Hi, I am Pankaj Kumar. I work in the enterprise software space as a Principal Technology Consultant at SAP America of Palo Alto, CA. I use this weblog to share my thoughts about my professional life as a SAP professional.Category Archives for Digital Life
Building HTPC 3 – Capabilities and big picture
(This is the last of this HTPC build series do read the Part 1 – HTPC Research and Part 2 – HTPC Build ) After researching for almost 3 years HTPC was finally built and is the center of my … Continue reading
Building HTPC 2 – Components
(This is the second part of this HTPC build series do read the Part 1 – HTPC Research and Part 3 – HTPC Final ) After doing a lot of research I come up with the final list of components. I choose to go … Continue reading
Building HTPC 1 – Research
(This is the first part of this HTPC build series do read the Part 2 – HTPC Build and Part 3 – HTPC Final ) It was 2008 and I needed to replace my old faithful Sony Vega CRT TV. LCD TVs were becoming … Continue reading
Why I love design
This post is actually about a electronic product, so what does the design has to do with it? Let me start with a bit of history. I am not sure where I got interested in design. But few months of … Continue reading
Can USPS? part two
I recently wrote about if USPS can survive as webvan, on a similar note it was refreshing to see this NYT story about Deutsche Post and how it is thriving and evolving for digital age The Deutsche Post office across from the … Continue reading
What works in US
In a NYT op-ed about Genius of Jobs, Walter Isaacson made a comment about US ingenuity and how it is THE advantage that seperates US from India and China. In my experience I would say 3 things that work well … Continue reading
Can USPS survive as webvan?
USPS has been making losses for many many years and it is not unthinkable that it might not survive with its current structure. Much has been written on various reasons for its demise primarily being email. So when the new … Continue reading
Audrey and iPad
It is very difficult to have totally original ideas on the internet. iPad was released around the same time I was changing apartments once more. And during the move I came across my broadband connected tablet like browsing device from … Continue reading
Does online shopping changes the buying behavior
@jeffnolan sent the above tweet about placing more orders than last year on amazon. This prompted me to look at my order history as I was sure I would be in the same boat. Going through the order history confirmed … Continue reading
Nope he'll be an engineer
Didn’t knew there were Dilbert cartoons. My favorite Dilbert – Engineers