Redundant – adj 1: more than needed, desired, or required;
Am once again looking at ways to make myself redundant at SANIsoft.
About 18 months ago we realised a need to have a second line of command in the programming team, the work was just too much for me to keep up with first hand – I needed some filtering and summarizing of the day’s events. about 12 months ago we achieved that and I am very happy to say that my project managers are doing a great job, there are occasional fires which I have to overlook so that they are handled correctly smoothly but more importantly the work flow has been smoothened to a point where such incidences are greatly reduced.
So what will I do? The image adjacent is a rendered view of our new home cum office – the construction was started sometime last week after Swati literally shook the entire bank machinery from the country head to the lowest level executive here to get the loan amount sanctioned. The ETA for completion has been put to about 12 months. As far as SANIsoft goes the new facility will allow us to double our capacity. As myself and Swati sat on a stone at the new plot and reminisced how we had started nearly 8 years back with one computer and myself as the lone coder targeting an annual income of Rs60,000/- (we did much better) to present 12 coders and …. we felt a sense of pride similar to what a parent feel on seeing their children grow, however we have been warned that we should now view the complete business in a more detached manner.
As a new home the place offers larger living space and there is a huge pond on the South-West – the result – a lot of birds and our bedroom is going to be over looking the pond. In fact this guy was the latest visitor.
This is 5.3kms as the crow flies and 7.1kms by road from our current home, placing it just outside the city limit – in fact the road which runs in front of the new plot divides the city from the outskirts!
In more recent happenings – yesterday myself and Raju did a tour of all the nearby lakes looking for any signs of illness / death in the birds, thankfully everything seems to be fine for now.
The afternoon saw an awesome shoot where for the first time I tried bright yellow as the theme colour, yellow backdrop and floor, matching yellow drape for the model and lots of gold jewellery… Skepticism prevailed all around till the preview of first few shots but I ultimately got more displayable pictures than in any shoot before.
And yes – Happy birthday to an *Old man* 
geo microformat
btw, if you use the geo microformat for US/UK cities, you can use my script to convert it to a gmap.
I was waiting to get some free time to convert your JS to a GM script so that anywhere it detects a geo microformat it adds a link for gmap – similar to the hcard GM script
That is if someone has not already done it
I didn’t do that because gmaps and ymaps are not global yet. If you have geo data in an area that they don’t serve, it just says “Sorry we don’t have images of this resolution, please zoom out” or something like that. Of course, you have to zoom out to the country level.
ymaps yes, but for gmap use the Sat images or Hybrid images and you pretty much have the globe covered
Yeah, on the gmaps website. It doesn’t work via the API.
FWIW – in all my experiments zoom level 4 works for pretty much anywhere in the world even via API – try the distribution map link on this website http://nagpurbirds.org/thumbnails.php?album=5
zoom level 4 isn’t very useful. I’d look for a maximum of 2 for things like this. My restaurant reviews need zoom level 0.
Ah!! differing needs – I use gmap for bird distribution and zoom 4 is just right for it
good for multipoints (I use it for my city index), but bad for single points like the location of your house.
agreed.
As per vaastu ideally a water body should exist on the *north east*.
HTH.
-nerdy
PS: Dunno if you believe in that but yes it does help.
Hmmm… and I had begun to think that you have grown up
The water body is outside their plot area dude. Even if they believe in FengShui/Vastu, its only applicable inside the periphery of plot.
Awesome, build soon, will see you at your new place.
Whats the story with the home loan?
To put it very mildly there was a huge communication gap between the lower rung at Nagpur and the middle rung at Mumbai resulting in inordinate delays
Nice! Congratulations and best of luck.
Being made redundant is the only way to move/scale “up”. I too am feeling the pressure now and am well on my way to find myself a replacement at work.
Thanks