Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Review – Stupid Shit Folks, our worst fears and your best hopes have both been realized tonight. We’ve lost it. Not one small screw or even a few screws but all our screws have been threaded out of their sockets. Yes, we’ve braved the snow-storm and strong winds barreling up the North-East to […]
When market researcher IDC puts out its quarterly server numbers you can be certain of one thing – Sun will have the worst performance of all the major server vendors. Sun = Always the laggard. We have IDC’s 4Q 2009 server number estimates with us and as sure as night follows day Sun is again […]
Most Indians, with the exception of aberrations like Mahatma Gandhi, Baba Amte or Mother Teresa, are callous bastards with little or no concern for their fellow human beings. So, it’s with regret we notice from stray newspaper reports that the widespread pernicious Western business practice of layoffs is starting to creep into India too adding […]
The iTunes juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. Apple is blowing the trumpet that its iTunes digital media store has sold 10 billion songs. We’ve played a tiny part in helping Apple reach this extraordinary milestone by purchasing over 100 songs from iTunes. Besides English, iTunes has a huge collection of Tamil, Hindi and […]
It’s a safe bet that of the numerous manias running amok in the English language all ye lascivious schmucks have only heard of Nymphomania. 😉 But there are lots of other ‘manias‘ out there. Here’s a short list of some manias you probably won’t recognize: * Bruxomania – Practice of grinding one’s teeth. * Oniomania […]
This morning RedBox (the $1 DVD rental kiosk guys in the U.S) put out an announcement boasting that its free iPhone application had been downloaded a million times since its launch four months. Since we are occasional users of RedBox, we thought let’s give the application a spin. So we took out our iPhone and […]