general nonsensical bullshit

Bengaluru is cool

2005-12-13T15:49:00.000Z

I like the proposed name change for my city from Bangalore to Bengaluru. Not just because Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata have gone down that route, but also because it does reflect the history and origins of the city. After all, Bangalore is a relatively new name given by the British who couldn't be bothered enough to pronounce the original names.I don't think there will be any major impact on

Mobile phones in the UK

2005-11-10T15:02:00.000Z

Yet another pointless statistic that fascinates me:UK's population - close to 60 million (2001 census)Indians in the UK - 1 millionMumber of mobile phones in the UK - 63 million! There are more mobile phones than people in the UK! Amazing eh?India's population - 1 billion plus.Mobile phones in India - close to 70 million.Need we say more about the potential for growth?

A clean Times of India

2005-11-07T14:40:00.000Z

The Times of India website sucks - the page is so full of annoying ads that ever since I came to the UK, I am reading other online newspapers like the DNA, Deccan Herald and Rediff for Indian news. I am ok with online ads - I know newspapers have to survive, and some ads are actually informative and useful. Especially online, where ads can be personalised and served up based on specific pages

Militant Kannada activism

2005-11-02T11:43:00.000Z

Yesterday (Nov 1) was Karnataka Rajyotsava Day - the day Karnataka got its name (it was earlier Mysore). This is the one day where TV channels play these "Proud to be a Kannadiga" kind of movies and songs, and expect everyone in the state to sing along. Most normal guys relax and do precisely nothing - it is just a day off! Of course this year coincided with Deepavali, and therefore all the more

Online advertising in India

2005-10-25T16:24:00.000+01:00

The Hindu Business Line has a good article on online advertising in India.Figures:2003-04 - 42 crores - .5% of Indian ad market2004-05 - 107 crores - 1.2% of Indian ad market2005-06 - 162 crores - 1.7%2006-07 - 218 crores - 2.1%2007-08 - 303 crores - 2.5%Is it growing fast enough? I don't think so. With a smallish base, it should ideally be doubling size every year fof the next few years. Maybe

Indian advertising industry

2005-10-21T16:55:00.000+01:00

India's advertising industry is growing at around 10% per annum. Here are some figures (from Adex India):- Overall advertising industry in 2004 - 12000 crores- Print - 46% - 5520 crores- TV - 41% - 4920 crores- Outdoors - 7% - 850 crores- Cinema - 3% - 360 crores- Radio - 2% - 240 crores- Internet - 0.5% - 60 crores- The industry grew 13.5% from 2003.

The TV market in India

2005-10-21T15:36:00.000+01:00

The Indian TV market is quite interesting - it is potentially huge (all set to be the second largest in terms of reach). There are different technologies also in play - free to air, cable (pay) and DTH (pay).Here are some raw figures:India: (figures from NRS 2005 - via Hindu)- TV now reaches 108 million Indian homes (a growth of 22% since 2002). Of course overall households in India is around 215

Blogs V IIPM

2005-10-12T09:45:00.000+01:00

We are in the middle of an increasingly violent battle between a bunch of bloggers and a management institute with crores to spend on advertising, and precious little for everything else.Yes, this is the fight between JAM Magazine and IIPM, which somehow spilled over and got the entire blogging domain involved. Heck, it got me to post on this blog, so it must be something eh?Long story short,

Another Wipro leader quits?

