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Archive for March, 2005

Here now, gone tomorrow?

By debashish • Mar 29th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Atleast this is what Google groups (beta) opines. Once you make a post, the resulting page makes you unsure whether the post will make it to the archives. Or am I sounding too British



The advent of media rich blogs

By debashish • Mar 18th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

From their individualistic approach blogs have already emerged as a potent combined force with group blogs and the communities woven around them. Now some thought is being given perhaps to projecting it as your personal space that you would like to share with others, what they term as “social networking”. Audio, Photo and Mo-blogging had [...]



Tremors in life

By debashish • Mar 14th, 2005 • Category: Life-Around

20 minutes back, my chair at the 5th floor of my office building was shaking, I realized it was a tremor when some of my colleagues started rushing towards the exit. The water bottle on my table was still trembling when we left. News says Maharashtra had felt it. 10 minutes later the building was [...]



Mushy's web sight

By debashish • Mar 14th, 2005 • Category: Politics

It has the razzmatazz, the chutzpah, sans anything you would expect on the website of a President. I am talking about the glitzy website of President Musharraf. For an armywallah, that he is at heart, it's difficult to give up the true colors, the paki belligerence towards India is there, savor this:
There was the much [...]



Blog strolling - 2

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Technology

Java's friendly mascot Duke has got a blog too.
Indic threads has a 3 part skinny on J2SE 5.0
Bus Service to Pakistan. Oh no not again! I am sick and tired of these gimmicks.
“some countries“..so sweet Patil saheb! India ki diplomacy da jawab nahin!



Scratching the wounds

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Politics

Visibly annoyed with its aging dinosaurs and amidst the aspiration scuffles taking its toll in the party, BJP's old turk Govind Govindacharya is scratching the wounds again. The Babri mosque demolition was the “failure of the saffron leadership..to gauge the mood of the karsevaks…a glaring example of contradiction between cadre-based and mass-based politics”, says the [...]



It's early days!

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Politics

It is difficult not to raise voice against this seemingly undemocratic move, the recent return of monarchy in Nepal, yet if King Gyanendra's motive of curbing the Maoist showdown holds any truth, I would invest my support for such a move. When the elected representatives are capable to do little, it is futile to justify [...]



So u got a good memory, huh?

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Entertainment

Very few organisations would go out of the way to provide additional facilities to their customers. Obviously Paypal is one such organisation. It gives you the facility to, guess what, forget your password. So if you were too proud of having an elephant's memory, accept the challenge



Confessions of a copycat ;)

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

All my sites have been abused by people trying to transfer money to Pakistan, people like scientology publishing posts for gathering funds in the pretext of tsunami relief etc… and not to forget me being 'branded'
all this and more from Rohan Pinto, the copycat in limelight who confesses thanks to an “angelic” call he got.



Ulcerative Collitis: Need Information

By debashish • Mar 5th, 2005 • Category: Personal

Fellow bloggers and readers, though I avoid posting very personal posts here this one is an exception. My mother has been suffering from Stomach ulcer (Ulerative Collitis) since almost 1.5 years. Recently she was advised to undergo surgery (ileopouch anastomosis). If you know any body who has undergone such a surgery kindly let me know [...]