Archive for November, 2004

Craigslist Bangalore!

« 23 November 2004 at 3:11 pm | No Comments
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Finally!
Craigslist is doing the Bangalore gig!
One of the best looking URL’s i’ve seen in a while …
http://bangalore.craigslist.org/
BLR Rocks!!!



iPod Generations

« 12 November 2004 at 5:48 pm | 4 Comments
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Finally, there are enough iPods out there for me to create an iPod Generations page



Cyborgname

« 12 November 2004 at 5:03 pm | No Comments
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What does your cyborgname stand for?
V.I.N.I.T.: Variant Intended for Nocturnal Infiltration and Troubleshooting

check yours out at http://www.cyborgname.com



Blogging as a good revenue-generation model.

« 9 November 2004 at 12:02 pm | 3 Comments
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Robert Scoble posts about
Frank Barnako interviewing Forrester analyst Charlotte Li regarding how Blogs are a good business.
Recently, SILK has been bouncing messages on how to best make money off of blogging and I previously blogged about it too.
However, Charlotte’s views spawned another thought process thread …
Why is blogging and money making related only to […]



Her “uncommon” girlfriend requests of the day!

« 8 November 2004 at 1:20 pm | 1 Comment
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Surabhi: Vinit, can you please get another 256mb ram stick for the thinkpad, configure Visual Studio 2003, then check why MS CMS is not working, backup MSDE from my laptop to the SQL server and finally work with me on testing Visual Studio 2005 Express (VB and C#) and if we should let the interns […]



What I *might* have against LiveJournal …

« 4 November 2004 at 8:50 pm | No Comments
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I’ve been thinking of this for a while (ok, for months now) … why have I not moved away from LJ to an independent blogging medium. One where I do not have to pay to make custom changes and can host on my own servers with my own choice of blogging software (Semagic is good, […]



Go NJIT!

« 4 November 2004 at 3:10 pm | No Comments
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My college, NJIT just got additional funding for the Smart Gun Project that they have been developing over the last few years. The 1.1 million dollar grant isn’t amongst the largest, but for such a specific state (and not federal) funded project it is considerable. The state started off with 1.5 million, and now the […]



Nokia 3230

« 2 November 2004 at 1:01 pm | 1 Comment
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Nokia 3230 definitely looks drooliscious.
Not comparing it’s features, not comparing it’s internals.

It has the looks that first drew me towards t610 (before Tom, dick, harry and amar, akbar and anthony started carrying it).
There is something to be said for the almost perfectly curved rectangle phone designs. Almost.
Would I get this over the BenQ P50? No.
Would […]



Update: Yahoo spam scam to create new (zombie) accounts

« 1 November 2004 at 2:42 pm | 4 Comments
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The Yahoo spam scam I blogged about here (and created a checker for here) is actually a pretty big deal.
Looks like users who go ahead and click on this link, then are prompted with a Obfuscated image that is pretty much the spammer’s free ticket to getting another free yahoo account.
(yes , I know that […]




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