More posts soon (I Hope)
My best time for blogging is the weekends. Evenings are long here. Since we do so many calls with the US, work usually wraps up 7:30 or 8-ish – or a little later now with the US daylight savings time change. We do start at the office a bit later, 10 or so, but I like to use the mornings to exercise and catch up on newspaper reading – I read the NY Times, Boston Globe and India Times.
2 weekends ago I spent Saturday car-shopping – I’ll have a whole post about that in a few weeks – and Sunday golfing, at the Poona Golf Club:
Noel Coward wrote that “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.” We have to add golfers to that.
Then this past weekend I was in Mumbai, at an IBM SWG team event called “Connect in 2012” and an IBM customer event called Software Universe. The opening presentation for this event had a video on a super-wide screen – like, 50 meters wide – and 3 ninja-like dancers “manipulating” the images as if there was a giant touch-screen:
The event was great, I got to speak with a number of Indian customers and Indian colleagues, plus many technical leaders who travelled here from around the world.
Today I travel to Bangalore for the wrap-up of the week’s technical meetings. But I’ll be back on Saturday and hopefully will have time for some more blogging.
November 8, 2012 @ 11:43 am
Hope that driving in Pune is much more relaxed then New Delhi.
I could not imagine myself driving in New Delhi although I am used to the driving in Israel which is not so calm…
November 8, 2012 @ 4:12 pm
It is very tough for foreigners to drive in India. You need an international license and I believe you need to show proof of having taken a local driving course. For all that the traffic and way of driving really would take a lot of getting used to. What I will do, and what many actual Indians do, is retain a driver. This person will come to my house each day and drive me where I need to go. Good drivers are prized commodities and make more than maids or other household helpers.