India So here's the promotional video of the program I'm on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9rfrbuPLw Thus far it has been extremely mellow. The campus they've built here is like a large university campus, though certainly more sterile. They have 45+ buildings, immaculate lawns, health clubs, artificial ponds, meandering landscapes, a half dozen subsidized cafeterias (dinner=$0.50). From the video it looks like just another corporate park, perhaps a nice one. What's amazing about it though, is the contrast with the India right outside the gates: cows crossing the streets, roadside produce carts, honking polluted traffic. Infosys is ahead of the game by American standards, but is *lightyears* ahead of the game that's right on their doorstep. The kind of vision and worldliness it must have taken to build something like what they've built is pretty impressive I have to say. That said, living here is a bit like moving back in with my parents. The guest rules forbid: smoking, drinking alcohol, sex, loud music, sloppy dress, etc. while on company property (which will be 8 weeks for me). What with the security guards checking when I enter or leave the campus, the 50 minute taxi rides into town, and the acceptable use policy on the hotel's internet . . . I definitely feel like I'm 15 years old again, living in the suburbs.  ¶ 6/02/2008 09:22:00 PM