Archive for November, 2006
Not a bad idea, this… filtering out the unwanted Google results to see only some of the more relevant ones. Not sure how well it would work. But it sure sounds useful. Give it a go!
Oh, it’s called Give Me Back My Google!
[Via: Dumb Little Man]
It’s not easy to really make money, is it? But some people seem to have an easier time of it than others. But Rs 1.5 lakh per minute? That seems a bit much for even the highest paid execs, eh?
Not for our own Bollywood siren, though. Through some deft negotiations and timely under-handedness, Mallika Sherawat has [...]
And why wouldn’t you? They are all around you… much like the dead people in The Sixth Sense. What am I talking about? Check out this phenomenal post by Jayesh on Indian cricketers and its Ashes parallel on Cricket 24×7.
Sooper stuff!
When things are going wrong for you, they just go wrong all the way. The Indian team at this point must be wondering who in the world is conspiring against them that they are facing a new problem everyday of this tour.
First it was the injury to Virender Sehwag, then Munaf Patel and now Rahul [...]
I’d been using Zoundry Blog Writer all along. Then it would give me trouble uploading images. So I tried w.bloggar. That would not configure my WordPress.com blog. I thought about Qumana, but it was too heavy. Performancing is ok, but demands Firefox.
So here I am back with good old Windows (and MS) with the [...]
There are shirts and then there are shirts. I am rather class-less when it comes to the matter of dressing. Give me my pair of Jeans and a shirt or T-shirt and I’m good to go. I normally have about 2 (two) formal shirts ready and waiting for that occasional meeting, function, interview (less [...]
And nobody told me? Did you know this?
Technorati : TV is dead
Greg Chappell finds himself in the middle of another storm. It really is interesting and commendable to note the tenacity of the man. He has gone through some really turbulent times and emerged on top. Till now, that is. But if the Indian team’s performance does not improve soon, there may be trouble. Although the [...]
Another day, another dismal performance. And this time, they even looked like they could have won it. But to allow South Africa to reach 274 after having them at 76/6 is not just shocking, but shameful. Rahul Dravid, for once, would have to take a lot of the blame.
There did not seem to be any [...]
Right. So India is on another tour of South Africa, a country where their record, for all practical purposes, is non-existent. And they lost one of the tour practice games before capitulating in the second ODI at Durban. Since that loss, the Indian media has worked overtime to impress the fact that this is bunch [...]
Should all the Kaavya Viswanathan’s of the world watch out? Big Brother Google is at it again and claims its Book Search project may well spell the end of plagiarism by making book passages and all searchable. Interesting. More about this on SearchEngineWatch.
As the Slate.com reports:
Conveniently enough, a few literary greats have already had their [...]
A bit unfair, no to write off the England team after just one day, no? Especially if we were to remember how the last series panned out… And day 2 has not been exactly one-sided now, has it?
And if music is your thing, here’s a song about Brett Lee killing Freddie Flintoff. Sing it to [...]
India finally got their tour of South Africa off the ground. And I am sure they must be wishing they had not! For their performance last night was a hark back to the 1996 tour I remember vividly. The bowlers (M/s Prasad and Srinath) got the team on top with a fiery spell of bowling [...]
Thesre are two of the biggest Internet giants and both are keen on a big (read: huge) pie of online advertising. I know that Yahoo! aims to be ‘the’ biggest in display advertising online in years to come. And obviously, so does Google. But the way Google’s built its advertising business so far, they have [...]
There was a financial advisor who advised his clients to sell Google and buy Yahoo stocks. Not very smart. And he admits it! Honest!
Good man!
Technorati : Google sold, google stock, internet
It seems there may have been some controversy about the Miss Great Britain pageant. Indiatimes.com Hindustan Times informs us that Preeti Desai of Indian roots has been chosen to replace Danielle Lloyd who was fired as Miss Great Britain. Interestingly, the official site of the pageant is also asking for information and news items [...]
After many delays, Sony Ericsson finally launched the P990i and those who did buy it at the obnoxiously high initial prices (almost like IPOs), would vouch it was worth the wait (and money). I got mine for about 29K (INR, that is!) and think it was a fair price considering i paid some Rs 38K [...]
It’s not often that Brian Lara takes on a bowling attack the way he has in the second Test against Pakistan. It’s great to see and heartwarming when one thinks that the WI will host the next World Cup. The WI team has been in a mini-resurgent phase for a while now and perhaps this [...]
Tony Greig talks on Cricinfo. Good stuff. Wish they could colour it up a bit. But there is a nice old-world feel to it like listening to the radio. Give it a go.
Technorati Tags: cricket , tony greig , cricinfo , talk show , online radio
Wish I’d seen this at Diwali. Sigh.
Technorati : frugal, gift again, regift
Perverse? Secure? It’s a fine line. And I doubt if multiple layers of clothing would help, either!
Technorati : airport security, india, scanner, x-ray
Boy am I glad I moved out of Mumbai! Not that I could have afforded any of these places, anyways! Still.
Note to self: Start saving to buy property in Mumbai. At the current rate of interest, the amount I may be able to save and inflation, I should be ready to buy my own shanty [...]
Interesting column in the Mid-Day by their ‘diarist’:
THE DIARIST IS WONDERING
Whether Mumbai will sprout a new worker – the street dentist who works on filling the craters on our roads.
Whether we will soon see cars suspended on chains from buildings as vertical parking spaces get more ingenious.
Whether Kiran Desai has spent any amount of the [...]
So Rahul Mahajan is having a bad year. Maybe that’s an understatement. As Mid-Day informs us, he has now taken to physically abusing his wife. After his father’s death, his drug problem (alleged, mind you) and a score of other problems that have seen his perfect world fall apart, one would have thought, he would [...]
Or is it? Some have started referring to it as Bengalooru. Variants of that spelling too! But name notwithstanding, the city is the same. Lovely weather, great places to eat, good place to work and a rotten place if you don’t know the language. Why?
As anyone who has moved to a city that primarily speaks [...]
It’s Ashes time and while the ‘mind-games’ have been on for a while, the biggest piece of news has been Marcus Trescothick pulling out (rather suspicously, if you ask me) and Steve Harmison declaring himself fit. I mean, isn’t someone else, like a doctor, supposed to do that?
The other good thing to have happened of [...]
Wonder why this artwork appeals so much to me… Those who know me, any suggestions?
(+) Click to enlarge
(c) Hugh Macleod
Technorati : me
Got another upload tool for the WP blog. And yes, this means that I shall write more frequently now.
Cheerio for now.
