Sunset in Gurgaon

Sunset view from Dubey's house...
Once I happened to be with the camera when this happened -- red red Gurgaon

How to automatically tweet your new blog posts, like this one!

Have a twitter account?
Have a blog?
You feel it would be nice if your new blog posts are tweeted automatically?

If the answer to any of the questions above is NO, please move on. There is not much that you can benefit from by reading the following. For others, here it is:

1. Go to twitterfeed.com. Actually the next steps below are self-explanatory if you are into twitterfeed.com, but I'll explain that anyway.
2. Get an account there - You just need an email ID
3. Twitter as a service is the default selection. No need to touch that!
4. Authenticate your twitter account, i.e let twitter verify that you would like to authorise Twitterfeed to publish the things into your twitter account. This is a one time activity
5. Having done the above step, Step 2 is shown- name feed and add source URL
6. Give the feed a name - If you are going to keep multiple feeds, it would be good if you keep each one in an organised manner.
7. Add Rss feed URL - this can be got from the Blog page of your blog.
- In case you have a Blogger blog, it should be something like this http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourBlogTitle
- In case it is a Wordpress blog, it would be something like this
http://YourBlogAddress/feed/Title
Pray, replace the YourBlogTitle and YourBlogAddress with your relevant addresses, in my case for this blog, the Rss feed URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Aurbatao


8. You can also test the rss feed by clicking the test button
9. Advance settings? Yeah, you can play with that to make customizations as per your whims. Like I have chosen to have each auto-tweet to begin with 'New Blog post:' Plus I also shorten the URLs using a service. Play around!
10. Click "Create Feed" -- DONE!
    

I hope this helped. If it did, I'd like you to show your gratitude. Pls leave a comment. I'd love to comment on that!

What happens when you get too many RTs

Image Courtesy: www.thewwwblog.com

Yesterday I tweeted something and what RTs I received to this!! I mean, people would get 100x more RTs than this (say, If Sashi Tharoor said something) but I was really overwhelmed by the sheer no of RTs in less than an hour or so and then it still kept on flowing...ok just checked, the number is not so high (about 70-75) but still it is quite high for me, my highest.

And although I get nothing out of it (as we were discussing when this was happening), I still am excited about it when it's been almost 24 hrs since i tweeted that.

Sachin you rule!

5 minute relevant post

Some posts are relevant for a life-time, some for shorter duration. some for just a few moments.

Sachin is about to create history with 17,000 runs -- and how many records has he set already.
I'm sure it'll be same when he is nearing 18k mark...

So in office all are watching Live TV on their computers, watching people in the stadium praying, and very emotional.

I think it should be done by the time I click post over here.

Change is just a change away

After having this thought fluttering around in my head ever since I started this blog, I finally changed the look of the blog today. Needless to say, I have not done much on this front for a long time.

I do intend to make the change though.



Plus, A post a day will keep most away.

Who is more popular

Just had a discussion a few days back, with two personalities being compared:

1) Master Blaster - Sachin Tendulkar

2) Super Star - Shahrukh Khan

The debate was on 'who do you think is more popular' and just that. Not who has more money or who is a better man.

As for me, Sachin's certainly a Legend, just like SRK and only bigger one at that.
But I do not agree if you say he is a real life hero or real performer. I feel both the legends are giving output of some entertainment media.

And I'm also a fan of Sachin, love him, watch cricket primarily for him, cherish the moment I accidentally stumbled onto him!!! nothing of the sort with SRK -- he is smart, quick to quip, a better front-man for any representation.

Although it's not a level-field comparison, both are in different fields and thus just can't be compared -- But that's the question

I say, in his field, Sachin certainly rules - Globally. Same is not true for the other.

Virtual Haircut

or as some call it, Virtual Barber

The first time I heard it, it was awesome.
It still is -- Go ahead, let it load (buffer) and please remember it's useless if not heard on a headphone




I used this piece of code from here

Walnut Tarts

Yuk!
The ones that I had today is what i express my feelings on.
They looked pretty, but were just too untasty.
I wish I had my camera to click them and bring back the nightmares that I certainly am going to see a DVD quality movie of today. Oh I could have treasured myself with a priceless-useless possession, scaring me whenever I wished.

