Archive for January, 2006

Miscellany
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

There wasn’t any personal time in the last few weeks due to work load. Just got some breathing time now to read & write. Thanks to those who kindly enquired about my absence.
Bloglines doesn’t work at my workplace. Any recommendations for any other web-based RSS reader would be appreciated.
It is Spam Karma 2 [...]

Cruelty Free Page
Friday, January 20th, 2006

Just like how ‘trouble free product’ means that the trouble is NOT free with the product, ‘Cruelty Free Page‘ is not about getting cruetly free. Rather, it is anti-cruelty page. My friend Poornima has put up a page on animal cruelty & strongly discourages animal testing. The page tells you how one can make a [...]

ICICI
Thursday, January 19th, 2006

hehe.. Its not just me who doesn’t have any good opinion on ICICI. I wrote about it months back and many echoed their views. Simple fact is – their customer service sucks – be it in UK (via Sambhar) or in India. There is even a one-post blog about how great the bank is. With [...]

Phobia?
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

I have this habit of checking for my wallet & house keys at regular intervals, whenever I am out of my home. Subconsciously, I would check for it and I haven’t thought about whether anyone has noticed me doing that. Recently, I noticed a colleague of mine doing something odd and I couldn’t help asking [...]

Amway
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Few days back, I got an email from someone claiming that he got to know me from my blog asking whether I would be interested in a global e-commerce business in UK. That e-mail appeared to be genuine and I sent him my numbers, after which he called from US. We spoke for a few [...]

History Repeats
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Just read this story of a mouse burning down a house in revenge by running back into the man’s house, who tried to kill it by tossing it on to a bonfire.
Replace the mouse with Lord Hanuman and the man with Ravan. Didn’t we hear it in Ramayan? History repeats itself. Characters may change, but [...]

NDTV
Monday, January 9th, 2006

Thanks to a friend of mine, I am getting to watch NDTV for the past 10 days. Went a bit nostalgic as I remembered the days in late 1980s when I used to stay awake late watching the ‘World This Week’, that used to be presented Prannoy Roy. NDTV was a budding production house then. [...]