A phone Virus
June 16, 2004If you can get a virus on your mail, then it stands to reason that one day your cell will receive it. Afterall both deal with data, and if one can be prone to attack, so will the other. So it wasn’t…
Month: June 2004
Consistency in Lies
June 16, 2004There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. And this is not from the anti war movement or Michael Moore, but the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States – a bipartisan commission set up to…
Clearing Spam from the blog
June 16, 2004I spent the better part of last night clearing out spam from the Media Musings site. I felt positively homicidal at the end of the exercise. I wonder if that sort of action against spammers will be considered as insecticide!
Rain Drops falling on …
June 15, 2004The monsoons began last night in Mumbai. Full ishtyle. Non stop rains since about 9 pm. 16 or so hours later it seems like Mumbai has received a much needed wash. The only problem is that Rani is terribly confused. All her…
Blogging has Arrived
June 15, 2004It almost seems that the spread of stories in the main stream media is viral. An idea that jump from on-line to paper to magazine to on line again. Usually within a short span – say a fortnight or a week. This…
Dissolving Pathways
June 13, 2004One of the givens of living in Mumbai is during monsoons – commuting will take up to three times as much time – because most of the arterial roads dissolve. what is left is rubble, potholes and pain. Yesterday when we were…
Yuva – the Film
June 11, 2004The first time since we started Cogito TV, the three of us bunked work to go and see a film. ’twas Mani Ratnam’s Yuva. It is, say the publicity material, a film of three men whose lives intersect on Hoogly Bridge. And…
Do “innovative” marketing techniques piss off the consumer?
June 10, 2004Sometime this week I read that Hindustan Lever Limited was relaunching Close Up and had planned an entire advertising blitz to make it a more “happening” toothpaste. Today when I dropped into Rediff a bizzare site awaited me:) A nice red home…
Non Revisionist History
June 10, 2004Had Ronald Reagan not died, he would have enjoyed reading his obituaries. Much of it has been at two extremes. Those on the left who villify him and those on the right who deify him. But, to be fair, compared to the…
The Price of Freedom
June 10, 2004Often on many discussion boards or on other blogs there is a oft expressed setiment – Democracy cannot be for every one. It can only be for those who are like “us”. I saw many of these sentiments expressed after the NDA…