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Coffee with Venkat

PAINTING IN MY ROOMOver the few years our team size in Vishwak has grown from less than 50 to over 150 now. This means as the Chairman of the organization I don’t get to meet every team member individually, have a chat with them and get to know them better. So few months we experimented with a program titled “Coffee with Venkat”, obviously inspired by the TV talk show by a similar name. This is a bi-monthly event normally held on the first & Third Saturday’s of a month. A few randomly selected team members spend an hour over coffee to have an informal chat with me. Only one condition – no work related topics. I have done over half-a-dozen of this programs so far, and mostly the topics they choose to talk are around their aspirations, ambitions, school/college days and future plans. Every time after the program I feel extremely energized and inspired. I highly recommend this to every business or organization heads. 

Copy Text from Windows Smartphone

I use a Windows Smartphone (HTC s710). Few weeks back while attendingSMS-MESSAGE a professional presentation I took down some notes and saved it in the SMS “Draft” folder. Today I wanted the text available in  my PC so that I can use the contents, I didn’t want to retype the whole text (it was few SMS messages long). SMSing to my same number won’t work & Windows Smartphone OS doesn’t have a copy-paste option – had it got that I could copied and pasted it as an email.

Finally I found a way, I have a PCMCIA Internet Data Card in my laptop from Tata Indicom. I sent the SMS to that number, then opened the data card software which showed all the SMS (as seen in the right hand side image) in a textbox, I copied it from there.

Isn’t this a neat solution?. Only drawback was that I had to pay for 4-5 SMS messages though :-)