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300th post on this blog 2007-03-10 16:28:05 This is my 300th post on this blog. I remember when I shifted to my own domain name last August, after awestruck by the beauty of Patrix’s blog (it is now not as beautiful as it used to be), I just has 95 posts. This blog has traveled a long way since that eventful August, 2006. Serendipity now gets around 150-200 unique visitors each day (Short stats claims that figure to be around 400-500 but I wonder why it’s so high compared to google analytics). Google adsense income is around $ 2-4 per day, which is high by my standards. On few occasions its as low as $ 0.5 but average hovers around $3. Feedburner tells me that I have around 110 subscribers. The google PR is now 4 but predictions are that it will increase to 5 shortly. The most visited post, which will be a surprise to most of my regular readers, happens to be When Munna bhai is overtaken by Veer. (It has been viewed 2158 times)
I think I have achieved a lot in these months, particularly as
Womensaver.com-Cheating men are now under the scanner! 2007-03-10 03:01:07 You invest everything into the relationship in terms of hope, expectations, love, time, money and above all emotions. And if you are finally ditched by your sweetheart then what? You feel cheated, apoplectic and perplexed about future. You wonder how would someone else replace him/her. You are hurt emotionally and once your sweetheart is now your most hated person. You look for opportunities to take your revenge and pray furtively that he/she has a gloomy future ahead. The ambivalence of emotions between hatred and love leave you languished. You find it hard to concentrate on the job at hand and in the end up ruining your career, if you are not emotionally stable. And in extreme cases even suicide.
Imagine a database where you can find history of a person’s track record as far as infidelity is concerned. It will be great, isn’t it? Womansavers.com does exactly this. It has the world’s largest database, of nearly 25,000 men so far, created by concerned women Read more:Cheating
Ready to buy the new Tata Nano? 2008-02-05 09:43:35 Tata Nano is, without even a shadow of doubt, the most eagerly awaited car in India. The attention it drew in the recently concluded Auto Expo 2008, was tremendous by any standard. I reached Pragati Maidan last Saturday to catch a glimpse of the ‘talk of the town’, but seeing the mad rush at the [...]
I know, its been long…. 2008-01-11 10:54:48 I know it has been a long hiatus for me but just cannot escape the job pressure. I promise to be back shortly.
Picture of the day: Coming of the ‘Cyclone’ 2007-11-16 07:56:28 A woman holds her new-born grandchild who was named Cyclone as he was born during a powerful cyclone in Sidr, Bangladesh. The cyclone slammed into Bangladesh’s coast with 240 kph winds killing at least 150 people. [TOI] Read more:Picture
Gentleman only Sports? 2007-11-11 11:26:36 The news channels were telecasting the footage again and again. The lips of Shahid Afridi and Gautam Gambhir were circled so that the able audience can read their lips. I really wonder can anything really be a ‘Gentleman
only’ sports. Read more:Sports
Emergency in Pakistan and Geo TV 2007-11-04 03:14:20 The recent declaration of emergency in Pakistan
has sent myriad of visitors on Pakistani News Channels. I was surprised to see the GEO TV site down, the only channel that has dared to boldly speak against the rule of Musharraf (not like the Indian Aaj Tak and other news channels who are more interested in [...] Read more:Emergency
Leopard on PC? 2007-10-28 20:59:48 And its just 3 steps!
I am not sure about the performance of hacked installation but would definitely love to try this. If Apple isn’t interested in India (the online Apple store is down for months now) then why should we worry about piracy issues?
I was really surprised to find out that Apple on available on [...] Read more:Leopard
The coal carriers 2007-10-25 11:18:35 These coal carriers
carry coal, on their bicycles, up the hill to sell. This meager income doesn’t justify the effort required in this physically exhausting task. They operate in the areas near to the coal mines of Dhanbad, they are mostly stolen or collected coal. Poverty forces these men to take up this daunting task [...]
Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan and 120+ leave this world 2007-10-19 06:37:30 I thought they made a mistake while quoting ‘166 dead’. I later realized that it was the biggest terrorist attack in Pakistan
. Once again innocents, who had absolutely nothing to do power game going on the democrazy of Pakistan, were targeted.
Two bombs exploded Thursday night just seconds apart and feet from a truck carrying the [...]
