Yanesh Tyagi

Joshua Becker tells about the countless benefit of taking rest... but is that practically possible? in reference to: "Unfortunately, this hectic pace is causing damage to our quality of life. We are destroying every sense of our being (body, mind, and soul). There is a reason we run faster and work harder, but only fall farther behind. Our lives have become too full and too out of balance. Somewhere along the way, we lost the essential practice of concentrated rest. We would be wise to reclaim the ancient, lost practice of resting one day each week." - The Lost Practice of Resting One Day Each Week | Zen Habits ( view on Google Sidewiki )

You have to remember that I have a day job. Mostly it meant waking up an hour early in the morning and writing - every day, day after day; and sometimes, I wrote at night as well. First draft, second draft and so on until the ninth draft. Some people then said it doesn't work. Back to the drawing board, a complete re-write, first draft, second draft and so on upto sixth draft. Then it worked! And all these steps are slow, without hope of success in sight, and yes not funny at all. I must thank all those people who helped read various versions and took me through to the end. in reference to: "You have to remember that I have a day job. Mostly it meant waking up an hour early in the morning and writing - every day, day after day; and sometimes, I wrote at night as well. First draft, second draft and so on until the ninth draft. Some people then said it doesn't work. Back to the drawing board, a complete re-write, first draft, second draft and so on upto sixth draft. Then it ...

People feel comfortable in the company of a person whom they know. They cannot be comfortable with someone whom they don’t know. To make your friends at ease with you, it is necessary that you let them enter in heart. You need to open yourself to them. The more you open to yourself, the more they will be comfortable with you. Discuss about yourself, your thoughts, hobbies, experience etc. Tell them your wins and failures. Sharing your failures is equally important or they will misinterpret your wins into self-praise. Tell them about the projects where you failed. Tell them about the ideas that did not work. You can share your experiences, values and goals. You can tell them how you are planning to achieve your goals. Sharing helps in reducing the emotional distance. If you are married, you must have felt this. The more you shared with your wife, the more trust she gain in you. And the vice versa is also true. Even to the people whom you meet at the first time, you can disclose yo...

There are all bad news in the market. Sabbatical leaves, layoffs, salary-cut etc. Market is filled up with such news. But amid these news, market trends in Asia and specially in India are positive. The job market is recovering. Accenture is the company which is known for its no-bench policy. But in this recession, it has retained its employees. There were no news of layoffs in Accenture this year. And the company is still hiring. My friends are getting calls from Accenture. IBM is also hiring. IBM has started a special drive for recruitments of women IT professionals. According to the quarterly report of Antel International, the level of job market in India is at 47%. This was much low in the beginning of 2009. According to the Tony Goodwin, Chairman and Founder of Antal International and one of the most successful people in global recruitment, market is much more prepared than a few months back. According to the Hewitt Associates, more than 60% companies in India are still rec...

  While Installing driver for my Sonix PC camera, I was welcomed with the followng error. I was trying to run setup.exe. It was a setup program created with the InstallShield setup creator. Error Details The details of the error were as below: Error Code:    -5004 : 0x80070005 Error Information: >SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1924) pAPP:USB2.0 PC Camera-268 PVENDOR:Sonix PGUID:75438C0E-9925-412E-AD85-D0E71C6CE2ED $7.1.100.1248PAK @Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) IE 7.0.6000.16574   Solution After some Googling, I got a very unusual tip from Gonarth . I have tried other tips but they simply didn't work. I as little bit tired, but finally I decided to check this out. The tip was very simple but strange. I tried it and wow! it worked. Beloow is the step by step description of what I did: 1. Opem command window. Start -> Run -> Type cmd and press enter. 2. At Command window, type following command at time /inter...

