Return from hiatus of sorts. Just wrote a post on Rootein’s blog – check it out – “For God’s sake, Follow your dreams”
Getting sick of the Indian media
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.
Some Instances – Read More
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The Nick Name Dictionary for the Fake IPL Player Blog
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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Slums but no Millionaires – The New Yorker
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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Slumdog Millionaire – The Anguish of an Indian
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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Removing the distractions
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)
Chandni Chowk to China via Apple TV
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!”
Satyam Nursery Rhyme
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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Background: http://bit.ly/2IZzHk
Facebook (NOT)ifications – Setting up RSS feeds
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
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