2005-06-29T11:02:00.000+01:00

An article (first appeared on the front page of Economic Times) on Red Herring that Vivek Paul is on his way out. He is the latest in a string of No. 2 Wipro men who have moved out, joining the high-profile Ashok Soota, who started Mindtree Consulting.Vivek Paul clearly delivered - he presided over a quantum leap from 150 million $ in 1999 to over 1 billion $ in 2004. Sure, he rode the India

"Do your homework, Indians and Chinese are starving fo your job"

2005-06-13T10:16:00.000+01:00

More Friedman. The globalisation guru is at it again, with a series of quotable quotes as part of an interview talking about his book (The World is Flat). He credits Nandan Nilekani and Vivek Paul for giving him the idea for this book, and talks about the world being one huge supply chain. He says that no two countries that are part of the same large supply chain (like HR and accounting for Dell,

No snow in India - lucky America

2005-06-10T11:19:00.000+01:00

Americans are nothing if not prone to hyperbole. And paranoia. In the last few years, many of them are paranoid that China and India will take over all things American thanks to the 'endless' supply of low cost high skill labour, and a burning nationalistic ambition to take over the world.This new book on the block - Three Billion New Capitalists (this link is to a review of the book) written by

Unbelievable riches from a card game

2005-06-10T10:53:00.000+01:00

I am now convinced that the next century is going to be Indian. We have seen Indians making waves (and money) in Silicon Valley with companies that make super-tech stuff like routers, enterprise servers, amazing software, cool search engines etc - but this really takes the whole bakery. Two Indians and a porn queen started this company PartyGaming in 1998, and are now on the verge of becoming

'Hot' Bangalore

2005-06-08T12:01:00.000+01:00

Bangalore (which, by the way, is my beloved hometown) has become a shithole these days. No, really it stinks - imagine the worst Mumbai road with the peak Delhi traffic, and you begin to get some idea of the roads. Yeah yeah, maybe I am exaggerating, but this is definitely not the Bangalore I grew up in. And let's not even get started on the state after a downpour.And yes, it is definitely

Why is the $20 bill still on the ground?

2005-06-07T11:30:00.000+01:00

Harvad Business School has always been a terrific source for great research on all business-related topics. HBS Working Knowledge has a free email newsletter for the lazy person who has no time to go to the website to read up on cool stuff. I would recommend subscription to this for anyone who is interested in the world of business, finance, globalization etc.This week contained an interesting

Block 'buster'

2005-05-24T13:19:00.000+01:00

I can't fathom the mentality of those idiots who planted a bomb in two Delhi cinemas that were showing a controversial film "Jo bole so nihaal". One poor soul who was out to the movies having spent his hard earned 50 Rs or so got killed, and 50 others injured. What a terrible way to go!Apparently some Sikhs were offended with the title, which is part of some religious cry, and also the fact that

Yet another stab!

2005-05-19T10:43:00.000+01:00

Yes, I am taking yet another stab at general blogging. While I have been reasonably (by my own terrible standards) consistent with posts over at Sporting Nirvana, this blog has silently suffered my neglect.I have now recently fortified my knowledge of blogosphere, and have gone ahead and subscribed to Bloglines, a RSS feed aggregator. This, along with a notifier embedded in my browser, allows me

Google Toolbar Installed

2004-06-11T12:51:00.000+01:00

This is amazing. I want to see how this works - blogging at the click of a button is one entry barrier out of the way!

Who the fuck does she think she is??

2004-05-19T09:03:00.000+01:00

What the heck is wrong with Sonia Gandhi? What dumbass inner voice is this now? Where the hell was this when she was touring the country, asking for votes in her name? Mani Shankar Iyer was right (for once) when he said that Sonia's reluctance is a betrayal of the nation - each and every fucking MP from the Congress party went to the people with Sonia Gandhi as their leader and PM candidate -

Percentage sari and belly buttons!

2004-05-17T10:42:00.000+01:00

With all this election brouhaha and market meltdowns depressing the mind, I decided to watch the blockbuster of the year - Main Hoon Na. I can only say one thing about the movie - it was sexy! Sushmita Sen was way tooo awesome for words - she sizzled right through the movie - with chiffon sarees that revealed more than it concealed, and uninhibited simpering and smouldering on screen. One song

BJP routed - quite a turnaround!

