Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Google Sings!
...and another reason why Google is such an awesome company is cuz it releases cool songs to promote its new services! Check out Get lost and found on your phone, complete with lyrics :-D
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Random Stuff
#1
Spotted an article by Pankaj Jalote (Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur) in The Economic Times (Delhi Edition, Monday, November 07, 2005) on Page 11 (sorry, no online version available). The articles entitles "The Research Edge" and the teaser text is "A PhD degree is structured around three core skill sets, preparing candidates to be competent researchers. Pankaj Jalore examines..."
#2
Read the first two paragraphs of the prologue of One Night @ The Call Center (ON@TCC). This guy knows how to tell a story and surely knows how to immediately bond with the reader. How many of us have looked up the reservation charts to check out the females travelling in the compartment! And the book is priced at just Rs 95! Who would go for the pirated version with crappy printing and the self-destructing book binding when the original is just a hundred bucks (c'mon - that's cheaper than your average pizza out there!)
I didn't read Five Point Someone, but I'll surely read ON@TCC! The fellow's got me hooked. Btw, Dubey is in the drawing room lapping it up before he catches his flight in another two hours! Pure masaala story telling!
#3
Happy Belated Diwali! I guess I'd hop into the "Happy Diwali Bandwagon" too, what, with the 30+ mass mailed "Happy Diwali Spam" (thanks to Orkut) in my inbox!
Diwali was fun, with lots of kaaju ki barfi, eating out, and meeting up with friends. I'm sure I've gained atleast three more kilos with the incessant eating that I've been upto during the past one week!
On the D-day, I got bored after lighting exactly one chikkarginni, two chatais, two anaars (btw - they call if 'flower pot' in English - wtf!), and a couple of bombs! And the rest of the time I was wondering what the fuck made it so interesting when I was a kid! And btw - these were last year's left over crackers, and they're still left over!
Had a small reunion of school friends at Cafe Coffee Day from where we moved on to my place for an improptu daaroo party :-D It was fun meeting up with old friends and discussing school bhasad and reliving past crushes ;-)
Gotta sleep now...
Spotted an article by Pankaj Jalote (Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur) in The Economic Times (Delhi Edition, Monday, November 07, 2005) on Page 11 (sorry, no online version available). The articles entitles "The Research Edge" and the teaser text is "A PhD degree is structured around three core skill sets, preparing candidates to be competent researchers. Pankaj Jalore examines..."
#2
Read the first two paragraphs of the prologue of One Night @ The Call Center (ON@TCC). This guy knows how to tell a story and surely knows how to immediately bond with the reader. How many of us have looked up the reservation charts to check out the females travelling in the compartment! And the book is priced at just Rs 95! Who would go for the pirated version with crappy printing and the self-destructing book binding when the original is just a hundred bucks (c'mon - that's cheaper than your average pizza out there!)
I didn't read Five Point Someone, but I'll surely read ON@TCC! The fellow's got me hooked. Btw, Dubey is in the drawing room lapping it up before he catches his flight in another two hours! Pure masaala story telling!
#3
Happy Belated Diwali! I guess I'd hop into the "Happy Diwali Bandwagon" too, what, with the 30+ mass mailed "Happy Diwali Spam" (thanks to Orkut) in my inbox!
Diwali was fun, with lots of kaaju ki barfi, eating out, and meeting up with friends. I'm sure I've gained atleast three more kilos with the incessant eating that I've been upto during the past one week!
On the D-day, I got bored after lighting exactly one chikkarginni, two chatais, two anaars (btw - they call if 'flower pot' in English - wtf!), and a couple of bombs! And the rest of the time I was wondering what the fuck made it so interesting when I was a kid! And btw - these were last year's left over crackers, and they're still left over!
Had a small reunion of school friends at Cafe Coffee Day from where we moved on to my place for an improptu daaroo party :-D It was fun meeting up with old friends and discussing school bhasad and reliving past crushes ;-)
Gotta sleep now...
Thursday, October 27, 2005
FDI in Retail
With my newfound interest in the pink papers I couldn't help myself from getting drawn into this hot debate - "Should India allow FDI in Retail?"
First of all, for the uninitiated, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment, as opposed to FII (or Foreign Institutional Investment - Thanks for the correction Chaudi!), of which a lot is being heard with respect to the stock market. So, basically FDI means foreign players (of the corporate type) are allowed to come to India and set up shop. FII means foreign investors are allowed to buy & sell securities (shares, bonds, derivatives, etc.) in Indian stock markets.
