Changing lanes

My profile page in the Yahoo! Labs website :) which will soon be gone given that I've moved on to a different group which works on Yahoo! sponsored search. It has been a couple of weeks into the new team and has been a lot of learning, reading, trying-out-stuff kind of activities. I'm looking forward to continue doing some cool stuff. I'll miss working with Rushi, Narayan and Shiva.

Gift a Tree!

I am very happy after reading the announcement that Yahoo! will plant a tree for every employee's birthday! This is in association with an NGO - TreesForFree.org What a nice way to celebrate one's birthday!

This is open not just to corporates, but, also to individuals. Visit the site for more details and Gift a tree today!

Hussain Sagar Lake

The Hussain Sagar lake, Hyderabad, viewed from the famous Eat Street.

Swift - Slides & Donuts at a beach

Ankith, Sharath, Sreenath and I just got to know what we can do with a Swift on a beach:



Looking forward to the next version ;-)

Melukote

Last weekend, I drove to Melukote. Melukote is a nice place, primarily known for it's temples. One of them being the Yoga Narasimha Swamy temple, which is on the Yadugiri hill. The view from the top floor of the temple is amazing. The evening sunset is a pleasant sight to witness. The temple is open all day on Sunday and on other days, it is closed for about 3 hours in the noon.

Directions from Bangalore:
On the Bangalore-Mysore highway, watch out for sign boards indicating Melukote, after crossing Mandya town, where you'll have to take a right to get into Pandavpura taluk. Melukote is about 35kms from the highway.

More photos here.

Gandhi's belongings

It was a rude shock to read this -
"We procured Gandhi items through Mallya: Govt"

In today's time of degrading economy and lot of needy people in our country, who, don't even have basic necessities, was the $1.8 mn really justified? Would Kingfisher and United Spirits employees be more proud of their jobs? It is a mere show-off and election time hype. Imagine how many needy people could benefit if the same money was used for a more noble cause. Lucky & clever Mr. James Otis!

Ambika Soni's statement:
“We were working on several options to get the items back. This is a victory for the UPA government.”
Looks like madam isn't aware of the current GDP figures. What kind of an achievement is this?
Does she think people will vote for the current Govt. just because they bought back Gandhi's belongings?