Things from, of and about the head on the shoulders.
What’s my take on Google Talk? I downloaded it on the first day itself, installed it, clicked around, had a conversation or two, closed it, and haven’t started it again. The tool I use for IM is Gaim for all the four majors (The 4): YIM, MSN, ICQ, and AIM. Combined I have 300 contacts […]
I have a friend with whom I was discussing about what’s safe and unsafe on the Internet in a very broad sense. In the middle of the conversation, I wrote the following; something I wanted to share: Internet is a tool. No tool is safe. It is how one uses it. If you follow safe […]
There have been times when I’ve wondered why I read The Register. Then comes along a report like “Student constructs hamster-powered mobe charger” with gems like We’ve often wondered for what purpose exactly hamsters were put upon this earth, and now we know: to charge mobile phones. and Perhaps if he’d knocked together a desktop […]
When it comes to Taj Mahal, seems like not a year passes without a controversy of some sort. There was the Taj Corridor Project that most likely did some permanent damage to the monument. And now there is the Waqf Board trying to claim it as theirs. Of course, there are the descendants of Shahjahan […]
As the focus shifts to India further, expect more sting operations in India that try to spread the FUD on how insecure BPO outsourcing is, especially in India. NASSCOM calls it entrapment, I call it humbug.
Greg Storey finally lets off some steam on the excessive DIY-GTD blogginess craziness over at his site and proceeds to put up a rather humourous “How To Stop Breathing Through Your Mouth”. When your mouth has been successfully closed, try to draw air into the lungs through your nose. If everything works like it should […]
I have a new HP computer (dx6120 MT) at office. I got it on Friday night and spent the next 3 holidays I had (Saturday-Monday) doing the data transfers and setting it up. The RAM was still the default 256MB till a few hours ago. With the new video card (I installed a XFX NVIDIA […]
Virals: BPN Feed The Viral Factory. Some awesome virals in their portfolio. Rock-On-Rock: Un-Balancing. Not sure if this is really a viral in the true sense but it sure looks like one. Flash Stuff: Motherload Snowy A dog for all seasons Fire on Hands. Andreas Rehnberg takes webcam motion tracking in Flash 8 to the […]
Head over to the Global Warming: Early Warning Signs to read up on how terribly we are screwing up our planet. A look at the signs in India on the Asia page made me wonder if I’ll see a glacier-less himalayan range within my lifetime. Update: I came across a report in New Scientist about […]
Spies: From the celluloid British 007 to the ones in Discovery documentaries, I always wondered where all the good ones from my country were. But then, the good ones are talked about after they’re gone and done doing their deed. Learn more about the best Indian spies and their acts that made them so.
1857: The struggle officially began. 1947: The struggle finally ended. Happy 59th Independence Day! The last 58 years of independence have been a crazy story of growth, progress, restraint and vision. From a British colony to a regional super-power, riding the IT and BPO boom, we have come a long way pretty fast and the […]
Caught a story on Rediff about a new report by RAND titled “Exploring Religious Conflict” (PDF). It clubs RSS as a NRM (New Religious Movement). It goes to the extent of naming it in the same sentence mentioning al-Qaeda! NRMs can be found in Hinduism (the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS), Israel (Gush Emunim), Christianity […]
Virals via. Ad-Rag: We Hear Scared People to raise money for Childline, the helpline for children in UK. Inspired by The Sixth Sense, shot by Lee and Dan, produced by Quiet Storm (everything was done mostly for free). Stella Artois ‘Film Live’ by Lowe London and the report with solution. I know this wasn’t really […]
One thing that I have tried religiously to do is keep most of my work-related stuff out of my blog. It’s been slightly tough since I spend an average of 130 hours a week in the office (out of a total possible of 168). There are a few things that have crept in of course: […]
Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. *toot* *toot* Okay, so I completed 27 years today. Wow. Twenty-Seven. I still feel 18 though. That’s gotta be good in some psychiatric interpretation. 😉 I’m in far better spirits than last year. Lately I’ve become a hard-core positive thinker and I’m rather enjoying the energy it […]
We use Basecamp to manage work and interact with our clients. We call it our Extranet. My boss has started a little competition (I guess you can call it that) where he will rate its effective use by all the Project Managers and award the one to use it best with a box of Ferrero […]
Virals: Carlton Draught Big Ad was created by George Patterson Partners, shot by Andrew Lesnie who has won an Academy Award for cinematography (he’s worked on Fellowship of the Ring) and co-produced by Animal Logic. via. Ad-Rag Peperami Noodles is an exceedingly amusing viral for … Noodles! The Groundhog Chase Paper Wad Fun from last […]