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Archive for January, 2005

Phew…

By debashish • Jan 25th, 2005 • Category: Personal

Months of activity, loads of brickbats (ranging from bad template — despite the excellent work by Chugs, poor management, disagreement with the methodology, rigging at the polls, being partisan to Hindi blogdom right unto being pooh-poohed on my anonymity and bad English) and now a breeze of praises, organizing Indibloggies was arduous compared to the [...]



Adamant on copying

By debashish • Jan 22nd, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

Chandru emailed me about this guy called Rohan Pinto who has his own domain and has been plagiarizing the blog posts, verbatim, without perhaps ever worrying about it. Now I can understand his urge to be a noted blogger when blogging on pretty grave technical topics but what could be the rationale for blatantly copying an innocent [...]



Thorns of Desire!

By debashish • Jan 20th, 2005 • Category: Music

The song itself may not matter, picturisation does.
The song is being played everywhere. Pubs, Panwallahs, Auto-rikshaws, market places, leave alone the promos on your pious home TV. Your kaamwali bai may be humming it silently (your kid may do that stealthily). The raunchiness of this titillating music video Kaanta Lagaa has stung every nook and [...]



Hindustan times' ePaper

By debashish • Jan 20th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

News paper giant Hindustan times has come up with a new ePaper concept. The catch is, it is a premium, subscription based content where they promise the replica of the print edition would be available online even before it would reach regular reader's doorstep. The concept is one coined by Bodhtree who are apparently servicing [...]



Hard Where?

By debashish • Jan 3rd, 2005 • Category: Technology

Getting tired of my Celeron with 32 MB RAM and 10 GB hard disk (yes I was surviving on that) I have almost made up my mind to go for a new PC under exchange. Pentium P-IV with 512 MB DDR RAM, 80 GB HDD (Hynx).
But I have two problems, being new at Pune I [...]



Happy new year

By debashish • Jan 1st, 2005 • Category: Personal

Null Pointer wishes its readers and well wishers and their families a very happy and prosperous new year 2005.