Reminiscing Kinzan

I was talking to my former colleague at Kinzan, Trent Barnes, today and he mentioned it was the 2nd anniversary of closing of Kinzan, which prompted this blog post! I had the privilege of working with many expert programmers there and learnt a lot. We did a lot of cool stuff on cutting edge web technologies. I miss you Kinzan!

One of the best part of working at Kinzan was to see our product getting recognized. I'm reminded of Robert Scoble's blog post that was such a morale booster. My personal favorite was when Randy Hudson and Pratik Shah (creators of GEF) came over to our booth at an EclipseCon and virtually exclaimed that our tool was the best application of GEF they had ever seen! Another one was when a product manager of RIM (creators of Blackberry) came to our booth and lamented that they had spent more than a year trying to create such a tool and weren't even half way there!

Also comes to memory are the countless games of ping pong we played (India vs. China vs. USA :)), endless cans of Coke, Kinzan Olympics, Beach party and the ever wonderful Carlsbad weather. I should also mention Garland, who is my mentor, friend and former CTO of Kinzan who inspired us all and kept us going!

I'm iNFp

I took the online personality test based on Jung-Myers-Brigg typology. It classifies each person in one of 16 types, either

• Extravert - Introvert
• Sensing - Intuition
• Thinking - Feeling
• Judging - Perceiving
  

I came out to be iNFp (Introvert-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceiving). Scary - seems to be fairly accurate! One thing I'd like to find out is that, will getting to know my personality affect my personality?

Sign that don't make sense

What sign do you see on the picture? If you said "FREE LEFT TURN", no marks for you! It actually says "NO FREE LEFT TURN". If you look closely, you can see the word "NO" in red. It is so tiny and what choice of a color is red over blue? This sign is on the Ashok Pillar signal.

Update 09/03/07: I got a better picture of the sign yesterday. I've replaced the old one with this. Also, the Vision Care guys seems to have got a really bad spot!

Loving Beauties!

I just got a browser message on my phone that said: "Loving Beauties: Click here to capture", and I thought to myself, what an oxymoron!