Posted by gargi on 30 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
The last two weeks have been sans PC. The poor thing - overworked and always on - blew its own condensor. and went off to get repaired. Before the prognosis, diagnosis and cure, I was tinkering around with it trying to get it fixed. btw. didn’t know that PC’s had condensors before this. guess that [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule - a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in.
In the last two years one of my favourite e-mule sites has been taken off. Share Reactor went down due to [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: India, Media
Today’s coloumn by Sucheta Dalal, The Indian Express carries just enough innuendo’s for those inside the media to guess the company. This is rather like the ToI’s breaking story on the Ambani feud. No names. But enough insinuations for people in the know to put two and two together and come up with 5. [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Doggy Tails
…. she has grown. She’s now a young lady going through her troublesome teens.
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Posted by gargi on 25 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Media
After 11 years in the media, the one thing that i have realised is that there is this mythical thing called Freedom of the Press. The Values attributed to it are impartiality, truth, and a crusade for what is right correct and in greater public interest.
what crap.
Freedom of the Press is dead the moment [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: India, Media, Web
Today, came into my inbox a mail from Business World - “Publishing Industry’s moment of Reckoning” it screamed. So obviously i clicked on it. The story was about Dainik Bhaskar and Zee’s proposed English newspaper, HT coming into mumbai, and ToI moving into Chennai.
What was amusing was the disclaimer at the bottom:
Since India has no [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Guess what is the latest in mountain fashion this year?
Tin Foil. Annova reports that:
Swiss authorities are planning to wrap mountain glaciers with tin foil this summer in an effort to stop them melting.
Carlo Danioth, head of mountain rescue services in Andermatt, said: “We will initially cover around 30,000 square feet on the upper Gurschen glacier [...]
Posted by gargi on 22 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Last week while we were getting into the studio- someone called up and asked if we felt the earthquake. the answer was no!. Not even a tremor. Having said that, we were driving in to the studio. The roads in Mumbai have been dug up so much - and the vehicle faces so many jolts [...]
Posted by gargi on 20 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: India, Media, TV
This post first appeared on Media Musings on the 17th of Feb. sheer laziness (or is it inertia) that prevented me from posting it here!
For the last few months we have been working closely with Sahara One to develop a show that will disrupt the viewing pattern of competition. The culmination of this was a [...]
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