January 2006
17 posts
Paul Graham talks about “prestige”
Paul Graham - I just love this guy’s essays - very simple, straightforward, no jargon, no business school shit to make you artifically believe it is intellectual, but at the same time so useful! Read his latest essay on “Prestige vs. doing what you love” - simply awesome! Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work...
Jan 27th
Paritrana.org
Go here: http://www.paritrana.org/ Thats the talk of the town atleast in Indian-origin techie blogs for the past 1 week. Initially I resisted typing this post (considering that I strictly restrict myself to technology and the only place where I really get close to something debate-able is opensource). But, after the following things which happened in no particular order, I cannot sleep without...
Jan 27th
Cow’s ass sagging
Guy Kawasaki says Judge others by their intentions and yourself by your results. If you want to be at peace with the world, here’s what you should do. When you judge others, look at what they intended to do. When you judge yourself, look at what you’ve actually accomplished. This attitude is bound to keep you humble. By contrast, if you judge others by their accomplishments (which...
Jan 25th
Startup mania - part II
The following is just a copy-paste job from Entrepreneur27.org - Stanford’s symposium. 27 apparently refers to the age limit (upper bound) of the founders of these startups! Flagr Find a killer burrito place? Stumble upon an awesome party? Flag it, tag it, and share its location with your friends at Flagr, directly from your cell phone or home computer. At Flagr.com, you can share all your...
Jan 23rd
RESTful explained in plain terms!
How I explained REST to my wife… This guy explains REST to his wife in the form of a dialogue in plain English. (If you don’t know what is REST, then this is the right link for you!)
Jan 22nd
RESTful explained in plain terms!
How I explained REST to my wife… This guy explains REST to his wife in the form of a dialogue in plain English. (If you don’t know what is REST, then this is the right link for you!)
Jan 22nd
Flight tracking on Google Earth
Just installed Google Earth on my new Dell laptop. Everytime I install Earth, I find something new and interesting - this time it is Floweb.com’s live flight tracking system embedded into Google Earth. All you need to do is to download Google Earth, and then open the Floweb.com’s .kml feed (google’s geo markup language) with Google Earth. Google Earth shows all the incoming...
Jan 22nd
Extensions indispensable
FlashGot - for rapid downloads del.icio.us - you know it! Performancing - for blogging GreaseMonkey - just too good! Platypus - the WYSIWYG GreaseMonkey! ImageZoom - for image zoom/unzooming SessionSaver - for saving the current Firefox session
Jan 22nd
WebJay.org
When I read that Yahoo! acquired WebJay, I was really pissed off. But at that time I didn’t realise how productive WebJay can be. The funny thing about most music sites is they don’t help you choose the right music - perfectly tailored to your taste. Ya I agree they track all your favorite songs, albums, bands and suggest some stuff to you, but it never works right. WebJay basically...
Jan 21st
Platypus - one of the best Firefox extensions...
Ever dreamed of an extension which lets you create Greasemonkey scripts the WYSIWYG way? I did and believe me it even exists - it’s called Platypus, still in beta, but works like a charm! Go try it! mozdev.org - platypus: index There are already around 10 platypus-configured userscripts in my Greasemonkey and that too within 10 minutes after installation. Though it works beautifully right...
Jan 21st
Start Small
Start Small Originally uploaded by x180. The picture explains everything :)
Jan 19th
No better time than now!
Just read about this startup Yatra.in at Indian Express online. Seriously, there’s no better time to start an India-specific online travel site than now. Domestic airline market is growing like hell. Indian tourist traffic to neighbouring South East countries (esp., Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam) has been also growing substantially. And most importantly, more Indians than ever...
Jan 16th
Google vs. Bollywood
IBNLive : Google googlied over B’wood flicks Exactly one day after I mentioned in one of my previous posts, finally Google Video has showed up in the radars of the Bollywood producers including Yashraj Films. All sorts of copyrighted Bollywood content has been existing on Google Video and other video sharing websites like YouTube.com for quite some time now. Lets wait and see where...
Jan 16th
Pronouncing Linux the Linus way
Watch & Learn!
Jan 15th
Target Indy Race Video by Scoble
Target Indy Race Team - Inside the technology of a race team (3 videos) Scoble has a nice video about Indycar Racing - interviews of the entire Target team at Channel 9. The video on the whole is very interesting - especially the part where one of the guys goes around showing the team’s trailer - its literally got everything in there and entirely wired up! technorati tags: scoble, ...
Jan 14th
Guy’s top 10 entrepreneur lies
Guy Kawasaki has an awesome series of posts at his blog listing his top 10 lies and truths often uttered by the VCs and the entrepreneurs. Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs My personal favorites “Patents make our product defensible.” “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.” “Oracle is too big/dumb/slow to be a threat.” “No one is...
Jan 11th
Skype and credit card woes
How pissed off would one be when he wanted to pay for something but someone else actually didn’t accept it? Its a really bad situation that I would never want to be in if I were Skype. It is these simple things which can screw a software company. Almost 6 credit cards (including mine, my dad’s and my mom’s) were refused on Skype’s website while I was trying to refill my...
Jan 10th