Kapil’s Korner

Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from October 2006

From a Redwood Tree

October 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Last few days have been a little tough, I am making some changes in my life and have needed the support and understanding of family and a few associates to guide and advise me. As they say change is always difficult, but then again only change is permanent.
Just when all this is happening, I happen [...]

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Over the weekend

October 30th, 2006 · No Comments

- Wordpress releases yet another security update. I wish there was an easier way to do these updates. I typically refer to this guide here, anything easier please share with me.
- Farhan Akthar’s Don is an excellent movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, take just one bit of advise from me. Don’t do any [...]

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Gift from friends

October 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Over the Diwali weekend, my friends gifted us our wedding gift. It was a Gift Card from HDFC bank – a very intelligent and thoughtful idea indeed. Being close friends, they knew I could not be given the typical newly-wed gifts like – showpieces, ghar ka saaman etc. So this was very nice to see. [...]

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2 new blogs and 1 new tool

October 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Long weekend holiday, so I spent some good time surfing around and added two new blogs to my Google Reader list.
ContentSutra
Bumped into this website when I was exploring career opportunities in the internet/digital advertising area. Lots of news updates and the comment activity is also very interesting to monitor. Recommended reading for those in the [...]

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Tags: Advertising · Internet/Blog · Technology

links for 2006-10-26

October 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Give your résumé a face lift » LifeClever
(tags: resume lifehacks lifeclever)

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Tags: General

Greetings to all

October 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Here is wishing everyone a very Happy Diwali and Prosperous New Year.

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Arvind Brands fires agency

October 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Darshan Mehta, CEO VF Arvind Brand PVt. Ltd. is firing it’s ad agency. They are looking for copy help on their new ad for Lee X-line. Sounds interesting?

Take a look at this ad banner set-up by Arvind Brand for the Lee product offerings. If you want to take a chance at it - go ahead, [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Mark Cuban, please comment

October 13th, 2006 · No Comments

I happened to read this story a few days back where Mark Cuban commented that only a ‘moron’ would buy YouTube. And it seems in less than a few days Google announced it’s plans to purchase YouTube. I would really like to know if somebody bothered to check with this gentleman on what he had [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

links for 2006-10-13

October 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
if you like clicking photos just for no reason, read this. I wish I can follow this.
(tags: photography photo)

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Tags: General

Hacker Puzzle

October 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments

You gotta try this. Somebody from office picked up this puzzle from one of the Orkut communities.
We had a great time trying to guess the next hint. As a team we got to the final screen.
Hacker Puzzle

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