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One of the rare moments … when I am down and out.
But hey as I say …
n’Joy everything !
And since I am reposting this, I realize that I can not remember why did I make this post. !
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON Wednesday, November 09, 2005
REPOSTED FROM ABOUT2EVOLVE TO SEPTEMBERTHE22ND
I wish I had a HUGE bike, specifically an Enfield or the good old Harley. Ofcourse getting a Harley is kinda tough but I don’t think Enfield would be a problem once I start working.
On my way back from dinner I saw this guy on a bike, he was arrogant all right, the wa he talked to the ticketing assistant, I absolutely hated it but I liked his bike. He had this Enfield that was as big as a Maruti 800.
He had modified this bike with changed front fenders. The seat was lowered to the level of the speedometers. I can think of kAgE’s Bullect Electra. He had’nt done any modifications but his bike looks royal. May be the royal blue color on the bike makes it prefect or may be that he uses this wax daily on his bike… I can also think of WalkinEagle who has this sexy bike whose name I cant recollect right now but it is one of most expensive bikes around in India.
The best part about these bikes is the put-put-put sound they make when they are being driven around. People notice it from atleast a hundred miles. Its a very distinct sound and I don’t know about other people but I am full with envy.
ORIGIANALLY POSTED ON Sunday, October 23, 2005
REPOSTED FROM ABOUT2EVOLVE TO SEPTEMBERTHE22ND
It’s monday morning and I opened up a newspaper to find the following ads on the very top and very bottom of the very front page…
10 years of “good you called”
10 years of “I’m 2 mins away”
And as I flipped the pages, I found the following
10 years of “nice tune, yaar”
10 years of “got a charger?”
10 years of “hd a gr8 time, thnk”
10 years of “missing u :-(“
On the entire back page, they had
10 years of touching lives across India.
And they are Airtel!
I as always tried to guess what the product could be … My best shot was Delhi Times, the supplement with The Times of India (I think this “paper” is as bad as they come; this is another story, would try to cover later).
So the point is that Airtel has completed 10 successful years in the telphony market. They have moved from a cellular service provider to complete telecommunication service providers with specialized services ranging from Landline services to Email on the go.
When they started operations, they were a small comany charging about 16 bucks per minute for an outgoing call and 8 for an incoming call. In 10 years, the call rates have dropped to about 2 bucks on an average for outgoing and free for incoming ! Talk of changing the face of the market…
Airtel obsoleted the fixed line phones and made a telephone a personal item for the first time in India. For the first time with a phone, you could talk to people directly without going through long channels.
Next in line is outsourcing of the network. Management gurus said that your core competency should never be outsourced or given to third parties but no sir, Airtel would do it. In the long run, one may never know what might happen but in the short run, the strategy sounds great with all the benefits flowing into theor books. Infact other operators are also following suit.
O by the way … Today happens to be Children Day, celebrated on the occasion of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru’s BDay. He was our first Prime Minister. Yet again, I would like to reserve my comments for the gentleman.
Also two week long India International Trade Fair (IITF) starts today. 2005 marks the 25th aniversary of the IITF. I have many many fond memories of IIFT including a job hunt when I was in 11th std.
ORIGIANALLY POSTED ON Monday, November 14, 2005
REPOSTED FROM ABOUT2EVOLVE TO SEPTEMBERTHE22ND
Somehow for the last few days I saw this funny icon in my taskbar that looked like a small computer and when I took my mouse over it, it read “Update please wait”. The computer was acting funny and there were few other problems too.
1. Norton Antivirus would not start with Windows even though it was configured like that.
2. My “commmon tasks” were not being displayed in explorer/folders.
Then suddenly I got curious about this “Update please wait” thingy and googled it. Off the few top entries, one of them pointed here. I followed the steps mentioned there to realize that I was infected with W32/Nyxem-D. Some more clicks on the web made me sure that it was indeed a worm.
I was infected by a malware after about two years and I was very angry. Somehow I was also very happy to see a real problem on my computer. I had to spend about an hour doing it all by myself and I was able to get rid of it.
And when I tried to find the reasons for the infection, I found that I was infected because of my open share. I had created that open share to help me copy files quick over the network. Further analysis revealed that it “offers the promise of pornography“. I am sure I have never copied anything remotely resembling porn on my laptop.
Removal Instructions and Automated Tool
Apart from making money, the antivirus companies do sometimes act as good samaritans also and Symantec has created an automated tool to remove the worm. They identify this worm as W32.Blackmal.E@mm and the removal tool is located here. I certainly enjoyed working though the registry and restarting the computer 5 times to remove it. Tool was not that much fun.
I think I have been attacked by a virus after about a couple of years and it was huge fun to work on it 😀
Being a business school student, I come across a huge number of ideas that promise a lot of potential in terms of getting popular and minting money. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ is one fine example that I atleast could’nt have thought of in years.
Created by Alex Tew, it took 4 months for the Million Dollar Homepage to get to the magical figure of a million.
