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All articles with 'personal' Tag

Welcome to Pointy Haired Dilbert – Chandoo.org

Published on May 21, 2008 in blogging, personal

It has been a while since I wrote a welcome post to my readers, so here again. Pointy Haired Dilbert – Chandoo.org is a blog about technology, business, data analytics, excel, photography, advertising and my life. I am Chandoo, an excellent donut eater, coffee drinker extraordinaire, blogger beyond reform, crappy coder, lousy manager, happy husband, […]

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Shootout @ Hocking hills state park

Published on May 12, 2008 in america, personal, pics, travels

We went to Hocking hills state park during the weekend, hiked a few miles, had tons of fun watching waterfalls, caves, cliffs, rare plants and infinite greenery. The trip has been thoroughly grinding with almost every place looking spectacular and lengthy. We couldn’t really visit all the attractions as both of us were feeling totally […]

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Purnography on the lake – trip to Ashtabula county, put-in-bay

Published on Apr 28, 2008 in america, personal, pics, travels

A bunch of us went to Ashtabula county and Put-in-bay island over the weekend; beautiful lake Erie beach locations on the northern side of Ohio. We started off from Columbus on Saturday early morning, the weather wasn’t perfect as it started raining. After nearly slipping out of the ramp, I managed to get the car […]

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PHD’s Regular Blah #12

Published on Mar 26, 2008 in blogging, personal, pics

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 […]

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Car gets PHD, nobody is hurt

Published on Mar 19, 2008 in Charts and Graphs, Humor, personal, pics

Well folks, we have finally purchased a car, a toyota camry that is, ah! typical dvd (Desi in ViDesh) choice you may say, well, I have nothing to respond for that. I dont have permanent license yet, so you can roam around freely on columbus roads for few more days, walk all you want. [click […]

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Powerpoint Cartoons #1

Published on Mar 17, 2008 in Charts and Graphs, Humor, ideas, personal, pics, Powerpoint Cartoons

Saturday night was fun with a part at colleague’s house. Then…, You can also see all the 3 panels together here.

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PHD gets lifehacked deliciously !!!

Published on Mar 14, 2008 in blogging, personal

Wow, I am overwhelmed by the response the Excel Conditional Formatting Rockstar post generated. I got both lifehacked and del.icio.us home paged on the sameday and Wow, I am so happy for this. Talk about my server, it was no where near expecting this kind of traffic. First thing today morning, I have called my […]

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Busy!

Published on Feb 20, 2008 in personal

Sorry for not posting any updates, but I am occupied with few things that are going on in now and cannot post anything here until this weekend. Back to back meetings with customers, non-stop snow in Columbus and planning for my new business are keeping me away for the time being. So bear with me. […]

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5 !!! I Did it

Published on Feb 16, 2008 in personal

Yesterday, for the first time in my life I ran 5 kilometers. That is 5000 meters. I am so excited, so happy for this result. Even though I am not a fitness fanatic I do workout quite often. But most of the times when the momentum is building up I had to go on one […]

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Super(b) Tuesday!

Published on Feb 6, 2008 in gadgets, personal

And you almost knew why it is a superb tuesday, well, we got Shimla delivered today. Still going through initial learning curve of getting used to mac. Here is the screen cap, isnt it looking gorgeous? We know :), but the important thing is the it feels gorgeous. PS: regular posting @ PHD should resume […]

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Proud owners of Macbook

Published on Feb 3, 2008 in gadgets, personal

Missus arrived Missus on bench Missus bored at hotel Missus asked for some immediate lap love (not the baby kind 😉 ) Missus nagged Missus ORDERED! I had to obey now, the choice was between Dell XPS 1530 and one of the Macs. A quick check at the bank balances revealed that I forgot my […]

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PHD’s Regular Blah #11

Published on Jan 28, 2008 in blogging, business, personal

GOOD NEWS, my wife has finally come to US yesterday. I am so happy. It was sad being away from her on our first marriage anniversary. But finally she came, her journey was safe and uneventful. Buy walmart shares if you can, now that I have shifted to a hotel bang in front of the […]

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New number

Published on Apr 6, 2006 in Random

My old number (9303235238) is no longer valid. Call me on 9391 353553

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