Xvxry Pxrson Is Important

A very good friend of mine, Sudhanshu Pandit sends out these anecdotes with a lesson every Monday, an attempt to begin the week on a positive note ... thought i'd share them with you all .. every Monday ! so here's the first one ...

One manager let employees know how valuable they are with the following memo:

"You Arx A Kxy Pxrson"

Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works vxry wxll --xxcxpt for onx kxy. You would think that with all thx othxer kxys functioning propxrly, onx kxy not working would hardly bx noticxd;but just onx kxy out of whack sxxms to ruin thx wholx xffort.

You may say to yoursxlf -- Wxll, I'm only onx pxrson. No onx will noticx if I don't do my bxst. But it doxs makx a diffxrxncx, bxcausx an xffxctivx organization nxxds activx participation by xvxry onx to thx bxst of his orhxr ability.

So, thx nxxt timx you think you arx not important, rxmxmbxr my old typxwritxr. You arx a kxy pxrson.

Have a great week !!

Jai Hind !

A pic from the flag hoisting cermony at the Central Campus Diag organised by the ISA on occasion of India's 57th Independence Day.

u wont believe this !

how many times in your life have you met your clone ?? ... well ... i just got a chance not only to be with him but also to engage with him in a friendly "tug of war" at home ... so go ahead and meet my clone ! ... and now that i have the "duplication" code form Agent Smith you could expect to see many more "Me's" in times to come !

image maps

was playing around with some "image map" javascript today and what i ended up doing was something pretty cool ... made a pin board which points out the places i've been to in the united states ... just like we can add an hyperlink to a text or a complete image, image maps use co-ordinates on the image to do the same on a specified part of the image ... the pin board is a very good example of what image maps can do ... this will be an intersting addition to my travelogue ... but i wont keep you guys waiting for this till the complete travelogue is ready ... so go ahead and see my pin-board at

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~dixitp/ive_been_there.htm

time to travel ... yipeeeeeeeee !!!

sorry for not updating my blog for a long time ... actually it's entirely my fault .. the lazy bum that I am ... don't even update my blog even if i'm staring into my computer for the whole day ... so here i am putting up a post before chinar leaves a comment to change my blog title to parag's monthly digest :)... thought i'd write abt something interesting ... and what could be better than talking about trips and drives ... i've been touring the US ever since i came here at such a pace that i'd probably deserve an extra degree in tourism or something :) ... and would i need to add that i just love driving ... thinking back my first trip here was to chicago in oct 01 when my roomate lalith had just gotten his license ... but it was the trip to Madison, Wisconsin in the winter break where i actually learnt to drive ... then got my driving license in march 02 and after that there has been no looking back ... just the other day i was counting the number of states i've visited till now ... and it's a whooping 24 !! ... i've been maintaining a travel log which lists all the places that i've been to with details of the car i drove and the miles i logged ... haven't had a chance to put it up till now so thought why not now ... so here's the link

update : was working on the link to put up here but it's taking quite a while as i'm also uploading pictures for each trip i took ... so please be patient and i'll put it up as soon as it's ready !