Author Archives: sureshkrishna

Boss 2 : Does your Boss see you as his competitor ?

Posted on November 27, 2009 by sureshkrishna

The title may sound strange, but it’s true in many cases. If you have considerable experience and worked with many bosses, you may have encountered this situation at least once. There are very few bosses who possess real Leadership skills. … Continue reading →

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PGP Plugin for Thunderbird (instructions)

Posted on November 25, 2009 by sureshkrishna

Recently, I had to use the PGP for the first time when one of my colleague wanted to send some documents securely. Over all, this is an easy process and works quite well. I use Windows XP, Thunderbird and gnupg … Continue reading →

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Commercial and OpenSource OCR Softwares

Posted on November 4, 2009 by sureshkrishna

After testing the FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, and SimpleOCR, Aspire, Tesseract….it is evident that ABBYY FineReader 9 is the best overall value, while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150. The main features that differentiate OCR software are: Character … Continue reading →

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Boss 1 : What not to do as a Boss !

Posted on November 3, 2009 by sureshkrishna

Some of my random observations and rants about BAD managers and bosses… Motivation : Manager thinks that every employee has the motivation and he need not do anything. This is a typical problem i see in the managers who grow … Continue reading →

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Why Few Executives Are Skillful Managers

Posted on August 19, 2009 by sureshkrishna

Cross posting from HarvardBusiness Blog. Very interesting problems with Senior executives… 1. Delegation It is your job to delegate as much as you possibly can: your ultimate goal should be to delegate everything, find a successor and move on to … Continue reading →

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Existance of God ?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by sureshkrishna

Just few minutes back me and my family had a great discussion on “Inquiry” on God. My parents, my 2 sisters, my wife and my niece were in this discussion from night 9.30pm till 12.30am. We are generally a god … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Guest (Web) Lecture at Rajagiri College @ India

Posted on July 27, 2009 by sureshkrishna

One of my close friend is a professor in Rajagiri Engineering College for Computer Science and got me introduced to the head of the Department. This engineering college conducts guest lectures from variety of technology verticals and they requested me … Continue reading →

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Can you do effective Context Switching ?

Posted on July 23, 2009 by sureshkrishna

Everyone in Software and IT industry are exposed to the what i call as “Context Switching” problem. Bosses are so adept in giving different kinds of tasks to the “makers”, they often dont realize whats involved in the context switching. … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome OS : The Next Wave

Posted on July 8, 2009 by sureshkrishna

I was happy to see the news that Google announced the Chrome based OS. Soon after a week of my recent blog on Google and the way it transformed every ones life, i was pretty excited to see this announcement. … Continue reading →

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Google : A company that transformed everyday life.

Posted on June 29, 2009 by sureshkrishna

I would not have written this blog in the year 2000 and by now i am highly opiniated towards Google, of course in a good way. During my graduation years (1996-2000), i highly used Rediff and Yahoo search for my … Continue reading →

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