Howto: Excel Based Mutual Fund Portfolio Tracker
on 13 Nov, 2006 in Excel Tips, personal finance | 2 Comments
Instead of searching for the NAVs of all my funds at MyIRIS or MutualFundsIndia, I have developed a small excel sheet which will fetch the values for me and displays the current portfolio value at the click of a button. Here I am trying to share the “HOWTO” of the same.
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Read More >>PHD’s Regular Blah!
on 25 Oct, 2006 in Random | 2 Comments
>>> Its raining in Chennai, like mad, for the last so many days now. I wonder whats going to come next.
>>> My new phone, Sony Ericsson w550i is really cool. My telephonic needs have gone down drastically in the last few months, and I needed a new mobile to listen to music and have some [...]
Coimbatore Bus Mafia and Adventure Trip to Ooty
Heard of black tickets? Well you must have somany times. After Aamir Khan glorified selling black tickets big way in Rangeela, Chennai’s private bus operators couldnt help but pick up a trick or two of the trade.
So there I am, unaware of the UCBTM (Undergroud Coimbatore Bus Transportation Mafia) cancerously proliferating and thriving in Koyembedu’s [...]
Cameras: Most Popular vs. Most Clicked
on 26 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
A couple of days I guess S.Anand has given this link to Flickr’s Top Digital cameras. The funda is simple. The site tells you what are Top camera models in Flickr based on the EXIF data available using some Flickr API.
I was wondering if the same cameras are also most sought after by people. So [...]
Google Life!
on 13 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Birth and Early Stages:> Look up for cool names in google> Post the newborn pics in orkut. Format them in Picasa. Share them with friends using Blogger
School & College:> Use Gtalk to chat with friends. Bye bye bfone!> Goodbye to combined studies, welcome google groups.> Doubts about what is the latest ninth planet? may be [...]
Porok, Call back Ads and Simple Joys of Life
on 12 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
First up, Porok!
MTV India has tied up with Microsoft XBOX and is welcoming xbox to India in style with “Porok”. [Read news items 1, 2] As they say in the Ad, “Porok might have been inspired from cocks, but inside we are all tigers”. Having seen a couple of XBOX ads, I am sure this [...]
US Legal Firms, Infosys Employees and Online Advertising
on 8 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Today I ran a search in Del.icio.us for Infosys to get some information. What I saw in the results page is height of online anti-advertising. Generally you expect to see some ads related to the search tags. What you see here is on a different dimension altogether.
When I clicked on the ad, it took me [...]
