Art of Living, Yoga, Meditation, Breathing techniques, Service projects, Go Green and Mission Green Earth
Thursday, February 11, 2010
New Kriya Time in Art of Living center in Mississauga
Day- Every Monday
Time- 6.30 PM to 8.00 PM
Art of Living Center
Location- Art of Living Foundation
5715 Coopers Ave. Unit # 11
Mississauga, ON
Please RSVP by Emailing soody.thayaparan@artofliving.ca
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
LTTE urges Sri Sri to faciltate ceasefire in Sri Lanka
LTTE political head B Nadesan telephonically urged His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi
Shankar to use his goodwill in facilitating a ceasefire in Sri Lanka. Mr. Nadesan
reiterated that thousands of people are suffering due to an acute shortage of food
and medical facilities. He further said that they are ready for peace and requested
Sri Sri to do the needful to facilitate a ceasefire.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sri Sri is in Sri Lanka
Visiting Vavuniya refugee Camp and how AOLF working closely to rebuild the Tamils,
http://www.artofliving.org/intl/Portals/0/home/feature/YouWillSoonReturnToYourHomelandInPeace%20-%20SriSriTellsTamilsInSriLanka.pdf
Guruji is in Colombo meeting high designated Buddhists monks
http://www.artofliving.org/intl/Portals/0/home/feature/WeHaveToBringBackThePrinciplesOfAhimsa&Satya%20-SriSriInSriLanka.pdf
Art of Living Foundation – Mississauga Earth Day 2009
Art of Living Foundation is one of the largest, non for profit, Educational and volunteer based organization in the world.
We had such a great event by not only cleaning our City where we live but also we had such a great fun with our volunteers including kids, youth and adults. We are so grateful and inspired to do more and contribute to our city.
We got so much inspiration and positive energy from all the youths and kids. Their joy with their bubbling enthusiasm can only be experienced and we are indeed so lucky to do these service projects.
We would to thank City of Mississauga to provide us all the support to make this project very successful. Also, again many thanks to Art of Living volunteers for their effort and time

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Vista or not to Vista soon
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/microsoft-changes-vista-eula-to-appease-modders-pirates-still-s/
nice trick by MS
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/13/vista-license-to-only-allow-one-computer-transfer/
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Toronto Launch event for Microsoft Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista
Tuesday December 05 2006 9:00am – 5:00pm
Here are some of the things that I was able to capture. Over all it has been a great event packed with tons of knowledge.
Key note
I found the presenter did an awesome job to simplify some of the key points that are so fundamental to our business "why should customers do business with us?" Very valuable point explained with his 25 years of experiences.
Also he outlined some of the Management IT matrix on:
How strong your value proposition?
How effective your market change?
I found lots of inspiration from the case study about ICICI bank and how they were doing the portfolio management. According to the speaker, it is so amazing their cost structure is only 10% from the other famous Canadian banks. In other words, they are cutting 90% from their cost of operations from other Canadian banks.
Architecture
Mohammad Akif (http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/) did an awesome job presenting the architecture point of view of these great products (office 2007, .Net 3.0 (http://wcf.netfx3.com/) and Vista).
Other Architecture resources
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/
Architecture cast
Ron Jacobs’s famous architecture cast
http://www.skyscrapr.net/blogs/arcasts/
for Anti-pattern
Ron Jacobs blog on Enter the debate – “Loosey Goosey” an Anti-Pattern? and others
http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs/archive/2006/11/12/enter-the-debate-loosey-goosey-an-anti-pattern.aspx
Finally they presented with a demo done by an ISV. Another awesome presentation about how they synergize the Vista and office 2007 (a very good inspiration)
Developer track
Windows presentation foundation
Found the Open XML standard to build and test the .Net 3.0 to be very cool (except the demo presented did not work ;) and especially how the Microsoft Expression Blend (http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/) and Visual studio 2005 can be used (using XAML) to build a very elegant good looking UI with your backend code. This can work with both your thick, thin and smart client and ASP.Net web pages.
Windows Communication foundation
http://wcf.netfx3.com/
Good thing its still backward compatible to our famous Peer to peer protocol
net:psp:// (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/02/netpeers/)
They talked about the Windows RSS platform I am waiting for the presentation to be available online.
Introducing the Windows RSS Platform
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/FeedsAPI/rss/overviews/msfeeds_ovw.asp
Windows Card Space
To test the windows CardSpace
http://sandbox.netfx3.com/
Last but not least to my favorite topics on Windows workflow foundation and MOSS 2007
Ease of web part development is 2 click away compare to the stsadm and install assembly tools for the 2003 versions. (for more I will post this on another blog)
Web part development for MOSS 2007 and WSS V3
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19f21e5e-b715-4f0c-b959-8c6dcbdc1057&displaylang=en
More on the event
Find the event resource, presentations, pod cast and others posts on the event
http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/
Find other launch resources
http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/anewday2007/resources/
