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April 30th, 2009 - 10:40 pm § in Random Stuff

Snail Mails

The other day while talking to a couple of friends, we were discussing how E-mail and telephone have taken over the the postal mails. I mean its a good thing that the world is moving ahead with the technology. We have faster means of communications now and it is obvious we will prefer to save [...][...]

April 14th, 2009 - 7:56 am § in Random Stuff

The magic of excel programming

I won’t normally share the forwards on m blog. But this one is kinda magical. Download the excel sheet and move your cursor on the image in the file to watch Sun rise & sun set in city of Hong kong. Woever has created this, must have really worked hard on this. Btw, can someone [...][...]

April 13th, 2009 - 2:02 pm § in Random Stuff

The ethics in IM talks

Chatting on IMs like yahoo messenger, Gtalk is largely replacing telephonic conversations. And is often considered as an alternative to telephonic talks. Those talks on messengers are often considered to be a personal affair between the two. If one of them is sharing the conversation on blog or a fo[...]

March 29th, 2009 - 9:22 am § in Mumbai, Politics, Random Stuff

No criminals.. Please..

I’m supporting “No criminals in Politics” campaign. During recent Social Media Summit, me and Apurva were wearing badges which said “I won’t vote for criminals”. Here’s someting about the campaign. The recent Mumbai attacks have once again highlighted the ne[...]

March 27th, 2009 - 9:18 pm § in Community events, Random Stuff

Type of twitters

First thing first. I don’t understand why many people take twitter as verb and twitterer as noun. That might be the thing said by the site itself. But i always take twit as a verb and twitter as noun. So being on this site for around a year now, I was just wondering how many [...][...]

March 27th, 2009 - 9:01 am § in Random Stuff

Happy Gudi Padwa

Wish you all a very happy Gudi Padwa and Happy New year. For those who don’t know what Gudi Padwa is, here’s what Wikipedia says about it. “Gudhi Padwa (Devnagari: गुढीपाडवा) is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month, and is celebrated as New Year’[...]

March 23rd, 2009 - 8:24 pm § in Random Stuff

Welcome Nano

It was the plight of middle class Indian families travelling on scooters with kids that prompted Ratan Tata to think about an affordable ‘people’s car’. “I observed families riding two-wheelers — the father driving the scooter, his young kid standing in front of him, hi[...]