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Monday, May 26, 2008 9:42 AM

Cell phone assault

Last two weeks my cell phone got assaulted thrice. First it was someone sending me a virus over bluetooth (a sis file actually). This happened when I was taking a photograph of my daughter with the cell phone camera in a restaurant (Aromas of China, City
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:28 PM

International Mother Language Day is back and being celebrated with a lunar eclipse

For starters it doesn't include C++ or C#, even though your mom codes in it :) ... A lot of people speaking English natively forget the importance of mother language due to its predominance. They take their language for granted. However, each year a bunch
Posted by abhinaba | 3 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 10:42 AM

Choose your company name well

Sometime back Hutch phone in India got bought over by the international phone giant vodafone . They re-branded Hutch in India to Vodafone. Now when I call up home and the phone is busy I get a recorded message in Bengali which means "The Vodafone number
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Friday, November 30, 2007 11:55 PM

Ravenous Bugblatter beast on Indian roads

From the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy . " The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a creature that hails from the planet of Traal, and will eat anything. If you are to encounter one, the Guide tells you that it's impossible to slay, so you should
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:45 PM

One of the most interesting machine which I've ever seen - II

Last year I had posted about a a drum playing machine I had seen. This time I got a full video of it in action. Looks and sounds awesome
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Friday, July 06, 2007 12:49 PM

A classic Daily WTF find

If you visit the Indian Railway site and press any of Ctrl/Alt keys it pops a message " Sorry, you do not have permission to press the key ". Hey, it's my keyboard and I have all the permission in the world to press whatever I want. This is exactly like
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Monday, March 26, 2007 11:42 AM

Build 24 - The 24 hour non-stop coding competition

Last week at Microsoft India we had a 24 hour non-stop coding competition named Build 24. It was one of the most amazing things I had seen in a long time. Initially we got luke-warm response and a very few teams signed-up. However, in the morning when
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:00 AM

International mother language day

Today is the International mother language day. I'm sure a lot of people will not get to figure this out as Google didn't change its banner :) I was chatting with a British friend and we were discussing that the relevance of mother language is not so
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:42 AM

Filling income tax

The Indian income tax law allows certain expenditure and investments to be tax-exempt. The law also demands various proofs if you want to claim exemptions for this. This include original medical bills, rent-receipts, investments proofs. The list goes
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:42 AM

More about new year

It's a common custom to douse lights at 12:00 as the year changes. The funny part is that in Hyderabad the state owned electricity company actually shut off power at that time!!!! This is no coincidence as they did it last year too (that's when I had
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
Friday, December 29, 2006 10:42 AM

Names of Indian Cities

The biggest issue with the names of Indian cities is that they change :). I know of some other countries where it changes as well. Of the 4 largest cities in India, 3 have changed names in the recent past. Calcutta became Kolkata (2001), Madras became
Posted by abhinaba | 4 Comments
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:31 PM

Funny messages are not always funny

I used to work in a Company where Easter Eggs used to be considered a feature and there used to be a official maintainer for it (I used to maintain both the Easters listed here and more). I used to feel that Microsoft shouldn't have moved away from inserting
Posted by abhinaba | 8 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:42 AM

Tea-shots

When I visited USA for the first time I was surprised by the size of the servings. Specially the sizes of drinks (Starbucks starting from Tall :) ). I remember asking for a large Coke in a Panda Express outlet and was handed over a bucket of coke. In
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:42 AM

Indian Rope Trick

Even though Wikipedia expresses doubts over the validity of the great Indian rope trick I saw a variant of it in MS India. I call it the great indian ladder trick .
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