August 2008
21 posts
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Worst Auto-Drivers in India: Bangalore
It has been common knowledge that the auto-drivers in Chennai were the worst of their species. Not anymore. Bangalorean autowallahs have taken the top (bottom?) spot now.
No auto-driver in any city refuses a ride to railway stations or airports since there are almost guaranteed passengers there. Not so in Bangalore. 4-5 Bangalore auto-drivers refused to come to the City Railway Station yesterday...
Nokia N79 looks pretty interesting. Is Nokia’s business model to flood the market with handsets with slightly varying functionality?
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Grooveshark Lite - First impressions
Reading Mashable.com’s post on Grooveshark Lite, I signed up on the site yesterday. I received the invite code today and completed the signing up process which required installing a client on the desktop. The site says that if we listen to free content, we get paid (they probably charge for hosting the songs?) and our listening is tracked through the client. This is not required for...
After hearing horror stories about traffic jams near the new T.Nagar flyover, breezed through it and reached home in record time, nice!
A fun test on our personality in office: http://www.waywework.in/default.asp
Wasted time creating avatars at http://www.faceyourmanga.com
Was shopping at Aditya Birla’s More supermarket; each item has a 10-digit code that needs to be entered every time for billing it. Wow!
Checking out major social music networks: signed up on blip.fm and imeem; looking at ilike
Interesting read on Raksha Bandhan: http://tinyurl.com/56opsu
Nice addictive track: Salam Aleykoum from Youcef http://www.last.fm/music/Youcef/_/Salam
Installed MobiTubia for watching FLV vids on my Nokia E51.With TechCrunch’s Youtube video saver,I am all set for a mobile Youtube experience
Good introduction to Cloud platforms: http://tinyurl.com/5vj82l
Heightened security all around for Independence Day
A USB tie: http://bit.ly/2tIhfl What will they think of next? USB briefs? :)
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Sidebar Redesigned
It has been a long time coming. Finally, I sat down and did a few changes to the sidebar on this blog/tumblog. Added a wood texture as a background, did a bit of formatting on text and links and put a large RSS icon on top of the sidebar so that people know where to click to get the feed. Overall, it looks better to me and hope it does so to the visitors of this site too.
Another Sunday drawing to a close… hard to let go
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Purified water that talks about its destiny
Was in Mumbai for a day; thought that the revamped domestic terminal looked pretty good. Pics: http://tinyurl.com/6d5qjy
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Mumbai Airport - Domestic Terminal
Wasted lot of time listening to music on http://www.last.fm/user/muqtaliff
Comprehensive, well-deserved win for India. Ishant Sharma comes good after a long time
July 2008
35 posts
Almost all Windows Smartphones (non-touchscreen) have a QWERTY keyboard. Looks like there is no market for normal 9-key Windows smartphones.
A strike with international implications: Lufthansa cancelled 4 long-haul roundtrip flights to US, India and Canada due to its crew’s strike
Dravid-2, Tendulkar-5, Ganguly-0: end of the golden greats?