sans PC
March 30, 2005The 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…
Month: March 2005
The Empire Strikes Back
March 27, 2005About 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…
Innuendo as News
March 26, 2005Today’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…
Rani Hound ….
March 26, 2005…. she has grown. She’s now a young lady going through her troublesome teens.
Freedom of Press, the Unicorn and other Mythical Creatures
March 25, 2005After 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…
A New Twist to Spam in India
March 22, 2005Today, 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…
Summer Wrap
March 22, 2005Guess 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…
Eastwards Ho!
March 22, 2005Last 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…
Disruptive Programming – Dial One aur Jeeto
March 20, 2005This 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…