Archive for November, 2005

My 5 minute pep-talk!

« 23 November 2005 at 5:30 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business Startup Entrepreneur »

Being an entrepreneur takes a heavy toll on your mental health. Everytime a customer calls, and asks to be transferred to a manager … your first thought is … “shit, what did we do wrong now?”
No matter how confident you are of your work, how good you think your product is … it’s always the […]



GoogleMap for your website visitors!

« 23 November 2005 at 5:00 pm | No Comments
Cool people | Tags: GeoMap Site Visitors Google Map »

Notice the “Map of Site Visitors” on the side?
Yup, it maps all visitors to Logic2go.com on a simple GoogleMaps Map.
Pretty nifty, eh?!!
And for once, it’s SIMPLE … just 1 line of code, no user accounts to create, etc!



Goowy Desktop: Where are the screenshots?

« 17 November 2005 at 8:51 pm | 1 Comment
Techy, Nuisance | Tags: Goowy website demo »

I got to Goowy through Scoble. I looked around for a few seconds, then walked away (whats the web equivalent for this? cos thats what it was!)
Ranting about what I’ve posted previously about app screenshots and website live demos.
Notice something missing?
Where are my screenshots? How do you get me to spend 5 minutes of my […]



Techy/Geeky/Nerdy Girlfriends rock!!!

« 16 November 2005 at 2:50 pm | No Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: »

I just love the fact that getting MS CRM 1.2 up and running and integrated with Exchange server gets me a cool movie date!!! (and I didn’t even have to do it myself)
Her passions … the use of technology as a means to an end (meaning, put it together, use it)
My passions … the […]



“accessibility” is really just “usability”

« 15 November 2005 at 9:50 pm | No Comments
General | Tags: usability accessibility Gizmodo product design »

Gizmodo has a great article on how designing for accesibility is nothing more than a prequel to designing for usability … read here.



Life begins at 85

« 8 November 2005 at 3:30 pm | No Comments
Personal | Tags: Ducati Motorcycle Multistrada »

 
 
For a Ducati owner, life just begins at 85.



Car-LANS

« 6 November 2005 at 5:15 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: GM Toyota car network »

Ok, so this is an idea I had sometime in 2001 … but now with Toyota and GM both trying out such experiements, it’s public enough (meaning: i can’t expect to make a killing licensing this idea … without a major legal battle)

Originally, sometime in 2001:
This idea allows all cars to have some sort of […]



There is no spoon. No green dot either

« 6 November 2005 at 4:36 pm | No Comments
Cool people | Tags: perception »

Ok, first off … sorry … that Matrix quote was only put up there to attract your attention.
Now, that I’ve apologized … look at this page …
First … notice how the pink dots keep disappearing? Then focus on the black + in the center … notice a green dot going around? Keep a very strong […]



How to ride a horse?

« 4 November 2005 at 11:17 am | 1 Comment
Personal | Tags: »

So, Surabhi and Sameer are chatting about Horse riding … and Surabhi asks Sameer “Do you know how to ride a horse?”
Sameer, ever the smart-aleck, replies “Whats in riding a horse, you sit on it, and it rides itself”
Well, I hope he comes back alive afer his weekend of horse-riding.




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