Training - Part II & Cricket

Another day of intensive training as to how a BS7799 audit should be conducted. Learnt some techie stuff like dynamic IP allocation, networks, firewalls etc. The discussion that surfaced during the training was interesting.

As a part of the BS7799 compliance, any employee of the company before leaving his workstation should ensure that he locks his workstation, however incase he fails to do so, the system will automatically lock the system incase of inactivity of the computer for about 5 minutes. This reminds me of my colleague in ICICI bank, Jayanta Bhattacharjee. Incidentally there is a similar kind of compliance requirement for COPC ,(Customer Operations Performance Center, another BPO quality initiative) of which me and Jayanta apart from other were core committee members. Jayanta would frequently check for unlocked workstations in the office and when he finds one, used to send emails from their workstation, stating, "I am an idiot, everyone henceforth address me as idiot" or " I am a dumbo" or some similar silly comment like this and mark it to whole of the world. I remember occasions when this was marked to people like the center head for Hyderabad operations. The worst part is the comments that followed such mails. You would find people replying to those mails stating, "We will surely call you an idiot" or "We already knew that you are a dumbo", once again marking whole of the world.

I am keeping an eye on the score card of the match between India and South Africa happening at Hyderabad while writing this blog. Although I didn't get to watch the Indian batting, the score card tells me all the titans of Indian cricket team seemed to have lined up to return to the pavilion as if they have a more important work in the dressing room than staying to bat in the ground. The century knock by Yuvraj must have been an eventful one and this lad from Baroda, Irfan Pathan has really come handy to score those 30 or 40 runs in time of need.

One thing that reminds me of cricket is the bet that me and my dad have when Indian plays Pakistan. Nobody can get more cynical about India winning than my dad, although I wouldn't totally blame him for that cause our guys live upto his expectations. If it is cricket he is always on Pakistan's side not because he analyses their play technically and weighs the team capabilities carefully but just because he thinks they have that killer instinct which we lack most of the times and that is what makes them win. Even Pakistan's statistics against India are better than vice versa. There are quite a number of occasions on which I have won and there are some occasions in which I lost, but the last visit of Pakistan to India made me literally empty my pockets to pay my dad.