Came across a very nifty site. Make A Shorter Link is a cool and quite useful service being provided by the folks at Useful Inc. You just enter your long URL, generally from news, shopping and maps sites and it outputs a very short one which can be easily included in emails(You don't have to worry about link wraps, email programs lopping off links etc).

Dave Winer thinks Google should buy them.

Enron Voice Mail System. It's fun.

"If the annual report or quarterly report has to be the size of the New York City phone book, that's life," said General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt.

In the post Enron collapse world, GE will be changing its Financial Disclosure methods to provide more details about its operations. We can expect other big corporations to follow suit. Good for the investors.

Ars Technica article on inner workings of .Net. Check it out.

Yesterday, I started reading Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne. Went through the first few pages and it looks like a good autobiography to me. Jack Welch, World's most admired CEO is the most widely emulated manager. After working in GE Appliances, Louisville for a year, there was no way, I could have remained untouched by Jack and his business practices especially, Six Sigma and Boundayless behaviour.

Joel has come up with another great article, this time on managing expectations of a customer (and a non techie manager) who does not know what he wants, Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed.

We're back

We are back from our vacation. The vacation was good although we feel we did not get enough time to relax and spend with our folks. It was very hectic and we were constantly running here and there the whole time. The weather kept changing all the time causing us some trouble. The Carbon Monoxide levels are on the rise. But that's the way it is, has been in India. Pune(The city where we belong to) has changed. There were "n" number of coffee shops throughout the city. Some shopping malls have also sprung up. Watch out Bombay.

While we are recuperating from the Jet Lag, there are tonnes of emails at work that need to be worked upon. It will take some time to catch up on what went through the last three weeks at work. Off work, there is the LOTY Project we need to get involved in back again. We will also be concentrating on ASP.Net now that we bought a book while in India.