Microsoft Architect

Ramkoth in his blog has explained what Architect in Microsoft Architect do.He has explained in detail role of architect and his expectations while selecting an Architect.He had made dig at Vendor netural Architects.checkout http://blogs.msdn.com/ramkoth

Tamil Nadu Election 2006

With Election scheduled on May 08 in Tamil Nadu, political parties are busy forming alliance and annoucing their candidates. Canvasing would soon start. Election Commision did a fabulous job of issuing ID cards for voters. This time the card was issued within 20 minutes.Thanks for the well planned execution this time in issuing cards.Voters add the options to do correction of names,father name but not the age. I saw Microsoft windows Application used by the Election commission. For Scanning third party tool was being used.

Visit to Tirupathi

This year I got the Opportunity to Visit Tirupathi twice within a span of two months. First in Jan 28 to tonsure my son(Shashank) head on completion his first birthday and again in Mar 20. I must thank god for his blessings. For the last 2 years I couldn't visit tirupathi due to the death of grandmother and I being away from the Country (in Malayasia) for 8 months. This time we went to Tirupathi by train and took jeep to visit to nearby places like Alamelumangapuram and Srinivasamangapuram. Monday Morning We went around 4.15AM and we are back 6.00 AM after the dharsan. Morning Dharsan is always good and we have very good dharshan of lord. The ticket for Morning dharsan is Rs200. People suggest visiting tirupathi temple on weekdays and also during exams time in Feb-March where the queue will be less. We also visited other nearby places like papanasam, krishna temple,sripatham and srivari temple.

Cricket

I haven't blogged for quite sometime now.Let me talk about cricket.

There is lot of cricket going on all around the world. India yesterday(22-Mar-2006) lost the Test Match against England.Test Series is leveled 1-1.Kudos to Flintoff and I think he is one of the greatest allrounder in present form.
I think Sachin has to take all the blame whenever there is a crunch he had failed to deliver.I personally feel Sachin should go or dropped from team as is the case of saurav. Last 11 innings sachin hasn't scored 50 or more runs.I am not sure selectors are brave enough to drop Sachin.India has found some good blower in Munaf,Sreenath and Pathan. I must say Pathan should be tagged as a allrounder for a significant performance in the recent outings.



12-mar-2006,South Africans has outplayed Aussies and won the ODI series(3-2) by scoring 438 runs.Kudos to them. Everybody was happy to see Aussie lose, but I should Congratulate Australia for setting the huge target. Aussies teached proteas a lesson by winning first test match. Chennaites are deprived of good cricket thanks for the SetUpBox Concept still in chennai and few places in india. Ricky Ponting is slowly emerging as the great player on his batting abilities. The decision of Ricky ponting not to bowl Brett Lee at the death overs in the highest scoring match can't be justified. Brett Lee nows says under Ricky Ponting his role is clearly defined than under Steve Waugh. Aussies has to improve a lot if they have the retain the WorldCup and beat England to get back the Ashes.