Charlie is running a Superbown Charity Wiki - for $10 (ok, $10.59 including PayPal fees, to be exact), you can sign up to a box in his 100 Bloggers, 100 Boxes wiki.
The winner gets to give all the winnings to the charity of his/her choice. I am #99, right ahead of Josh. I signed up […]
Archive for January, 2007
Freezing tundra, a.k.a. New York City
Published January 31st, 2007 in India, New York and Personal. 0 CommentsIf I had been here in early Jan and slowly been introduced to the bone-chilling cold, a few degrees at a time, it might have been bearable.
But spending day x in glorious 85 degree weather in Madras and day x+1 in 25 degree weather in New York? That’s not so great. I spent the past […]
I’ve been in India watching the cricket live on TV, which is much better than on my computer! But one of the downsides is having to watch the advertisements.
The India vs. West Indies series is being shown on Neo Sports which brands itself as “The home of Indian cricket”. A lot of the ads on […]
Every child has the right to play
- Article 31, UN Child Rights Convention
Our favorite charity is Magic Bus. It is a completely phenomenal organization.
R met Matthew Spacie, the founder and chairman, in Bombay many years ago and was involved as Matthew started Magic Bus. Matthew lived and worked in Bombay and started to play rugby […]
I get a fair amount of random in-bound pings on Yahoo IM. I decline all invitations from people I don’t know, but I think they can ping you anyway (I use Adium, so need to go into a Yahoo IM client and change this setting, if it exists).
Anyway, today I got pinged by a random […]
Fred Vogelstein’s article in Wired, How Yahoo Blew It, is a must read. It remains to be seen whether Yahoo can recover from it’s various mess ups, very pithily called a “clusterfuck” by a Yahoo insider. I hope they do recover because we need more than one strong player in search.
But it is a […]
We were in Sri Lanka over the new year holidays. But whenever we told people we were going to Sri Lanka, they looked at us like we’d lost our minds. But, fortunately, we were going to the southern part of the country, far away from most of the internal conflict. We spent a couple of […]
Inside an elevator (lift) in Madras.
I’ve been waiting for this announcement for months! So, here I am following Mac Rumours Live from 11pm to 12:30am in India, Skyping with a fellow mac addict through the entire key note.
Can I say WOW?!!! Oh my holy good god!!! This phone is light years ahead of the competition. At least five years ahead. […]
Feeling compelled to post this. Maybe if I make it public, I will try to stick to these things.
1. Health - eat healthy, drink lots of water, exercise more regularly, fix the niggles in my knee and shoulder (yes, I know, a lot)
2. Maintain regular hours. I’ve never done this in my life — I […]
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