Premji’s Take
Azim’ Premji is the chairman of Wipro. Read his take on the expenditures incurred by the Indian government for the CWG. This is one of the best article I have ever read in the TOI for a long time.
Stock Quotes on Spreadsheet
Disclaimer: The method explained herein to track your stock, should not be used for daily transactions, as the quotes retrieved from the internet are delayed by couple of minutes. Many of us have invested our life savings in the stock market. And the giants have already eaten into our savings, after promising us good returns. […]
Rupee Symbol in True Type Font
As you might all know by now, that the Indian government has come up with a symbol for rupee. Being an Indian symbol, it was natural to accept the one designed out of our own devanagari script. Not that its going to improve the living condition of the poor Indian, or help in the appreciation […]
Freelancing
Information search and communication were the two main reasons for which a person would log on to the world wide web a few years back. Though I worked on computers since around 18 years back, I was the last person amongst my friends to get an email ID, some 10 years back. And I couldn’t […]
An Un”fare” Hike
We all in India know how the private transport operators hold us to ransom, time and again, to increase their fares. The most recent incident being that of autorickshaw(hereafter referred to as auto) drivers in mumbai threatening to go on strike, if base fares are not increased from rs. 9 to rs. 15. This is […]
Safe “Bet” for India
Events after events are going by in the world of sports. We had that controversy filled IPL, then the T20 world cup. The Roland Garros is on at the moment. And up next is the much awaited FIFA 2010. The enthusiasm around the world is highest during the soccer world cup. Every one is getting […]
Caught a Good Deal on the Net
Just today, me and my friend reaped one of the many benefits of having some knowledge of the internet, and bit of confidence in various schemes available on it. You might have heard of a website providing revenue generation schemes such as mginger. The modus operandi of this site is, once you register your mobile […]
Here to Serve you……Charges Applicable
Loot Loot Loot!!! The mobile sharks are out for a loot. The current addition in their charging frenzy is levying a charge on the calls to their customer care executives. I was shocked when, while trying to communicate with the customer care executive of airtel, I was informed by the pre-recorded voice, that chatting to […]
Dig and Fill….??
Few of us might have knowledge of the keynesian economics. What I understand of it in layman terms, is that it a dig and fill policy, where in the government pays someone to dig a hole and pays someone else to fill the hole. Nothing productive comes out f it, but John Maynard Keynes theorises that this […]
A Case of Misleading Ads
I remember an incident that my father-in-law narrated some time back. And I feel this is the right moment to reproduce it. A door to door salesman had come to my in-laws house, and was trying to sell a clothes washing powder. He was really persistant about the high quality of the product even though my […]