A Tale of Two news-websites :)

A brilliant example of how different news agencies percieve news and information differently is on show today (Feb 19th). The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) serving news to IBNLive.com, surveyed some Indian companies and found that salary hikes were going to go down by almost 5%.

"The slowdown-hit Indian corporate sector will reduce annual salary hikes by about five percent, a survey by human resource consultants Hewitt Associates released on Thursday said."

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/payday-will-hurt-5-cut-in-salary-hikes-likely/85822-7.html

On the other hand, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reports on TimesOfIndia.com that India is going to see the highest pay-hike in Asia-Pacific.

"India is projected to witness an average salary hike of 8.2 per cent this year, the highest in the Asia-Pacific region."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India-to-see-highest-pay-hike-in-Asia-Pacific/articleshow/4156703.cms

Well, they're not contrary to each other. A pay-hike of 8.2% might still be 5% less than normal and thereby both the news agencies would be correct. However, one chose to write a positive sounding news item whereas the other went for a negative one. I found that interesting and hence this blog. Thanks for reading :).

-Shri
www.videonym.com

Two "Virtual" years

Its was 5th Feb 2007. Just after completing my Masters, all excited about starting my first job in the US, on this very day I started my "virtual" journey. My first day in the office at VMware.

The orientation, the introductions, the Boot-camp and then onto the real stuff... life was just one task after another. Busy as much as you want it to be and yet very very interesting. Discovering new things about software, discovering how it felt being surrounded by geeks and striving hard to keep pace with everything. Its been an AWESOME journey. Something I will treasure for life. Hopefully many more such wonderful years to come. But then ... I said something 10 blogs ago ;).

-Shri