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Instead of searching for the NAVs of all my funds at MyIRIS or MutualFundsIndia, I have developed a small excel sheet which will fetch the values for me and displays the current portfolio value at the click of a button. Here I am trying to share the “HOWTO” of the same. Create an excel workbook […]

Banks and relationships are as old a pair as slice bread and butter knife. I can imagine my grand father getting shivers allover when he deposited bulk of his first salary in the bank wondering all he was left with was a stupid passbook with illegible numbers on it. The point is days have changed! […]

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 […]

Its been 2 years since I have posted such a message. A recent look at my website statistics revealed that most of the visitors are first timers, and quite a few of them land here searching one of the “iim”, “indore”, “iim indore blog”, “iimi” or “chandoo iim”. So, let me take a moment and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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…]

Internet connection at home has given enough opportunities to me to stay idle and wonder about the dust in my mouse. But today proved to be different. Since there is some problem with the net connection I had to actually think of ways to kill the time other than stumbling. The output aint that bad. […]

It is amazing how attention to smaller details can change the face of a service organization. There are several things that are done just the way they are since they were first done. Ok, thats a complex statement, for example, when you go to a website and it has some data/animation to load, all you […]

Hurrreey! Finally got the internet connection at my home. This means somany more photo uploads, newer and better blog templates and lot more action. 🙂

Reliance Mobile’s latest Bas Button Dabao is an excellent example of how brand managers sometimes under the heavy influence of a stylish tagline/product name forget the important thing called “relevance”. I have been using Reliance mobile for almost 2 years and I can tell you that it is not so simple to access ringtones/cricket updates […]

Madhu, my computer, after surviving 5 years with minimal formattings, had be “format c: /s”ed due to a stupid mistake. Right now my plans for connecting to internet from home have been shelved :D. Thanks to safexpress folks, the usb and lancard have been thoroughly screwed up. My comp is not recognizing them anymore. That […]

Couple of things… – my stuff from indore hasnt arrived yet. thanks to safexpress folks. The excuse they gave is “we couldnt find the address”, God should only know why they are in the delivery business. – Been to my native place “machilipatnam” for a couple of days. Now you know why I didnt smell […]

MakemyTrip.com does it again with yet another superb interactive. Check the “moving train” interactive ad here. Agency: WebChutneyRelated links – Chidiya Udi, MMT‘s another interactive campaign

yeah, thats right, i have been catching up with a lot of nothing. Been shamelessly and indulgently lazy for the last 6-7 days. My daily routine (if you can call it so) is, Wake up at 9, sleep again Finally wake up at 12:30, get ready to eat watch a couple of episodes of friends […]