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I am Azharuddin. A, you can call me Azhar or you can search azharcs on your nearest search engine and find me. I live in Bangalore, India.

I spend most of my time on computer, learning something new every day and every moment. I believe I am very lucky to be born in this age, if I was born some 200 hundreds years back, I would have died early because of the constant battles which we humans fought or by becoming food of some animal. If I was born some 200 years later, I would have been enslaved by the Robotic overlords and made to work in mines in Mars. So now is the right time to be on earth, we are at the beginning of Digital Revolution, where rapid technological innovations are a norm. The people born in this age will be the people who will change the future and the ones who will build the foundations for the next 500 years.

So let me talk about my passions, My passions are Games(I just love the way some games are made, so much detail, so much soul put into one product,which eventually goes on to become bigger than the movie industry). I also like to create something from nothing, love to build stuff and I would want to build a game soon but before that i would be launching a series of web application.

I just have 3 dreams as of now, Making a neat product which is really solving a substantial problem, BMW and a castle in Scotland a nice house on hilltop from where i can see the World. So anybody who has a neat product, BMW and castle a house on hilltop, please contact me.

I am right now working on an unnamed project(let us call it “project supercool”). It is a web product which won’t change the world nor make a dent in the Universe but it will surely make your life easier and organize the information better. I hope to launch the alpha version very soon. So all the people in my mailing list will be the alpha testers. That’s all from my side, I will keep you updated about me.

The people whom i admire are

Winston Churchill- Normally i would hate politicians and their lies, Winston Churchill was different, he could do all the things politicians did and also he was smart. Winston Churchill is known for his don’t give up attitude, If you find a guy who is fighting against all odds and trying to win, then he is following a Churchillian rule of “Never, never, never Give Up”. Some quotes of Winston Churchill which i like are:All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Evan Williams- He is the guy behind Blogger, Odeo, and the current hottest product “Twitter”. He is a true product guy rolling out nice and simple to use products which changes the way people use technology and making a dent in the universe. Here is a excerpt from the Book “Founder’s at Work”, which happened when Blogger was not making money and everything looked bad for the start up. “That was a really bad time. Actually the day that everyone told me they were leaving . . . I told everyone they were laid off and said, “Work with me if you can.” And at the time, everyone had already missed one paycheck, and they’d had it. So everybody left but me. (A lot of them needed to leave since we couldn’t pay them anymore). Everybody left, and the next day, I was the only one who came in the office”. He surely made Blogger a success and sold it to Google later. You can read Evan Williams Personal Blog to know more about him.