/performer Bob Marley recorded "I Shot the Sheriff."
Nuclear plant lab tech Karen Silkwood died in a car crash on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter and a union official to document her allegations about falsified quality control reports.
French naturalist Jean B. Lamarck coined the word biologyto encompass the studies of botany and zoology.
But its ok :)
you can enter your age and check accomplishments of people at that age here

Downloaded the myalarm and started using it. Pretty useful as a desktop alarm clock. just that you ahve to be around when the alarm pops up. Also there is a screenscape that is set as my screensaver. That too has a smart caledar. I love the Airpower screensavers

Blackmask is a site for some of the best books in electronic format

Check out this site if you want to get tullee. There is this very informative page about the pubs in bangalore.Also the recipes for the cocktails are a great resource.

Decided to change the design of the template i was using for this page. This is multicolored( a different color everytime) and gives the viewer the option of changing the color and the font sizes. Also have to link this to the previous logs

Listening to the Psychedelic 60s on Yahoo Launch today. Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Bob DylanPure Prairie League, The Lovin Spoonful, Neil Diamond. The Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors ... well thse are groups that made a impact in the 60s i guess.
Then shifted to the Super 70s (Marvin Gaye, The Eagles, ... )
and the Awsome 80's (Bon Jovi, Human League, ... )
and the Non-stop 90's (Nirvana, Backstreet Boys, ...)