Okay, so back to the hot question - FDI or not to FDI in retail. I went through an exhaustive presentation prepared by ICICI bank which you can find here. So basically they and everyone else on the net are crying for FDI like a sullen child for the one lollipop he just has to have!
To summarize them all, the various arguments given in support for FDI in retail are:
Can't Indian players, such as Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Vishal Mega Mart, etc. generate employment? Can't they develop the market? Aren't they already doing that? Accepted, that if we allow foreign players to enter the market the market will grow at a faster rate and employment generation will be faster. But shouldn't we give Indian companies a chance to develop and mature before introducing the competition?
If, at this nascent stage, foreign giants like Wal-Mart & Carrefour are allowed to enter Indian markets they'll wipe out the Indian players. These global players have years of experience in the retail sector. They weild a lot of corporate muscle. They just have to enter the market and replicate their business model, supply chain, etc. Indian companies on the other hand might still be struggling with their supply chains and sourcings & procurements. There's no chance they will be able to stand up to the might of these global giants.
With FDI in retail, it's being touted that Indian exports will increase, since global players will start sourcing products from India (whch means that they will buy Indian products and sell them in foreign markets). Does anyone really believe that crap? How many companies will prefer China as their sourcing destination vis-a-vis India is anyone's guess! Did the government give enough incentives to the Indian manufacturing sector to develop? Indian labour laws are being changed to attract foreign investments! Why the fuck can't they be changed to benefit the Indian manufacturing sector?
Can't Indian players consolidate the fragmented retail market so that tax revenues increase? Can't they offer lower prices to consumers? Big Bazaar is already doing that! Why do we need a Wal-Mart to give us lower prices. Why now?
Wouldn't it be better if the Indian retail sector is captured by a number of Indian retail chains instead of foreign players? Wouldn't it be better if instead of killing Indian retails chains in their infancy they're given a chance to capitalize on the Indian markets and perfect their business processes in one of the largest and fastest growing markets of the world. And then to make foreign direct investments in other markets.
Don't you think India needs more TCS's and Infosys's? And not only in the IT sector.
First of all, for the uninitiated, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment, as opposed to FII (or Foreign Institutional Investment - Thanks for the correction Chaudi!), of which a lot is being heard with respect to the stock market. So, basically FDI means foreign players (of the corporate type) are allowed to come to India and set up shop. FII means foreign investors are allowed to buy & sell securities (shares, bonds, derivatives, etc.) in Indian stock markets.
Okay, so back to the hot question - FDI or not to FDI in retail. I went through an exhaustive presentation prepared by ICICI bank which you can find here. So basically they and everyone else on the net are crying for FDI like a sullen child for the one lollipop he just has to have!
To summarize them all, the various arguments given in support for FDI in retail are:
- Improve competition in the retail sector
- Develop the market
- Greater exports as the global players will start sourcing products from Indian companies
- Employment generation, with possibly higher wages
- Lower prices for consumers, more choice for consumers, higher spending by consumers
- Tourism Development (!!)
- Development of agriculture and processed food sectors in India
- Increase in tax collection
Can't Indian players, such as Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Vishal Mega Mart, etc. generate employment? Can't they develop the market? Aren't they already doing that? Accepted, that if we allow foreign players to enter the market the market will grow at a faster rate and employment generation will be faster. But shouldn't we give Indian companies a chance to develop and mature before introducing the competition?
If, at this nascent stage, foreign giants like Wal-Mart & Carrefour are allowed to enter Indian markets they'll wipe out the Indian players. These global players have years of experience in the retail sector. They weild a lot of corporate muscle. They just have to enter the market and replicate their business model, supply chain, etc. Indian companies on the other hand might still be struggling with their supply chains and sourcings & procurements. There's no chance they will be able to stand up to the might of these global giants.
With FDI in retail, it's being touted that Indian exports will increase, since global players will start sourcing products from India (whch means that they will buy Indian products and sell them in foreign markets). Does anyone really believe that crap? How many companies will prefer China as their sourcing destination vis-a-vis India is anyone's guess! Did the government give enough incentives to the Indian manufacturing sector to develop? Indian labour laws are being changed to attract foreign investments! Why the fuck can't they be changed to benefit the Indian manufacturing sector?
