Posts By Anant

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

On December 25, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Life, Thoughts

Here is wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday ahead :)

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On December 5, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Life, Rants, Studies, Thoughts, Yours Truly

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It’s a presentation for a reason

On November 26, 2007 by Anant With 1 Comments - Rants, Work

One of my biggest pet peeves is people reading from a Powerpoint slideshow when giving a presentation.

The powerpoint slide show is to guide your audience about what YOU are presenting, speaking about. It should NOT convey all the information nor should it be YOUR (The speakers) guide or prompter.

Ideally, the speaker should “know” the topic and speak from his/her mind and allow the bullet points/diagrams to connect what you are talking about.

It is quite irritating that the speaker turns away from the audience to look at the screen to gather his/her thoughts or determine what to talk about next. For the love of the audience, stop referring to the screen and look at the audience when you are talking to them.

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Random Number Generator

On November 21, 2007 by Anant With 3 Comments - Computers, Music, Randomness, Thoughts, Work, Yours Truly

– I found this article quite a good take on the US Presidential race. What will it take for politicians to be more honest and actually work for a country and it’s people rather than amassing money or power. I think politicians are the worst scumbags on the face of the planets ahead of lawyers (Matko, no offense meant to you)
(I usually write about politics but this article was a very interesting analysis of the state of politics)

– Devegowda is one of the worst politicians ever to walk this country. And he is scum

– I really really want a MacBook Pro with the new Mac OS, Leopard.

– I need to sleep, write, read and work (in that order) but do not have time to do all.

– I came up with this quote

– Of late, music helps me get through a day

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Someone said

On November 18, 2007 by Anant With 9 Comments - Life, Randomness, Thoughts

It’s easy to find someone who you can be strong with.

It is luck to find someone who you can also be weak with!

Now the wait starts

On November 14, 2007 by Anant With 3 Comments - Life, Studies, Yours Truly

Just submitted my first application. I’m excited but do not want to hope too much or start dreaming in case they are not realised..

Have done as much as I could (though I could have done more) and now will have to wait and watch..

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Heroes and Villains

On November 12, 2007 by Anant With 8 Comments - Books, Life, Thoughts

Every hero must have a villain to destroy, in order to prove himself a villain hero. But not every villain needs a hero in order to prove himself a villain
– Ravan, from The Ramayan

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New Look

On November 4, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Blogging, Rambler

I’ve decided to change my theme and put in a new theme. This is a clean, white theme with lot of free space and fluid layout. Graphics are minimal which should make the blog load faster.

Things will likely break and I’ll fix them as I come across them ;)

Update: The theme breaks the blog big time because it is designed for WordPress 2.3 while I am running a previous version and don’t plan to upgrade to 2.3.. Sigh. I’ll have to look for another theme now :(

Update 2: I managed to get a working theme which looks pretty decent. Though I did like another but that had the same problem as above. Sigh. This will have to do unless the other theme’s author feels benevolent and modifies his theme to make it backward compatible ;)

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