Amit Gupta

Did you know that there is a system in our constitution, as per the 1969 act, in section ” 49-O” that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he doesn’t want to vote anyone!
Yes such a feature is available, but obviously these   leaders have never disclosed it.
This is called “49-O”.
Why should you go and say ” I VOTE NOBODY”… because, in a ward, if a candidate wins, say by 123 votes, and that particular ward …

happy anniversary papa

India launches its Chandrayan 1 today from Sriharikota. This marks the entry into new era of space exploration by India. India will enter  the league of naions who have succesfully landed on the Moon. Though Man-less mission Chandrayaan will fuel the space program of India.

Many many happy returns of the day.  Google always stands for innovation and usability. I wish you many more successful and innovative products. 

I have downloaded  Google chrome today. I am impressed in the first glance. Though it will take some more time to understand how will the brower perform. BUt few features which make it stands out are ;
a) Neat and clean look : A new browsing experience and the window seems to gain that extra screen space. The tabs and search bar are intelligently integrated in the browser. Every pixel is optimally utilized.  
b) One stop shop : Search , Address bar, suggestive search all integrated in one box. Google makes me LAZZZZY
c) Most …

I have taken a baby step owards fulfilling my dream !!!

 The mailer gives a feeling how the organization feels about their subscribers, who pays monthly subscription to be part of the network. They are just addition to growing number of sitting ducks for TATA Sky who can be easily targeted by the advertisers.
Horrible is the word, to explain the feeling when you see customers being called “Sitting Ducks”. I just came across an emailer from Tata Sky targeted at advertisers for their DTH service. 

 
 Can’t ad agencies treat customers in a better way ???

Off-sites trainings are fun and this is my second off-site training camp in People Interactive within six months. Now this is advantage of managing multiple portfolios and slogging.  I got to go out with both software and product offsite to take break from work at makaan.
My last visit to Daman with software team was close to sea and this one at beautiful Karjat near Mumbai. The weather was awesome and it almost rained for our entire stay at karjat.

We had a training, presentations, Jam …

This week has left me weak … this is not what extended weekend are meant to be. Still recovering from the pangs of deadly viral. High fever has forced me to stay indoors and eat very little (surviving on mostly liquid died). Even now as fever is gone , there is a feeling of weakness. 
So after a long time, I am looking forward to Monday. Hope I recover fully to resume work. 

Thanks mayank to bring my site back to life (though the site was down because of him only).  There is so much happened in last 15 days.
a) I have an fantabulous offsite @ riverside resort , Karjat near Mumbai (Amazing place , will upload pics soon)
b) India lost the test to Srilanka
c) Olympics kicked off in China on 08.08.08 and icing on the cake being India winning first individual gold @ olympics (Abhinav Bindra made us all proud by winning a gold)