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Stalkers

..Or whatever they are called… in particular referring to the guys who repeatedly post slimy anonymous comments on people’s blogs. I’m not a victim yet, but Sakshi is, so its equally bad > worse.
 
Anonymous. Heck, why can’t these people own up their identities! If you kill your own identity who [...]

Let’s play

That used to be the slogan for a design company I co-owned some 8 years back. And no, it is not copyrighted or anything, so feel free to copy it shamelessly if you must!!
 
I received an SMS from someone and found it very interesting — “Life is a game. God likes [...]

Comment = Pornography

Proxies sometimes behave so funny, that its not funny! Try posting a comment to a blog entry from my office and ‘SmartFilter’ tells you that access is forbidden since the page is classified as pornography… Now isn’t that funny!! This is the error message that I get!!
ERROR
Access Denied by SmartFilter

The following error was encountered:

Access Denied [...]

Poor sales skills

For the umpteenth time today I received a sales call from a financial services company — this time for selling a Reliance credit card. Usually I cut those guys short and hang up but today I listened to the person on the other end. During the conversation, she asked me for [...]

Don’t have bread, why buy butter

Sounds very logical. What will you do with butter anyway? But think from a more macro perspective and you may think differently. India as a country is still grappling with hygiene factors like infrastructure, education, social security etc etc. But does that mean that we should stop free trade, or disallow [...]

Snake charmers and the art of deception/robbery

Just outside of my office building I was basking in the sun, smoking. Just from nowhere this snake charmer, or whatever they are called, comes and asks for some money. I’d usually not give anything to such people but then I had a coin which I gave him. This guy uttered some [...]

163 kms > destination nowhere in sight

This weekend was devoted to driving around Delhi meeting relatives. This is how the journey looked:
 
Saturday: Gurgaon > Central Delhi > North Delhi > North-West Delhi > Central Delhi
Sunday: Central Delhi > West Delhi > East Delhi > Central Delhi > South Delhi > Gurgaon
 
Tiring, illogical, frustrating and ridiculous! [...]

Free speech, sensitivities and the cacophony

The I&B Ministry is unhappy over some videos posted on YouTube by an NRI (on Gandhi).Article available here — http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/YouTube_angers_IB_with_its_tasteless_Gandhi_video/articleshow/1161665.cms
Great — they finally woke up. But what do they think the solution is — taking YouTube off the air… How ridiculous is that… If I publish a book that’s inappropriate will they ban anybody from [...]

What a day!

Woke up with a call that our (the org where I work in) Knowledge Management portal is not working… So much for taking a day off because I was unwell… Later discovered that a project we had put our heart and soul on can’t take off because of some reasons… So much for the ‘radical’ [...]

My first public video