Impedance Mismatch over HTTP

This is nothing short of a sensation. In some areas, this is more like a Barrack Obama version of the story in management, albiet in American Football, the last place you could ever imagine an Indian presence. This is big folks..
I will spare you the googling efforts, without further adieu, here are the details

1. This guy is one of four people choosing the 49ers’ next coach and establishing the direction of the 49′ers Franchise.
2. In his current role, Marathe is responsible for the management of the club’s salary cap as well as multi-year forecasting at both the indivdual club and league level. He works with the CFO in the coordination of cash versus cap compensation
3. Marathe has developed new systems within the football operations department to better understand and predict market trends on player contracts and their salary cap ramifications. He has also developed new methods and systems for evaluating and acquiring players for the College Draft and at the NFL professional level.
4. Born in Sunnyvale, CA, Marathe received his bachelor’s degree with high honors from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and received his masters in business administration from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He resides in Santa Clara, CA.
5. Marathe befriended Jed York, John’s eldest son. Seemingly, as the 23-year-old Jed became more visible at the 49ers’ headquarters, eventually joining high-level meetings, so did Marathe.

Comments about Paraag:

1. 49ers Assistant to the General Manager PARAAG MARATHE doesn’t stand for the term “statistics” …he stands for the “revival” of the 49ers!
2. “These are book-smart guys,” the source explained, “who are making football decisions with no knowledge of football. . . . It’s a bunch of smart people who think they’re smarter than they are.”
3. “Can a computer help determine who you pick on draft day?” Walsh asked. “I don’t know, maybe it can.”
4. “You have a guy like Romeo Crennel, who has spent 24 years coaching and in walks Paraag, is that his name?” one personnel man wondered. “(Paraag) might as well be the Queen of England.”

Now, this could do a world of good to the morale of desis in leadership roles.Considering the reach of football and it’s potential as a conversation starter, It offers them more visibility. According to a Silicon India report, a large number of startups founded by desis do not have desis as CEOs and CFOs once the company grows large enough to have a board of directors. I guess people shouldn’t read too much between the lines. This could be because they are conservative, once they see proof, it should give them ideas.

Don’t be mad if some radio host starts using words such as, “Who is this parag ding-dong?”. I found that the ding-dong is mostly associated with Manoj Knight Shyamalan.

Small online storage locker company Streamload tries to one-up AOL, other Net giants.

They aptly named the free account “freeloader”, probably to induce guilt. This is perfect for me. I can take work home, assuming my data wont be held ransom one fine morning with an email asking me to payup to retrieve my files.

A while ago, someone named Renu posted this poem on a message board, I never knew words could be this raunchy. Renu, whoever you are, the one who ends up with you is one lucky guy.

Go- be a Hero, be a Saint,
even a God, if u so incline.
but tonight - this one time,
be mine and only Mine.
hold me tight as your own
and let me swirl in sweet sin
as your breath turns unsteady
and lashes out at my skin.

take me to the balcony
and undress me slow,
ignore the winking stars
for what do they know.

lay me down on the floor
but hold on to my eyes,
the moon will shyly swim away
amidst the moans and the sighs.

let your finger trace down,
down to that tiny mole,
pause, taste and cajole-
me, my ego and my soul.

Go- be a Hero, be a Saint,
even a God, if u so incline.
but tonight - this one time,
be mine and only Mine.

Just read the news on yahoo..

Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Tuesday said the state would get a loan of Rs.13.80 billion from the World Bank for slum development in urban areas.

The rot has started, and things will only go from bad to worse.

First, this guy wins with a false promise of free power at the expense of the taxpayers, now he wants more money citing development. Very soon there will a power shortage giving him an opportunity to collect kickbaks from private power establishments.

3 years later, who is gonna pick up the tab and bail him out? Obviously, the central govt as he is gonna hold them at ransom. The states like Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Punjab bring in money and people like YSR keep stealing.

Why isn’t there a simple rule of getting a consensus from all other states before a Chief Minister of a state goes out and starts begging for money? This is insane. Maybe I am missing something, could someone elighten me how people get access to World Bank funds?

This pathetic style of governance at a state level is bound to leave us far behind in the race against other countries. There are just too many holes to plug.