Can't Indian players consolidate the fragmented retail market so that tax revenues increase? Can't they offer lower prices to consumers? Big Bazaar is already doing that! Why do we need a Wal-Mart to give us lower prices. Why now?
Wouldn't it be better if the Indian retail sector is captured by a number of Indian retail chains instead of foreign players? Wouldn't it be better if instead of killing Indian retails chains in their infancy they're given a chance to capitalize on the Indian markets and perfect their business processes in one of the largest and fastest growing markets of the world. And then to make foreign direct investments in other markets.
Don't you think India needs more TCS's and Infosys's? And not only in the IT sector.
Monday, October 24, 2005
Interesting stuff in the loo...
When I was young (okay, that makes me sound like a 60 year old, but I'm pretty young even now :-) I always used to look at these strange looking pink coloured newspapers with curiousity. Whenever I picked then up all I could fathom was acronyms - FDI, RBI, FII, SEBI, etc. Greek...abso-fucking-lutely greek!
Now I actually read one of them pretty regulary - The Economic Times - what can I say, evolution at work! So, I was reading the Sunday edition in the loo - like I always do - and I found two really interesting pieces...
Tuxedo Tuxman
On P3 (yeah - ET has a P3 too!), right above two cute looking (Indian) models ostensibly showing off Nokia mobile phones, was an article about cartoon channels majorly getting into merchandising kid stuff. Now, I didn't read that article, but what caught my eye, was the graphic besides it. Along with Scooby Doo and the Power Puff girls was (surpise) Tux!
Yes, the cute Linux penguin. The brave superhero, who has time-and-again saved the world by foiling the evil plans of Bill Gates and his WMD called Windoze . And guess what, besides it was the Debian logo! And our superhero was holding a flag which read "Nickelodeon 2.9". I have no frikkin' idea what that means... but I was wondering whether a braindead cartoon which shows Tuxedo Tuxman (that's the name of our beloved superhero in my hypothetical cartoon, btw) saving the world from the evil genius (?!) of Bill Gates by installing Linux on all the computers in the world would actually have any viewers. Well, why not? If a stupid cartoon with an irritating dog who keeps getting lost in a castle/old-house/cave with a monster/ghost/oversized-animal which is actually a man/robot-controlled-by-a-man who wants to keep the public at bay for vested interests can work - why not this!
Intelligent Tax Question
Just to make sure I sound intelligent I'll add this one...
On Page 12 there's this Agony Uncle by the name of Dr. B. S. Jindal who relieves your tax agonies. The question was:
Interesting point #1, How much is she selling the painting for? What were the returns like? Is investing in art a viable investment option?
Interesting point #2, Is the money really taxable?
Interesting point #3, The answer to #2 is:
Now I actually read one of them pretty regulary - The Economic Times - what can I say, evolution at work! So, I was reading the Sunday edition in the loo - like I always do - and I found two really interesting pieces...
Tuxedo Tuxman
On P3 (yeah - ET has a P3 too!), right above two cute looking (Indian) models ostensibly showing off Nokia mobile phones, was an article about cartoon channels majorly getting into merchandising kid stuff. Now, I didn't read that article, but what caught my eye, was the graphic besides it. Along with Scooby Doo and the Power Puff girls was (surpise) Tux!
Yes, the cute Linux penguin. The brave superhero, who has time-and-again saved the world by foiling the evil plans of Bill Gates and his WMD called Windoze . And guess what, besides it was the Debian logo! And our superhero was holding a flag which read "Nickelodeon 2.9". I have no frikkin' idea what that means... but I was wondering whether a braindead cartoon which shows Tuxedo Tuxman (that's the name of our beloved superhero in my hypothetical cartoon, btw) saving the world from the evil genius (?!) of Bill Gates by installing Linux on all the computers in the world would actually have any viewers. Well, why not? If a stupid cartoon with an irritating dog who keeps getting lost in a castle/old-house/cave with a monster/ghost/oversized-animal which is actually a man/robot-controlled-by-a-man who wants to keep the public at bay for vested interests can work - why not this!
Intelligent Tax Question
Just to make sure I sound intelligent I'll add this one...
On Page 12 there's this Agony Uncle by the name of Dr. B. S. Jindal who relieves your tax agonies. The question was:
Mrs X inherited a painting by M.F. Husain in 1969, which was bought by her husband for Rs 4,000. Over the years, the value of the painting has appreciated substantially. She now wants to sell the painting at current market price. Is there any tax liability (capital gains, etc.) on the sale proceed?
