જતે માડુ સવા લખ…
My company gave me an opportunity to go back to USC and technically assess students at the career fair. It was a great feeling because last year at the same career fair, i was passing my resumes to possible recruiters to hire me. This year, felt proud standing on the other side of the booth. I assessed over 200 applications in 5 hours.
Rest all is well with me, hope all of you are good as well…
paras
5 comments September 27th, 2008
On Aug. 20th, we had an open house at the Madisonville Dialysis Center, KY.
Here are some pictures from the event. Click on the picture to see more pictures.
Enjoy.
6 comments August 31st, 2008
wanted a car that would match the excitement i had while driving in india, bought a 2001 Toyota Corolla - stick shift.
here are some pictures
12 comments August 17th, 2008
It has been great wishing everyone happy birthday. However, we haven’t had a post about our lives on Medavo in a while, and Medavo after all is not all about wishing happy birthday. So, lets play a game. Answer the following two questions:
1) What is something memorable that has happened in your life in the recent past? This can be something good, bad and everything in between. Tell us something that will be memorable for us too!
2) What is coming up in your life that you are looking forward to?
And to start it off, I will answer both in the first comment below!
(also feel free to comment on each other’s posts on this same post. The comments don’t all have to be answers to the questions above.)
4 comments June 20th, 2008
Hello Everyone,
Khushi turned one yesterday. We had a small party on Sunday and it was great fun. Here are some pictures from the event.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Khushi.Haria/My1stBirthday
& Some videos
itsy bitsy spider
Singing E I E I O and other songs
Love,
Vishal & Dipti
5 comments October 23rd, 2007
Hi everyone! Currently I am at the NextFest conference in Los Angeles presenting the work I’ve done with Yahoo MapMixer, so I haven’t been able to respond to your questions quickly. So here we go!
First of all, let me say that I appreciate all of your love even though most of you didn’t know what the whole big deal was all about 
About 6 months ago I started working on a project code named Remaps. The idea then was that when we go to any normal map sites for places like college campus or parks or the similar, Yahoo or Google maps don’t have any detail for the area. However, for most of these places, there already exist tons of detailed maps that provide the missing data. So how do we take advantage of all these detailed maps? This is what Yahoo! MapMixer is all about.
Let me give you an example. Here is a map of a place dear to us all, Kutch. There is no detailed data for Kutch on any mapping platform:
You can view this map’s page on MapMixer too. See how it is overlaid on the same area on the Yahoo Map? Try to zoom, and drag the map. It behaves just like a normal map would. Make sure you also try the opacity slider on the top right hand corner. That will change the transparency level of the map and let you peek underneath easily.
So that is what the product is. You can access the public product here: http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer
In the few days after launch, it has been getting a lot of good press coverage from both the traditional news outlets, and also from bloggers. I was interviewed by BusinessWeek, Reuters, and am also scheduled with NPR (National Public Radio). Below is a list of some of those articles:
Reuters
Yahoo Freestyle Design Competitions Yield Pay-Offs
By Eric Auchard
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1233959020070913
CNET.com
Hack Days Spawn New Yahoo Travel, Shopping Features
By Elinor Mills
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9777339-7.html
BusinessWeek
Showtime for Yahoo Hacks
By Rob Hof
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/09/post_5.html
San Francisco Chronicle
New Today, From Yahoo
By Verne Kopytoff
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=20224
O’Reilly Radar
Yahoo Launches Map Mixer: Make Your Map
By Brady Forrest
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/yahoo_launches.html
TechCrunch
Hacks Make Their Way Into Yahoo Products
By Michael Arrington
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/12/hacks-make-their-way-into-yahoo-products/
Many other articles that you can see here: http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=mapmixer
There are also over a 100 other posts on blogs, you can view some of those here:
http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/mapmixer
Also finally, I’d like to apologize that I have alienated myself the past few months from not only Medavo but from calling everyone, etc. Ami & Avi know how many of their calls I haven’t returned in time 
I also want to thank all of you for being the greatest, most supportive and loving family in the world. I worked on this just about every hour of the day I had, and most times of the night also. I have also learned a great, great deal about how to build a public product. I have loved every moment of it—every tiring, getting-2-hours-of-sleep, sleeping-under-my-work-desk, forgetting-to-eat moment of it. Now on to the next “shower” idea…
Love,
Nimit
13 comments September 14th, 2007
Hi Fam!
