Is your (chart’s) underwear showing?

When I read Is your website’s underwear showing?, I couldn’t control the urge to write this one.
So the big screaming friday question everyone…
Is your chart’s underwear showing?
What is my chart’s underwear? you may ask.
My dear reader, it is the background color (that grayish shade excel adds by default). Also commonly known as one of the [...]

Tiger Woods walks on water to please a fan - Awesome advertising

Look at the power of conversation. A fan posted on youtube showing an apparent glitch in Tiger Woods 08 video game that you can walk on water to hit a golf ball. What did Electronic Arts and Tiger Woods do? They post a response to that video advertising Tiger Woods 09 saying that “its not [...]

Amul is Seriously Good - How agile is your brand?

Amul has one hell of a branding strategy, they take whatever is happening in politics, entertainment, sports etc and turn the situation in to a billboard to tell their butter / jam / milk product story. Almost every week they do this, so restlessly that when something big happens, customers tend to think how Amul [...]

Dear Microsoft, Blog is a real word

Dear Microsoft (and other guys who design software that can be used to write something):
Blog is a real word, just like bog or bloc or blot or blow or blob. So please add it to your esteemed dictionaries and stop harassing everyone with the wiggly red lines. Of course you can blame me for not [...]

Yahoo hopes to create more apps than no. of atoms in observable universe

One of the latest news is that Yahoo has launched BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) using which you can build search based apps. Being a part geek who loves to show off my part knowledge to other part geeks during parties, I went to their website to register for my own app.
The registration [...]

Stop feeling lucky, its just a google sari

Huh! this has to be the most bizarre sari ever …

Related google stuff you may find odd: Google park bench, Google fools day present to time travelers, Google life
original source:New Launches

Am I a Japanese Translator?

Fridays can be immensely fun, as I anticipate 2 days of doing-nothing while sipping coffee working on excel sheets. But nothing can make my day better than this immense suckmanship displayed by Naukri with their job recommendation for me.

All the Japanese I know can be summarized to 1 word - “omurice“, now that I think [...]