Archive for October, 2008
Hola Amigo! ¿Qué usted está buscando?
The statistics tracker of my site has indicated to me that a lot of search hits that I have been getting are courtesy of people in Argentina. Yes, WTF are undoubtably there. However, I found out that most of them end up searching for 'Ewmew Food' and are redirected to this post, which has turned out to be the post most visited on my site so [...]
Nirvana Anyone?
Has anyone ever listened to Nirvana five or six years ago, and thought Kurt Cobain was the Messiah for the jilted generation, with his untimely death and his amazing music only to realize when listening to it presently that none of it makes any sense? Does anyone else's mind conjure up the following words when itunes accidentally playes songs [...]
Counter-Intuitive Nicknames
Ever since I was able to, I have given people around me nicknames. Most of them have been funny and non-offensive, and have had a decent shelf-life. The only one, which I thought was quite funny, which almost had me killed was 'bird flu'. At the height of the virus scare, the person who was given said nickname didn't share my enthusiasm or my [...]
The Ugly Face of Regional Politics
The resounding 320 run victory over Australia in Mohali has been overshadowed today by news channels focussing primarily on Raj Thackeray's arrest and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena party's violent attacks on North Indians who were appearing for the railway examination a few days ago. The MNS seems to have taken upon itself the task of [...]
The “Rock On” Roast
Now that the entire hoopla about 'Rock On' has finally died down, I thought it is time to resurrect it again and engage in a roast dedicated to the movie. As defined in the wiki page that I hope you haven't been lazy enough not to click on, a Roast refers to the opportunity to make uninhibited fun and this is precisely what I am about to do. [...]
A Jet Airways Anecdote
The recent firing and re-hiring of the 1900 Jet Airways employees, which makes Naresh Goyal look very much like a certain Mohammed bin-Tughlaq, has brought back memories of an arbit incident that took place slightly over two years ago, involving someone from Jet Airways. It was sometime in the first week of August 2006, when I was supposed to [...]
Human Assisted Reproduction Ireland
Wordpress provides me with some interesting blog stats regarding searches that have led to my website. If someone manages to search for my name in full, my site shows up as the first result. However, someone landed up on my blog by merely searching for 'Hari', and I was quite surprised at how high my site must have been to show up while merely [...]
Of Premature Celebrations and Apologies
It has been seven days since I did anything related to the internet. I took a few days off work, and combined with holidays for Dasara, the total number of days for which I was away from the office was seven in all. Being a cheap and lazy guy who doesn't want to spend all his time at home online, I have consciously avoided getting another [...]
