PHD’s Regular Blah #11

on 28 Jan, 2008 in blogging, business, personal | 4 Comments

GOOD NEWS, my wife has finally come to US yesterday. I am so happy. It was sad being away from her on our first marriage anniversary. But finally she came, her journey was safe and uneventful.
Buy walmart shares if you can, now that I have shifted to a hotel bang in front of the giant [...]

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Business Idea : Train / Flight Ticket Printing Machine

on 17 Jan, 2008 in business, ideas, technology | 15 Comments

Recently I was booking few train tickets for my in-laws at IRCTC website, which btw is a wonderful website that makes the whole train reservation affair so simple. Just then I have realized that even though you can book tickets online, you still need to carry a printout of the ticket when you board the [...]

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Lessons from music industry

on 9 Jan, 2008 in business, ideas, media | 0 Comments

Stop reading this post and go read Seth’s excellent post on Music Industry, actually the post is so universal in nature, it doesnt matter if you are a hotshot MBA with I have figured it all out attitude or super brilliant engineer with Ruby is not going to die complex. It doesnt even matter if [...]

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Software or Strictware ?!?

on 4 Dec, 2007 in business, technology, wonder why | 1 Comment

A quiz for all the techie folks who visit phd.
What is the software that has the below features (apart from other)(1) The software will issue innumerable warnings if it ever occurred to the software that it is not genuine(2) The software would give users a time limit of 30 days to validate their copy [...]

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PHD Regular Blah - the Nth installment

on 20 Nov, 2007 in personal | 0 Comments

Last few weeks at work have been really hectic and full of activity. I had to go to Bangalore 4 times for some workshops and project issues. I was also busy with my US visa processing formalities.
I am moving to US for a few months starting tonight. My wife will join me later during December. [...]

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Hong Kong - Made for tourists

on 27 Jul, 2007 in Hong Kong, personal, travels | 1 Comment

I couldnt really get enough time to sit and write a lengthy post on HK till now. The visit has been completely hectic whether its the meetings with the client or roaming the bustling Hong Kong streets. Finally I am coming back to India today. Fortunately I came a little early to the airport (well [...]

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3 years and counting

on 14 Jul, 2007 in b-school, personal | 0 Comments

Its been 3 years since this blog is launched. well, slightly more than that as the very first post was published on July 1st, 2004, my first day at IIM Indore. What started as chronicles of an engineer struggling in a b-school later transformed in to a full-time commentary on business, advertising, technology and life [...]

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