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Bangalore airport’s promise to plant more trees

« 12 August 2008 at 11:58 pm | No Comments
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Bangalore airport’s promise to plant more trees. One tree for every signature on this board. I pitched in. Did you?



Creative freedom and slavers?

« 17 March 2008 at 6:14 am | 2 Comments
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Why is it that most modern books and movies, when showing traits of the good character of an 18th century story, depict niceness in general with the assumption that they were nice to their slaves and helped fight for their freedom.
Are those the only kind of nice/good/honest/truthful people who lived in those times? And were […]



How beer can help pilots

« 30 August 2007 at 11:01 am | No Comments
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In Newark, N.J., U.S. 1 is home of one of Budweiser’s largest breweries. […] On the brick facade of the 12-story-high main building, the word “Budweiser” appears horizontally when viewed from U.S. 1 North; from U.S. 1 South, it appears vertically. The signs were built that way to orient pilots flying in and out of […]



Help me Beta Test

« 16 July 2007 at 9:58 am | 2 Comments
General, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: facebook app facebook api testimonials facebook »

So, after burning the midnight oil for multiple weekends, I’ve finally gotten my first FaceBook app ready for public viewing (and testing!)
It’s called Testimonials and you can add it to your facebook profile by going to http://apps.facebook.com/mytestimonials/
What does it do:Testimonials is a application that lets you write simple testimonials for your friends and in return, […]



Bug or a feature?

« 7 June 2007 at 8:29 pm | No Comments
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Why would anyone grow yellow coloured cauliflower?Wait … why would anyone EAT it?
Ewwwwwww!



Analogies: And why I love then

« 29 May 2007 at 10:33 am | No Comments
General, Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: analogies thinking »

Surabhi often takes issue with my liberal use of analogies when explaining both business/technology related topics as well as daily usage discussions/thoughts.
Her problem seemed to stem from the really obscure analogies I use in my conversations (and also, why I even bothered to use analogies in the first place!)
Well, here ya go … there are other people […]



Yahoo! Maps come to India

« 2 April 2007 at 9:58 am | No Comments
General | Tags: India review Yahoo maps mapmyindia »

Just read about it … Yahoo maps India is now live and kicking!
 
However,  and this is a big however, this is a service that only shows the map … does not show directions from point A to point B.
 
During the last few months, in India, I started using MapMyIndia.com as a sorta-kinda direction hunting tool when […]



Customer Service 101: Would you recommend us?

« 28 March 2007 at 6:10 pm | No Comments
General | Tags: Business customer service »

I just read this great article on how to improve your company’s customer satisfaction levels using an extremely simple, yet effective, technique.
Basically, each time someone from the company speaks with a customer, end the conversation by asking a simple question “Would you recommend us?” (expand the question if needed “On a scale of 1 to […]



The problem with shorter flights

« 17 March 2007 at 11:16 am | 1 Comment
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The problem with shorter and shorter flights between India and America is that you go from nice and sunny 26 degrees centigrade to frickin’  -1 degrees in under 15 hours.
 
Nasty, nasty, nasty snow and hail in NYC/NJ. Makes me miss Bangalore soooooo much more.
 
On, in other news, most probably moving to warn and sunny Florida […]



Fake it till you Make it?

« 5 March 2007 at 3:43 pm | No Comments
General | Tags: Startup VC funding projections Ask the VC »

Believe it or not, one of the first tips given to me during my freshman year at college when I started working at the campus help desk was fake it till you make it.
The idea was, it took some time and effort to understand all the various pieces of information that made up the “answers” […]




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