The quota row 2008-04-10 20:20:49 Suddenly the sleeping giant is awake. But I am happy because
the creamy layer has been excluded
cut-off marks for admission has been set as a maximum of 10 (I hope its strictly adhered to)
there is phased implementation of the quota
And headlines like 27 pc quota upheld: Are OBCs India’s new rulers? aren’t just contemptuous, they are [...]
Have I really grown older? 2008-04-20 00:30:43 Its a strange feeling inside my belly, i think i have grown old. I have put a lot of weight since i left college last year but it hasn’t even been 1 year and I have now become ‘uncle’ ! Eve though no one has referred to me by this attribute, I fear that this [...] Read more:older
Why do the rich need to know time? 2008-04-27 02:04:04
Isn’t it enough that they get to know whether its work or private time?
As the company’s Web site boasts: “With no display for the hours, minutes or seconds, the Day&Night offers a new way of measuring time, splitting the universe of time into two fundamentally opposing sections: day versus night.” [The Wealth Report]
Opera or Safari; Who’s faster? 2008-06-11 09:50:06 Just saw the apple keynote of WWDC 2008. Steve Jobs talked about the new 3G iPhone and its superiority over the Edge network. The video about the speed comparison was interesting, Safari
took 59 seconds to load nationalgeographics.com on Edge. Interestingly Opera browser on my Blackberry 8310 (Edge network) takes 25 seconds to load the same page!
The [...]
The paperless office 2008-06-12 09:32:08 Found this wonderful cartoon in today’s edition of Times of India. This cartoon brings very harsh realities to light, the most important being the high cost of IT implementation in organizations. I also look this from another angle of paperless office
, the superficial concept!, being so difficult to implement in organizations. No wonder that 51% [...]
Launch of the new 3G iPhone in India 2008-06-18 09:40:38 Kiruba has raised few very valid arguments on the launch on iPhone
in India
.
First, You can’t just walk to a mobile store, pay about Rs 9950, pick up the iPhone and walk away. You’ll have to sign a long term contract (approx two years) with either Airtel or Vodafone, the mobile operators that Apple has [...] Read more:Launch
3G iPhone registration has started on Airtel 2008-06-26 08:17:05 Airtel has started registration for the new 3G iPhone
. But still no update on the price or data/voice plan.
Vodafone has also started its registration. Read more:Airtel
Dear Obama- With love from India! 2008-06-24 12:14:39 A special religious ceremony was arranged for his success in the Presidential election. And we keep making records in idiocies.
Obama
’s success would definitely unfold an entirely new chapter in US history but does that mean a drastic change in India
’s fortune as well, particularly when the government at the centre is facing stern resistance from [...]
Rainy afternoon on a Sunday 2008-06-26 08:19:30 A heavy downpour on a Sunday
afternoon makes the happy hours merrier. And this is what exactly happened last Sunday in Chandigarh. Water logging plagued most round-abouts. The accumulation of water was so severe that my car was half immersed in the water.
Because Singh is a King 2008-07-22 19:15:48 At his ripe old age, I do not expect Shri Advani to change his thinking. But for his sake and India’s sake, I urge him at least to change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come.
Manmohan Singh
in a speech after UPA’s win in the Parliament. The full text [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-07-18 2008-07-18 12:59:59 There are lot and lot of aunties around me. #
Ok. They are gone now. #
Feed: Links for 2008-07-17 [del.icio.us]:
Geek And Poke: It’s A SOA All too true…
iPhone 2.0:.. #
Colleague: you are undermining my hard work that I put in at home
Me: Ok. Call the CEO of Airtel then. Wud u be satisfied with anything [...] Read more:Twitter
Shimla! 2008-07-17 12:15:45 Even though I have been in Chandigarh for over an year now, I never had the opportunity to visit Shimla
which is only 120 KM from here. We stayed in Kufri, 20 KM from Shimla. The weather was awesome and stayed the same throughout the year. There were no fans in the rooms! Here is [...]
India on the top of an Olympic list 2008-07-29 12:42:29 The list has been prepared by the Foreign Policy. And it’s called The List: The World’s Worst Olympians!
The country’s athletic ineptitude is so profound that a parliamentarian called for two minutes of silence to “lament the demise of India
n sports” after the squad failed to win any medals in Barcelona in 1992. Read more:Olympic
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