What is the relation between birthday and april fool? Well, you may call people at a food junction telling them that today (1st of Aptil) is your birthday. Most will believe you and wait for you at the food junctions. but some will be smart enough to figure out that it's the Fool's Day. But what if somebody actually born on Fool's Day? My boss, Kiran, is one of those rare persons. He was born on the first day of April. There was a great party at our office cafetria (to make us believe!). We brought a very beautiful chocolaty cake for him. Kiran told us the same story. He used to call people for his b'day and people thought that he would be fooling them. He used to keep waiting at the cake table and nobody turns up. He then had to call them many times and turn all the stones to make them believe that it was a real party. Kiran will give us an unoffical party on Friday .............................................not to be disclosed. I have one more friend...

Question: How many people are required to purchase a laptop? Answer : Five. Question: And what is the flowchart of purchasing a laptop? Answer : Acquire 100% resources --> Drink beer --> Have lunch --> Go to theatre --> Watch movie --> Then release 60% of resources and utilize 40% resources to buy laptop --> The process is exhausting so re-energize 40% resources with more beer. Don't believe me? Read the story below (it's real): Bob is a software professional who is working for a large MNC. Currently he is posted at client side. He has a team of six people who share good chemistry. Today one of his team mate Mr. M decided to buy a laptop. His office is very near to largest electronics market so it was decided that team will go to buy laptop in the lunch time. Unfortunately, nobody in the team brought their car today. Usually people use company provided cabs for commute from home to office and back. So they decided to hire an auto. Bob and his mates aske...

Diwali is the celebration of enlightenment. This year, Diwali fulfilled one of my dream. I always fantasized about wearing traditional India dress - dhoti kurta in office. But you are not allowed wearing such dress in office - damn office protocol. On Diwali, our admin department was kind enough to let us wear ethnic wear. I took the opportunity and wear dhoti kurta. Diwali is a five day celebration. The first day is called dhanteras . Traditionally, utensils are purchased on this day. Second day is chotti Diwali also called Naraka Chaturdashi . This is said to be the Diwali of shopkeepers. People buy sweets, crackers etc, on this day. The third day - Diwali is the main festival. People wear new clothes and distribute sweets. People worship the goddess of wealth - Laxmi along with Ganesha , the son of Lord Shiva . The next day is Govardhan Puja . The go-dhan i.e. cattle especially cow is worshiped this day. The last day is Bhaiduj , the day to express love between brothers a sis...

Technorati Tags: Blog , Blogging , Writing , Tips , Revising , Good Writing , Good Blogging , Scott Mitchell , Yanesh Scott Mitchell (founder, 4 guys from rolla ) published a post on his blog about writing good blogs . I read the post and follow the suggested links. After reading through a chain of links, I read lots of material on good blogging. Below is the summary of what I read: How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000983.html ) My theory is that lead generation derives from Google rank and that the best way to increase Google rank is to be like a professional fighter: neither jabs nor haymakers are enough. You must be always jabbing and you must regularly throw haymakers . Blog continuously to keep your hit-rate and link-traffic high and write longer pieces, containing the high-value words associated with your niche, occasionally. Fear of Writing ( ...

A news published in Times Of India, Oct 17th, 2007 (internet edition) A Recipe For Killing Internet In India Standing Committee Goes Against International Norms To Stack Odds Against Net Service Providers, Says Manoj Mitta There is a clear and present danger to internet in India। If the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee were to go through, you might as well pull the shutters down on the net in the country, because the committee seeks to raise the liability of internet service providers for any third party content in a manner that it will become difficult to run the service and stay away from jail. This isn't an exaggeration. Over 85% of internet deals with third party content। This includes search engines, mail services, messengers, blogs, communication and community sites. If they were to be held responsible for the sites searched, mails sent, blogs filed or scraps on community sites then service providers would be hauled up by the police for acts they are no...

OK. that's what we all do it for money… not every one right. This is probably the weakest area for techno savvy guys. They are not good negotiators. Many guys at the first instance smile and say " NEGOTIABLE SIR ". So here are some points:- √ Do a study of what's the salary trend? For instance have some kind of baseline. For example what's the salary trend on number of year of experience? Discuss this with your friends out. √ Do not mention your expected salary on the resume? √ Let the employer first make the salary offer. Try to delay the salary discussion till the end. √ If they say what you expect ? , come with a figure with a little higher end and say negotiable. Remember never say negotiable on something which you have aimed, HR guys will always bring it down. So negotiate on AIMED SALARY + some thing extra. √ The normal trend is that they look at your current salary and add a little it so that they can pull you in. Do your home work my salary is this much an...

