Even McKinsey Quarterly is charging money for reading articles on its site. Most of the articles there are now only for premium members and would cost about $150 a year. But the section on non-profit organizations is all free and saw this article on Mumbai there

I really dont like it but i have to buy a new phone. My friend Harsha (he has a Nokia 7650 and all the phones i owned till know have been used by him) points at a Nokia 6150. But i will miss my Nokia 7110. I still think Morpheus of Matrix uses that phone and so does the villian in swordfish.

Its been a long long time i been avoiding this like the plague
So i finally got myself to get in here
Here is something i read in this blog though i have seen versions of this elsewhere too:
38 Things You Want To Say At Work But Cant
1. I can see your point, but still think your full of crap.
2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
3. How about never, is never good for you?
4. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate your self in public.
5. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
6. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
7. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
8. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
9. It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
10. Ahhh, I see the fuck-up fairy has visited us again...
11. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
12. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
13. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't give a damn.
14. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
15. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
16. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
17. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
18. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
19. What am I? Flypaper for freaks?
20. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
21. It's a thankless job. But I've got a lot Karma to burn off.
22. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
23. And your cry-baby whiny-assed opinion would be?
24. Do I look like a people person?
25. This isn't an office, it's hell with florescent lighting.
26. I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.
27. Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.
28. If I throw a stick, will you leave?
29. Errors have been made...others will be blamed.
30. Whatever kind if look you were going for, you missed.
31. I'm trying to imagine you with a personality.
32. A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
33. Can I trade this job for what's behind the door #1?
34. Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
35. Nice perfume, must you marinate in it?
36. Chaos, panic & disorder - my work is done here.
37. How do I set a laser pointer to stun?
38. I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Check out your IQ on high iq tests
50 Greatest Minds of the 20th Century
The International High IQ Society's list of the 50 greatest minds of the twentieth century.

1. Albert Einstein
2. Steven Hawking
3. Thomas Edison
4. Bill Gates
5. William James Sidis
6. Werner Heisenberg
7. Watson and Crick
8. Marie Curie
9. Pablo Picasso
10. John Nash
11. Nikola Tesla
12. Mahatma Ghandi
13. Kurt Godel
14. Srinivasa Ramanujan
15. Niels Bohr
16. Carl Jung
17. Winston Churchill
18. Bobby Fischer
19. Richard Feynman
20. Linus Pauling
21. Edwin Hubble
22. John von Neumann
23. Erwin Schrodinger
24. Robert Oppenheimer
25. Alexander Fleming
26. Garry Kasparov
27. Marilyn Vos Savant
28. Shockley
29. George Orwell
30. Steven Weinberg
31. Bertrand Russell
32. John Lennon
33. Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. Jonas Salk
35. Henry Ford
36. J. Maynard Keynes
37. Alan Turing
38. Max Planck
39. Enrico Fermi
40. Marconi
41. Tim Berners Lee
42. Chandrasekhar
43. Claude Shannon
44. Jean-Paul Sartre
45. Stanley Kubrick
46. Ernest Hemmingway
47. Umberto Eco
48. Gregory Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts
49. Martin Luther King, Jr.
50. Simone de Beauvoir

I have subscribed to The newspaper today TNT.
And they closed shop without refunding my money till now.

Whats with the indian tabloids? Outlook has an issue with "what women want" as a cover story. The week has an issue about "premarital sex". and the statistics seems to be really encouraging for the youth to go ahead and have fun.Some ways to increase readership.

I watched a movie Dil Vil Pyar Var last weekend. A OK movie with some good old hindi songs. A young cast but a weak story line.
I havbe started another blog for news.

MIT OpenCourseWare | Home MIT OpenCourseWare reflects the commitment of the MIT faculty to advancing education by increasing access to their academic materials through the Internet and the World Wide Web.There is some amazing stuff there in the open web. But most of it related to science. Not much of management there.

My nokia 7110 completely conked and refused to switch on. Have given it for repair. But i somehow i think i can manage without a mobile phone. Except that i dont have my addresses and phone numbers of friends handy.

I actually can book Indian Railway tickets on the internet. And it was delivered promptly at home. Wow! Only that one needs to book it earlier than 2 days from date of departure and it cost Rs 30 per ticket(even if i book at the same time - it should be per delivery or i should be able to book more than one ticket in one transaction).

I have decided to give 2 more modules of the CPIM exam conducted by the APICS this December 7th. The exams will be on Detailed Scheduling and Planning and Strategic Management of Resources. I hope I can figure out how to prepare for this. Also I need to know what happened to the last 2 exams I gave.

I bought a cordless phone yesterday. GE make. Guess what? Its made in China. According to the FEER(Far Eastern Economic Review) "From General Electric to Samsung Electronics to Toshiba, as well as thousands of Chinese companies, manufacturers are finding that using China as an export base is often more profitable--and almost always far easier--than selling goods inside the country. The result is that China, once viewed by wide-eyed executives as the market of future riches, is instead becoming the world's factory floor. China's often-devastating competitiveness is helping to redraw the global corporate landscape, forcing companies around the world to scrap old business strategies — and some businesses altogether — and to come up with new ways to compete.
One upshot of China's emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse: It's becoming an increasingly powerful global deflationary force. China's manufacturing prowess is pushing down prices on a growing range of industrial, consumer and even agricultural products that it sells around the world" Anyhow, i hope it works.

Am back to Chennai. The city looks horrible with the worst roads possible. Inteviewed for an automobile client who seemed to have some totally different requirement.
I hate Chennai. Now am getting up at 7:00 and reach office at 9:00. And back by the 6:30 bus.
Plan to do some work on an approach on SAP APO solutions for automobile. Have to get to fill my SCM blog.
Also got to try to get some work in Oz or NZ.

I am not much of a cricket fan except for hearing snippets from the news.My old pal A.Satish from RIT days is a die hard cricket fan. Check this article "Bowlers of quality key to overcoming overseas mirage". And this " A week after the historic win, 'hangover' still stays". Watch out for more articles on cricket by Satish here.

Been a long time since i blogged. I am through with my stint with HP in Bangalore. Am going back to chennai to see off my brother Girish who is going on some project to Stamford, Connecticut.