2004-05-14T10:33:00.000+01:00

All opinion polls and experts believed that the NDA would be back, but only just! How wrong they were - the Congress emerged as the largest single party, and their alliance bloc has enough seats to get a comfortable majority. Terrific turnaround for a party that was completely written off just 3 months before this elections, and what a return for Sonia Gandhi - who was vilified for the entire

Krishna shunted out now!

2004-05-14T10:26:00.000+01:00

While Elections 2004 has thrown up a lot of surprises, there have been a few sad results as well. Naidu lost in AP, and Krishna is out of power in Karnataka. Krishna was completely done in by the drought. Now there is only so much one can do when Mother Nature decides to deprive Karnataka of any meaningful rainfall. He in fact got some artificial rain making agencies from the US, pewrformed all

Naidu down!

2004-05-11T10:45:00.000+01:00

Sad but true - Naidu loses in Andhra Pradesh. For all the talk about 2020 vision, Formula 1 tracks, multiple stadiums, e-governance, hi-tech cities and roads - all the trappings of a booming metropolis was in place - save water for the poor! Surely Naidu was smart enough to realise that his voters were not the pseud IT programmers in Hyderabad, but the poor farmers in Rayalseema and Telengana.

Play on the mind!

2003-11-10T05:47:00.000Z

P & I went to a play last night - Meeting Matters directed by Vijay, a friend of ours. This was a loose adaptation of Midsummer Nights Dream - set in a present day context. The audience comprised of kids (my definition of kids=boys & girls < class 10), teenagers (class 11 and above), and their parents. We just saw the first half because P was not feeling up to it, but whatever we saw was

Drugs and dad's moolah - addictive and dangerous!

2003-10-29T05:31:00.000Z

The latest catch in a drug-bust incident was in Dubai - with Farhan Azmi (son of Abu Azmi, Samajwadi Party MP), Bonito Chhabria (son of the famous DC of the designer car fame), Shaan Sippy (son of GP Sippy, filmmaker) and one other Indian caught in Hotel Imperial in possession of drugs. The jury is still out on how guilty they are, and what the punishment will be. But knowing Dubai laws, if the

Low cost not equal to low safety

2003-10-20T08:48:00.000+01:00

Air Deccan launched its services in September after months of fanfare and publicity about how they would turn out to be the Udipi hotel of the airline business. But ever since they launched in September, disaster has struck not once, but twice. Their first flight had a miraculous escape, and now this happened. While their intentions are noble - that of making flying affordable to a larger

Is this the end of the Bull run?

2003-10-14T15:49:00.000+01:00

Finally, the markets tanked today - losing 67 points. Selfish ol' me was waiting for this day. Is this for real? I wish it falls further - to around the 4300 levels - so that I can enter the market again. You see, I have exited from most of my holdings during this current bull run - some at a decent profit, most at a no-gain, no-loss level (forgeting interest loss). Now, it is foolhardy to enter

Change of coordinates!

2003-10-13T08:32:00.000+01:00

We have finally moved from South Blore to North Blore - man, it was painstaking, terribly tedious and very laborious work to actually move from one house to the other. Not to mention - emotional - because I left a house where I stayed for over 17 years (give or take a few). I now realise how P would have felt after marriage - when she had to leave her house after over 20 years of stay.

Big B Back!

2003-10-11T08:12:00.000+01:00

After the initial debacle of ABCL, Amitabh (arguably India's largest superstar) is back with a new company, AB Corp. He plans to corporatize his operations, and get involved a lot more in this venture than he did in the past. Surprise, surprise, he blamed the ABCL collapse on "professional mismanagement" - read MBAs who he had hired from premier business schools and other corporates. To be

Life is Tough!

2003-10-08T16:40:00.000+01:00

Furnishing a house, and searching for a job at the same time is TOUGH! God save me!

Incompetence is taxing

2003-09-29T09:36:00.000+01:00

I am poorer by a relatively big sum of money - thanks to some incompetent accountants at my previous company - who ignored the basic rules of income tax filing - and I now have to cough up money to file my taxes, and be on the right side of the law. I an wondering - can I sue the company for mental anguish, financial stress, and other such untold miseries?