I posted in a previous post about my thinkpad. It islocated here.
I am reposting thisfortwo reaons. One, its beenan year since I bought my laptop. I bought my laptop on 31st oflast to last year. I founda key broken, wanted to get it replaced but IBM peopledurely and courteously refused to do so. Company policy theysaid. So I hadthis new laptop, it was not more than two days old and IBM would not change/replace/repair it because it was their company policy.
Second reasonfor thispost isthe broken keypad thats gotten even worse. Somehow the space bar has started acting funny. Sometimes, I wouldget a perfectly fineandnormalspacing and at other times I wouldnot insert andspaces. I have absolutely no clue how all of a sudden thismight happen.
And now since IBM has sold Thinkpad asa brand to Lenovo, I dont think there is apoint in even calling them up to get some help. Andsince the annual maintenance I had was for a year only and they could not help me when I was covered by their warranty, i cant even imagine to talk to them without the warranty.
And if you are wonderingwhat happened to thispost, thisis becuase of the funny space bar.
This is my last line in this post and I am trying very hard to maintain my typing speeds and hitting space bar …
Some people have this misconception that I read a lot. Here are few inside scoops.
I see you with a new book every ther day? How? Are you amazingly fast reader?
SG: LOL. I do not read a lot, just like to show off with a new book every two days. And if you are asking me this question, I have achieved my goal. I want people to think that I read a lot and atleast some people have started assuming that I read a lot.
What about all those books in your cabinet?
I like to have lots of books in my cabinet. I bought all these books at Nai Sarak for 20 bucks each so that my cabinet looks real cool. I was also thinking of fake book holders to make my cabinet even more stuffy…
But then how do you know about so many different authors and books?
I thought I mentioned before this candid interiew that I would not talk about my trade secrets and things that make me loose my (as Porter would put it) Competitive Advantage. However if you are still adamant, let me know and I just might give you some tips …
Ok, so what kind of books do you want people to think that you read?
I read everything from fiction to non-fiction. Before coming to MDI, I did not know that reading can be a pleasure and help me get a lot of attention. The day I realized that I have to get poeple’s attention, I started showing off with the books.
Song: Roobaroo
Artist: A.R. Rahman, Naresh Iyer
Music: A.R. Rehman
Movie: Rang de Basanti
When I sing this song, somehow I sing it soemthing like “aye saala… abhi abhi… kisee more pay …”
I think I need to write to write this song all again with the same music and different lyrics … with “kisee more pay”
Here are the original lyrics…
aye saala
abhi abhi huaa yaqeen ki aag hai mujh mein kahi
hui subaah main chal gaya
suraj ko main nigal gaya
ruu-ba-ruu roshni heyy – 2jo gumshuda-sa khwaab tha
voh mil gaya voh khil gaya
uulon hathaa pighal gaya
kichhaa kichhaa machal gaya
sitaar mein badal gaya
ruu-ba-ruu roshni heyy – 2(dhuaan chhataa khula gagan mera
nayi dagar naya safar mera
jo ban sake tu hamsafar mera
nazar mila zara) – 2aandhiyon se jaghad rahi hai lau meri
ab mashaalon si bhadak rahi hai lau meri
naamo nishaan rahe na rahe
ye kaaravaan rahe na rahe
ujaale mein pee gaya
roshan huaa jee gaya
kyon sehte rahe
ruu-ba-ruu roshni heyy – 2
dhuaan chhataa khula gagan mera
nayi dagar naya safar mera
jo ban sake tu hamsafar mera
nazar mila zara
ruu-ba-ruu roshni heyy – 2
aye saala – 4
In as back as 1998, Swatch came up with this concept called Internet Time. I was ignorant till date. I just learnt about Internet Time and I am an instant fan … !
I think Internet Time as a concept makes a lot of sense. As we are moving towards the global world where physical boundaries between people located in different countries are blurring every second, there is in fact a need for a standard universal time.
So advantages … ?
1. Swatch can now make, market and sell an entire new range of watches. When you are bored of your regular time, switch to swatch.
2. If people adpot this as a standard in near future, huge huge royalty fees from mere reference to the term (just like CDMA by Qualcomm) would be realized.
3. Swatch gets even more credit for being just more than yet another watch company.
4. People get a standrad reference for time. Although the current time and date system is one of the most beautiful concepts ever and is very hard for Interet Time to replace it, people can still do away with a standard reference for time online.
5. No confusing time zones, conversion charts, sunrises and sunsets, daylight saving formulaes and all that rocket science.
So what exactly is Internet Time….?
Pretty Simple … instead of having seconds as the basic unit for measurement of time, we have something called .beat as the building block. A .beat is equivalent to 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. A day is now divided into 1000 beats rather than 60X60X24 seconds. A day begins at @000 Swatch .beats and ofcourse ends at @999 Swatch .beats
Posted by Saurabh Garg @893
Credits: Times Wellness
This is one of the Flash movies released on World Aids Day – 1st Dec. Although this post is a bit too late but as they say better late then never…
