Please, Kindly Adjust
shashiTwang! Twaang!! Twang! Twaang!! The brain went on an auto-pilot - '4AM! It is the alarm! Hit the Dismiss button'. I use the expensive - relatively - android phone for…
Whither Social? Whither Cloud?
The last few days have seen quite a few events that give rise to skepticism about the Cloud and the Social Websites. Â Linkedn says display of tweets in user's profile…
Scott Adams on Venture Capital and the Neo Rich
Scott Adams' satirical take on the new rich kids becoming venture capitalists. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/venture_capital/ I came up with the Ego Theory of Venture Capital while reading through a list of startups…
In defence of Y-Combinator’s `declaration of war against Hollywood’
The `Kill Hollywood' call if put in the right perspective, is more of a call to 'Disrupt Hollywood Model of Business' than killing the entire industry altogether. Y-Combinator, one of…
Zimbra – Add newly added email accounts to an all-hands distribution list
Zimbra, by default does not provide any trigger or tool to add newly added email accounts to an all-hands distribution list. I wrote a small shell script to achieve the…
… and fustrations unto thee!
Continue with caution. Guaranteed to frustrate you no end! Some years back while still in school, we were made to recite Swami Sivananda's Universal Prayer every Saturday morning. The lines…
SkypeOut – MicrosoftIn
A joke that's making the rounds of the Internet goes like "Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Nobody told them you can download it for free." :-) Though rhetorical, it…
Raising Credit for Startups through Banks – CGTMSE
Bootstrapping a startup can be an arduous task. Especially raising capital while growing can be a daunting goal to achieve. The most popular approach seems to be approaching Angel Investors…
My submission for MacBook Air Contest: How Do You Move Applications to the Cloud?
If you like it, please "Like it" :p And you too can write your take on moving tech to the cloud. You can find it here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/the-road-to-the-cloud-how-do-y.php#comment-161898196 Contrary to popular…
Successful resuscitation of the blog
Some weeks back, while cleaning out the cruft in our server I managed to erase the database of this blog. Unfortunately there was no backup of the DB as well.…