Here are first few pictures I captured with my camera.
Stay tuned for good pictures.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
My birthday gift
My wife gave me a wonderful gift for my birthday. Guess what....??? I got Canon EOS-500D as my b'day present. It was a dream come true for me. Camera was always in my wish list since I was a kid. My parents could not afford a camera, as it was a costly affair then. Even though Camera was a one time investment, other accessories including - flashes, lenses were exorbitantly priced. But today, things have changed. Decent camera looks affordable. Whatever it may be...I got my first camera. I am extremely happy.
Here are first few pictures I captured with my camera.
Stay tuned for good pictures.
Here are first few pictures I captured with my camera.
Stay tuned for good pictures.
Friday, October 15, 2010
10 Amazing Success Lessons from Michael Jordan
1. Make It Happen
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
2. Passion
“Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.”
3. Try
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
4. Work
“I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”
5. Fail
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
6. Go Around
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
7. The Mind
“My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.”
8. Perspective
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
9. Loyalty and Responsibility
“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
10. Expectations
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
More - http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/10-amazing-success-lessons-from-michael-jordan/
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
2. Passion
“Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.”
3. Try
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
4. Work
“I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”
5. Fail
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
6. Go Around
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
7. The Mind
“My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.”
8. Perspective
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
9. Loyalty and Responsibility
“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
10. Expectations
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
More - http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/10-amazing-success-lessons-from-michael-jordan/
Data Challenge for Twitter
Have you ever wondered what will happen to your tweets in Twitter? How they are archived and retrieved when needed, what is the underlying mechanism is used by Twitter to store your tweets???
Well here is the answer - tweets are serialized in a fairly unknown format called Protocol Buffers (never heard about it??? ;-))
Latest news from Twitter says - company is storing 12TB of data every day for later use.
With exponentially growing twitter accounts, storing tweets in the right format is so much essential.
Candidates for serializing tweets were very few - XML, JSON and CSV. But twitter trusted a relatively unknown format called Protocol Buffers, a format pioneered by Google.
Protocol Buffers, is an extensible protocol for serializing data, one Google claims is simpler than XML. And it can automate the process of recreating the data structures within applications. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the 'old' format. This automation feature would allow Twitter to spin up new features more quickly.
I found Protocol buffers very interesting. If you are also interested, then use this link to get more details - http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html
Well here is the answer - tweets are serialized in a fairly unknown format called Protocol Buffers (never heard about it??? ;-))
Latest news from Twitter says - company is storing 12TB of data every day for later use.
With exponentially growing twitter accounts, storing tweets in the right format is so much essential.
Candidates for serializing tweets were very few - XML, JSON and CSV. But twitter trusted a relatively unknown format called Protocol Buffers, a format pioneered by Google.
Protocol Buffers, is an extensible protocol for serializing data, one Google claims is simpler than XML. And it can automate the process of recreating the data structures within applications. You can even update your data structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the 'old' format. This automation feature would allow Twitter to spin up new features more quickly.
I found Protocol buffers very interesting. If you are also interested, then use this link to get more details - http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html
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