When it was time to buy a bike, I had to make a choice between Bajaj Pulsar and TVS Apache. My dream bike was an Yamaha RX135 though, which unfortunately Yamaha had stopped production. I chose TVS Apache, simply because every Thiruchelvan, Deepak and Harish around me had a pulsar! The quest for choosing something [...]
In the past few days, thanks to the weather here at Bangalore and thanks to the bad insipid food all around me, I have been consuming lots of lassi. Yes, the curd based chilled sweet lassi. Every dinner or lunch I go outside and people start their meal with a chilled beer(Child Bear for those [...]
Requirement: As I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts - Url Shortners and redirectors are in rage these days. However they can easily be used for malicious reasons. i.e. Masking the end site and fooling you to believe that you are going to a good site while it takes you to a bad [...]
Update 1: Thanks Mohan, Balu, Vishwa, Sahil and Priya for your comments…Thanks to those who suggested workarounds(or may be the work-straightlines to begin with).
Anyways my point is this - The big G uses Chrome as a device to pump search queries onto itself at the cost of not giving its users(save the tech savvy, uber [...]
Dummy’s Guide to Url redirections…
Something is amiss with the way tinyUrl shortens its URLs
I tinyURL-ify this URL http://ibnlive.in.com/news/vijay-mallaya-buys-gandhi-items-f
or-18-mn/86943-3.html and I get this output http://tinyurl.com/dfqtql . For some reason, rather just out of curiosity I repeat the process and this time I get a new output http://tinyurl.com/78llkl
Something is amiss here.
So lets quickly try to guess how [...]
Take time off from whatever it is that you are doing. I assure you, you wouldnt regret it. Three short films. Brilliant…each one of them.
Signs: Patrick Hughes
Strangers (2004)- A Short film by: Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv
Offside - A Film by Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv
PS: Thanks Shreyas for the first link…
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Jack Daniels diluted with three cubes of ice; “On the rocks” he called it. With a swagger, a long draw of the midway burnt Rothmans Mild, the MBA of two years announced “Its nothing but a placebo; What frikkin geniuses of us to build a brand around that!”. Thumping of backs, laughter and long puffs [...]
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