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After contemplating for quite some time, I've decided to move to WordPress.The new URL will bewww.cashlesscarnival.comNO.. WordPress does not give such URL's which do not have WordPress mentioned anywhere in it. I bought a domain for 15$ (per year) and re-directed it to the WordPress URL. I will keep both the threads (wordpress and blogspot) active till the end of this year and will finally

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"When Microsoft announced that it would be taking on the iPod with something called Zune, did its branding team realise that the word translated into French slang for genitalia and a Hebrew term meaning getting laid?"Read on Times Online.

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Of the different banks I have my acccounts with, one bank which has consistently managed to piss me off everytime I have interacted with them is HSBC. Though I have had an account with them only for about 3 months now, I have already had sufficient experiences to hate not like them for a lifetime.It all started with the opening of the account. It took the HSBC guys over a month to get the account

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On one hand, we want to rename all our cities to get rid of the colonial names and on the other we want to teach our policemen english. Can't we ever make up our mind on which way we want to move forward?On a different note, have you ever heard any announcements being made in international airports for non-english speaking travellers in english apart from the messages intended for Indians? None

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One of the shabbiest places in my office is the men's rest room. From the time I've been here, that place has always had some problem or the other. First, it was the taps not working and now, it is something more severe. A few urinals leak.. eeks !!This problem has been around for 2 weeks now. As a stop-gap arrangement to ensure whatever you send out does not come back at you ... a dustbin has

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Yesterday, there was this photograph of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Vasundhara Raje Scindia, the chief minister of Rajasthan in the Times of India (Page 5/6) and The Economic Times (front page). Both the papers had this photograph but neither of them had written anything about what the meeting was all about or for that matter there was nothing apart from a two liner more or less similar to the first

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When I read this article, I knew it was something I had to blog about.It has been 10 minutes since I read the article and since I wrote the above line. Still can't think of anything to write about it. Just wondering, if this incident actually reflects his awareness about things, how could anyone even consider his candidature for employment?Also: Linked at India Uncut.

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The last weekend, my wife and I were looking out for a good photo frame. My wife has been complaining from the time we've got married that there is not a single photograph of ours at home which has been 'framed'.I have always been giving her this excuse that when I get the right picture which I think is worth showcasing, I will get a good frame. The other concerns I have had are that once a

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From the time I've had a credit card (which is about 6+ years now), I have always preferred using it for any major transaction, be it settling a restaurant bill, at the gas station, hotel booking, flight booking .. you name it. I never carry much cash on me, I draw about 500 - 1000 bucks (depending on which part of the month it is) from the ATM and wait till it gets exhausted before I reload my

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They waited all these years for the Champions Trophy. Could they not have waited a minute more to celebrate?Pic Source: Indian Express

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I've always loved this particular type of quiz where you are shown a logo and asked to recognize which company it belongs to. Earlier, I used to get spreadsheets which used to have logos on them, and when you print in the right answer you get a point for that,.. but this one goes a lil' further. You are given 6 variants of the same logo and are asked to identify the correct one.I was quite

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.. No, Not in India. But, in South Korea.Now I understand why the other TOI survey said that South Korean men have sex the most number of times per week (4.5). You see the connection ?

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.. Now you can sing, drink and wear Himesh Reshamiya. The nasally opulent singer has launched a school of music, clothing line, and a music cafe.So, the next time you see a young man with a stubble wearing a long black jacket and a baseball cap singing aashiq banaaya aap ne with a cappucino (probably.. himecchino..or reshamocha) in his hand.. you know where he is coming from.

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I totally agree with the Censor Board of India when they say that they want to ban the ads of the flavoured condoms (DKT's XXX) which are currently being aired on television channels. I would say "Why only during the day? Ban it completely"It has happened atleast thrice so far that the ad has come up when I have been watching India play the Champions Trophy matches with my folks at home. To add

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If the title of this article caught your eyes.. Yes, it's true..Welcome to Lebanon.The NY Times reports (registration required) that with a female to male ratio of 5:1 in Lebanon, the girls are finding it very difficult to meet the perfect guy.Samir Khalaf, a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut, said the scene astonished his American colleagues. “They are just shocked,” he

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Just imagine.. You are in your office, it's a bright sunny morning.. and like any other mornings you are busy checking your emails and looking at your calendar and you cell rings..It's your wife calling."Hey.. you know what? I just gave birth to our baby..""WHAT ??? BABY eh..?? How come yaar...All of a sudden... Where was he all this while...Where did he come from?..You must be kidding me.."

