Monthly Archives: September 2008

Superwomen

At work last week, there was this new funda of awarding a “Woman of the Month” award to a woman employee. While the idea is good, and we lesser mortals have no idea of the criteria for selecting the person, it got me thinking on who all would I give this award to. At work, [...]
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The Final Stretch

10 Weeks of classes, followed by another 10 weeks of project work (no classes). So effectively, this phase of in-class education is to end by November Courses I have taken this quarter: Spreadsheet Modelling for Business Decisions (SMBD) – A good analytical course which focuses on solving problems using spreadsheets. The problems range from Finance, [...]
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Marital Dispute Resolution Online

Settling marital (or non-marital) tiffs just got hi-tech. Rather than limiting the people you consult/crib-to  about your spouse/partner to your friends/family/colleagues, you can now wash your dirty linen in the cyber-world. Online site sidetaker allows both partners to post their respective sides of the tiff, and allow the members of the site to vote and [...]
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Keep Running, Reach Nowhere

I am one of the cynics who belive that going to the gym is a waste of effort (no pun intended) – you keep walking on the treadmill or cycling, and you do not go anywhere While I still stand by the statement, given that my company is providing a great gym facility – [...]
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Finding Print Advertisements Online !

Some of the marketing courses I did required a lot of searching for advertisements of various products in the print media. I typically used to search on google images, and try to find these ads. However, this was very inefficient and ineffective – lot of missing ads, multiple searches required, and difficulty in getting the [...]
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Another Q goes by..

.. And the penultimate one where I needed to attend classes, at that. Had a couple of good finance subjects, which had topics related to bank management and the overall banking industry (Commercial Bank Management) and Financial Statement Analysis (FSA). Both were intense courses, which require a lot of practice and hard work to master. [...]
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