New Year Resolution 2009

Keeping up with the small ‘habit’ started in the year 2000, the following have emerged as the natural NYRs (New Year Resolutions) for the year 2009. I will try to keep them in mind while the year passes by and try to align my priorities (big word actually!!) along these lines

1. Generate IDEAS, reach to key CONCLUSIONS fast
2. Build a stronger grip on the FUNDAMENTALS

Hope I would be a few important steps ahead in my learning curve at the end the year and also would also have better self awareness. Wish me luck!! And share you NYR!!

Pal/07jan09

Some Photographs

PERSONAL
Myself in a relaxed mood
Family photograph-1
Myself with wife sonia-our formal photograph in the studio
Myself with wife sonia during our 'CRISIL' trip to Murud-Janjeera near Raigarh

'Once in a lifetime' trekking visit to Rajamachi (near mumbai) with SBI friends
Myself with Ravi Garoo sir and Sapna at SBI party

Myself with Giridhar (my IIT Kanpur friend)
Myself with Sreejith (my IIT Kanpur friend)

Some useful links

Personal

My own sites scattered(!!) elsewhere)...an indication of my evolution through personal website creation:)
http://steelpoint.blogspot.com (active, steel sector specific)
http://rajeshpal2009.googlepages.com (not active, hardly contains)
http://pal8ul.blogspot.com (not being updated anymore)
http://pal8ul.wordpress.com (not being updated anymore)

Blog of my dear friend S****** (who for someone reason prefers not to disclose his identity!)
http://theaspirations.blogspot.com

Interesting articles
Top 10 Ways To Raise Your Site In Google

Formatting and presentation quality

I was just wondering that: Shouldn't they provide more fonts (at least arial narrow, my favorite font these days!!)for blog formatting

Months later I realize: Let me not focus at all on the font.. the default is good enough... the energy i save by not worrying too much about the formatting can be put to good use elsewhere in 'content quality'...

BTW, I still care a lot about presentation quality and consistency where it needs less effort to accomplish and has more long-term impact on my output (the most imp example of such a document is the Resume/CV)... so i consistently have been using Arial narrow (10-11 pts) in Word, Sans Serif (10 pts) in Excel and Tahoma in PowerPoint. And yes, there's Lucida Console (10 pts) in Notepad!!

What's your take on the importance of formatting and presentation quality?

Welcome!!

hi all

welcome to my personal blog that is expected to (unlike my other attempts at blogging)get regularly updated:). In any case, if you want to read what i 've written till now i.e. before i started writing here on this blog, u can have a look at my "older" blog (http://pal8ul.blogspot.com)

hope you appreciate my process of evolution into blogging:)

take care!!enjoy!!c ya

Rajesh Pal.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit..