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Of Photos, Facebook & a Happy 2009!

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 [...]

The rule of $100

I wish I had found this earlier. Can’t even count how many “living in the moment” purchases I have made!

The Nirvana story

All right so this morning I set my IM status to “Just found Nirvana today” and it caused a stir. I am not kidding, it really did. There’s something about people. They are really nice, mostly at least. They seem to notice all the weird things you do, but they don’t say a thing. They [...]

Transferred to dreamhost

If you see this blog entry, then amitabhjotwani.com has successfully been transferred to dreamhost

Passport renewal - Indian Embassy, Washington DC

I had my Indian passport renewed this week at the Indian Embassy, Washington DC. I had a little trouble finding or rather ‘confirming’ the information that I wanted. After visiting the embassy twice, I decided to write down the answers I found through the process.

Control yourself would you!

Came across this post talking about a Firefox extension that helps people like you and me control our surfing appetite.
Excerpts -

“You sit down on the computer to complete that sales report which is extremely urgent but you are distracted by an email from a colleague asking you to check the “funniest video” ever posted on [...]

Apple declares earnings - makes us all happy

Amongst all the hoo-halla, Apple declared it’s earnings yesterday and despite iPhone sale figures concerns, Apple reported a revenue advancement of 24% to $5.41 billion from $4.37 billion. Yipeee! We love you Steve!
Now I would like to take pride and some credit in the following fact -
“Apple sold 1.76 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, [...]

2007 - Official year to get married??

I wonder if I would be overstepping the limits of exaggeration if I say that the year 2007 seems to be the Official year to get married for the Grads of 2001 or more importantly the guys n gals born in the auspicious year of 1980
It seems like pretty much every month I [...]

The wait is over - ‘Ye Jo Hai Zindagi’ arrives on VCD

I have been waiting for this for a long long time, and am sure I am not the only one totally in love with the old doordarshan classic “Ye Jo Hai Zindagi” starring Shafi Inamdar, Rakesh Bedi, Satish Shah and Swaroop Sampat.
Well Ye Jo Hai Zindagi finally makes it way to VCD through Shemaroo Entertainment. [...]

Orkut.com nominated as Youth Icon of the Year by MTV!

All you full-time and part time scrappers who swear by Orkut, here’s something for you guys to party about - Orkut.com has been nominated as Youth Icon of the Year by MTV India for the year 2007. The nominations, as weird as they sound are -
1. Orkut.com
2. Abhishek Bachchan
3. Multimedia Cellphone
4. Rang De Basanti
5. YOU [...]