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Shoot the guy in eyes, you could get some discout…

on 1 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Saw this brillliantly executed interactive ad for promotion of laser eye treatment sometime back. It looks pretty much similar to online gambling/casino/Vi@gr@ ads where they make you shoot a duck, ball or something else and when you finally shoot they will direct you to their website which promotes something or other.
You shoot the glasses of [...]

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The biggest error message ever!

on 30 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

I can understand programs throwing huge and meaningless exception/error messages running into pages. But poor internet explorer? Yes sir! IE throwed this really huge and meaningless message when I clicked on some link a blog today. Whatever happened to usability?
[Click on to read the whole thing incase if you want to...]

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Google Grrs at Google

on 29 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Today I was using google reader and suddenly it Grred at me saying that there is a pop-up blocker which is not allowing the reader to open a window.
[Click on it incase you cant read it clearly, anyways it says: "Grrr! A popup blocker may be...."]Hmm! looks like slowly the world will move away from [...]

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2 seconds to go!

on 29 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

2 seconds, thats the time we generally spend on a print ad. For that matter I dont spend more than 10 mins in the monring to go through the news paper. Most of my reading is done from a blog reader in office during free time. When I go back home in the night, I [...]

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Duct tape found! Three men arrested!!!

on 25 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Well, thats exactly the type of news items I am reading / watching these days. Not that there is nothing else is happening in the world, for some obvious reasons most of the MSM have chosen to adopt the policy of selling the news instead of reporting the news.
So, even PHD decides to celebrate this [...]

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How too many dishes spoiled the cook…

on 18 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

Or, How Chandoo got hungry, cooked dishes and had a huge meal
Well, that was a poor attempt at copying an already copied book title nevertheless, the news in the town is that “Chandoo is cooking” or wait a second there; I think it should be “it has rained for a week in Chennai”. [...]

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A dream that is three and half years old…

on 11 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

January, 2003:It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year.
Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were running [...]

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