I was just reading interview of Shivprasad Koirala (author of .Net Interview Question) with Times. He said many interesting things but the thing which caught my thoughts is his experience with Avanade Accenture. In his own words " when i was working in Avanade Accenture my salary was reduced because of not performing good. But i had actually performed , atleast i was not worth of negative salary, if not a decent hike. I felt bad because my hard work was not appreciated. I did not feel bad because my salary was reduced or the work was not appreciated. While working in Accenture i used to normally come late hours. When i communicated my negative salary to my family, my wife just said then what where you doing all those late nights in Accenture when your performance is rated so bad and I broke off because i had no answer to hidden politics. " Yes big companies have lots of politics. I always believe that working in a smaller company gave you good exposure and knowledge. In a ...

I never watch cricket match. Instead I am always interested in final results. Last Thursday, we have a party at Pebble Street. In the last hour of party, they broadcasted cricket match showing India batting. I had to watch the match. I really enjoyed excitement of people (I too was very excited) when India hit sixes. On Saturday I was little bit sleepless in the evening. I surf different channels but found nothing interesting. So I decided to watch India vs. Australia Twenty20 match. It was a good time pass. India got an easy victory over Aussies. Today, in the office, everybody was excited. People were saying that its an history. The fact was that India and Pakistan were face to face in the world cup final first time in the history of cricket. In India, India vs. Pak is always a very exciting phenomenon. And to add spices in it, it was World Cup final. India won last World Cup in 1983. So today history was going to repeat after 24 years. In such excited environment, I decided to watch...

Last week our project manager of FlairView, Kelly O'Brian and Tony Reeve flied from Sydney to New Delhi. There were some meetings and discussions in the agenda. They flied back on Friday. We celebrate a party at Pebble's Street, New Friends Colony. We had team meeting in after noon. In the evening, Rohit drove me and some other team members to Pebble's Street. Thanks Rohit. Pebble's Street is a great bar and restaurant. The two floors of it are properly decorated. We celebrated at first floor. The whole team of project Advantage was there at party. We drink, eat and dance there. The space was cozy but enjoyable. I don't drink so enjoyed Fruit Punch (mix fruit juice with vanilla) and Pineapple Sunshine. Both drinks were delicious. People were enjoying beer, whisky and vodka. Tony tried to shake his feet but music was too slow for him. Sometimes they play Hindi sings, which he could not understand. Kelly and other girls didn't dance at all. My team was very energe...

Haden't got time to write. Was busy in the deliveries. Sitting at the internet kiosk at my office, I am writing this blog just to say nothing. Devinder, my team mate, just game me a nice piece of bread-butter. I love bread-butter. Thanks Devinder . Last few days we were busy preparing the delivery of our project. I am also reading an old book for the second time - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I am just thinking about the magical world. Sometime I dreams being with Harry Potter, studying at Hoggwartts. Gotta go. Will write about my dreams later. Bye-bye...

It was really a cool day today. Outside, it was raining in the noon and breezes made the scene very cool. Inside office, it was cool also. yesterdays heat was washed away with today's rain.

It was a hot day today. Outside weather was cloudy and there was some drizzling in the nearby area. Clouds and sun were playing hide and seek. Wind was calm and cool. Trees seems to be enjoying the weather. Their green color looked little bit dull in the shadow of clouds but the sight was pleasing. In the sky, clouds were forming interesting figures. I always like to see these figures. I always dream to have a high quality professional camera and enough time to catch these images. But inside the office, it was very hot. There were hot discussions regarding the architecture of our application. First, there was fight between offshore team and onsite team. My team at offshore, prepared the architecture and sent to the client and onsite team for review. After having discussion with client, onsite team wanted some modifications in that architecture. But they were not able to convince offshore team on the pros and cons of modifications. Offshore team worked a lot on the architecture. They ha...

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