Interesting point #1, How much is she selling the painting for? What were the returns like? Is investing in art a viable investment option?
Interesting point #2, Is the money really taxable?
Interesting point #3, The answer to #2 is:
It should be possibel to establish that the painting in question was a personal effect not falling within the definition of capital asset as per section 2(14) of the Act and the receipt was out of the purview of any liablility even for capital gains.How the fuck can one do that??
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
About EVS
A round of filling in with the 'corporate' details...
I'm working at Evalueserve.com Pvt. Ltd., hereinafter referred to as EVS. It's supposed to be the leader of an industry segment whose bubble has just about started to grow. And EVS claims that they're the one who began blowing the bubble in the first place. Heck! They even christened it - KPO - Knowledge Process Outsourcing... yeah, yeah, it's outsourcing alright, but not of the Business kind!
So, what the fuck is a KPO? Well, technically speaking it is a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) outfit, in the strict sense of the term. BUT, and that's a big but, (notice - no extra 't'), the point is, almost anyone in India, specifically the Indian media, associates the word BPO with call centres. Or any other braindead job! EVS is not about receiving calls and telling the stupid caller for the frikkin' Nth time that he has to click the "Start" button to shutdown his computer :-)
Let me elaborate further. In any call center, the customer executives are given a set of questions, possible answers, and a fake accent. They use all three to answer mundane questions day-in-and-day-out! Everything is based on a rule.
KPO is different. It's a business process being outsourced alright, but the business process is not repetitive or rule based. It needs some input of knowledge. Let me give you a practical example. Try calling up your favourite call center and ask the person who answers your call to tell you the global market size of desktop printers in the year 2007. In all probability, your personal data is on the next flight out for a measly ten cents!
That's exactly the kind of job a KPO outfit does (the global market size part, not the other thing :-) It's something like offshoring the development of a software product. The team in India, China, Phillipines, whatever, needa more than a fake accent to code-up that piece of software. They need Knowledge. Domain knowledge to be specific. Only that in the case of a KPO it's not in software. It's market research, business analytics, financial analytics, data analytics, intellectual property services, and what have you.
Now, that you've got the basic idea of a KPO, let's get onto what exactly EVS does. EVS is into:
I work in the IP department. I've written a patent application, done some prior art searches, assessed a few inventions for patentability, tried to invalidate a patent, and figured out patents with high outlicensing potential out of a given patent portfolio! Go figure :-D
I'm working at Evalueserve.com Pvt. Ltd., hereinafter referred to as EVS. It's supposed to be the leader of an industry segment whose bubble has just about started to grow. And EVS claims that they're the one who began blowing the bubble in the first place. Heck! They even christened it - KPO - Knowledge Process Outsourcing... yeah, yeah, it's outsourcing alright, but not of the Business kind!
So, what the fuck is a KPO? Well, technically speaking it is a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) outfit, in the strict sense of the term. BUT, and that's a big but, (notice - no extra 't'), the point is, almost anyone in India, specifically the Indian media, associates the word BPO with call centres. Or any other braindead job! EVS is not about receiving calls and telling the stupid caller for the frikkin' Nth time that he has to click the "Start" button to shutdown his computer :-)
Let me elaborate further. In any call center, the customer executives are given a set of questions, possible answers, and a fake accent. They use all three to answer mundane questions day-in-and-day-out! Everything is based on a rule.
KPO is different. It's a business process being outsourced alright, but the business process is not repetitive or rule based. It needs some input of knowledge. Let me give you a practical example. Try calling up your favourite call center and ask the person who answers your call to tell you the global market size of desktop printers in the year 2007. In all probability, your personal data is on the next flight out for a measly ten cents!
That's exactly the kind of job a KPO outfit does (the global market size part, not the other thing :-) It's something like offshoring the development of a software product. The team in India, China, Phillipines, whatever, needa more than a fake accent to code-up that piece of software. They need Knowledge. Domain knowledge to be specific. Only that in the case of a KPO it's not in software. It's market research, business analytics, financial analytics, data analytics, intellectual property services, and what have you.
Now, that you've got the basic idea of a KPO, let's get onto what exactly EVS does. EVS is into:
- Business Research (BR): They answer questions like "What's will be the market size of shoes in America in the year 2010?", "How many companies are there in the telecom sector in EU and what are their strengths and weaknesses?", etc.
