QOTD

"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling.

वक्त नहीं मिलता

आज कल कुछ कहने को नहीं होता

जिससे मिलो वो यही कहता - यार वक्त नहीं मिलता
कितने खाली प्याले समेटे थे कल
और आज एक प्याला भरने तो वक्त नहीं मिलता

वाही नहीं

यही कही, कही नहीं
तुमने मुझे रोक नही |

हसी कुशी, कुशी नहीं
भरी आखें छलकी नहीं |

तुमारी यादे भूली नहीं
पर सुनहरी यादे नयी कई |

चलती रही, गुज़री नहीं 
ख़ुशी मुझे मिली वाही |

राही

राही  

हर मोड़ पर मिलते है कुछ अपने
आखो मे लेकर कितने सपने
हलके कदम और सहमे से हम
ढूंढते है वो साये
जिनके थामे हाथ और समझे जस्बात
किसी ने दी कुशी और किसी ने हसी
और कभी मुश्किलों से मिली प्ररणा नयी
नहीं ज़रूरी की हेर ख्वाइश हो पूरी
और थोड़ी बुँदे अखो से छलकाए कुशी कभी

Good reads now part of Amazon

Amazon Buys Goodreads, A Possible Step Toward Getting More Social

What Might Change As A Result Of The Deal

Right now, the Goodreads site makes it relatively easy for users to download or purchase books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other sites. It's sort of hard to imagine that Amazon will continue to allow links to non-Amazon stores going forward. Likewise, it's entirely possible that Amazon might begin, let's say, encouraging Goodreads members to sign in using Amazon IDs.
Similarly, it remains unclear whether Amazon will leave the Goodreads site itself largely untouched, or whether Amazon plans over time to assimilate -- OK, "integrate" -- it more closely with its main e-commerce site. We do know that Goodreads will continue to maintain its headquarters in San Francisco, which suggests that -- as with Amazon's Zappos acquisition -- the retailer intends to keep Goodreads as an independent entity.

 

I have been so dying to see this!!!

I got this blog link Gervais Principle questioned: MacLeod’s hierarchy, the Technocrat, and VC startups via twitter.

It is a lengthy blog but once I started reading it I could not stop... there could be two reasons for it - one being I had landed myself in a really boring/not useful talk at a conference second it was worth reading... I go with the second. I am sure anyone who has worked in corporate world big companies will be able to relate to this.Reading most of the blog gives you a very grim situation maybe not all true (I hope). But feel free to make up your own mind. The last para resonated with me this is what I have been yearning for!!! Definitely worth a read and I like things that end well.

What I hope to see during 2013, and the coming years, is a Flight to Substance. I want the best people– investors, entrepreneurs, engineers– to realize that they’ve been hoodwinked by VC-istan’s shallow reinvention of the corporate system as something different and “cooler”, and to demand a return to Real Technology. I want to see better ideas, better companies, and better cultures. I want to see funding for research and development, so that people can do intellectually interesting work without being thrown into the secondary labor market that academia has become. I want to see a world in which people actually care about solving hard problems and delivering real value. When this happens, the Technocrats can win again.

crashing flash!!!

I have been trying to watch via DZone but every time I try Flash crashes :(