Globonomics!

I had a terrible time shopping online with Rediff. I placed a fairly decent sized order on the Rediff Shop online about a month ago. I first of all never got a confirmation email of my order itself though the website said it had sent it (luckily I took a screenprint of the order itself and sent it to my email).

I know what you are thinking – I checked the spam folder as well. It was just not there. Ok, this is acceptable since emails could have got misplaced however, my woes did not end there. I never got a proper tracking # for my shipment but did get the ‘consignment number’. It said the courier would be “XYZ” but always said the status was “awaiting dispatch”. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no point criticizing the Government, the public offices, the institutions, the politicians etc. if you don’t exercise your fundamental right and cast your vote. So, get up and vote – for a change. Let’s make India a better place to live in!

The Indian general elections -First off, please VOTE, Second, Vote for a change

I got my new voter id card (I had an old one issued in 2005 as well) yesterday. The process is quick and painless but the queue isn’t. I had to make my way through a long serpantine queue for almost 3 hours – thankfully, the saving grace was the sun had set and this made it bearable to stand in the cool of the summer night.

On a side note, what makes this election special from a Voting economic perspective? Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s wishing all my readers a very happy fun filled, healthy, prosperous 2009! Let this year be safe, peaceful and productive for all of us!

I travel 75 kms to work daily. This also involves something like 2 hours one-way travel in a crowded unplanned urban expansion prone city such as Bangalore. The former metric does not sound like much to anyone living outside India (say the United States, Europe, Australia etc.) but the latter figure when correlated to the former does sound alarming. Read the rest of this entry »

What are the important factors one needs to consider before one begins to blog:

1. First, get over this obsession of Google adsense. 99/100 bloggers I meet first think of making a quick buck on adsense rather than focus on quality of their blogs and its relevance towards the topic(s) chosen! This is really very disturbing statistics. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s wishing each of you a very happy, joyous, prosperous, healthy 2008! Watch this space for more as we plan to come with exciting posts over this year!

I have been inundated with multitude of tasks right now. Will explain the position later in detail. This might contribute to reduced blogging in the coming days but I hope to pick up pace soon.

We had been to a resort yesterday and it was a refreshing outing!

Have you come across this concept of trying to use every which way to advertise and gain popularity in the initial stages of your career only to later shy away from the limelight once you are a celebrity?

This is one of the biggest paradoxes of life!

One tries to seek attention when one does not have enough of it and one tries to shy away from the same attention when one has a surplus of it!

I have enough examples to put across on this. Give it a thought and share your experiences on this.

I made some basic changes to make my blog look more presentable and make access to information for my users a little more easy.

I hope you will like it. You can drop in a quick line if you don’t. As always, suggestions are most welcome!