- Intellectual Property Services (IP): They answer stuff like, "Here's a list of 500 patents that my company owns. Tell me which ones have the highest outlicensing potential.", "Here's what I think is a neat new invention. Please write me a patent application for it.", "Help! M$ has sued me for patent infringement. Please find prior art for M$'s patent so that I may get it invalidated and get my ass out of this hot soup!", etc.
- Market Research (MR): They're the BPO in the KPO :-) These guys don't answer questions. They ask. They sit in the office all round the night, call up people in US, EU, etc., and pester them to answer long questionnaires :-)
- Financial & Data Analytics (FADA): There's not much work at EVS in this department, that I know of. They're given lots of data and they're supposed to analze it :-P
I work in the IP department. I've written a patent application, done some prior art searches, assessed a few inventions for patentability, tried to invalidate a patent, and figured out patents with high outlicensing potential out of a given patent portfolio! Go figure :-D
Friday, September 02, 2005
Fotoblog ahoy!
Today was a 'gala' time @ office... not much work (as they say at EVS - "I was on beach") and I got hold of a digicam!
That's my office, neat and tidy, until you have a look at my desk, of course!
Corporate Modelling :-D We have a dress code @ EVS - formal trousers, formal shirt, leather belt, leather shoes, and tie! I have about eight of them - all from Big Bazaar for Rs 49 (Rupees Forty Nine) only!
It's getting cold in here! That's how I look when I'm feeling cold! I came to know recently that my cubicle's temperature is set at 23 degrees celcius! If you're wondering - the shawl's not mine - it sorta borrowed :-)
Two unsuspecting tiffins, moments before being devoured by hungry EVS employees... we have catered lunch @ RS 35 per meal and tiffins @ Rs 25 per tiffin. Lunch vendors are on a trial phase - so sometimes the catered lunch is amazing, and sometimes it's worse then Hall 1 food (which was good btw!) I stick to the tiffin - it's consistently good.
Lotsa stuff to right about working, working at a large company, corporate policies, EVS specifically - but I'm waaaay too sleepy right now!
Laterz...
That's my office, neat and tidy, until you have a look at my desk, of course!
Corporate Modelling :-D We have a dress code @ EVS - formal trousers, formal shirt, leather belt, leather shoes, and tie! I have about eight of them - all from Big Bazaar for Rs 49 (Rupees Forty Nine) only!
It's getting cold in here! That's how I look when I'm feeling cold! I came to know recently that my cubicle's temperature is set at 23 degrees celcius! If you're wondering - the shawl's not mine - it sorta borrowed :-)
Two unsuspecting tiffins, moments before being devoured by hungry EVS employees... we have catered lunch @ RS 35 per meal and tiffins @ Rs 25 per tiffin. Lunch vendors are on a trial phase - so sometimes the catered lunch is amazing, and sometimes it's worse then Hall 1 food (which was good btw!) I stick to the tiffin - it's consistently good.
Lotsa stuff to right about working, working at a large company, corporate policies, EVS specifically - but I'm waaaay too sleepy right now!
Laterz...
It's review time folks!
Having a grih-pravesh back to my online blogging home with these easy going reviews...
Iqbal - A Story Above Cricket
After a long time has Bollywood come up with a movie which makes you smile, laugh, and cry - all at the same time. This movie is simply amazing (A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, in case you missed it!) With Nagesh Kuknoor (of Rockfor and Hyderabad Blues fame), Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, et al it's bound to be good.
Right from the first scene till the last, this movie keeps you glued to your seat, sharing the journey of Iqbal - a deaf and mute boy, the fact which is easily lost within five minutes of the movie - sharing his dreams of playing professional cricket for the nation, sharing his failures, his joys, and his sadness.
Don't skip this movie if you think that it'll be serious and the rona-dhona types just because it's about the struggles of a deaf and mute boy. If that's exactly what you're thinking, then for a minute imagine you're playing cricket and for some odd reason your captain has actually sent you in to bat! So you're on the pitch, all padded up, standing with your bat about a foot away from the pad. The bowler bowls a yocker right between that 'hole' and you come back to the pavilion even before the Maggi noodles are ready. So you're imagining it - right? Yes - so my point is, that the bat is what you're thinking about Iqbal, and the pad is what the movie actually is - and as Siddhu would put it - "The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it..."
So you get the point!
The music is simply amazing - especially the "Aashayein" song... the melody, lyrics, timing, everthing about the song is amazing.
