Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Divorce rates: whats with them?

« 13 December 2006 at 7:26 pm | 2 Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: »

Surabhi and I get married next month. Yup, thats how much bachelor time I have left.
And whats this? A post titled “Divorce rates”. Whats going on?It’s just that suddenly, topics related to weddings, married life, etc are more than just academically interesting to me. After all, just a month or so, right?
Well, this article I […]



Kabir ke Dohe

« 10 December 2006 at 8:14 pm | 7 Comments
Personal | Tags: Kabir dohas Bishop Cotton Iqbal Ahmed »

Kabir is amongst the most quoted poets and also stands out as one of the most famous. However, most people only know a few of his poems or writings (the popular ones are a few of his dozens of doha’s … or couplets)
The most famous one is, of course Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj […]



Ice Cricket, or what I’m going to do at Lake Placid

« 17 November 2006 at 9:39 am | 1 Comment
Personal, Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Lake Placid Cricket »

So my friends and I are gearing up to spend the next long weekend at Lake Placid at a cozy wood cabin (unlimited firewood!!! No … I won’t let you environmental types stop me … I do this about once a decade, so let me burn some wood for a change!!! I even turn off all […]



Loyalities: Microsoft, Yahoo or Google?

« 6 November 2006 at 12:17 am | No Comments
Personal, Techy | Tags: Microsoft Yahoo Google rivalry competition comparison »

I just noticed the following …

Open tabs on my firefox window …

Gmail
Orkut (owned by Google)
Couple of Google search windows
Google reader
Google groups for programming research
Froogle for product price-checking
YouTube (can you say 1.65 billion, billllllion)

Using Firefox (promoted by Google, both Y! and MS promote IE7)
Use GoogleDesktop […]



Random Thoughts I Have Part Too

« 27 October 2006 at 1:12 am | 3 Comments
Personal, Nuisance, Ideas/Work | Tags: Nuisance spam social networking »

This is not directed at any one person … but specifically at the entire groups of people who, come festival season, literally spam their friends on Orkut/LinkedIn/FaceBook/Hi5/[put-your-fav-social-network-here] with messages of “Happy Diwali”, “Id Muburak”, “Happy new year”, etc, etc.
I got about 50-75 messages with “Happy Diwali” over the last week on my Orkut scrapbook. I […]



I miss you too

« 24 October 2006 at 12:59 pm | 5 Comments
Personal | Tags: »



Cafe Habana in New York

« 23 October 2006 at 7:04 pm | 3 Comments
Personal, Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Cafe Habana corn »

If you live or work in Manhattan and haven’t yet tried the excellent grilled corn at Cafe Habana, you should! It’s delicious, hot off the flame griller and rolled in some amazing homemade crumbly cheese.
Surabhi and I’ve been there atleast 3 times in the last month, ever since Vivek told us about it … […]



Don’t watch the new Don

« 22 October 2006 at 5:39 pm | No Comments
Personal, Nuisance | Tags: Don hindi movie Amitabh Bachchan »

Especially if you have ever, even once seen the classic Don.
It is an irritating watch at best and a piece of crap movie that should have been killed off midway at worst.
The only thing this remake of the movie does is muddy the waters with confusing messages to a generation of kids who grew […]



I won a book!

« 15 October 2006 at 1:27 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: RFID contest winner »

I won the RFID-Weblog.com contest and got an RFID book as a prize!
Yay!
Check it out at the RFID-Weblog!



GPS Navigation for the masses. Sigh!

« 10 October 2006 at 9:35 am | No Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: GPS commoditization »

I had a very funny driving experience using my GPS this sunday.
I was on my way back from Atlantic City after a convention and was driving up the Garden State Parkway (a toll road in NJ). Around exit 70, I heard a notification on the FM radio that there was an accident around exit 90 […]




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