Archive for April, 2004

First day without a job in a long time is very eventful

Friday, April 30th, 2004

Even though I slept through most of it, few interesting things happened! My dear friend Ankur is back online after almost a month spent on bed after an accident. Google goes public and I got into GMail! And I am no longer feeling guilty of being an ass in the hand of bloody Americans! No [...]

Is India going to another Kesari-Third Front political era?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2004

The predictions about the great Indian Elections 2004 are throwing couple of surprises. Latest exit polls show NDA suffering badly compared to the older polls. But they still are expected to turn out as the alliance with the most number of seats. But since all the other parties at the moment are members of secular [...]

Delhi Public School Pinjore advertising on Google!

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Indian companies are participating actively in Google’s Adsense program which is pretty interesting because if the target audiences are Indian people then the outcome may not be that profitable. First, Indians don’t click on ads. If they click, they rarely click to buy stuff. And if they do buy? Well I am not sure Indians [...]

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for doing illegal stuff

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

So, people feel syndicating news without having written permissions from the original source is wrong and illegal. I bet if it was to be taken seriously… 80% of the bloggers will be in jail. the rest 20% blogs of course are 1 post wonders.
So, people think downloading MP3s of the net (from sources like Kazaa [...]

Lakshya Audio CD? My suggestion is do not buy it.

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

Why? Because it’s one of the rare CDs that comes with copy protection. And pretty advanced one at that. The problem is that you cannot play it on PC, let alone record it as MP3 for your own listening pleasure. Because SONY thinks, every one of us who buy the CD has malicious intents and [...]