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Taking inspiration from Ashish, Nilam and Dipti, I chose to experience what flying is like today, I was scheduled to fly at 8am this morning, extremely excited about it, reached there half hour ago and was clicking pictures of the plane, hangar and the airport… I got a pre flight briefing of what to look out for during my flight. My flight lesson adds to my list of the best things i have done so far in life.
Given that I have experienced it now, I would like to quote: “It is more simple to fly than to learn to drive…hehe”
Check out my pictures at http://bit.ly/qWq0u
enjoy,
paras
I don’t have words to explain my loss… May her soul rest in peace.
paras
Hi Medavo!! Long time no post. Hope everyone has been well. I am back from an adventurous trip to India, and back to work!! Some of you have already seen this, but just wanted to point you to my first US patent…Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/b4pkjd.
Hello,
If Jayanti Mama and Jaya Mami would recall our first visit to Hearst Castle when papa mummy had come, we had visited this castle on our way to Los Angeles from Sunnyvale, it was a great visit and we took their first basic tour in which the tour guide was flaunting having 14 language brochures but unfortunately did not have any Indian languages. I offered to do it for them and took their English brochure and got it translated in Hindi and Gujarati when i visited India in Jan 2007. I tried to follow up with them on my return but to no answer from them, i was kinda disappointed and left hope of they going with my translation work for their brochure.
Recently, I visited Hearst Castle again with some of my friends and I again asked them for Indian language brochures but they still did not have and our tour guide mentioned that they are actively looking for Hindi translation (guess what? I had that ready from 2 years back and their brochure hadn’t changed). I was excited at that thought and asked persuasively for contact of his manager or supervisor so that i could follow up and get the Hindi brochure printed.
Over the next 2 weeks, I worked with their manager to finalize the format and pricing. They offered to pay me 200$ for my work but no credit at all, I asked for my name to be printed on the brochure that is going to be published, it was either one that would be possible so I chose credit for my work as you see 200$ will be vanished in thin air in no time but my name would remain on that brochure for as long as Hearst Castle lives.
This work teaches me that perseverance pays always and no work or education you ever do in your life goes waste. It all comes back with a lot of interest and value. Stick to what you love to do in life, you will achieve it.
Also, attached is a copy of the Hindi Brochure.
Please click here to download the brochure,
The first half in the pdf would not be read backwards but if it is printed, that side would be folded on the back, that’s why but the rest of the pdf is on the front side.
Thanks,
Paras
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
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.
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
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.)
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
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
