Kapil’s Korner

Simple happenings in the interesting thing called LIFE.

Entries from May 2007

links for 2007-05-30

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Life lessons from Narayana Murthy
A wonderful lecture given by Mr.Murthy at Stern School of Business to the outgoing batch of 2007
(tags: India “Narayana Murthy” Infosys)

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Tags: General

floola - an iPod manager

May 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Thanks to Floola I can now hear songs from my iPod songs on my office PC without having to move them all to my hard disk. Floola is a helpful utility because it makes your songs much more manageable. At home, my sister uses iTunes to transfer songs to the iPod, but then I use [...]

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Tags: Technology

Bloggers meet - Mumbai & Pune

May 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments

June is going to be a blogger meet month. There are two such meets (or “unconference” as one of them says) going to be happening - one in Pune and one in our very own Mumbai city. So look at your busy calendars and see which one can you make it to. I will be [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

Blogrolling

May 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Over the past few weeks I have added some new blogs to my regular reading and I am glad that some of the writers have become online friends too.
Naveen Dhanukan
I met Naveen at the Mumbai Photo Marathon and the guy is a bagful of ideas – some very interesting and surely worth an ear. I [...]

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Tags: Internet/Blog

Random thought from a busy mind

May 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Last few days have been very hectic at work. One product launch and a huge conference to be organised - lots to do. But after putting in so much hard work a particular thought has been running in my mind since last evening.
“Don’t tell me how good I am, tell me where I am not.”

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Tags: Thoughts

New players in the airline war

May 11th, 2007 · No Comments

When I first read about the War of Words happening between the airlines, I thought the Go Air hoarding was a pure photoshop job. But then it seems agencyfaqs proved it was there on the spot, although I didn’t get a chance to check it myself.
Adding fun to the war I got this forward in [...]

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Tags: Advertising

links for 2007-05-05

May 5th, 2007 · No Comments

ChoriKaMaal.com - Buy Stolen Mobiles and other Gadgets! at Cool Gadgets and Tools India
You’ve gotta see this for the best deals
(tags: advertising)

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Tags: General

Sunil Mittal: The wireless wonder

May 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

I just read a very interesting article on CNN Money tracing the success of India’s Wireless Wonder - Mr.Sunil Mittal. Impressive I must say. What really inspires me when reading about these successful people is the struggle they go through fighting off every battle with great determination. One also notices that success lies in tapping [...]

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Tags: Books · Thoughts

The one minute movie

May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

I am in office waiting for some creatives to get ready for tomorrow morning’s meeting. Meanwhile I hit upon a good article by Ajit Balakrishnan at his Rediff iLand. Although he talks about the return of the “one minute movies”, the post hits upon some rather interesting stuff like:

Their first screening of films to a [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Internet/Blog

Movie Review: American Pie Presents - The Naked Mile

May 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Last night was crazy, I picked up the hilarious slice of American Pie, served up Stifler-style in American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile! And what is this Naked Mile? Well, after the exams students (supposedly to let off their steam) gather around the campus and run a mile NAKED. Call that cool or rather hot, [...]

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Tags: Entertainment