Kindness is not extinct!

2003-09-26T12:00:00.000+01:00

I thought I lived in a cynical, materialistic world, where there was no such thing as spontaneous kindness. I was proved wrong twice in the span of 5 minutes today morning. It was drizzling lightly, and therefore the newspaper was late in arriving. When I was standing out waiting for the delivery boy, my only thought was that there was a 30 mins delay in delivery not once did I think that the

Boo(b)m!!

2003-09-22T07:42:00.000+01:00

Sick, disgusting, booby movie!!! Whatever has got into these guys - how can such a fucked up movie ever be made, distributed, aired on screen, reviews written about, and discussed in blogs? I will not go down that path - RIP!!

New blog!

2003-09-17T11:39:00.000+01:00

Just started a new blog - Sporting Nirvana. This is - as the name suggests, a blog dedicated to sports - which is a key interest area for me. Let's see if I can maintain the flow of posts into that blog.

I feel for you, America!

2003-09-11T14:10:00.000+01:00

Dear Americans: I feel for you - I feel really sorry that the events of 2 years back had to happen. It was without doubt one of the most ghastly and despicable acts of violence ever perpetrated on mankind. Coming as this is from an Indian who must be used to such voilent acts every day in Kashmir, Assam, Punjab, and now, increasingly, Mumbai - let me tell you this much - no one event has ever

Aussie angst!

2003-09-10T09:58:00.000+01:00

Telstra decided to outsource some parts of its network and application maintenance work to Infosys - and this has led to a huge uproar in Australia. This deal is supposedly worth Australian $75 million - which is USD 50 million over 5 years. Australia joins the ranks of the many countries (like the US and UK)where public opinion is now increasingly getting anti-India - especially in the IT

Looong time no blog!

2003-09-05T10:06:00.000+01:00

I have been too busy doing nothing - hence no time to blog at all. Lotsa events have captured my attention over the last 1 week or so - which I have opinions on - but have not been able to put thought to keyboard. Some topics I would like to visit sometime soon are (in no particular order): a) The Mumbai blasts b) Anju George's wonderful victory c) Offline blogging - I wish I could post via

Koi Mil Gaya - review

2003-08-26T07:59:00.000+01:00

I had gone to this movie with great expectations. It was after all a super hit, grossing quite a huge sum of money in the first 2 weeks itself. Hrithik was touted to have made a great comeback - and Rakesh Roshan was lauded for having broken the mould, and having taken the big step of experimenting with unconventional themes. Here is my review of the movie: Thumbs-up for: a) Hrithik's acting -

The Bible down under!

2003-08-22T08:47:00.000+01:00

I read this amazing story over at news.com.au - about the Bible - Aussie style. Of course, it starts with G'Day (how typically steroetypical Aussie). Here is an excerpt - "God is the Station Owner, and I am just one of the sheep. He musters me down to the lucerne flats, and feeds me there all week. "When I'm feeling poorly, and at something less than my peak, He leads me to the restfulness

India V Australia

2003-08-20T07:47:00.000+01:00

Saw the hockey match last night - it was a disaster for India. India looked so jaded - I was wondering if they could actually last the full 70 minutes. At that level of sport, what matters is mental and physical fitness. Talent, skill, dribbling skills - all of them take a backseat. It was a sad sight - to watch the Aussies literally run away with the game. India lost - mentally and physically.

Today is the first day of my new life!

2003-08-19T07:58:00.000+01:00

Weee - am free! No more workplace to go to - no more drudgery of doing something I did not really like doing. It still has to sink in - but whatever has sunk in feels good enough to justify the risk!

The weekend off!

2003-08-19T07:45:00.000+01:00

Had a fantastic looong weekend - a few friends, P & I had gone off to Coorg. What a beautiful place it is - the weather was just purrfect - just a li'l bit of rain to cool things off. We were fortunate enough to get a great bungalow right in the middle of a coffee plantation - which meant that we could cook, drink, and generally have a ball without bothering about neighbours - the nearest human

Taking the plunge!

