Moved to Wordpress from Blogger
By Chandoo at 23 December, 2007, 4:08 pm | 5 Comments
4 days of Christmas break without a thing to do. The first thing that came to my mind is to revamp my blog. I have been thinking of upgrading the blog (yes, thats right, upgrading) to wordpress from blogger for a while now. Since my blog is hosted on another site through ftp, there is [...]
Read More >>My screen just widened!
By Chandoo at 2 August, 2007, 1:56 pm | 0 Comments
OCDOBG stuck me when I was in HK last week. That is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Of Buying Gadgets, This time I have picked up the biggest possible thing that can still be carried inside the luggage bags. A 19inch widescreen lcd monitor. The Samsung 931bw.
I have been thinking about upgrading my old 15 inch samtron [...]
Read More >>Fresh MBAs and IT Companies
By Chandoo at 30 March, 2007, 7:26 am | 0 Comments
The combination sounds as inseparable as ctrl+c and ctrl+v. But when it comes to making a career choice there is a fair bit of confusion as to what an MBA will do in an IT company, especially in the first few years. Marketing companies have it easy, in the first 18 months, you would be [...]
Read More >>Find out whether you need a house or not in 60 seconds
By Chandoo at 12 February, 2007, 4:20 pm | 0 Comments
Most of my classmates and friends have started purchasing houses. This coupled with the fact that I am in coveted DINK (double income no kids) group now have prompted me to do some preliminary research on buying a house. In my quest few things became obvious,
Any house worth its tiles costs more than a million [...]
Read More >>Google Life!
By Chandoo at 13 September, 2006, 9:33 am | 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 [...]
9 sureshot ways to kill your audience using powerpoint
By Chandoo at 7 February, 2006, 5:18 am | 0 Comments
Lately I have been attending campus pre-placement talks by various leading companies in India. It would suffice to say that I have attended over half-a-hundred presentations of companies “trying to sell themselves” to us. Some of them were really good, and then some of them are so pathetic that it made me feel sorry about [...]
Read More >>Welcome to the miraculous world
By Chandoo at 16 January, 2006, 3:13 pm | 0 Comments
Last night while switching the channels I stopped quite sometime at the TVC/Tele-shopping infomercials in some channels. I thought to myself, why not do some research on this type of marketing. The result is this post.
What is tele-shopping all about?In the words of Mehesh Panna, a country manager at TeleBrands,
“The basic concept of telemarketing [...]
