http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog His views, thoughts, introspection and rants Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:53:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We use Microsoft Communicator for instant messaging at work. Communicator has an option of setting a status message which is visible to everyone who has you on their contact list, but in a rather non-intuitive manner (see below; the pinned note; on taking the mouse over the status message of ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/11/people-notice-more-than-you-think-they-do.html Hell, rant again. Seems like I'm the most inspired to blog when I have a rant. Why on earth will I want to make a rant public? I guess it's similar to just "talking it out". So here goes. One thing that really pisses me off is when people can't say ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/10/why-cant-you-say-it-straight.html It's been 6 years that you're gone but the memories just keep getting more vivid. Everything I do, everything that happens reminds me of you in some way or the other. I'm trying to become what you wanted me to... I know you're there helping me out... Always be! Love you ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/10/we-miss-you-papa.html I've been hibernating for two months now. Been completely off blogging; off reading; off exercising. Crazy how I get so caught up in life. Looking at the past two months - it started with getting awfully busy, 'that' broke the routine and the discipline was gone. End result - a ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/10/this-one-is-just-to-break-the-hiatus.html I was chatting with an acquaintance who wanted some advice on how to establish their startup (actually the idea) with a target segment of internet users. Not that I'm an expert in this area, but I did give him my two cents, and I thought I'll put them up here ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/how-to-get-yourself-noticed-in-the-blogosphere.html Must be a simple question for some, but the most difficult for me. I guess I've been trying to figure it out forever. Heck my conclusion is that I've no burning ambition in life - an ambition for which I may give up everything, or give 'it' everything. A little secret. ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/what-do-i-want-out-of-life.html Reacting to a story by Times of India here. Shankar M Bidari, police commissioner of Bangalore, very proudly says that before his predecessor Ajai Kumar Singh did not regulate live bands: did business worth Rs 1 crore every day, of which Rs 50 lakh came through robbery, extortion and land dealings Wonder ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/half-of-live-bands-income-comes-from-extortion.html My blogging patterns are very random (see below). I've been blogging since Dec-04 and there have been months when I have posted 20+ entries and there have been several months when I've not posted any article at all! I'm not a professional blogger, and I know that a lot of ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/factors-corelated-with-blogging.html The love/affection is one sided - the woman either does not reciprocate, or may even abhor you/the whole idea. Still want to marry her? Easy! Just rape her. Yes, you read it right - rape her. At least that's what the Orissa High Court has proclaimed (not verbatim of course; as ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/want-to-marry-someone.html Or does it have any? I don't have too much data around it but at least my perception is that India is not at all serious about the Olympics. We're still plagued with mediocrity and politics (wonder what's this Monika Devi doping case all about). Seems like we're comfortable with ... http://www.sameeragarwal.com/blog/2008/08/the-indian-olympic-dream.html