Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Why kids cry…

i feel very old and wise... but yet a kid tough to explain you know the kind of euphoria we were capable of only as little kids? unhindered by any thoughts around what comes next - a gleeful laughter all for that exact moment? to love someone with no mind for any other expectation ...

Buffet quote…

Just stumbled on this random quote from WB: Buffett: "On acquiring bad companies for cheap prices: "In my early days as a manager I, too, dated a few toads. They were cheap dates - I've never been much of a sport - but my results matched those of acquirers who courted ...

Indian Trends

Here is a list of things that I have noticed thus far that seem popular with people in India. Do keep in mind that this is a fairly ad-hoc list borne out of personal observation of a fairly limited population in India - in the city of Hyderabad. While I bring ...

Sadness in Mumbai

When I was a kid, discovering the wonders of the world and bubbling with all sorts of enthusiasm, I had an opinion on everything and confidence that every problem had a solution. One such instance where I felt strongly motivated to comment on something was the reaction in the press ...

October 28th 2008
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Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...
January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All your Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle Ihre Übersetzung gehören zu uns Arabic: كل جهاز الترجمة تنتمى بنا French: Appartiennent tous votre traduction sont à ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...