How to Get Unique Items using Excel

I recently had to perform some analysis on a set of insurance companies in certain geography. After searching the net I found such list of companies operating in that continent. But the problem is, These companies are listed multiple times, one time for each of their geographical area of operation. I cannot count each company […]

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Importing blogger posts to wordpress

or chasing the mysical ithaca in the blogdom invain After installing wp on my blog for over 4-5 months, now I wanted to shift everything from blogger to here so that I can do fullstream blogging here. Well, it really isnt that easy porting my 370odd earlier posts here. Here is a list of all […]

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Shoot the guy in eyes, you could get some discout…

Saw this brillliantly executed interactive ad for promotion of laser eye treatment sometime back. It looks pretty much similar to online gambling/casino/Vi@gr@ ads where they make you shoot a duck, ball or something else and when you finally shoot they will direct you to their website which promotes something or other. You shoot the glasses […]

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The biggest error message ever!

I can understand programs throwing huge and meaningless exception/error messages running into pages. But poor internet explorer? Yes sir! IE throwed this really huge and meaningless message when I clicked on some link a blog today. Whatever happened to usability? [Click on to read the whole thing incase if you want to…]

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Google Grrs at Google

Today I was using google reader and suddenly it Grred at me saying that there is a pop-up blocker which is not allowing the reader to open a window. [Click on it incase you cant read it clearly, anyways it says: “Grrr! A popup blocker may be….”]Hmm! looks like slowly the world will move away […]

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2 seconds to go!

2 seconds, thats the time we generally spend on a print ad. For that matter I dont spend more than 10 mins in the monring to go through the news paper. Most of my reading is done from a blog reader in office during free time. When I go back home in the night, I […]

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Duct tape found! Three men arrested!!!

Well, thats exactly the type of news items I am reading / watching these days. Not that there is nothing else is happening in the world, for some obvious reasons most of the MSM have chosen to adopt the policy of selling the news instead of reporting the news. So, even PHD decides to celebrate […]

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