Wednesday, October 24, 2007

motorola Q

My new Motorola Q phone is active. It's decent - but the one thing I would have liked (as compared to a Treo 650) is a button to switch between silent and normal mode. So many times, I am in a meeting and want to switch to slilent/vibrate mode - and have to look at the phone and select the options. Treo was nice - it had a simple button - without looking - I could change modes. Yet to try out various functions. Our company has Good messaging deployed and this is a battery hog. Luckily the phone has a USB charger so I can charge it anywhere.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

need to watch what we watch..

Last week my 3.5 year old daughter Urvi wanted to go out. On asking her where, she told me "I want to go to the disco' huuhhhh where did that come from? on further digging - who told you about the disco - she says "grandma (aji) told me about the disco". Very funny - got to call up grandma and tell her not to install disco values in the children. But grandma stays across the globe - and has never been to a disco (AFAIK) - and I don't remember the last time I went to a club. So looks like the idiot box has been influencing her thoughts. Need to switch it off.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

job change

After working for 5+ years on MeetingPlace integrations, I decided that it is time to change. I transferred within Cisco to an emerging technology group called "Digital Media Systems Business Unit". This is a young and fun - startup kind of group.
One of the perks I get is a 41inch LCD tv in my cube. The sad part is that I am not supposed to be wathing TV on ;-)