Archive for April, 2005

Podcast: Radio Stations

« 25 April 2005 at 4:07 pm | No Comments
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Update: Scary, Wired published this 2 days after I wrote this entry
I was just reading the Cluetrain Manifesto and got a idea related to Podcasting and radio shows!
Whats stopping XM (or Sirius) from lanuching a Podcasting channel on their services? Or launch.com for that matter?
Or course the podcast content needs to be correctly […]



Processing: a programming language for graphics

« 21 April 2005 at 10:35 pm | No Comments
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I’ve always felt the certain void (ok, since I moved from QBasic to VB and C++) of a programming language that made graphics design through logical programming an effortless and immediately visible task.
No mucking around with various libraries, no spending 90% of the time on resolution and other stuff.
Just basic, built-in functionality that allowed to […]



Phantom comics online: legal or not, i don’t care!

« 20 April 2005 at 12:55 pm | 6 Comments
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The original Phantom comics, as printed in India in the 80’s … scanned and online …
http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/
I usually get stuff online legally (even music, scary, right?!)
But this once, due to King features’ stupidity of not making them available online, I am happy this guy has!!
Rock on, dude!



The original “keyboard”

« 12 April 2005 at 4:50 pm | 1 Comment
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Here is the original keyboard, the first ever!!!



Citibank and Msource BPO have identity theft/security woes!

« 8 April 2005 at 4:37 pm | No Comments
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Msource BPO employees steal 350k from customers who called in to support!



Wi-fi now a required feature to “wait”

« 6 April 2005 at 6:26 pm | No Comments
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Like people have issues staying in hotels without hot water.
Like how I have issues staying in hotels without free breakfast.
Like how I have issues staying in hospitals at all.
It comforting to know that others (ok, scoble) have issues ever having to go to a hospital without WiFi.
In fact, I have once even refused to transit […]



HeyPix.com stops new registrations: stupid reasoning!

« 6 April 2005 at 6:19 pm | No Comments
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HeyPix.com stopped accepting new registrations because they are in the process of completing their acquisition by CNet and integration with WebShots.
Their reasoning for this lame act is extremely hilarious.
(read here http://www.heypix.com/learnmore.jsp)
Their excuse: Potential new users will be better served creating accounts directly on Webshots because they will anyways be transferring their accounts to Webshots […]



Google BUG: search for vinit-bhansali

« 6 April 2005 at 2:07 pm | 1 Comment
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Google Groups tries to auto-correct your search, but does too much of it



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