2003-08-12T06:54:00.000+01:00

Yes, before I could realise it, I am on the last lap of my stay in the company I work for. Am taking time off work after this weekend for god-knows-how-long to work out the business plan of my life, and plan on a career in passion (read:sports). So how am I feeling? a) Relieved - because I cannot, simply cannot continue working in an area which does not excite me anymore. No sir! b) Scared -

Playing hookey!

2003-08-07T08:22:00.000+01:00

Have taken the day of today - and it gives me some strange kind of kick - not going to work on a weekday is a funky feeling. Of course I have a "legitimate" reason - supervising the final stages of the house - but still!!

Play of the day!

2003-08-05T11:06:00.000+01:00

Had been to a beautiful play yesterday. The play. My Fair Lady, was based on, well, the book My Fair Lady. It was a musical and dance extravaganza - and was directed and enacted brilliantly by a young team from Bangalore, headed by Leila Alvares Lynn (the director). I have seen a couple of other plays by the same team over the last 2 years - like Fiddler on the Roof, and Frankenstein. I must say

What's your China strategy?

2003-08-01T07:23:00.000+01:00

Just a couple of days after I had written about the China dragon, and what Indian companies need to be doing to counter the threat, Business Week has validated that thought. In an article that talks about how real a threat China is to India's software dominance, the author has given many reasons as to why the threat is large. Let me summarize them below: Threat 1: Costs are lower, productivity

Get real, cricketers!

2003-07-31T13:33:00.000+01:00

There has been a lot of talk about sledging - how the Aussies overdo it, and why it is taking the sheen off their wonderful run of victories, how the youngsters watch their heroes utter 4 letter words on TV and use the same at play in school - so on and so forth. Sunil Gavaskar devoted an entire lecture at Lords 2 days back to this topic. What bullshit! Get real guys - you are giving undue

The Red Dragon - Threat or opportunity?

2003-07-29T13:32:00.000+01:00

Read this interesting article on China emerging as the destination of choice for IT Services - yeah, services, not manufacturing. India is the pre-eminent stud for IT services outsourcing, but big brother China is waking up - and how! Gartner predicts that Chinese IT outsourcing will reach $27 billion by 2007 - which is quite close to what Mckinsey had predicted India's market share to be - $50

Respect for time

2003-07-29T11:20:00.000+01:00

I had scheduled a meeting today with one of India's largest biotech companies. This meeting date and time was decided a week back. I had therefore got our technical team to prepare for the meeting with the product demos, ppts - the works. When I called up today in the morning for the exact venue, I was casually told by the client representative that because the board room was not available, and

Deadly roads!!

2003-07-28T14:19:00.000+01:00

I had the misfortune of driving away from Bangalore on Bellary Road this weekend. Bellary Road is a major road linking two of India's most tech-savvy, advanced, prosperous cities - Bangalore and Hyderabad. This was at 9 in the night, and a friend was driving a Ford Ikon. The journey from the Yelahanka junction to the Bangalore International Airport site was an unmitigated, pathetic, shit-scary

How the mighty have fallen!!

2003-07-23T10:44:00.000+01:00

I read about Siebel's latest layoff news with a mix of sadness and happiness. Sad because Siebel was and is the godfather and grandnanny of all CRM products in the market. There is no CRM product vendor who has not "flicked" ideas and concepts from Siebel. Their sales automation product is truly a pioneering effort, and has definitely resulted in so many corporations streamlining their sales and

Unbelievable efficiency!

2003-07-22T14:03:00.000+01:00

P & I had gone to a local LIC branch this weekend. LIC is government-run, and is the largest insurance company in India. We had to go there to apply for the money-back instalment that was due to us this year, as well as pay the yearly premium for the current year. They had sent us a form a month back via mail, which we promptly lost. We finally found the place, and were expecting the worst when

Qayamat?? Not really!!

