Steve is so hugely successful and yet he treated so many people so badly. How much of an Asshole do you have to be to be successful? – Daniel Kottke (Steve’s friend and Apple technician who accompanied him to India), quoted in the new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine As Executive Producer […]
You can’t open tech deals sites like Techbargains or Fatwallet these days without seeing notice of further price drops in Solid State Drive (aka SSD) prices. Although SSDs have been around for a few years, they still haven’t caught on with average Chutiyas. Even a gadget obsessed maniac like SI bought the first SSD only […]
Who amongst us has not been touched by personal computers! For the baby boomer generation, no other product has had so powerful an impact on their lives. Not even the contraceptive pill that liberated millions of women and men from the burdensome drudgery of parenthood. 😉 From birth to death, the PC now permeates every […]
Try as I might, even a hardcore gadget freak like me finds it impossible to get excited over Chromebooks. Compared to the prospect of using a Chromebook, sitting through a Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Allu Arjun or Ajith Kumar movie would be an unending thrill. Just yesterday, a gaggle of journalists fawned over a new […]
Never let it be said that reckless Tamil entrepreneurs miss an opportunity to squander money on cockamamie business ventures. Whether it’s I, SpiceJet, Lingaa, Kochadaiyaan or some other Mannangatti scheme, you can be sure many a zany Tamil entrepreneur with more moolah than gray matter is flushing millions down the toilet in pursuit of bizarre […]
Chutiya programmers a.k.a. Indian coders are all over the place. From Hicksville in New York to Sunnyvale in California to Geneva in Switzerland, I’ve spotted Indian code monkeys in buses, trains, Indian restaurants, parks, office towers and tourist attractions. With all these tens of thousands of Chutiyas strutting around and poring endlessly over their computers, […]