Even the one who suggested said "it tastes like shit".
Included in the unfortunate event were the ppl from the office and it's sad that it was me sponsoring the event.

Thus I have another reason to not to forget it.
Just to save me some nauseating moments, i'll post this good-looking pic of some.

here here here...

Do i need to mention the courtesy for the pic -- the owner's made sure of that anyway

Chirp

Pronunciation

Try this:
(Disclaimer: ctrl C, ctrl V performed from here)

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
world.


Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

-- B. Shaw

SMS SMS everywhere

Thinking about it, there are so many sites that are offering free SMS sending and each has it's own differentiation marked.
I'll just try putting down the different sites that are offering SMS service (did I miss the FREE keyword?), needless to say the list would never be complete (even if I were Mr. Google himself) and additions to the list would be made as and when encountered. Here it goes, without any order:

1) 160by2 : One of the first ones to bring in this service, quickly adopted by swarms. As the name says, the characters offered are 160/2, and then they use the other 160/2 for their ads (which I'm convinced are non-contextual, err... they are not contextual, if that sounded different). Plus they have numerous features, latest being send sms to Kuwait & Singapore.
Opinion: Fall of the legends [somehow, whenever I clicked on the username box, a pop-up would...pop-up...annoying.

2) Way2Sms: Again, a pioneer in the space, the first ones to distribute this concept. It's been time since I visited this site, I see many new features -- mail / IM integration being the one that was new to me!
Just a bit apprehensive post having tried using my gmail through this.
Opinion: Ad-hungry again, but liked the mail integration despite my apprehension
[The pop-up popped here too, just a click is all it takes]

3)Youmint: Brought in the concept of earning money on receiving SMS. Offers lined up currently on the site...upon registration. Plus I on-the-run noticed testimonials from users, specially reward receivers.
Opinion: It'll take much to say some. Though I'd'nt stop from saying -- Clean, neat page.

4)Spice SMS: I didn't even know about this site and I say what Cypher said to the agents - Ignorance is bliss.
Cluttered would be my first impression, was my first impression.

5)Atrochatro: The one that gives 148 characters to the users.
(I just realised if this list is to be a list, it better be just a list and not a descriptive one at that)

6)Indyarocks: Has innovated around a lot of stuff including SMS. I like their reminder service.

7)SMSseva: *_*

8)Krify: Yeah I know, the name you mean? Ignore that...Everybody is giving some differentiated stuff. Krify has Blogs to offer. Did not try it much.
9)Smsjunction:
10)Vyomworld:
11)Mysmsindia:
12)Freesms8: Unlimited 160 characters sms!
13)Smsfi: Another bit in the bytes -- They have contests/videos/forums/blogs besides the Free sms feature - the looks are clean at least
14) Smsgupshup: Gaah, how could i forget this - This is the one with all the publicity right now, especially due to the recent Facebook-Smsgupshup tie-up, which enables facebook on SMS in India. SmsGupshup is the largest mobile community in India -- referred as Facebook of India, it claims more than 20 Mn users in over a million communities. The beauty of the concept is that you can form your own community. Anybody can join the community and start receiving the content as you put some...leave apart any other player that I may have mentioned, this, my reader, is the biggest - at least as of now.
15) Smsmeon: A disruptive idea - a micro-blogging platform coupled with SMS integration. If you are unknown to Keywords, Short-code - no problem. It'll take 10s to understand. sms Papa to 56767. 'Papa' is the keyword and the number that it is sent to is the short-code. Smsmeon allows you to own a keyword [usually you would want it to be your/org name or something that you represent -- something like a domain name -- but then it can be anything] on the short-code 56070 -- For FREE(Till now it was a paid product, with prices upwards of 3k per keyword per month!!) - It is mobile identity in Smsmeon's terminology. So what does that give you? Why should you want an identity on mobile?
Ans: just for the same reason that you would want an email Id or a domain name.
The Free-sms sending is just another add-on onto the site to attract users. I am totally impressed by the idea of getting a reservation on 56070 [I'm Brijesh on 56070]. Now it's upto me to create the use for it.

I'm certain I have covered some decimal % of the sites out there, but these are the ones I could recall / google! and out of these I'd say "impressive" to
- Smsgupshup - for their sheer success and self-serve module provision - which in turn is the reason for it's success
- Way2sms, 160by2 - for seeding the idea of Free sms and enraging the other players.
- Smsmeon - for the self-serve module and revolutionary idea of free keywords on short-codes.

I have misquoted something?
Have I missed something which shouldn't have?
You want to add something to this?
Go ahead the comment section is yearning for some characters from you.

twitter twitter everywhere

Yes, as everybody else, I too am writing about twitter. There are so many things around twitter that have been built. Just my attempt to write the most crazy and different ones over here.

1. Tweets from mars phoenix !
2. Species that tweet - Horse; Dog; Cat;
   
3. Plants - This one i didn't explore much
4. HOUSE This one's got a name too, I mean a expansion of SARAH!

This last one has been too much for me to take -- I cease to write.
Here's Cofi -- He to tweets, only intermittently just like most of us.

Any other weirder entities that you know which tweet?

Added:
- tweet from excel! (Via @neverclever)
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Such is life

There is this serial on air these days, a copy of "Moment of Truth" - 'Sach Ka Samna'. Just saw that it's got a legal notice for content that offends good taste and decency.
(Here's the link)

This was coming their way. The fundamental of this game is that prior to the show, offline, people are asked 50 questions with "lie-detector" attachment and the results noted down. During the show they are then asked 21 questions from the same 50 questions and you keep on playing till you are telling the truth (based on the earlier answer-results matching with your current answers)

Here's the Vinod Kambli episode clip:


The questions asked are what the show is all about -- meant to be embarrassing, uncomfortable to answer. All answers are either Yes or No. The contestants, of course, have the option of leaving anytime -- with the clause that they forfeit their prize money. I was of the opinion that both ways, one loses in the game. If you are asked a question that you answer incorrectly -- results say it's a lie -- then you are out of the game. If you are asked a question that you do not wish to answer -- again you lose -- the answer of course can now be guessed by anyone as we know that he didn't answer the question since the answer must be the embarrassing Yes (or no, whichever is more shameful).

I have my own thoughts on the ability of polygraph tests to actually determine whether a person is lying or not -- the thoughts are negative!.There's no way a machine can be 100% accurate.

What do you say, do these polygraph - lie-detector - tests mean anything?

What does twitter reveal about the Rediff revamp

Rediff.com has secretly revamped it's site and it's a change a blind man can't miss.
It's completely that - revamped.

Had been listening to people crib / swear / appreciate(only a few) about the activity, so thought I might as well do a simple search and post the views of people - tweeples to be specific, internetly speaking!

So I did just that using this new site that I heard of -- Listoftweets.com
here is what came out:

• @kunald rediff new look sucks looks so empty hardly getting anything to read there i donno why so much of whitespace and real estate wastage
  Fri Jul 17 10:20:27 +0000 2009 from arunsark



• rediff's new dry look http://bit.ly/60SZM #rediff
  Fri Jul 17 09:56:50 +0000 2009 from 1kush1



• WOW!! RT: @icarusprakash: #Review: #Achamundu is a must-watch: Rediff.com movies http://bit.ly/KmSp7
  Fri Jul 17 09:56:25 +0000 2009 from milliblog



• #Review: #Achamundu is a must-watch: Rediff.com movies http://bit.ly/KmSp7
  Fri Jul 17 09:48:28 +0000 2009 from icarusprakash



• Now IPL-style T20 league in USA - Rediff: ESPN STAR SportsNow IPL-style T20 league in USARediffThe success of th.. http://bit.ly/1E6Sfz
  Fri Jul 17 09:43:08 +0000 2009 from IPL_Update



• hate rediff's new page!!
  Fri Jul 17 09:40:15 +0000 2009 from agarwalabhishek



• The rediff home page is indeed very neat and clean. But I get too many spam mails on that account. They must do something about that.
  Fri Jul 17 09:30:37 +0000 2009 from shawnchandy



• @csathya yeah..rediff page sucks...sify has moved to new light layout.
  Fri Jul 17 09:02:47 +0000 2009 from rajeshs142



• The best part ... Rediff earlier had a sports page and now has Cricket page and covers all Sports News. Wondering who is the designer
  Fri Jul 17 08:58:07 +0000 2009 from mrmwrites



• just noticed - rediff.com drastically revamped - when did they do it? - now it more looks like a google than a portal (yahoo?).
  Fri Jul 17 08:52:20 +0000 2009 from santo_tweets



• I like the new Rediff homepage, if only for the fact that it signs me back into email automatically, without making me log in again.
  Fri Jul 17 08:50:02 +0000 2009 from neverclever



• I dont like the new rediff page... not that I had great love for the prev one... @fail
  Fri Jul 17 08:48:17 +0000 2009 from csathya



• Now IPL-style T20 league in USA - Rediff http://digg.com/u18gk5 #IPL
  Fri Jul 17 08:39:50 +0000 2009 from CricketIPL



• @krthksrnvsn I liked the older look .It was more indian + news in the mid. IMHO new look is a little weird, don't feel like visiting rediff.
  Fri Jul 17 08:11:17 +0000 2009 from yogeshkm



• Satyam gets till Mar 31 to restate accounts: Source: rediff Business http://bit.ly/jaYib
  Fri Jul 17 08:03:44 +0000 2009 from outsourcingEq



• #rediff Their new look mirrors rediff intl/US. http://ia.rediff.com/ Alignment strategy?
  Fri Jul 17 07:45:27 +0000 2009 from vedantvarma



• I will visit Rediff.com for my daily news from 2011 onwards. @WATblog http://tr.im/sKwe
  Fri Jul 17 07:42:44 +0000 2009 from sachinuppal



• RT @rimeswithcya: I think they threw out the baby with the bathwater. There's no ads, but there's no engagement hook either. #rediff
  Fri Jul 17 07:33:41 +0000 2009 from rimeswithcya



• Got a follow from someone working at #rediff . They seem to be listening to the twittercon abt #rediff site:-) http://tr.im/sCUo
  Fri Jul 17 07:32:27 +0000 2009 from vijaysankaran



• WTF happened to the Rediff interface???? Hate it!
  Fri Jul 17 07:31:51 +0000 2009 from shantanub



• @bikashchowdhury Rediff Newlook lesser clutter now but liked original :the main news updates section which was bang in center has moved
  Fri Jul 17 07:30:24 +0000 2009 from krthksrnvsn



• rediff.com has a new look
  Fri Jul 17 07:22:34 +0000 2009 from bikashchowdhury



• after rediff, toi also redesigns its homepage...are we seeing some wave coming
  Fri Jul 17 07:21:07 +0000 2009 from pankajagarwal



• Gosh - The new rediff homepage is awful...am I in the minority?
  Fri Jul 17 07:20:02 +0000 2009 from topeszz



• How Hillary Clinton can boost Indo-US trade ties - Rediff http://bit.ly/L2a5j #cleantech #japan
  Fri Jul 17 07:19:53 +0000 2009 from japancleantech



• Industry reactions to rediff redesign http://bit.ly/vKuqu
  Fri Jul 17 07:19:52 +0000 2009 from seoparas



• Rediff have redesigned their website. Will Rediff.com's bold revamp work? http://bit.ly/iKwtg
  Fri Jul 17 07:18:13 +0000 2009 from nitinkarkara



• How Hillary Clinton can boost Indo-US trade ties - Rediff http://bit.ly/L2a5j #india #cleantech
  Fri Jul 17 06:52:09 +0000 2009 from IndiaCleantech



• Points of View: Will Rediff.com's bold revamp work? http://bit.ly/vKuqu
  Fri Jul 17 06:51:20 +0000 2009 from afaqs



• RT:@Sushilkrishnan:‘be good to users & the monetization will take care of itself’ Ajit Balakrishnan on adless Rediff home http://is.gd/1B14A
  Fri Jul 17 06:03:10 +0000 2009 from ruchiraswal



• @RajaSen do, its not half bad. still writing film reviews for rediff? How'd you get into the biz, am curious as I love reading your reviews.
  Fri Jul 17 06:00:37 +0000 2009 from joeychopra



• Check out what industry experts think about Rediff.com's bold revamp http://bit.ly/VRAgG
  Fri Jul 17 05:56:01 +0000 2009 from kapilohri



• I read rediff.com almost twice a day ...I am not able to adapt myself to the new UI.
  Fri Jul 17 05:49:54 +0000 2009 from hkhurana



• @prempanicker: And sports has been renamed as cricket on rediff homepage! (but contains all sports' news???) Sheeeeesh...
  Fri Jul 17 05:37:31 +0000 2009 from shankaranand



• New rediff Television ad to promote redesigned look. Just your Stuff! http://vimeo.com/5607418
  Fri Jul 17 05:37:28 +0000 2009 from medigit



• RT @tweetmeme ‘be good to users...and the monetization will take care of itself’ Ajit Balakrishnan on adless Rediff home http://is.gd/1B14A
  Fri Jul 17 05:35:36 +0000 2009 from Sushilkrishnan



• @prempanicker: whats with this new rediff look? The older one was wayyyyy better. This looks kinda empty.
  Fri Jul 17 05:35:14 +0000 2009 from shankaranand



• RT @tweetmeme Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future P... http://is.gd/1B14A
  Fri Jul 17 05:35:09 +0000 2009 from medigit



• RT @Vulturo Webchutney employees frequenting rediff.com = NOT COOL. Makes me ashamed to be working here.
  Fri Jul 17 05:28:26 +0000 2009 from rajeshbarnwal



• what's wrong with rediff.com? it has changed its whole interface which is not good. seems alot of bugs are introduced now.
  Fri Jul 17 05:12:38 +0000 2009 from santhoshst



• What does the industry say about Rediff Redesign - Some interesting perspectives here: http://digg.com/u18fd4
  Fri Jul 17 05:04:10 +0000 2009 from siddheshj



• Why Kashmir has no case for self-determination - Rediff: NewsweekWhy Kashmir has no case for self-determinationR.. http://bit.ly/K28gC
  Fri Jul 17 04:50:26 +0000 2009 from kashmirfollow



• RT @Praval: After failing out with emails, greetings and more, #rediff is all set to fight the search engine war with it's new UI #FAIL
  Fri Jul 17 04:39:40 +0000 2009 from shankybaba



• RT @Praval: After failing out with emails, greetings and more, #rediff is all set to fight the search engine war with it's new UI #FAIL
  Fri Jul 17 04:39:40 +0000 2009 from bawaal



• What's ur view on the new Rediff.com home page design? Read mine at http://bit.ly/vKuqu
  Fri Jul 17 04:35:14 +0000 2009 from ashoklalla



• After failing out with emails, greetings and more, #rediff is all set to fight the search engine war with it's new UI #FAIL
  Fri Jul 17 04:28:54 +0000 2009 from praval



• @shankybaba All that is to promote Rediff as a search engine now. So very Googlish! #rediff #design
  Fri Jul 17 04:27:59 +0000 2009 from praval



• @RajaSen The new design of Rediff.com SUCKS big time! I called it ultimate suicide! #rediff #design
  Fri Jul 17 04:10:38 +0000 2009 from shankybaba



• The new design of Rediff.com SUCKS big time! I called it ultimate suicide! #rediff #design
  Fri Jul 17 04:09:37 +0000 2009 from shankybaba



• Oh Pallavi Aunty who is no longer with Comrade Ram's newspaper turns a Rediff columnist http://is.gd/1BH5z.Says Hans better than Yindoos
  Fri Jul 17 04:00:22 +0000 2009 from prasannavishy



• Now, 'standing room' on airlines! Rediff Money http://ff.im/5kuz6
  Fri Jul 17 03:58:33 +0000 2009 from kanmoorthy



• The new design of Rediff SUCKS big time! #rediff #design
  Fri Jul 17 03:52:27 +0000 2009 from shankybaba



• #cloudcomputing Why Google eyes cloud computing - Source: rediff Business http://ow.ly/15HZqH
  Fri Jul 17 03:32:10 +0000 2009 from cloudEq



• The redesigned rediff.com sucks! #web #india #rediff #design
  Fri Jul 17 03:28:00 +0000 2009 from KARTHIKJAI



• Just saw BBH India's first TVC: http://tinyurl.com/n3fcmu - for rediff.com. and then went to the homepage, redesigned. confused everyone!
  Fri Jul 17 02:44:16 +0000 2009 from kajal81



• The new Rediff sucks so bad. It would fill even my mobile phone screen with white space
  Fri Jul 17 02:22:33 +0000 2009 from srikanthv2



• Rediff On The Net, Movies: Satya is the latest movie to depict predator as prey http://bit.ly/2MHaxF
  Fri Jul 17 01:08:21 +0000 2009 from pchakilam



• RT @tweetmeme ‘be good to users...and the monetization will take care of itself’ Ajit Balakrishnan on adless Rediff home http://is.gd/1B14A
  Thu Jul 16 22:23:36 +0000 2009 from PACHonorSociety



• RT @tweetmeme ‘be good to users...and the monetization will take care of itself’ Ajit Balakrishnan on adless Rediff home http://is.gd/1B14A
  Thu Jul 16 22:21:50 +0000 2009 from PACGlobal



• @arpitd yaaa...rediff is much less cluttered nw
  Thu Jul 16 21:57:21 +0000 2009 from Desh



• New rediff homepage sucks! http://tinyurl.com/nbuf
  Thu Jul 16 19:19:30 +0000 2009 from vishalmamania



• @arpitd now u realise that rediff is redesigned?!
  Thu Jul 16 19:06:42 +0000 2009 from mihirmodi



• RT @RaviHegde "I am not sure about regional language, but, in India, on web, English speaking market will grow" - Says Rediff Chairman Ajit
  Thu Jul 16 19:01:40 +0000 2009 from _india_



• "I am not sure about regional language, but, in India, on web, English speaking market will grow" - Says Rediff Chairman Ajit Balakrishnan
  Thu Jul 16 18:59:11 +0000 2009 from RaviHegde



• Rediff.com is redesigned! I like the changes. http://www.rediff.com/
  Thu Jul 16 18:55:32 +0000 2009 from arpitd



• Just saw rediff's tv ad. why on earth are they spending money on tv ads
  Thu Jul 16 18:04:28 +0000 2009 from ekalavyab



• @kanchangupta see what i wrote about empire and predatory states some time ago: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/16rajeev.htm
  Thu Jul 16 17:51:40 +0000 2009 from RajeevSrinivasa



• Australia fight back after Strauss ton - Rediff http://tr.im/sEIe
  Thu Jul 16 17:43:58 +0000 2009 from CricketBooks



• The new rediff page design is really hopeless www.rediff.com
  Thu Jul 16 17:29:17 +0000 2009 from harshal09



• Now its timesofindia.com's turn to redesign site after sify and rediff.
  Thu Jul 16 17:02:49 +0000 2009 from arunthomaskb



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign ...: This latest revamp is an outcome of us reflec.. http://bit.ly/zNcps
  Thu Jul 16 16:57:28 +0000 2009 from adtrend



• rediff.com comes with a new look
  Thu Jul 16 16:30:16 +0000 2009 from _rajesh



• rediff.com look & feel changed...very simple template..search engine and mobile friendly but still didn't liked it..... :(
  Thu Jul 16 15:56:50 +0000 2009 from stylo87



• India Inc cautiously optimistic; 6% cos cut pay: Source: rediff Business http://bit.ly/1iewtV
  Thu Jul 16 15:37:01 +0000 2009 from outsourcingEq



• rediff looks strange.... http://www.rediff.com/
  Thu Jul 16 15:19:20 +0000 2009 from clutchplay



• Rediff 'zeroed in' to simplification!! Wonder what's difference betwn its indian http://ia.rediff.com and US http://in.rediff.com edition
  Thu Jul 16 15:07:23 +0000 2009 from vijaysarathy



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign ... - WATBlog.. http://beyonceringtones.koolrings.com
  Thu Jul 16 15:07:04 +0000 2009 from Beautycabc



• very true.. RT@theneverknown okay who stripped Rediff.com?? the site suddenly looks naked-er than a stereotypical Indian beggar child
  Thu Jul 16 15:02:29 +0000 2009 from gaurilonkar



• @RajaSen and am not saying this 'cos I am against change. rediff has just shot down the very reason i used to visit it.
  Thu Jul 16 14:53:30 +0000 2009 from wNimish



• @RajaSen I liked the google theme of rediff ... Same shit new skin!
  Thu Jul 16 14:46:52 +0000 2009 from Chinmoy



• So... what do you lot think of the new Rediff.com look?
  Thu Jul 16 14:44:11 +0000 2009 from RajaSen



• rediff gets new clothes. Copying google homepage ?
  Thu Jul 16 14:37:30 +0000 2009 from seoparas



• Punjab government lied to its farmers: Rediff.com's Krishnakumar P travels across such areas and assesses how fa.. http://bit.ly/8puKQ
  Thu Jul 16 14:19:27 +0000 2009 from RediffNews



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future Plans http://bit.ly/JLSYo
  Thu Jul 16 14:14:12 +0000 2009 from India_Web



• #rediff.com redesigns after years. Disappoints. #fail
  Thu Jul 16 14:09:14 +0000 2009 from rbhavesh



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its ... (WATBlog.com.. http://bit.ly/MfwVg
  Thu Jul 16 14:05:35 +0000 2009 from webmemeFH



• missing money.rediff.com, sorry guys i m not connected to anyone in official hours
  Thu Jul 16 14:05:31 +0000 2009 from pooranj



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future P.. http://bit.ly/4e4DIX
  Thu Jul 16 14:02:23 +0000 2009 from indimeme



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future Plans http://bit.ly/Tc2iF
  Thu Jul 16 13:58:17 +0000 2009 from TheAlok



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future Plans http://bit.ly/Tc2iF
  Thu Jul 16 13:56:31 +0000 2009 from amaleshsingh



• RT @WATblog Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future Plans http://bit.ly/T7XAi
  Thu Jul 16 13:48:09 +0000 2009 from Ruchi



• Rediff.com Redesigned. Clean. Simple http://www.rediff.com/
  Thu Jul 16 13:45:24 +0000 2009 from binojxavier



• Exclusive Interview With Ajit Balakrishnan On Rediff Redesign, Search, Mobile, Ad Revenue & Its Future Plans http://bit.ly/T7XAi
  Thu Jul 16 13:43:58 +0000 2009 from watblog



• rediff dy & r gets a woman cco http://bit.ly/Lhztv
  Thu Jul 16 13:31:04 +0000 2009 from treecreative



• Readout on Rediff's New Homepage - http://bit.ly/2MizH
  Thu Jul 16 13:30:26 +0000 2009 from popvulture



• Apparently, Rediff is not the only one with a home page layour change. Pagalguy sexed up it's inteface too.
  Thu Jul 16 13:20:32 +0000 2009 from ssssssiddharth



• rediff's new design sucks
  Thu Jul 16 13:15:55 +0000 2009 from zeqox



• Rediff redesign: No more ads on homepage http://bit.ly/4DY7js (New blog post)
  Thu Jul 16 13:14:44 +0000 2009 from saurabhsahni



• Minimalist design - a big gamble for Rediff. Worked for google for sure. Fingers crossed for Rediff!!!
  Thu Jul 16 13:10:36 +0000 2009 from BalenduS



• Rediff while travelling abroad, showed a clean tidy page. Glad to see that now with native rediff as well... good move to grow up...
  Thu Jul 16 12:43:27 +0000 2009 from cacofnix

Guess there are more thorns than petals here for rediff.

Metallica in India

Yep yep -- It still is there...

Not the Metallica you were looking for?
Perhaps you should try some Hardwear or Softwear services from Infosys.
C'mon at least take a rechage coupan

Movies that must be seen

Just a list of movies that, in my opinion, must be seen before you leave for the other side. No order in which they have been penned.

1) The doors
2) Matrix
3) Black - Hindi
4) My cousin Vinny
5) Fight Club
6) Into the wild
7) Amelie - french
8) Jaane Bhi do yaaron - Hindi
9) Kung Fu Hustle ( try watching this in hindi if you can)
10) The goodfellas
11) The bucketlist
12) The matrix
13) The Godfather
14) If only
15) The Cable guy
16) Snatch
17) Pulp Fiction


The ones that I could think of are up there. The list will have more additions.

You think I missed something very important?
Suggest...I might just add it

10 Most popular

I'd asked this on my tweet as well - The question being "Who do you think is the most popular human being in the world?"

When I say most popular, the scale is what I'm talking about -- be it region-wise (village / city / town, asia / europe / US, north/west/south/east) or age-wise (kids / teenagers / adults / older ppl) or relationship wise (friends / relatives / colleagues) -- ever in history - dead or alive.

A difficult question to answer -- better would be to have a set of people rather than singling out one.

I tried googling it as well, but perhaps wasn't quite able to frame the right search query.

My take on the short-listed:
1) Michael Jackson -- yeah the recent news storm actuated the thought, besides him being my first guess.
2) Mahatma Gandhi
3) Alexander The Great
4) Muhammad Ali
5) Adolf Hitler
6) Elvis Presley
7) Mother Teresa
8) Arnold Schwarzenegger
9) Jesus Christ
10) Osama Bin Laden

Now the popularity could be not about know about the person -- just having heard the name would suffice as a popularity parameter.

What's your opinion?

There are many that I didn't include in the list, simply because there's no end to it and 10 seemed like a decent figure.

Update: here is another post that talks about the same thing.

The race

It was a stadium, eight children were standing in their tracks for a race that was about to begin. Ready, steady, GO...


picture courtesy Google images!

The race started, children ran with all their energies.
Just a few steps far, a girl tripped and fell. She was slightly injured, with minor bruises and she began to cry...
Seeing this, the other participants -- all seven of them, came back. One of the seven consoled her, kissed her and held her had to pick her up. All seven joined in and carried the girl to the finish line.

The crowd, needless to say, was baffled. Few claps grew into thousands and the whole crowd was on their feet, many with tears in their eyes.

This, readers, is a true story that happened in an event held in Hyderabad for mentally challenged children - National Institute of Mental Health.
These children were all mentally challenged -- we, the normal people would never do that - why? because we have brains.

I read this story in our office notice board -- and I personally was quite moved by it.

How many times have I done that?
How many times have you done that?
How many times have we heard about something like this?

Guaranteed

what do I say to this, just click play and listen...
see the movie if you haven't.

Indian summer

and I hate the heat, as Eddie would have said Once.
Truth is I'm feeling quite quite quite lethargic today...maybe my outing in the glorious sun did this, maybe it's the addition of car a/c not functioning properly, failed meeting, de-motivated spirits and pure boredom mixing-in to give me this concoction which I so got drenched in that i slept in a discussion, came back to my desk - slept, woke up in sometime and am feeling lethargic still -- force myself to write this to buzz it off. I think it worked

life in an elevator

It was pretty sandy today. Had a game of tennis to play for which I was 5 minutes, sometimes, a bit too late. Soon as I thought that I'd been given a chance at the cost of the 4th player's slight misfortune when he got the info from his son&wife that they had somehow been locked out of the house with the keys inside, the lights went off. I stayed patient. The electricity would be there soon...alas, massive sandstorm, winds, heavy winds replaced the electricity part in my optimistic thought. I was fearing something would come flying taking me to final destination. When you think thoughts like this, they seldom happen; good that i live to tell that.
Ran back home...went to buy some survival accessories. On my way back in the elevator, had this thought that i should measure it's speed or rather the time it takes to reach the top floor. So i did initiate that, and when it reached 6/7 th floor, puff... darkness all around.Motion halted. Electricity gone. The emergency lights(i assume) came in about 5-7s... but the elevator wouldn't move...and then there were these weird wire / mechanical noises which would scare the body-processed-food out of most. Somehow i wasn't twitched...though when i saw the door opening i jumped out! Realised it was 7th floor that i was on. Tried to get back to the elevator after a few secs but the outer display was plainly showing down arrow...took the adjacent one for home floor thinking adventure enough.

Google says, this is what the world searches

I tried a search "why are indians so..." and then i did another search, trying to dig the common searches, "India is the..." and here us what was the suggested search results said...



Got this idea from here
http://positivesharing.com/2009/04/google-loves-denmark/




As Alanis would've said...isn't it ironic