Tech tid-bits

I absolutely love it when I stumble upon a nifty piece of code and am able to use it to right away at work or pleasure… You can add a snapshot of a component, placed in a tab, as its tooltip. The code is supplied along with some factory and helper classes in this detailed tutorial but [...]

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Tattoed

Try living a boring Sunday ..and at the end of it you get a tattoo….dragons are my favourite design..couldnt get a sharper photo though.

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Accidental Month..

Ok, people who see me on YM would have seen and sympathised about “accidental week” status a week back, I now officially extend it to month…with yesterday’s rains and slippery roads , my bike went into a royal skid and since I wasn’t wearing the shoes which I specifically got after the first accident to [...]

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Scribbling with scribd

I have been using Scribd  for a while to read lots of interesting stuff, never really used their publishing for my content..so here it goes..a presentation I made about Greece a while ago as a public speaking group.  (geez, it was really difficult to find a fairly sensible, original & non-work related document written by [...]

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Figurana…

..is what the latest Hindi flick Dostana should be named…such perfect bods espec John and Shilpa (I can kill for those abs).. ..indian fitness centres would have done well to endorse this movie…”hamare gym mein aao aur john ke dostana biceps pao”  ….ahem..if they had worked on the script as much the actors..

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Main Jahan…

Himesh is often ridiculed by many of my peers, but for me, this one song compensates for all his other nasal exploits….Himesh must have sure done himself proud. The mellifluous voices of  Krishna, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan do complete justice to the song but the soul of the song is Javed Akhtar’s penmanship….each to his/her own interpretation Lyrics courtesy : [...]

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Back to Heroes

[SPOILER ahead if you are @ Season 1 ] Sunday morning, reading two posts from two people about season 1 inspired me to resume  my season 2 viewing. I had left after 3 episodes as I found the Maya track too dark. But, boy, I’m glad that I was back ..though not as gripping as [...]

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Get Going!

When Kumble retired, the first teen poster in my room retired (yeah, i was always the  geeky one), mocking me.. ” hey,  time is moving faster than you think… you have to really pull up your socks and get serious about the business of achieving all the things you dreamt of while putting up that a-month’s-pocket-money-worth [...]

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Shifting courses..

The most awaited election is over and the world seems to be infused with a sense of optimism however temporary it might be.  Isn’t it paradoxical that the human race, inspite of creating elaborate differences amongst itself,  is undoubtedly similar in it’s reluctance to let go of unspoken social prejeduices, irrespective of the law of [...]

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