English Murasoli is being whipped by bloggers (thanks PK!) from all over the place for alleged plagiarism. For long, I have been saying that it doesn’t deserve the halo it has around it. I hate that paper coz I feel that it is going from bad to worse and above all, it is very much [...]

The freezing cold for the last two weeks reminds me of the mail forward I got ages ago. If it is zero degree celsius today and if tomorrow would be doubly cold as today, what would be the temperature tomorrow?
Weather thing apart, I – rather Anirud has got a new blog – Footsteps of the [...]

Taking pity at the guys at the Cab booking service and take aways, I normally give my name as Sam. That seems a bit too much for these chaps. Below was the conversation I had with one of them recently.
“Can I have your name Sir?”
“SAM”
“Can you please spell that for me?”
“Sure. S-A-M”
“S-E-N. Thank you [...]

Everyone who has an e-mail id would have got at least one spam mail. On an average, I used to get around 25-30 such emails from friendly viagara/phentermine dealers or well wishers from Africa, who would be waiting with few million dollars to make sure that I live comfortably.
I don’t know what happened all [...]

Another 45 quid later, there would be another experience. Hopefully, that would be a better one. The glass is always half full.

 
Citibank guys called me to inform that the fraudulent transfer did happen through online banking. To emphasise the point that it was not just Citibank’s problem, he said that lot of accounts from many different banks had been targetted by criminal gangs from Eastern Europe. That particular transaction was also traced to an Eastern [...]

Not so long ago, I was still using the Dial-up connection that even invited dialler virus at my home PC. Little more than a month back, I switched to Broadband and soon after, I decided to go wireless. Not conversant with the networking stuff, I googled for info and bought a Linksys router only to [...]