2003-07-22T08:39:00.000+01:00

Saw this movie Qayamat this weekend. If I was asked to summarize this movie in one word, I would say "hmmmm". It was that kind of film - infuriating at times, decent action in some scenes, some good-looking babes being wasted, high-quality cinematography, cut & paste from multiple Hollywood movies - it had all of this and more. My review of the movie is as follows: a) Hate thy enemy: The movie

Bullshit rankings!

2003-07-15T12:22:00.000+01:00

India is ranked the 8th best ODI team in the world!! What absolute, fuckin' crap! These statisticians are worthless!! Whatever these number-crunchers try and prove - this ranking flies in the face of common sense. This is as bad as the Test rankings - which claimed that South Africa was a better team than Australia because SA defeated Bangladesh handsomely. Ridiculous!!

Yet another function under my belt

2003-07-14T13:39:00.000+01:00

There was another function yesterday - a house-warming function at my in-law's place. Hectic, crowded, but u-know-what, decently enjoyable. I enjoyed it primarily because I could see the sheer joy it provided to the parent-folk (i.e. parents, uncles, aunts etc etc). There is supposed to be something immensely pleasing and fulfilling about inviting your near and dear ones and feeding them to

New template

2003-07-14T13:09:00.000+01:00

Testing a new template - can't decide on which one is good - and more importantly - which one I can get to work! Why can't things be simpler?!? I want a straightforward, easy-to-use, non-cluttered template with the following things: a) Archive link b) List of links that I can customize c) Some feedback mechanism d) List of blogs I like to visit e) Some customizable text boxes - to add things

Cricket - at last!!

2003-07-14T05:59:00.000+01:00

Ouch! That was my hand - still aching from my Saturday cricket! But I am a relieved man now - I finally got to play some good cricket during an office get-together at a resort outside Bangalore. The cricket was the best part of the overall event - which lasted for a day. These corporate get-togethers have something good going for them. It generates some sense of camaraderie if conducted in the

The Nudist on the Late Shift - in Bangalore!?!

2003-07-08T14:22:00.000+01:00

Have been thinking lately about a wonderful idea - atleast I think it is wonderful:). Many forests have been consumed by books written about Silicon Valley, one of the main ones being the Nudist on the Late Shift, by Po Bronson. A decently funny book - gives you a good insight into life in Silicon Valley. Guess what, with this IT downturn, Bangalore is probably more happening - and more

Monday morning and afternoon blues!!!

2003-07-07T10:57:00.000+01:00

Am not feeling well - have got this problem with my throat - which has led to a small fever, and leg ache, and body ache - you know the rest!!! Not the best way to start a week - but what the heck - it can only get better from here. The weekend was pretty tiring as well. Saw Charlies Angels 2 - a brainless movie that, as the Times of India put it, is proud of being one. However, I had gone for

The Middle-path guy!!

2003-07-04T14:52:00.000+01:00

Why do I always find myself in the middle of 2 extremely opposing points of view? Why do I have to be the nice guy always? Why do both parties think that I am on their side? Why don't they realise that I am on the side of what I think is right for the company? Why should I, being a not-so-senior guy in the company, think more about what is good for the company that the people who have more at

The Spider Web:

2003-07-03T11:17:00.000+01:00

How dependent we are on the Net. Our office has had problems with the Net for the last few days - and productivity of the overall group in general, and my own productivity in particular, has really come down drastically. Actually, our jobs do not really require the Net 24 hrs a day - we can re-prioritize some work so that it can get done without the Net. However, the mere fact that you do not

2003-07-02T12:43:00.000+01:00

Met one insti guy today at office - he is one batch senior to me - and can you believe it? he may soon become CEO of one of the group companies. A fast riser - this one. He has worked with fundu companies like BAH and Mac ever since he graduated. I was pretty impressed with his growth - not so much with the person. You need the backing of strong brands to be able to rise in the corporate

2003-06-30T11:01:00.000+01:00

I used to: - Go out with P for long drives - now the longest drive I have taken her on for a while has been to our new house at Sobha Emerald. I need time to go OUT with her. - Play cricket every day in college. I also played some corporate cricket. Now it has stopped completely. I hate not being able to play!!!!! - Be very good at solving crosswords. I won quite a few prizes in College.