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Your Birthdate: February 24You understand people well and are a natural born therapist.A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around.You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you.You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people.Your strength: Your devotionYour weakness: Reliance on others for happinessYour power color:

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..town. The stupidity season is back again. This time, the authorities in the small town of Aurangabad in Bihar have decided to paint the town pink in an attempt to reduce crime.Wait a min.. The article nowhere says that the color will help in reducing crime, It is meant to raise the morale of the people of the town who are fed-up of the crime rate in the town.Also, read at India Uncut.

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We have someone here who loves getting crank calls at odd hours in the night, and if she does not get one, she feels she is not good looking anymore.Good job guys! Keep the lady delighted.

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I just happened to browse the e-version of the Times of India. The site requires registration (Free) and leads you to a portal where you can browse the sheets the way you would do with the print version.When you scroll over the articles, it gets high-lighted (the way it would appear if you use a yellow highlighter in MS Word) and on clicking it, the article enlarges. (highlight shown in the image

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Just about 2 days ago, I was telling my wife that I was not too comfortable seeing those Red BMTC Volvo's being driven at neck breaking speeds. The one I had seen on Airport Road that day was being driven at least at 70 - 80 km/h and the driver had his hand firmly on the horn to keep the people and vehicles on the road away from the speeding demon.Yesterday, disaster struck. One of the Red

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..The most popular query by Indians in August 2006.Sania Mirza, Aishwarya Rai and Wikipedia in the top 15 list for 2 consecutive months.

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A few days ago, During lunch I just happened to get into this conversation with my pal about how some folks from the western part of our country have problems with words that have a "v" in them or that sound like one.For ex:(1) "Bhen" for When(2) "Bhere are bhee going?" for Where are we going?Ok, now that you know what I am referring to here, let me get to the episode which my pal narrated.During

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I just came across this free tool which helps in annotating pictures. It is compatible with flickr. Pictures tagged with FotoTagger are converted into flickr notes.

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I found this image very powerful. Man carving himself out of stone, carving his character, carving his future.“Self Made Man,” chiseling himself out of a solid block of rock captures the essence of the freedom philosophy – that left to his own devices, man will use his God-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of

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via Anand

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This is the endBeautiful friendThis is the endMy only friend, the end.- Jim MorrisonWhat Shashi Tharoor said in the UN

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The blog has been moved to the new "beta" version of Blogger.The template has been changed.Some of my personal articles have been removed, since it is no more a personal diary (I would have loved to keep them here but I could not figure out how I could mark the articles as personal..Apparently, this is one of the new features in the beta version)Added a counter.Addded a graphic signature in the

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I was having a look at Zeitgeist to see what Indians have been searching for..Everything in the list looked quite OK and understandable except one entry..I found it quite surprising that the second most popular search was diet pills !..?..Phentermine on Wikipedia.

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Long ago, someone had told me that babies which are born in flights get to fly on that airlines free for their entire life. Yesterday, I read a similar article about a baby being born on a BA flight and was wondering if this baby would be a high flying baby.I did some search on Google to see if it is actually true that babies born on flights do get such privileges and figured out that what I was

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This is something which I had been wanting to learn for quite some time now and when I saw this article on a Blog.. I wasted no time to get more details about it.. WHEW !!..what a relief..http://flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/72057594104092305/Got to go get GIMP(?) next.

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The first woman to buy her own ticket to space.http://anoushehansari.com

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They were simply quoting Bush but the way the phrase was structured made it for a perfect double entendre. Bush's Top 100 funny pictures

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A few days ago I came across this article, where a girl had put a picture of hers with John Abraham and had mentioned that John was kind to her when she approached him for a pic. What appeared a normal picture became quite interesting after I read what was written on John's T-shirt.

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What I really liked about Nagesh Kukunoor's Dor is the way he has presented a complicated story in an uncomplicated, sensible and a crisp manner. None of the roles have been presented for longer than needed.The movie starts with the first 30 - 45 mins being spent in setting up the context for the actual story about two women whose worlds are about to collide. Zeenat (Gul Panag) plays a mature

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Yesterday night, As I was waiting for Mini to join me at the chinese restaurant, I decided to entertain myself by listening to the conversation which the 3 gentlemen (2 Indians and 1 Australian) seated at the table behind me were having.At one point, when they were discussing about the festivals in India, the Australian asked "Why are ganesha idols immersed in water?". The other 2 did not know

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My all time favourite article from Anand's blog.

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RSS (RDF Site Summary) is an XML format for syndicating Web content. A web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its contents creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher.RDF = Resource Description Framework

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Wonder if they are called KLPD? :DActually, I just figured out that KLPD is the Netherlands Police.Korps Landelijke Politiediensten .