I’m writing from Baltimore, primarily to let you all know I’m gonna miss everyone at the reunion.
Work is taking me to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. I’m excited about the trip, but wish I could have made it to Pennsylvania as well.
The summer has been beautiful.
Sailing, music-making, throwing dinner parties, playing capoeira, biking, letting my hair grow.
I finished my first year of medical school. Now I’m spending the summer doing some policy research on national responses to the HIV and TB epidemics.
I wanna extend an open invitation to y’all to visit me in Baltimore. If you come before it gets cold, I’ll take you out on the water.
The pics are of me playing the guitar and harmonica, sailing, and at the white coat ceremony with friends and family.
6 comments July 17th, 2007
Something that i am proud of:
I pray everyday.
I love spending lots of time with elders.
I mostly eat at home.
I make it a point to learn something new everyday.
Nothing can stop me from getting what i want. If I want anything for myself, all i have to do is want it and nothing will possibly come in my way.
I dream and i achieve.
I have clarity of thought.
I am deeply committed to making a difference in the world.
I respect women.
I actually listen to people when they are communicating opposed to hearing them and have mind conversations about the things they are saying.
Education for everybody in this world is something that i will give my life to transform.
I have been an avid reader of books nowadays.
I love having an intelligent conversation over a cup of coffee.
I am excited about everything in my life.
I don’t think i have the word anger in my dictionary and you will hardly see me upset or off mood.
I am full of life and want to live it to the fullest, who knows what’s there in store tomorrow.
I feel deeply, powerfully for people that matter to me in my life.
I am considered creative and innovative by people around me.
I am full of ideas and am working on a plan to implement those.
I don’t drink neither do i smoke.
Something that is a harsh reality and i am working on it:
I couldn’t live to my parents expectations to be the top student in my Engineering and Masters Studies.
I have also got C+ grade in my courses for Masters at USC.
I am a failure in my own eyes because i haven’t been able to complete the Kutchi Dictionary project that i took on.
I seek a career change from the Software Industry.
I am impulsive at times and react without thinking.
I need to get 8 hours of sleep daily which has become a dream since the time i came to the US.
My health is good but fitness is bad. Low immunity levels.
These are my random weekday musings.
Thank you for your patient listening.
Paras Mamania
10 comments May 31st, 2007
Heylo Family,
I have got a full time job offer from Sharewell Group in Los Angeles. My job profile is of a Full Time Lead PHP Developer. I have been freelancing for this company for the past two weeks and they decided to give me a formal offer today. It’s a small company and the people are great to work with. The pay is also decent. I have interacted with their staff while i was at their office in San Diego. Am all excited about starting this job. I am also done with my Masters coursework at USC so now i don’t have to take anymore courses and i can work and take the remaining 1 credit that remains and graduate in December.
Life has been busy with all this at hand.
Some other summer plans i have:
1. Taking a course as a Voice Over artist.
2. Learning to play golf.
3. and last but not the least.. plan for our family get together and come down to Pittsburgh during that weekend.
p.s. just forgot to mention but real thanks to ashish and nimit for their support during my interview process
ashish, for your clearing calls - they were really valuable
nimit - for your tips regarding jobs and the study material you provided me.
Hans mama - Thanks for going over my resume and helping with it.
Jyoti Masi/Suresh Masa - Your constant encouragement to do better than what i currently have got me where i am today now. Thanks to one and all again.
14 comments May 23rd, 2007
1. Thinking of an algorithmic solution to my problem…
2. Damn!!! m sleepy…
3. See, what studies has done to me.. Studies beat the hell out of me!!! why did i ever take engineering..
haha… I am doing very well and my studies are also going great.. I just have one more final to go on 8th.
Hope all of you are doing good…
Paras
7 comments May 5th, 2007
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