Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Raspberry Pi



The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized CPU, which can be connected to a Monitor or Television over standard video cable or over HDMI. There are 2 models of Raspberry Pi – Model A and B. The primary difference between the two is that Model B has an ethernet port, 2 USB ports and costs a meager $10 more. What’s the base price? $25!

It runs Debian Linux and is pretty quick to boot up and is very responsive. Other specs included 256Mb of memory, a 700Mhz ARM11 processor and your OS on an SD card.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Friday, September 30, 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

SGSY SP Project Bible

Plan > Implement > Achieve

Form my past experience I have compiled a document on how to plan and execute SGSY SP (and similar) projects.  You can download the password protected PDF from the link. For password please mail me. 

What goes wrong in a meeting?


What goes wrong in a meeting?


• Off track discussions
• Dominating members
• Not understanding reason / purposes for meeting
• People don’t read agenda and come prepared
• Not serious about starting time
• Not honest in expressing opinion / Insecure
• Fixed perception of people (therefore they may or may not hear to others)
• Highjack meeting
• Time wasted…. Non-core explanation / issue
• Don’t think meeting is important
• Need purpose
• Ending on time
• Having wrong person / missing the right person

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Monday, March 07, 2011

Indian Railway site search



The Indian railway site search from New Delhi to Kanpur resulted in no direct trains. Strange...

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells


Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
We got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh yeah

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Welcome to India

Des mera rangrez ye babu
Ghat ghaat yahan ghat ta jadoo
Des mera angrez ye babu
Rai pahad hai kankar Shankar
Baat hai choti bada batangad
Are India sir ye cheez dhurandar
Rang rangeela Parjatantar
Saat rang satranga mela
Bas ranga sa bada jhamela
Saat rang sat ranga mela
Bas ranga sa bada jhamela

Gira gagan se khajur ne dhela
Sukh-dukh pakdam pakdi khela
Ek rang duniyon ka nirala
Ek rang hathiyari
Rang rang mein hod lagi hai
Rang rangi man mani

Des mera rangrez ye babu
Ghaat ghaat yahan ghat-ta jaadu

Sukhe naina rookhi ankhiyan
dundhla dundhla sapna
Aansoo bhi namkeen hai pyare
jo tapke so chakhna
Dundhla dundhla sapna pyaare
Dundhla dundhla sapna
Sukhe naina rookhi ankhiyan
Sukhe naina rookhi
Dundhla dundhla sapna pyaare
Dundhla dundhla sapna
Des mera rangrez ye babu…


 

Song courtesy Indian Ocean.

Friday, July 09, 2010

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate

Ami Baibo Na Ami Baibo Na Mor Kheya Tori Ei Ghate Goo

Chukiye Debo Becha Kena Mitiye Debo Go

Mitiye Debo Lena Dena Bondho Hobe Anagona Ei Hate

Tokhon Amai Naiba Mone Rakhle

Tarar Pane Cheye Cheye Naiba Amai Dakle

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate


 

Jokhon Jombe Dhula Tanpuratar Tar Gulai

Kata lota Kata lota Uthbe Ghorer Dar Gulai Aaha

Jombe Dhula Tanpuratar Tar Gulai

Fuler Bagan Ghone Ghaser Porbe Shojja Bonohase

Shawla Eshe Ghirbe Dighir Dhar Gulai

Tokhon Amai Naiba Mone Rakhle

Tarar Pane Cheye Cheye Naiba Amai Dakle

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate


 

Tokhon Emni Korei Bajbe Basi Ei Nate

Katbe Din Katbe Katbe Go Din Aajo Jemni Din Kate Aaha

Emni Korei Bajbe Basi Ei Nate

Ghate Ghate Kheyar Tori Emni Emni Se Din Uthbe Vori

Chorbe Goru Khelbe Rakhal Oi Mathe

Tokhon Amai Naiba Mone Rakhle

Tarar Pane Cheye Cheye Naiba Amai Dakle

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate

Tokhon Amai Naiba Mone Rakhle

Tarar Pane Cheye Cheye Naiba Amai Dakle

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate


 

Tokhon Ke Bole Go Sei Probhate Nei Ami

Sokol Khelai Sokol Khelai Korbo Khela Ei Ami Aaha

Ke Bole Go Sei Probhate Nei Ami

Notun Name Dakbe More Badhbe Badhbe Notun Bahur Dore

Ashbo Jabo Chirodiner Sei Ami

Tokhon Amai Naiba Mone Rakhle

Tarar Pane Cheye Cheye Naiba Amai Dakle

Jokhon Porbe Na Mor Payer Chinho Ei Bate


 

Listen online http://ww.smashits.com/music/bengali/play/songs/31270/Apon-Mone/214109/Jakhon-Parbe-Na-Mor.html

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Differences between Mentoring and Coaching

Differences between Mentoring and Coaching

Area

Mentor

Coach

Focus On

Individual

Performance

Role

Facilitator with no agenda

Specific agenda

Relationship

Self selecting

Comes with the job

Source of influence

Perceived value

Position

Personal returns

Affirmation/learning

Teamwork/performance

Arena

Life

Task related

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Focus

Mentors in either a formal mentoring program or informal relationship focus on the person, their career and support for individual growth and maturity while the coach is job-focused and performance oriented.

