Those who know me have probably heard me ranting about how sick I am of the whole “news reporting” business in India which they like to call the responsible Indian media.
Since the days of Jessica Lal and Manu Sharma, the Indian media has come a long way. Often crossing the lines of what would be considered reporting/provocation for pure gossip/TRP ratings at the cost of some poor soul/s.
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Tagged: india
Came across this Fake IPL Player blog a few days ago. A blog by a supposedly Kolkata Knight Riders player leaking inside information about the KKR camp. Bang on target, hilarious, entertaining but fake I must warn though!
The most fascinating part about the blog are the nick names he uses to refer to KKR members. It took me a little while to read the first post, since I was trying to figure out the nick names to make sense of the blog. I finally have. Here’s a list of the nick names I have been able to comprehend so far -
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In one of my earlier posts, I had noted that while I liked the concept of Slumdog Millionaire, I did not like the way India was being portrayed and that it sent a wrong image of India to the world.
Friends & strangers argued with me and reiterated the point that I should appreciate Cinema. It’s however a little hard to look at how good the camera work is when the image of your country is getting maligned in pretty much every frame.
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Amid all the “Come on you gotta see it” and “Are you kidding me?…you don’t wanna see the film that has created records at the Golden Globe”,I finally succumbed and watched the much “raved for” Slumdog Millionaire
To be honest, I didn’t have too many expectations from the film even though the whole world was gushing about a film made by an American director with a boy from the Indian slums as the protagonist. The basic premise of the film however sounded interesting. A slum boy from Mumbai wins the “Who wants to be a millionaire” show by using all the real life experiences he has gone through. Brilliant idea I thought.
So I said to myself “It’s a film about India with a bloody good concept and it’s creating sensation all over the world…what the hell..I should watch it” – BLUNDER!
After watching the film, I see where Mr.Amitabh Bachchan was coming from and I totally relate to his sentiments.
Let me explain.
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Just realized how much distraction the dock, the desktop clutter (icons and the wallpaper) and the menu bar can cause. The weekend got a lot more productive with all that taken care of with little help from Menushade (Hides the menu bar) & Backdrop (hides the desktop icons and fills the background with a color of your choice) Highly recommended both…
related: MacBreak: Minimize distractions on your Mac (via 43folders)
Recently while browsing through the trailers on the Apple TV, we came across the trailer for the upcoming movie ‘Chandni Chowk to China” starring Akshay Kumar and it got me excited. It’s the first time I have seen a Bollywood film’s trailer on Apple TV. The film is being produced by Warner Bros which makes it’s appearance on Apple TV a little less of a wonder. Incidentally this is Warner Bros’ first Bollywood production.
Here’s to the Hindi Film Industry for having come a long way…As Akshay puts it in one of the scenes in the trailer “Chinese bhaiyon..sawdhaan!”
The new Nursery Rhyme doing the rounds after the “Satyam fiasco” -
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Raju Raju? Yes baba.
Cheating us? No baba.
Telling Lies ? No baba.
Open the balance sheet! HA HA HA!
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If you have a few active friends on Facebook and you have email notifications turned on, you are probably familiar with the phrase “Facebook is f***ing spamming me” .
Long story short, I try to practice Inbox Zero and having Facebook send me emails on every comment, tag added, tag removed, friend added, friend removed and every other permutation and combination possible..phewww…is simply not acceptable.
(To prove my case, at one point I received 28 emails in 23 minutes Update: 44 emails in 31 minutes from Facebook, that’s more than an email per minute! – See below!)
So I set upon the task of finding a less invasive & distractive way of receiving these notifications. Now I could have created a smart folder and have everything from Facebook go in there automatically but that would still not solve the purpose. I would still be looking at these emails at some point to know what’s going on. Enter RSS feeds. Here’s what I ended up doing: Read More
Tagged: facebook, geek_talk, web_service
After a few dozen invitations and daily dozes of “come on already” by the beloved early adopters, I have finally boarded the Facebook wagon. As much as I would like to debate that I have been pushed in to it by forces beyond my control, the experience actually hasn’t been too bad. Took me a little while to understand it’s intricacies, but I think I am now up to speed with it. It’s been fun really.
I had read some time back that Facebook is fast turning out primarily to be a photo sharing website rather than just another social site. And if you look at the thousands and thousands of pictures being uploaded and shared everyday, it’s not hard to believe.
Now as much as the internet community would like us to think that keeping photos online is the way to go and that it has replaced the local storage of your precious photos, I am still one of those who likes to keep a copy of a few good ones in iPhoto as well (the satisfaction of having local copies of your photos has been proven to give you a better sleep, even better than the sleep number mattresses). Hence the argument, that if I would be using Facebook to view shared pictures, I must find an easy way to be able to download them as well.
So when my cousin Kareena sent me the New Year pics on FaceBook, the quest to find an easy way to download them became stronger and eager and it led me to the discovery or rediscovery of this really slick piece of software called the PhotoBook (Mac Only) which does something really cool. It lets you browse all your friends’ albums and with one-click lets you import them into iPhoto on your Mac. And the best part – it’s free! I am pretty sure that there is a PC equivalent available, but am not motivated enough currently to go dig for it. Maybe sometime later this year 
On that note, here’s wishing everybody a very Happy New Year 2009!
