The Reddit Alien mascot bobblehead (photos), which had recently been kidnapped at the Reddit Bar Party in New York City (photos) is now back, safe and sound with the Reddit team.
After I reached out to some people in New York, a kind person arranged to have the alien returned as a surprise at Steve Huffman’s birthday dinner. Steve and Alexis Ohanian were thrilled to have the alien back. It was a great night!
I’ve now been living in Manhattan for two weeks and I love NYC. New York is a wonderful city. I’ve wanted to live here since I was little.
My new job is at Conde Nast Publications as VP of Information Technology for CondeNet. My office is near Times Square, a major tourist attraction which is every minute, every day teeming with a diversity of people from all over the world.
So far, I’ve visited the Village, Union Square, Central Park and Times Square areas, all of which I’ve found lovely. I see the city will provide ample sights for one of my favorite hobbies, photography.
I’m moving to NYC for an exciting new job as VP of Technology at an awesome publishing company. I look forward with excitement to my career at the company and life in Manhattan.
I loved the past three years working for Cox as CTO of COXnet in Atlanta where I was proud to contribute and learn a lot. I wish them continued success and will stay in touch the wonderful friends I made there. Atlanta is a good city, but my personal preferences match The Big Apple much better. I’ve wanted to live in Manhattan for many years. This move back to the Northeast also brings me back nearer to family and friends in the area.
My personal contact information remains the same.
The closing of 2006 and beginning of 2007 has been exciting. I’d like to share some highlights from December/January:
Friends and family: I have been doing a lot of photography recently and regularly posting it on photos.rajiv.com. It includes pictures of many of my travels.
When I moved to Atlanta, GA, I didn’t realize I’d get photo opportunities featuring snow and ice in the city known as Hotlanta.
It only snows on one or two days per year here. Almost all my neighbors were staying cozy indoors. I headed out with my camera and took photographs, including some of leaves, berries and branches beautifully frozen inside crystal clear ice.
I look forward to living in Atlanta, a major city in the southeastern state of Georgia. I will, however, miss being around my friends in the the Philadelphia and San Francisco areas where I previously lived.
On June 1st, I start work at COXnet as Chief Technology Officer. COXnet is part of the Cox Newspapers Division of Cox, one of the nation’s leading media/communications companies and providers of automotive services. I’m excited!
Effectuation (my business venture) has been handed over to new management. I wish them the best.
I signed up with Google Adsense to put relevant ads on some of my pages, mainly the Humor and India pages.
I’m currently based in the Philadelphia area, working on my company. It is good to spend time at home with my brother and friends. (Just an FYI for my family and friends.)
November 24th was the day I got the freedom to switch my phone service from AT&T Wireless back to Verizon Wireless and this time without changing my number. (I had been a happy Verizon customer in the past and had gone to AT&T for their lower rates.)
Verizon’s mobile phone network in the U.S. has the best coverage. Where their digital network does not reach, their analog network does. Verizon’s customer service is excellent. I’ve always reached a customer service agent within 2 minutes and they have been extremely helpful. AT&T GSM, on the other hand, has poor coverage and unreliable voicemail. Sometimes, my phone has run out of battery waiting for an AT&T Wireless customer service agent. Even when I do reach them, they have rarely been helpful.
When I requested to switch, AT&T would not release my number to Verizon for two days citing “technical problems”. I’m expecting AT&T to relinquish my number this Friday (after 5 days of several calls to both companies). In the meantime, Verizon has been most helpful and I’m able to use my Verizon phone to make outgoing calls.
CDMA technology that Verizon uses is superior to and has many advantages over GSM and TDMA. One of the unmentioned benefits is that if you lose your phone, you can easily switch your number to another phone by calling customer service. There is no SIM card to worry about which is great for travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. If you like to do outdoor things and need mobile phone coverage in remote places, get a Verizon phone with analog roaming support.
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