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Archive | August, 2005

Sponsors spill over in Google

30 Aug

Google has always been known for their Sponsored Links which appear on the right-side column of the screen. Once a while based on the keywords they also display a sponsor bar on the top of the page before the search results start. We have seen this always. However today, when I was doing a very [...]

The Sunday Punch

28 Aug

Sunday mornings can be so good. I was up at 9 this morning which if you know me well is very very unusual. After helping mom with the Sunday errands I logged onto the blog and ever since spent a good portion of the morning tweaking and shaping up the blog to make it more [...]

Aamchi Mumbai rocks!

27 Aug

The true spirt of Mumbai is best depicited during the festival season. Friends, neighbours and families unite to celebrate each occasion with great joy and excitement. Be it Diwali, Id, Ganesh Utsav or even Christmas – celebrations are evident through the city. Today Mumbai celebrates Gokulashtmi the festival of Lord Krishna’s attempt to break “handis” [...]

Understanding Security Issues

27 Aug

As a client servicing executive I spend a good amount of my time understanding client briefs. Earlier this morning at the end of one such meeting we decided to take the PowerPoint presentation back to our office for further review. Since I was armed with my USB pen drive, that seemed the most obvious way [...]

A good blog

24 Aug

Time to introduce my readers to a good blog. I hit upon Chetan’s monologue just surfing around at DesiPundit. It’s a very well-organised informative and interesting blog to feed on. If you read around you will also find that the neat template has been designed by Chetan himself. I also managed to alert Chetan about [...]

iPods don a new skin

24 Aug

I am not a application skin crazy fellow. I typically prefer using applications in their default mode. But this one really got my attention. Thanks to the team at office I found this online. This winamp skin makes the player look like an iPod player locked on your desktop. It’s fancy indeed and doesn’t just [...]

Indian Railways under Attack

22 Aug

My friend was trying to check some train schedules at the Indian Railways website. When she logged on she was surprised to see that there was an ad banner by their (Indian Railway’s) competitor placed on the home page. She knows I love such interesting details on marketing and advertising so she sent me the [...]

Cigarettes, Dance bars & more

20 Aug

Somebody believed cigarette smoking should be banned. Somebody thought dance bars should be abolished. So it was. Did someone ever realize that corruption and violence can also be banned/abolished? Why does the government work on things which are simple and have the least impact. Human psyche, I suppose. Let’s keep the minds busy on things [...]

Have you found your platform?

15 Aug

Today is August 15th – A day we Indians celebrate our country’s Independence Day. And like every year the countdown to this Independence Day starts with a media blast on finding the true meaning and value of the freedom this country had won many years back. Do we uphold the values and beliefs set by [...]

Microsoft’s Island

11 Aug

I had to see it – Couldn’t miss such a movie, which was creating so much news ever since it’s release and is on the Current US Top Ten. After last week’s cancellation I managed to catch the Saturday late night show for The Island at the all fancy Inox. Trust me, it’s a sheer [...]