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Student life: Odd exam superstitions

  One of my school friends had this habit of wearing the same shirt everyday for all the days of an exam – be it the quarterly or the annual, we were sure he’d wear the same yellow full sleeves day after day. The shirt was too worn out, totally faded (I came to know [...]

Yahoo vs Google: why Yahoo lags behind?

You wanna know why Yahoo lags behind Google? Look at the image below that I took from Yahoo’s careers site today (WW10.4). It shows all open reqs, sorted by date (descending). As you probably noticed (follow the arrows please! ), the sort hasn’t happened properly. How did the coder miss this? No unit tests funda [...]

Americans are not the *only* stupid people

After watching this Youtube video on how smart the Americans are, one of my friends pointed me to a similar video, shot in London. Funny one! Oh..and btw, here’s another American classic; Miss North Carolina 2007, Katie Coble, answering a question Link to this post!

President Bush never ceases to amuse us!

Do you remember the hoax (?!) mail that circulated circa 2002 which claimed President Bush’s IQ to be 91?? You watch these videos posted online and you will start believing them Compilation of Bush’s goofy moments from his speeches: More Bush: Want to see more of Bush? Check out this – Top 10 goofy moments [...]

Is Windows XP the right OS for an ATM?

Have you ever wondered what the ATM runs on? Most 0f the ATMs in India (and all around the world) run some flavor of Windows. Nowadays they use XP (some with SP2, if the technical team is good) but I remember seeing Windows 98 (saw BSOD once in one of the Chennai ATMs); Also read somewhere [...]

Chessbase Light 2007 Activation – eh?!

I love the work being done by the good folks in Chessbase; IMO they have the coolest jobs, they get payed to develop software for CHESS Ohhhh, I wish I had some kinda day job like that! I know video game development is as interesting, but anyway gaming has never been one of my serious [...]

Indian shopping sites – Need to improve a lot!

I wanted to buy this shaver, but Amazon said it wouldnt be possible to ship this to India, due to some export regulation blah blah blah. So, I decided to check the local online malls. I am not new to online shopping in India, but It has been a long time since I visited them, [...]

Top Ten George W. Bush moments

Even after seeing this video for the 10th time, I tell you, I cannot stop LMAO. This video captures the top 10 goofy moments of George Bush. Really funny! Link to this post!

My first cartoon – Performance appraisal

I stumbled upon this interesting site today. It allows you to unleash (?!) your creativity by creating simple drag/drop operations. Above is my first cartoon, which is inspired by the happenings in my company Do let me know what you think! Link to this post!

Dumb Error Messages

I use Intel VTune performance analyzer with VS.NET 2003. Today, when I opened my solution, I got these really dumb error msgboxes from VTune… First this one… EmbeddedHtmlHelp.cpp??? Very helpful! Next it told me there was something wrong with VT projects, as if I didnt know that!! (Sorry, if this doesnt make sense, this is [...]