A day at the station
June 20, 2004My mom went off to Chennai (formerly Madras) today – leaving me in charge of Dad, Bro and a devlish pup called Rani – the next ten days are going to be hell. I went to Chtrapati Shivaji Station – as opposed…
Beam me Up Scotty
June 18, 2004If you are from a generation that grew up watching Star Trek , then you will probably read this with the same excitement that I did. The BBC reports that Scientists in the US and Austria – working independently – have managed…
The funniest spam that i have ever got
June 17, 2004With the many wonderous things that come into my inbox on a daily basis, is a standard media offer brought to me courtsey Indiantelevision.com. This is one of the better TV sites in India – and it is free. So I guess…
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…
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…