A mentor is like a sounding board, they can give advice but the partners is free to pick and choose what they do. The context does not have specific performance objectives. A coach is trying to direct a person to some end result, the person may choose how to get there, but the coach is strategically assessing and monitoring the progress and giving advice for effectiveness and efficiency.

Mentoring is biased in your favour. Coaching is impartial, focused on improvement in behaviour.

In summary, the mentor has a deep personal interest, personally involved—a friend who cares about you and your long term development. The coach develops specific skills for the task, challenges and performance expectations at work.

Role

Mentoring is a power free, two-way mutually beneficial relationship. Mentors are facilitators and teachers allowing the partners to discover their own direction.

"They let me struggle so I could learn."

"Never provided solutions—always asking questions to surface my own thinking and let me find my own solutions."

A coach has a set agenda to reinforce or change skills and behaviours. The coach has objective/goals for each discussion. In our study, the top four words chosen to best describe their mentor's dominant style were—friend/confidant, direct, logical, questioner.

Relationship

Even in formal mentoring programs the partners and mentor have choices—to continue, how long, how often, and our focus. Self-selection is the rule in informal mentoring relationships with the partners initiating and actively maintaining the relationship. If I'm you mentor, you probably picked me. In an organization your coach hired you. Coaching comes with the job, a job expectation, in some organizations a defined competency for managers and leaders.

Source of influence

The interpersonal skills will determine the effectiveness of influence for both coach and mentor. The coach also has an implied or actual level of authority by nature of their position, ultimately they can insist on compliance. A mentor's influence is proportionate to the perceive value they can bring to the relationship. It is a power free relationship based on mutual respect and value for both mentor and partners. Your job description might contain "coach" or you might even have that job title—it's just a label or expectation. "Mentor" is a reputation that has to be personally earned, you are not a mentor until the partners says you are.

Return

The coach's returns are in the form of more team harmony, and job performance. The mentoring relationship is reciprocal. There is a learning process for the mentor from the feedback and insights of the partners.

The ability to look at situations from a different perspective, I am a Generation X and he is in his 50's.

The relationship is a vehicle to affirm the value of and satisfaction from fulfilling a role as helper and developer of others. Mentors need not be an all-knowing expert—such a position could be detrimental. In our study the most significant thing the mentor did was "listened and understood me" and, "built my confidence and trust in myself, empowered me to see what I could do."

Arena

A great deal of informal mentoring is occurring, with at risk youth, in our schools, as well as in volunteer, not for profit and for profit organizations. If I am your mentor chances are you have chosen me to be of help with some aspect of your life. Coaching even in the sporting arena is task related—improvement of knowledge, skills or abilities to better perform a given task. Mentors are sought for broader life and career issues. The partners is proactive in seeking out mentors and keeping the relationship productive. The coach crates the need for discussion and is responsible for follow up and holding others accountable.

Conclusion

Coaching and Mentoring is not the same thing. Our results and experience support the conclusion that mentoring is a power free, two-way mutually beneficial learning situation where the mentor provides advice, shares knowledge and experiences, and teaches using a low pressure, self-discovery approach. Teaching using an adult learning versus teacher to student model and, being willing to not just question for self discovery but also freely sharing their own experiences and skills with the partners. The mentor is both a source of information/knowledge and a Socratic questioner. If I am your coach you probably work for me and my concern is your performance, ability to adapt to change, and enrolling you support in the vision/direction for our work unit.

If there is still doubt in your mind visualize how the conversation and relationship would be different if your manager scheduled a coaching discussion at 2:00 this afternoon to discuss your roles, responsibilities and expectations, versus if you called your mentor to discuss some things that you have been thinking about.


 

Monday, March 15, 2010

Scope/ Needs Analysis (e-learning)

Scope/ Needs Analysis (e-learning)
Here are a few questions which can help you to do a scope analysis.

  • What is expected of the online course?
  • Are there remote students for the course?
  • Will it replace or supplement existing training?
  • What will the project cost?
  • Is an online course the best choice?
  • Who will continue maintenance?
  • Will there be regular updates and changes? Should it be designed to incorporate changes easily?
  • Who will finally approve the course? What are the expectations?