Kapil's Korner

After the attempt to do at least 10 books for a year, this year I had a rather poor reading record. I finished reading 4 books and hopefully will finish reading at least 1 more before the year ends. Resolution for 2012: More reading for sure. The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, [...]

The 2011 X’mas holiday has been rather wonderful. Spent some lovely time exploring Nairobi with wife and a new set of friends we have here. Explored We visited the Nairobi National Park. Saw a few animals – Giraffes, Baboons, Bisons / Wild Bulls, lots of deers. Unfortunately could not see any of the wild cats. [...]

The WOW! Moment is when that little extra makes me have a wonderful customer service experience.   On the weekend, wife and me were shopping for our new apartment at TACC Store. We were browsing the many colourful and rather confusing furnishing material section of the store. Due to the X’mas discounts, the store was busy and [...]

In 2011, I had a lot of air travel on my calendar. Airport check-ins, security checks and getting yourself a good seat can get challenging at times. And when you do the process a couple of times, you seem to pick up hints and better your experience the next time. So here are a few [...]

Sunday was adventurous. Thanks to some new friends in Nairobi we got ourselves ready to go trekking to Mount Longonot. It’s a dormant volcano located Southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. It’s a 60KM drive from Nairobi city. For somebody who has never hiked, we were excited and even a [...]

Evernote is a wonderful productivity tool. In this post, I share with you how Evernote keeps my life a bit more organised. I won’t bother with the What is Evernote? Go read it online. My Evernote has 4 top-level Notebook Stacks: Clients – When I start working with a new client or a project, I start [...]

Over the weekend, I read yet another article about Steve Jobs. And it wasn’t any different from the many others written since the man departed. It spoke about Apple’s future after the legend’s death. I am sorry I can’t find the link but what caught my attention was this: Steve Jobs had created a team [...]

One of the best habits I picked up from my dad and his brothers – Reading. Yes, we read a lot – Newspapers, Magazines, Books and now of course there is a lot of online reading; blogs, news sites, forums and more. Rarely do I get tempted to read fiction but lately I noticed that [...]

This week Amazon launched 3 new varieties of the Kindle. So now, besides the Kindle Keyboard there is also the Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire. I haven’t done a product test, but I have been a Kindle Keyboard 3G for just about a year now and here is my take from what I see [...]

A few days back I got one of those BBM messages which looked like SPAM – Like this page on Facebook and you could help a friend. IGNORED. But then I got an email from a cousin who pointed me out to the interesting initiative by a group of BBM Students from R.D National College [...]