• Slashdot discussion on an article about things mobile phones will make obsolete. I made the same prediction in 2006 in the context of an article by Tomi Ahonen. (0)
  • Google Suggest contest winners on Slate. Wisdom of the crowds indeed. (0)
  • Tweeting too hard: Self-important, egotistical tweets = Hilarious. It really needs an RSS feed. (0)
  • The numbers in the last paragraph of this news report on the EC website crashing indicates one of two things – the reporter who wrote it is clueless, or, there has been some serious loss in translation when the people at NIC explained the problem to the EC official quoted in the article. (2)
  • During his long career, I’ve never seen Rahul Dravid succumb to the temptation of having a go at anything. Last year’s debacle in the IPL,  his subsequent demotion to a normal player, and questions about his suitability to T20 must have been gnawing at him. He got a word in after a brilliant performance against Rajasthan today – something along the lines of “… in South Africa, you can’t just tee off with the bat like you do in India. You need to play proper cricket”. Well played! Looking forward to more of his on and off field shots… (0)
  • This blog and many of my projects, code, svn etc. are hosted on a virtual private server at Slicehost. I started using them a couple of months after they launched their services two years ago. I had come off some bad experiences with shared hosting and was looking for a VPS. I’m not sure why I thought everything would be ok with Slicehost as they had no track record, but, they just seemed to get it. Well, I’ve been hosting with them for two years now and couldn’t be happier. They’ve now been acquired by Rackspace, a much larger player. Congratulations are in order. As a user I’ve rarely been in touch with them. That’s good! It means everything just works. Hopefully, that won’t change when they join a bigger company. (0)
  • US Open 2007 finalist Novak Djokovic does some excellent imitations of his fellow tennis players. Here are a few. (0)
  • We need to pass a law banning the use of the term Web 2.0 by people who have no clue about the meaning. The term is so abused that even people who know what it means shouldn’t use it, but the people at Techtree who wrote this article on BigAdda don’t know that. Even if you ignore the fact that it is a blatant copy paste of a press release which is being passed off as journalism, it’s just utter drivel. (1)
  • Karan Thapar usually gets on every interviewee’s nerves on Devil’s Advocate on CNN-IBN. This week’s interview with Sitaram Yechury was no different. But, don’t worry, if you were confused about the 123 deal earlier, you’ll come away more confused after watching the interview. (0)
  • Vinay has been in Canada for a few months now. Onsite! Photos of his sight seeing are here. (0)
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