2003-06-26T11:48:00.000+01:00

I have not been blogging for a century now! Was totally busy with the gruhapravesham of our house at Sobha Emerald which was on the 22nd and 23rd of June. Whole of last 2 weeks was spent in getting the house ready for the function. Was a very expensive, but decently rewarding exercise - with mom, dad and in-laws happy atleast. To be honest - I also had a good feeling at the end of the event. We

2003-06-03T08:42:00.000+01:00

I had a pretty decent weekend. Basically spent some time at home, and also checked out the house we are building. This is at Jakkur, and the builder is Sobha. We are pressurizing them to deliver by the 10th of June - so that we can get a function organized at the house. They are supposed to be the best in the city, but they are also terrible in terms of service and the like. They have already

2003-05-29T10:12:00.000+01:00

success - i have managed to get the feedback thingy working on my template. is that cool or what?!? So here I am - spending the whole morning doing this stuff - so much for professionalism and the like. Hogging official internet bandwidth and PC time for this. Shame on you man!!!:-) Had lunch with a batchmate of mine - went to this new Andhra joint called Tarang - where the food was hot -

2003-05-26T10:23:00.000+01:00

just got back from a small trip to London - was productive business-wise - but was boring otherwise. Did not get to see much of London and Scotland. Mostly saw the innards of hotel rooms, taxis and client offices. London is a good-looking city - if only God had given the city good weather. Summer sucks - it is raining all the time, and it cold and windy. God save Londoners in the winter. More

2003-05-15T07:58:00.000+01:00

yet another uninteresting day at the office so far - without too much excitement officially. However I have been reading with some amusement the hullabaloo on the Aussie behaviour on the cricket field. Gimme a break man - take it or leave it - they are like that - and it is time the others catch up with them in this aspect of the game as well. As long as it is not too abusive or racial or both,

2003-05-14T12:32:00.000+01:00

a loong hiatus of no blogging - and this immediately after I started doing this BLOG thing - does not augur well at all for the future of this blog. But NO - here is a committment - to Blog until my fingers ache - or my keyboard breaks - or Internet becomes prohibitively expensive. So did a short trip to Delhi and back - met with our investors - who took our pants off - and forgot to give it

2003-05-07T11:58:00.000+01:00

well, well, I am depserately trying to get this comments thingy on my page - and have barely succeeded. This cut and paste of code from some place to the other, HTML crap is totally horrible - god save those developers who do this for a living. Man, it sucks. Or so I thought - until I spoke to P, my wifey, who feels that it is fun to do HTML. So she has promised to teach me HTML - so that I can

2003-05-06T07:39:00.000+01:00

Hey, I finally managed to get this published on the Web - yeah, my own lil blog is up there for the world to see..ensooy! Now I need to figure out a way to make this the most popular site in the world - viral marketing? This seems to be pretty interesting - only pain is that just like a offline log of activities - you tend to forget entering stuff. Let me see how frequent I can get with this.

2003-05-05T10:48:00.000+01:00

Now I am trying to get some more fancy formatting - using the bold, italics and other features like a hyperlink to one of my favorite websites - Wisden Letssee now!

2003-05-05T09:53:00.000+01:00

Well, I actually created my own blog - and it took all of 5 minutes. That must be a record for maximum time I have spent creating anything. I am not sure how the hell this will look - but big deal - it is the thought that matters eh?P (my wifey) has already created one of her own - so that makes it 2 for the family. Way to go - internet enabled pseud family of the 25th century.