Auto tagging your old blog posts

on 7 Jan, 2008 in Analytics, blogging, hacks, ideas, technology | 8 Comments

As you all may know I have recently moved my blog from blogger to wordpress. Since I have started blogging way back in 2004 most of my posts were untagged. I have used blogger labels ever since they were introduced, still almost 400 of my posts were untagged. I had two options,

Manually edit posts and [...]

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Source of Happiness

on 16 Apr, 2007 in personal | 0 Comments

Have you ever realized that life can suck in thousand different ways, but happiness on the otherhand has very few ways of arriving. Its basically a mixture of being with the the people you love, having a hearty laugh, feeling healthy, knowing what you want and wanting very little.
I feel happy, most of the time, [...]

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Business Idea: Community Water Purifiers

on 11 Apr, 2007 in wonder why | 0 Comments

What comes to your mind when you see a water purifier.
>> Expensive!>> Rarely used, Once or twice a day!
I think they are both expensive and very thinly used. A modest water purifier from Eureka Forbes costs about Rs. 8000. Compare that with the alternative, a monthly supply of Bislery bottled water for a family [...]

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PHD’s Regular Blah #8

on 4 Apr, 2007 in personal | 1 Comment

Stop doing what you are and go read Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin. Even if you have already read it, do it again. It helps keeping your mind alive.
My plans to start Calvin Fund are slightly delayed, thanks to my forgetful finger, I lost my login password at the trading site and would take [...]

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The problem with B-schools

on 26 Mar, 2007 in b-school, wonder why | 0 Comments

The problem with (B) Schools is that, they grade you. You are A-pos or A or A Neg or B Pos or so on. The grading starts right from the first day first presentation, quiz, assigment, case study, cp and goes on till you leave the campus with all your bags.
So much that RG (relative [...]

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3 Steps to Create cool dashboards in excel

on 5 Sep, 2006 in Analytics, Excel Tips | 3 Comments

Dashboards are very common business monitoring tools, but creating them in excel with all the bells and whistles is not so easy. So here is a quick 1-2-3 on how to do it.
Lets take a sample of 2 consecutive year sales figures for 7 regions. The colums have Region name, 2004-05, 2005-06 figures and finally [...]

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R1C1 - Excel Here Launched

on 4 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments

My love for excel doesnt stop at the application. I thought starting an excel specific blog to share my excel knowledge and discuss it with other enthusiasts is a good idea. So R1C1 was born a couple of days back. Today I posted an article on creating unique lists in Excel there. Do check it [...]

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