Archive for August, 2005

Amazon’s SIPs

« 29 August 2005 at 3:44 pm | No Comments
Cool people, Techy | Tags: »

No, not that SIP. Not that original one either.
Amazon.com has a feature called Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) that has been around for about 5-6 months now. I found out about it today. Ouch!
(If you didn’t already know of it, you found out after me )
Basically, an Amazon SIP allows you see the most […]



Happy 10th Birthday Windows 95

« 24 August 2005 at 5:01 pm | No Comments
Personal, Techy | Tags: »

Everything else aside, Happy 10th Birthday, Windows 95.
May I never have to boot into Win95 again. Except on my PSP, of course
Hari Om!



Adeena Moving Software for Trucking companies

« 18 August 2005 at 11:19 am | No Comments
General, Personal, Cool people, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business »

This has been a very active year for Adeena. We first launched a Microsoft .Net version of our flagship Vantrax Sales and Estimating suite for the Moving and Storage industry. This new version of pocket pc based software runs circles around the competition (who currently don’t even have .net support planned, much less available).
With this […]



Uggh! Blog entries for mass advertising

« 17 August 2005 at 1:33 pm | No Comments
Nuisance | Tags: »

I noticed a very innovative (yet scary, irritating and good-for-nothing) marketing/sales tactic that uses blogging software as a means of populating pages.
Look at this entry below …
http://eyeglasses.youresources.com/1glasses/?p=604
This is one of MANY entries that gooble up search terms, and create automated blog entries. So when I was on technorati, searching for a logitech quickcam, one of […]



The quote that changed it all (for me)

« 4 August 2005 at 6:00 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Surabhi just IM’d this quote to me …
“Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence.” (anon.)
It kinda struck me as a little too true … and you know what I’m going to do in retaliation?
Hold on for a few more weeks to find out.
The news is gonna be big, I […]




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