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Rediff seems to have taken a full leap from the standards of online advertising and web layouts when they realized that lots of people are going to click on day 1 scorecard link for IND-AUS first test match. The result is nothing short of user disgust and anger. See it for yourself. There seem to […]

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 […]

My life in a mini-feed – face book style. (you need to read it from bottom) PS: inspired from facebook mahabaratha at Jalsa & Jilpa. Also refer to Javascript trick to edit a web page. Also read: Recipe of my life | getLatestUpdates() | my life in xml

… that is exactly the message I get when I try to submit my repair estimate form from Cord Camera’s website. Whoever designed the website must be expecting camera repair requests from mars or read too much on special relativity theory, whatever is the case here is the jewel of a web form:

A quiz for all the techie folks who visit phd. What is the software that has the below features (apart from other)(1) The software will issue innumerable warnings if it ever occurred to the software that it is not genuine(2) The software would give users a time limit of 30 days to validate their copy […]

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 […]

We shifted, uneventfully that is. New house is demanding a considerable amount of travel, add to it lack of internet, that should explain the reason for nopost days. My plans for CalvinFund have taken a neat shape and currently the unbooked profits stand at 4-5%. But I am going to stop it and buy the […]

After a hectic day at office and client site, we had a wonderful evening on Wednesday. It all started when one of my collegues suggested that we have a pint to cheer up the hard day at work. So off we went to a near by pub. There I got introduced to Guinness, Ireland’s own […]

Saw this hoarding near Spencers plaza today. Amul is an agile brand. Is your brand / company / service / product agile? PS: The image is copyrighted, click on it to see the archives on Amul’s website.

Imagine a kid having this conversation with his mom,“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will some one run a marathon in space?”“It will happen when Mumbai university lists in BSE”“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will the university list in BSE?”“They will list when Rakhi Sawant looks like this”“Mummy, mummy, tell me when will Rakhi Sawant dresses […]

Come Ferbruary, every fund house worth its NAV comes up with a hoard of ELSS / Tax planning mutual fund offerings and promotions. These days you open any (business) magazine and you see atleast a dozen ads on how MFs can save you Rs. 33,360* or something on taxes. First up the claim that they […]

That aint a new aJAX based web service or a community site for head_scratchers_with_left_hand_middle_fingerers or something. Be warned. My computer, Madhu as I call it got a major upgrade two days ago. The 6 year old marathon win2k, p3, 256mb, cd rw system is now a spanking new p4 3ghz, 512 mb ddr, 160 gb […]

“One Kg tamarind is Rs. 69? What the heck…! Has it always been this costly?” raced my mind through the grocery stand in the neighbourhood supermarket. “Lets buy this 2kg surf excel no? we get a bucket free” urged my wife. I mused for a while trying to keep me afloat in the fmcg quicksand […]

As planned earlier, Saturday was busy to the end. After a good and loooooong sleep, we (few other TCSers and myself) went to Yangson area in Seoul where one of the biggest electronic malls is located. It was extremely cold today. I think it was -2 degrees or something when we came out of the […]

Monday mornings are not just difficult, but often they are funny too. So to begin with now there is a website for innocent. Even before you head there scratching your head, let me warn you: its the website of Malayalam actor Innocent. Now Some enterprising soul in Anand, Gujarat has made a clock that can […]