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I was quite bored and had nothing to do when I wondered what "boring" or "bored" in Google would return. This is how the first page looked like for "boring"www.boring.comwww.utterlyboring.comwww.bored.comwww.i-am-bored.comThere were a lot more, but the ones listed above are the ones which I found interesting.. Results: 84,300,000and "

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One of the weekdays during the 2 months break, I decided to pay a visit to one of the Maruti showrooms in the city to test drive the Swift (I had already done it before, but since there was nothing better to do, I thought I would experience it once again).. this time it was at Bimal's in Indiranagar..The moment I went in, I was received by an executive who introduced himself as Anshad. I told him

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Quite an interesting article, also leads to several other links which talk about the top 10 beers in Germany and all over the world.

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I was reading an article yesterday on slashdot about a gentelman asking Bill Gates a question about who he thinks could offer the biggest challenge to MS? Bill Gates said "Goldman Sachs"..??The reasoning given was because he feels MS needs people with high IQ's, who get to cos. like GS and Morgan Stanley and he would like to get such talent into the organization. He does not fell IBM / Lotus as

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Having ignored one of earlier Gaj's mails, I was forced to do the searching on google for this term which I keep getting to hear often.http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html

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Pythons eating huge stuff and landing in trouble is something I've always got to hear time and again right from my school days. Here is the latest I got to see on nat geo.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060915-python-ewe.html

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Another piece of gyaan from Anand's site. C&H comic strips for any day b/w 18th November 1985 and 31st December 1995 can be searched on Google Images by typing "chyymmdd". For Ex: Cartoon strip for 18th November 1985 can be found on entering "ch851118".Bill Watterson is the author of the comic strip.

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The Mohawk hairstyle (Mohawk or Mohican) is a hair style often thought to have been worn by the Mahican and Mohawk tribes.

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I had bumped into this term many times in the past but had never bothered finding more details about it. Today, I did, thanks to all the free time I have and the internet connection.What is Sun Outage?The conicidence of the satellite and the sun at the site of ground receiver terminal signifies that the sun is viewed from the ground receiver terminal in the same direction as the satellite. As the

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I averaged about 54 wpm (words per minute).

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Taken from my guru's web site www.s-anand.net

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Openness to learn: Openness to subordinate your ego to take ideas from others.Meritocracy: The best ideas are adopted and implemented using data to arrive at the best decision.Speed: Assuring you do things faster compared to yesterday and last quarter.Imagination: You continually bring better ideas and better innovation to the table.Excellence in execution: That is implementation of these great

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UN Secretary Generals of the past1961 - 1971: U Thant, Burma1972 - 1981: Waldheim, Kurt1982 - 1991: Javier Perez de Cuellar, Peru1992 - 1996: Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt1997 - 2006: Kofi Annan

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http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/jun/13forbes.htm

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Key Points:Immaterial of however bad the news is, the customer would like to hear from you.Communicate, Communicate, CommunicateProactive management, focus on the right issues, and an unambiguous internal communication is the key to circumvent crisishttp://www.thesmarttechie.com/Magazine/Fullstory.asp?aid=BZT238644242

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5051540.stm

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http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/may/18spec.htm

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"There is nothing to worry. This is a phenomenon wherein there was a crash in the commodity market as far as the metals are concerned. The markets had gone up therefore had to fall, so it fell. If you look into it in totality there is nothing to worry."http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/may/15markets.htm

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It was another Black Monday on the Indian stock markets on May 15, as the Sensex -- the benchmark 30-share sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange -- plummeted by a whopping 470 points during intra-day trading.Heavy selling by institutions and retail investors alike saw the markets plunge from 12,285 points to almost 11,800 points. The Indian markets seemed to mirror the weakness in the

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just one from the sin city?http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/22/cx_sb_0323featslide.html

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I was quite surprised to read that 8 of the top 10 are in asia and of the 8, 5 are in China.http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/may/08forbes1.htm

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http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/may/05hyundai.htmWith Verna stepping in sometime towards the end of 2006, the question which Accent owners or prospective Accent buyers have is "will the existing Accent continue in the market?" and as anyone would expect, the answer from the Hyndai management - "Yes".The Ford management said the same thing prior to introducing the Fiesta, and they were not totally

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I have managed to gather a few points on a topic which I have always wanted to look into for quite some time now.Laloo and the turnaround story of the India Railways: From almost being declared as heading towards fatal bankruptcy to a profit of 15,000 crores and today being looked at as the second most revenue generating PSU after the ONGC.Thanks to the 19th June 2006 edition of Outlook, I have

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Those whom the gods love...http://specials.rediff.com/news/2006/may/03sld01.htm

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