S. P. T. Krishnan's take on things... » Etc http://shruta.net perspectives, opinions, ideas Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:02:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha the cost/efficiency of paper processes in a e-world http://shruta.net/2009/05/the-costefficiency-of-paper-processes-in-a-e-world/ http://shruta.net/2009/05/the-costefficiency-of-paper-processes-in-a-e-world/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 10:48:35 +0000 Kris Flyer http://sptkrishnan.wordpress.com/?p=164 Today, I had an interesting experience. I had to mail a banking form in paper due to local banking regulations. As there is no post office on my way to my work place and none nearby I had to wait until the weekend to do so.

I started around 11:05 AM to the nearest post office. I had to travel using LRT to the post office. I reached the post office at 11:20 AM. I was in the queue until 12:00 PM and was serviced in 3 minutes. The cost of the mailing was S$0.50 while the cost of the journey was (S$0.69 + S$0.69) to and fro. The efficiency of the transaction – wait until the end of the week, wait in queue for over 40 minutes, transport cast ~3 times the cost of actual transaction ;)

Just to tickle our thoughts. Isn’t it time to go fully ‘e-*’ ?

]]> http://shruta.net/2009/05/the-costefficiency-of-paper-processes-in-a-e-world/feed/ 0 Blood Donor and living in Singapore?, Join us :-) http://shruta.net/2009/02/blood-donor-and-living-in-singapore-join-us/ http://shruta.net/2009/02/blood-donor-and-living-in-singapore-join-us/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:42:48 +0000 Kris Flyer http://sptkrishnan.wordpress.com/?p=123 We would like to introduce our online group for blood donors living in Singapore. If the following matches you consider joining us…

  1. Are you living in Singapore ?
  2. Are you on Facebook ?
  3. Are you a blood donor ?

Then join us by clicking here Singapore Blood Donors .

Feel free to drop a comment if you have some suggestions on how to better engage blood donors

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TiSP_2

TiSP_3

Google TiSP
Enjoy it!

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As you may have guessed from the title, I am a Computer Scientist. I created this website to serve both a personal blog and also as a repository of knowledge. Yes, Shruta means Knowledge in Sanskrit, one of the ancient languages in India. Click here to know more about Sanskrit.

That said, I am not an avid blogger, at least not yet !
However, I do hope you will find some parts of my website useful to you !

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