Telling a kid how software development teams work

Inspired from a meeting incident
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Focus on customers, not on your brand

Last night while looking for chocolate chip ice-cream, I couldn’t help but notice this perfect example of a “brand blinding the eyes of the manager so much that she neglects customers”. Take a look at the graters ice cream cups.

Can you identify vanilla from chocolate chip from strawberry when all cups look like this. I [...]

Few good Indian print ads - horlicks, maggi, zandu balm and head & shoulders

Most of the time doing a print advertisement is much more difficult than doing a normal video ad, the creativity is limited to a rectangle on the paper and no matter how much effort is spent on the ad, your audience may not even look at it for more than a split second. Only very [...]

Gmail custom time - fools day present for time travelers

Its that time of the year again, April first, the fools day, when folks working at Google get creative and make a joke that is totally crazy and back it up with research that sounds authentic. This just proves that when you are passionate about something, you end up having tons of fun. This year [...]

Null Pointer Exception

or Powerpoint Cartoon #2
On a more personal note, I have migrated this blog to spanking new version of wordpress 2.5, which promptly broke several of my installed plug-ins. I couldnt get enough time in the morning to figureout what went wrong, so checked the blog quickly in IE and Firefox and it seemed to [...]

PHD’s Regular Blah #12

I have been busy last few days both at office and home. While work is keeping me busy at office, at home I am occupied with learning how to drive.

I took my permanent license exam today and failed miserably. My examiner was surprised that I failed on so many counts, once I actually joined the [...]

Wow! - Traveling salesman in the age of ebay

Xkcd simply rocks, so much so that its one of the first things I check in the morning. See this gem: