Archive for the 'Cool Stuff' Category

Mind Over Matter

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

When i read the book The Alchemist, I felt a connection to the concepts/ideas presented in that book. The first concept is that of a personal legend - a path, a story that drives person’s life journey. Intertwined into this, paulo coelho’s hero - santiago - connects with various elements of nature as he wills […]

Aamir Khan’s Blog Moved

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

I posted about aamir khan blog couple of months back. At that time his blog was on lagaandvd.com. Since that time he moved his blog over to AamirKhan.com. Strangely, he ends his old blog without any reference to plans of moving over to new site. It took me by surprise, but i found his new […]

Aamir Khan’s blog

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

About 2 weeks back, i discovered Aamir khan’s blog. Yes, - the bollywood star - Aamir khan. Surprisingly, i found his blog to be a good read. He reacts to the 100s of comments, delves into his thought process for some characters and blogs. Atleast for now, he’s posting regularly, talking about his upcoming movie […]

Hug a Warrior Fan Today :)

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Wow! what a game!
Not only did the warriors make playoffs after 13 years but they win their first game!
on road!!
against a #1 seed!!!
Ever since i came to US in 1991, Basketball has been my favorite game to watch (and try to play). It’s easy to understand (unlike football or baseball), it’s fast paced, it’s exciting […]

Don’t

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Don’t click on this link. Don’t follow it. Please don’t.
Why? because it’s impossible to remember and it’s written by nobody.
p.s. all the characters on that page are fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Some of the characters may have certain traits and/or mannerisms that may seem […]

Monsoon!

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I made it to india safe and tired friday night local time. The weather was quite unusual for hyderabad in late may. The temperature was right around 30 celcius ( and it was somewht humid. I learnt that it had just rained the day before and the temperatures cooled down from a day high scorching […]

This just rocks

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I stopped reading news in the newspaper about 7-8 years ago and the only reason i pay for the merc is the ads. Specifically, I am one of those people who pay for the SJ mercury news to find out what’s on sale at frys. It’s not that i feel like i am the gadget […]

Web as a platform

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

There has been a lot of talk about web 2.0 - “web as a platform”. Enough has been said about what web 2.0 means, what being platform is. Quite of few us here in our immediate team(s) have been talking about web being a platform for development. As luck would have it, some of us […]

Moved to wordpress

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Finally, I am off blogger for my blog publishing software. It’s such a relief. Now that i have done it, I feel like i should have done this a long time back. I have been fiddling with wordpress code for a while. In fact, I hacked up wordpressMU for a contest inside y!.
My biggest […]