Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

It is not everyday in the “Aam Aadmi” ‘s life that one gets to meet a Minister of State. And that too not in a setting where we not only get to hear him talk but interact with him. And then definitely not someone as charismatic as Shashi Tharoor.

Well I have been a fan since my college days when I first chanced upon The Great Indian Novel and then on Twitter and there was no way I was going to give up on this chance to meet him in person. So according to the invite I turned up at the Bangalore International Centre on the 6th of November along with @vaid and @faiqrg. Thanks so much to @dhempe, @santhoshp, @tinucherian and @23jacob.

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When Iron Maiden performed for the first time in India, on the 17th of March, 2007 at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore, Bruce Dickinson, in a response to the ergo familiar complaint of Indian fans, “We have waited for 17 years for you guys….”, replied that it won’t be 17 months before they come back.

And they were true to their words. Their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour stopped twice in India, kicking off the tour officially in Mumbai, BKC on the 1st of Feb, 2008 and now in 2009 on the 15th of Feb in Bangalore, Palace Grounds.

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… And especially when Craig is around with his camera…

Well, this happened at BarCon08 in Bangalore, the night before SAP TechED.  After a round of drinks and Dinner at the 13th Floor, I wanted to have ice-cream and thus dragged the gang, including Craig, to a famous ice-cream parlour (Corner House) on Residency Road, which was roughly round a Kilometer from the venue of BarCon, on foot.

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Fellow SAP Mentor Jon Reed of JonERP.com who made it a point to be physically at SAP TechEd Vegas and virtually in Berlin and Bangalore, did a small virtual round table with SAP Mentors Dipankar Saha and Somnath Manna of IBM India and Abesh Bhattacharjee (yes… me  ).

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As many of you would know that I have had to dissociate myself from the ESME for personal reasons. However I had a chance to be back with the team and honored when I was provided with an opportunity to present ESME at DemoJam, SAP TechEd Bangalore along with Mrinal, a friend and a ESME member. DemoJam took place on the 12th of November, 2008.

The video shows us on the DemoJam stage with Craig hosting the event.

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I heard about mx:Devsummit on Twitter when Mrinal tweeted about it and then the details from Raghu’s Blog. A RIA Developer Summit from Adobe is exciting enough but the icing on the cake are the free Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses that go out to every participant, how cool

From the mailer that Raghu sent me:

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The registrations for SAP TechEd 2008 are already open and when I think about what an awesome event it was last year that I have still not got over, I read the TechEd blogs on SDN and check out the TechEd pics on Flickr.

That is when the bulb lit up in my head and i came up with this tiny widget which gives you slideshow of all TechEd pictures across all locations from Flickr.

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You often find treasures in the most unexpected of places and most unexpected of times. That’s what happened to me when i discovered a couple of snaps taken at SAP TechEd 2007, Bangalore. It was my first TechEd and what an event it was Have a look…

[Note: Click on the images for their full size view]

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