Leading Trump - Pradeep U.N. & his Blog about Nothing.
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I am a little Teapot - The DarkSide of the Microsoft Admin... strikes ...
As sweet and nice that Nancy Apthrop, the Exec-Admin to Norm Judah (our CTO in the Worldwide...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/19/2005
Are you "Microsoft-MAX"ed yet?
Microsoft Codename Max is uber-cool, very rock-on and quite download-heavy. "It is not like any...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/19/2005
Spread-em Up - Google plans to search through your Genes...
Business 2.0 just exclaimed "The Google Boys are teaming up with Craig Venter (of human genome...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/19/2005
Match.Com .... Fraud??
A good friend of mine is a strong believer in Match.Com. Among other things - she is a also a...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
The Tepper/Tuck/Chicago MBA Collaboration at Microsoft.
Ivan Joseph - talked to 5 Tepper MBAs selected for 2nd Rnd interviews today and answered some of...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
Why is my laptop not as cool as this one?
The Apple Mac aint coool - but the entire ecosystem around it is - and most of the users seem to be...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
Ipod's alternative uses.... Clean Grout :)
Sassan Saedi my Iranian colleague from Kellogg who looks for bargains in pretty much everything...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
Apple iPod turns to Religion. Enter iBelieve.
I remember an article I read years ago on Wired about Apple being a religion! "Umberto Eco, the...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
Ray Ozzie - our CTO tries to blog again. Is 3rd time the charm?
Just days after RickDe confirmed his new found commitment to continuing blogging - Ray Ozzie have...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/18/2005
Brand New Ipod Nano - for $200??? Fraud Alert on Michele Acton
$250 is the retail price for the Nano and thanx to Froogle and some other websearches I found a...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/16/2005
How many hrs does a CIO spend on Surveys?
There are tons of CIO-directed surveys. And then there are the CIO-directed ad campaigns. Not to...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/15/2005
Rick Devenuti, our SVP renews pledge to maintain his blog.
Rick Devenuti has a blog - not many know it - but - yes he does. So does my General Manager (Hardeep...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/15/2005
"BrightFeet" to walk into rooms in the dark!
The last time I saw shoes with lights on them - it was on my cousin's shoes when he was about 6......
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/14/2005
Microsoft Give campaign gives $60M. But WHY???
Everyone has heard of the Microsoft Give Campaign and the last info I heard for our October Giving...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/13/2005
IvanJo answers MIT/Sloan student's questions. Talks to Carnegie Mellon prospects!
Ivan Joseph (Chicago GSB MBA) - the same ping-pong guy who put his job underfire 1 wk after joining...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/12/2005
Terrabyte IPOD Strategy akin to MediaCenter?
The Business 2.0 Blog just blogged about a terrabyte Apple IPOD Strategy and threw in a great...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/12/2005
"Black Magic" WOMMA: Word of Mouth Marketing Association
Maybe ppl already knew about WOMMA but there is an association for word-of-mouth marketing out...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/12/2005
Vista loves RSS. So should all Marketers!
I had a few folks from my Marketing team talk to me about "What is RSS?" Looking for some good...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/12/2005
Chris Sells' Best Exam answer ever
Coming from Chennai, south india where if you picked any 5 ppl on the road - about 3 of them would...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/12/2005
Tepper gets voted into SBSA!
Monica and John Robinson (my classmates from Tepper 03) at Carnegie Mellon University have been...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/11/2005
SBSA [Seattle Business School Alliance] Happy Hr today!
Thanks to my Tepper classmate - John Robinson volunteering me to be the webmaster of the Seattle...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/10/2005
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs - Contrasting Presentation Styles
Garr Reynold's in his blog had a piece today about Steve Jobs, BillG and Zen style of presentation....
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/09/2005
Pour Some Sugar .... Back in the Summer of '69
In 3 hrs I should be at a wierd concert that features Bryan Adams sharing stage with Def Leppard at...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/08/2005
Does it rain all the time in Seattle?
If I had a buck for everytime I heard that question being posed to me when I told someone I was...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/08/2005
Microsoft Culture - as recorded in a PingPong tournament.
A million myths exist about Microsoft Culture. Like all myths - some are true and some are false....
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/07/2005
Caffeine Incentives for Blogging
The next best thing to giving out XBOX Live licenses or XBox 360s (since we dont give out Nanos...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/07/2005
Million Cover letter books. Still no use!
Having spent a good deal of the last 2 wks seiving through cover letters and resumes for...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/05/2005
Swim Lane Template/generator in MSProject?
I was wondering - given the amount of planning going on in multi-team projects if there was a...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/03/2005
Mentoring at Tepper School of Business @ CMU
Analytical Decision Making, Great effervesence of Technology leverage, Passion for Technopreneurship...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 11/03/2005
Meet Beny - as Microsoft Enterprise Services Recruitment committee goes to NSHMBA next wk!
This year the NSHMBA conference will be at Anaheim, CA from 9/28 - 10/01 and Beny Rubinstein our...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/22/2005
Microsoft Worldwide Enterprise Services Recruiting Team might start blogging here!
Remember my meeting with Heather last week? Well the big news is this: I am now part of the...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/17/2005
The Next Generation CRM @ Pizza a.k.a Pizza-2005 !
This ad from ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is absolutely hilarious, on the money and not too...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/16/2005
BillG goes to college with .... Napoleon Dynamite???
By now everyone knows about the movie-spoofs made at internal business conventions here at MS. The...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/16/2005
My trip to Heather Hamilton's hideout.... and her intellectual catalysts.
The last time I wrote anything that started with the words .... "My trip to ..." I was at a single...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/15/2005
Carnegie Mellon Prof Talks about "Managing Creativity" at Microsoft Campus.
As part of my first activities as a new alumni and Boardmember in the Seattle Chapter of the Tepper...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/11/2005
Buzzword Watch: Where there is a "reactive" there shall be a "proactive" ...
Buzzwords are like fashion statements. Wait, strike "like" from that sentence, Buzzwords ARE fashion...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/10/2005
Can Rants alone make for blog-material?
How many times have we seen it happen - that 2 wks after a blog is created - it falls along the...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 09/08/2005
Comcast Cable: 4 Hr ETA time window and STILL late!
I remember having a conversation I had with a fellow colleague 2 wks ago when I had scheduled my...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 08/16/2005
Bells for Cows in Switzerland. RFID them in India!!
I wish I had a dollar every time I heard the statements "Why dont Indians eat beef" or even "I heard...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 08/11/2005
What do you do with an abudance of internal HDDs?
The topic of this blog was a question raised by my colleague this morning. Having played with too...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 08/08/2005
Since when are pickup trucks - Compact????
It is alarming to see the number of SUVs and Pickup trucks that are parked in parking spots...
Author: Pradeep UN Date: 07/27/2005