Shreyas Talpade, the boy who played Iqbal, and the little girl who's played his sister, both, have done an amazing job! Not to forget the female who's played the role of Iqbal's mother.
Net-net (new lingo that I recently learnt :-) everyone has done an excellent job. No overplaying, no underplaying, no excessive rona-dhona, no majboor-lachaar praanis - just feel good!
Nagesh Kukunoor has proved it again - and has succeeded in keeping Subhas Ghai away from direction.
And you love the fact that the movie gets over in a little more than two hours without the elaborate song and dance sequences. Which reminds me - the SC (that's the shortie for the Supreme Court, you idiot!) has recently passed an order asking Ketan Mehta and team to stop the screening of Mangal Pandey cuz his (Mr. Mangal's) descendents feel bad about the fact that their dada-pardaada may have had a relationship with a prostitute! Bah!
Iqbal - A Story Above Cricket
After a long time has Bollywood come up with a movie which makes you smile, laugh, and cry - all at the same time. This movie is simply amazing (A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, in case you missed it!) With Nagesh Kuknoor (of Rockfor and Hyderabad Blues fame), Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, et al it's bound to be good.
Right from the first scene till the last, this movie keeps you glued to your seat, sharing the journey of Iqbal - a deaf and mute boy, the fact which is easily lost within five minutes of the movie - sharing his dreams of playing professional cricket for the nation, sharing his failures, his joys, and his sadness.
Don't skip this movie if you think that it'll be serious and the rona-dhona types just because it's about the struggles of a deaf and mute boy. If that's exactly what you're thinking, then for a minute imagine you're playing cricket and for some odd reason your captain has actually sent you in to bat! So you're on the pitch, all padded up, standing with your bat about a foot away from the pad. The bowler bowls a yocker right between that 'hole' and you come back to the pavilion even before the Maggi noodles are ready. So you're imagining it - right? Yes - so my point is, that the bat is what you're thinking about Iqbal, and the pad is what the movie actually is - and as Siddhu would put it - "The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it..."
So you get the point!
The music is simply amazing - especially the "Aashayein" song... the melody, lyrics, timing, everthing about the song is amazing.
Shreyas Talpade, the boy who played Iqbal, and the little girl who's played his sister, both, have done an amazing job! Not to forget the female who's played the role of Iqbal's mother.
Net-net (new lingo that I recently learnt :-) everyone has done an excellent job. No overplaying, no underplaying, no excessive rona-dhona, no majboor-lachaar praanis - just feel good!
Nagesh Kukunoor has proved it again - and has succeeded in keeping Subhas Ghai away from direction.
And you love the fact that the movie gets over in a little more than two hours without the elaborate song and dance sequences. Which reminds me - the SC (that's the shortie for the Supreme Court, you idiot!) has recently passed an order asking Ketan Mehta and team to stop the screening of Mangal Pandey cuz his (Mr. Mangal's) descendents feel bad about the fact that their dada-pardaada may have had a relationship with a prostitute! Bah!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Back to Blogosphere...
Hola... me's back! Finally got my computer up and working - needed a new RAM. The older RAM got busted and has gone for a replacement. Got myself hooked onto the wired world with Reliance Freedom Plan - Rs 650 for a month and 1GB download limit. The speed is pretty decent for regular surfing + chatting.
Expect some rockin' posts in the coming few days!
That's it for now... keep visiting!
Nandz.
Expect some rockin' posts in the coming few days!
That's it for now... keep visiting!
Nandz.
Friday, June 17, 2005
More blogs coming up...
I've been two weeks into my job now. A lot of new experiences; a totally new environment - a lot to blog about. But unfortunately the only access to the internet I have is from the office, and my contract specifies that anything I create on the company's time will be owned by the company. And I don't like my stuff to be owned by anyone else.
So hang on for some interesting blogs once I get my computer up in shape. Apparently I forget to affix the screws on the hard disk before couriering it to Gurgaon. It must've moving around a lot thrashing up all the parts inside the cabinet. It booted twice once I set it up and hasn't been responding since :-(
Pray for my computer's resurrection...
So hang on for some interesting blogs once I get my computer up in shape. Apparently I forget to affix the screws on the hard disk before couriering it to Gurgaon. It must've moving around a lot thrashing up all the parts inside the cabinet. It booted twice once I set it up and hasn't been responding since :-(
Pray for my computer's resurrection...
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