Arun Ramarathnam's Web Page

Arun Ramarathnam
IT professional from Bangalore, India.

Contacting me

Email:

Public: arunram25 @ gmail . com

IM & VoIP

Yahoo! Messenger: arun_r (preferred)
Google Talk & Skype: arunram25
Gizmo project: arunram25

About me

Welcome to my personal corner on the Web. I am a IT professional and Technology enthusiast from Bangalore with over a decade of experience in the IT industry.

I express my views and opinions on Project Management, Technology, Palm PDAs, India and Bangalore among other things in my blogs.

My Blogs

Ponder Point

My blog about my professional interests.
Bangalore View

My photo blog on Bangalore. Pictures I shoot in and around Bangalore that give you a vignettes of daily life in the city.
See Snap Share

My moblog. Life as I see it.
My Journal

The musings in my journal revolve around my local context.

Events I track / attend...

Upcoming.org Events

More of arunram's events

D a i l y r e a d s

Indian Calendar: DailyCalendar | Festivals | Panchangam | IndianAstrology | AstroGyan

Almanacs: NYTimes | Yahoo | CNN | HistoryChannel | Refdesk.com

Bangalore News: Weather | TOI | DeccanHerald | VijayTimes | Yahoo

India News: TimesofIndia | Hindu | IndianExpress | HindustanTimes

World News: CNN | Usatoday | Guardian | TheAustralian | PeopleDaily

Indian Economy: India | Ecotimes | BusinessLine | BSE | NSE

World Economy: World Markets | Global | US | USLayoffs

World IT: CNet | Yahoo | Australia | Singapore

IT Stocks: Satyam | TCS | Wipro | Infosys

W e e k l y r e a d s

Tools: Blogger

India Portals: iPortalWatch | Rediff | Indiainfo | Indiatimes | Sify

After Hours

Comics: Dilbert | Peanuts | Garfield

Cartoons: Keshav | Paresh | More...

Try Open Source on Windows...

Best in class applications for the Windows platform. Infact, these are cross platform tools. Here's my top twelve for every user.

Firefox: Web Browser on fire. Fast, safe with Tab support.
Thunderbird: Email client.
Gaim: Multi protocol IM.
OpenOffice: MS Office replacement.
AbiWord: Word processor.
PDFCreator: PDF document creator.
RSSOwl: RSS reader
Freemind: Mind mapping tool.
7-Zip: Handle Zip files and more.
Nvu: HTML editor.
Gimp: Image editor
FileZilla: Elegant FTP client.

Experience these! You will find yourselves saying GIMME MORE!

Membership and Forums

PMI Bangalore - Professional body for Project management.
Barcamp Bangalore - Technophiles and entrepreneurs meet here.
Blogaloreans - Forum for Bangalore Bloggers.
TiE Bangalore - Forum for entrepreneurs.
K-Community - Forum for knowledge management.
SPIN Bangalore - Forum focusing on quality professionals.
Mobile Monday - Forum for wireless industry professionals.

Current Responsibilites

Project Management Interests

Project Management (Yahoo: IT, PM Consulting, S/w)
Project Management maturity
PMO
Product Development
Software Effort Estimation
Business Proposals
Business Process Reengineering

Technical Interests

Open Source applications
Java Platform
E-business
Databases
ERP
Oracle Tools & Technologies
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

General interests

Travel
Indian Architecture
Photography
Van Gogh
Music - Carnatic, Rock, Country
Road Cycling
Formula 1
Numismatics - Indian Paper Money - History
Scuba Diving

My favourite Gizmos

Noise-free headphones - Bose Quietcomfort2
Smart phone - Treo 650
Mobile - Sony Ericsson K750i
MP3 Player - Apple's iPod

Currently curious about

Podcasting
Nano Technology
DRM
Metafile holes

I support / recommend

Web sites I maintain

Web pages I manage::

Currently obsessions...

My edits in Wikipedia

Tour de France

Gadget I am reading about...

Centro Shuffle from Palm

Currently reading...