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Acoustic->Electric Compositions

zoso — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:45:54 +0000

Here’s a compilation of my favourtie songs that start with an Acoustic Intro gradually moving up to a electric middle section and ending with a faster hard rock section :

Andulasia by Joe Satriani
Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Holiday by Scorpions

Josiah Wedgwood…

sridharo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:30:38 +0000

Campaigned for Social Reform and was a prominent slavery abolitionist.
Manufacturer of High Quality Potter ( The company he setup in 1759 that exists till today !)
( Credited ) as the inventor of Marketing ( direct mail, money-back guarantees, traveling salesmen, self-service, free delivery, buy one get one free, and illustrated catalogs et al )
Invented Pyrometer for measuring Oven temperatures
Built the first factory in the world ( made pottery )
Invented Quality Control
Started the first retail showroom

Src : Google , Seth Godin’s talk on Business of Software 2008 conf

Trivia : Josiah is the grandfather of Charles Darwin

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler ? No.

sridharo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:30:10 +0000

Apple’s former CEO John Scully had described a concept called “Knowledge Navigator” . It describes a device that can access a large networked database of hypertext information, and use software agents to assist searching for information.
The video shows the view of Apple Scientists in 1987 about how people would use computers in 2010. Though some of the concepts still look like that in a scifi movie, the User Experience of today has many elements that they anticipated : Video Chat, mashups, E-learning, Touchscreen et al.

Now that’s a Future Shock!

Lead Guitarists and their exits…

sridharo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:30:18 +0000

Lead Guitarists(alsong with Singers and Drummers) are one of the more audible members of a band. Just to note that most of the well known Classic Rock/Rock bands had a Lead Guitarist exiting prematurely. Any reasons?

Below is a complied list of Lead Guitarists who left their bands (bands that I usually listen to) :

Jeff Beck from ”The Yardbirds”
Rado ‘Bob’ Klose & later Syd Baret from Pink Floyd
Michael Schenker from Scorpions
Slash from GnR
Don Felder from Eagles

Did I miss out anyone ?

Do you know who I am ?

sridharo — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:46:29 +0000

In the movie “Hyderabad Blues“, when the protaganist & his friend are caught by a cop for breaking a traffic signal , his instant reply was :

Do you know who I am ?

I am the nephew of DGP Reddy…..

No, This is not a post about movie dialogues . But how often do we see the the high-profile cases actually being convicted for their wrong doings? Inspite of the recurring BMW cases or the news items about reel heroes thinking they are real heroes, the law enforcer hears this line more often than not.

Yesterday watched Punk’d on VH1 where Ashton Kuther plays pranks on some of his friends and other celebrities. In that episode Rihanna & Hugh Jackman were Punk’d . Inspite of their clout and celebrity status, they were real obedient to the law (I am sure they were unaware that it was a setup).

Now the question is : Why is it that in our country, we are so unable to follow the decorum ?

Thus Spake Steve Jobs

sridharo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:27:30 +0000

Another of his interview, that has gems in each of his answers. He talks about Apple’s Focus, Strategy, Employees, Work Style, Ups & Downs. Click here for the link. Some key takeways:

Make products you personally want to own.
Consultants/Market Researchers Excuse! Never hire a consultant, just make a great product.
Focusing doesnt mean saying Yes to thing in focus, instead it’s saying No to hundred other ideas. Pick Carefully.
Recruit People who are in love with your company, then everything else would take care of itself.
We didn’t want to get into any business where we didn’t own or control the primary technology because you’ll get your head handed to you.

Opera 10 Beta released!

sridharo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:55:47 +0000

Yesterday my favorite browser -Opera released the beta version of its PC web browser codenamed Peregrine (their code-names are from the birds of prey) .

Here are a couple of reasons to use Opera as your main browser :

Security : According to Secunia , Opera is one of the most secure browsers.Period. Let’s trust the experts.
InBuilt Mail Client & RSS Reader : The mail client offers POP and SMTP access to your email accounts.The lastest version supports RTF formats too.What more you couold trash all those mail clients and RSS readers.
Features : Opera has been a pioneer in the development of new and awesome features.The tabbed browsing,Speed Dial (now found in almost all browsers ) etc had come from Opera.Below are three of my favorite features:

Link : Synchronize all your bookmarks,notes etc with different computers(and also mobiles) having Opera.
Voice : Download an Audio library of around 10mb and thats it! A bot with a nearly human voice reads out aloud.Further if you have banished your keyboard, you can give Voice Commands to surf the web.
Turbo : This feature is extremely useful if you are on a network clogged or you are left with lesser bandwidth/speeds. Opera routes it though its server and saves frees up your bandwidth (If you access engadget and techcrunch with this mode,you’ll be saving around 2 mb!!!)

Go ahead, Download Opera, and give it a spin!

Later Edit : Opera 10 released and set its record of 10 million downloads in a week. Woot!

A Story

sridharo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:38:17 +0000

My dad had this unique way of telling stories to inculcate/teaching ethics and building our ( me and my sis) character.I feel these stories had a profound effect on us. To teach us about the sense of how NOT to compromise your ethics/ morals and your sense of responsibility to the society, he would narrate this ’short’ story:

The cops had caught an elusive bandit who had looted and killed many people. He was brought before the Judge and was immediately sentenced to death. Hearing this, the bandit asked for a last wish and pleads to allow him see and seek blessings from his old mother. Seeing no harm in this,the Judge granted him this wish.
The next day, the authorities asked his mother to be present in the court. Upon seeing his son in in chains, she breaks down. With great difficulty , he moves across the room and to the shock of the whole court – slaps his mother and says “If only you stopped me when I stole a pencil for the first time at school…”

Here’s another Old Sanskrit saying my dad often quotes.

Hello world!

sridharo — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:39:04 +0000

My first post on Wordpress. Almost done migrating from my previous blog “The Eagle Works” . All’s well except the broken url’s . Also,managed to fill up the About section. Zeroin On Sridhar Oruganti! Related posts:The Source List of Indian Tweeple interested in Entrepreneurship & Tech Best Ways to Increase Hits to Your Blog/Site Related posts:

Pretending Truth

sridharo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Here’s another anonymous quote:

If you pretend to know only truth, in truth you know only pretence