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Stuff that made me - in no particular order - think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure:
Three army men detained with 170 kg of ganja I had this vision of army men in these floral camouflage [...]

after a fairly long hiatus, I thought that I would try out a Microsoft web product for a change…
windows live writer and Windows Live Photo Gallery are both being tested.
Why ? coz i have been having issues with the new WP editor, and for some weird reason Flickr uploader has been acting funny !
are [...]

Stuff that made me - in no particular order - think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure

a) Economic Woman looks at different ways to see the world through worldmapper. The current way of seeing the [...]

Ficci Frames 2008 began yesterday in Mumbai. This year's theme was sustaining development.
As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues. Drank lots of coffee. attended loads of talks where i felt like a school [...]

Last week  a call center person was at the receiving end of my ire. He called me up and told me that abc was the outstanding on my credit card and I could avail myself of a personal loan to pay it off. What irked me wasn't the call, but the fact that someone had [...]

A friend of mine is starting a portal. Thankfully it is not his/her money. At this point of time the team is chasing a whole bunch of writers to deliver content as per pre set deadlines. Needless to say, the deadlines are rather tight, and the volume of content rather large and the expenses [...]

Every generation has its own short code … And the old code makes way for the new. OMG and LOL are now officially passe. The NYT has a whole set of new acronyms that are replacing words in language.
* GI — Google it
* MOP — Mac or PC?
* FCAO — five conversations at once
* IIOYT [...]

Check out the Guardian’s comment is free section - great set of blogs. would love to see something like this in our msm!

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… somewhere in the world - someone has taken a spammer to court and won. I have all but ceased writing on media musings because of spammers. And on this site too - despite heavy anti spam plugins - spammers still manage to get through.
And when i see spam in my inbox - a red [...]

Sorry about the extremely bad pun.
I learnt today that a major channel is going to launch a game show at 9 p.m. Mon - Thursday, with Karishma Kapoor as the anchor.
My first reaction was ouch! Sahara Manoranjan (Sahara One’s earlier avtaar) almost sunk on account of Ms.Kapoors histrionic abilities in the serial Karishma.
Now, another [...]