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The bechara who needs a Cinkara

By debashish • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Miscellany

Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in Nov 2000 for the light-hearted journal of my the then employer. Its full of usual jokes and PJs and probably doesn’t deserve a read, now. So why is it being carried here after 9 long years? Well because Yahoo geocities is shutting its shop and these [...]



In short, abbreviations

By debashish • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Miscellany

Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in 2001, most of the stuff being ‘inspired’. So why is it being carried here after 9 long years? Well because Yahoo geocities is shutting its shop and these articles had to be saved for eternity Bear with me! Abbreviations (abbs) were invented as essential AIDS to [...]



A book that doesn’t tell you to be perfect

By debashish • Jul 2nd, 2006 • Category: Miscellany

I normally don’t get too affected by moral sermons. No, I did pass those “Moral Science” papers at school, but somehow those idealistic preachings and “pointers to life” from Shiv Kheras, Dale Carnegies and the like don’t survive in my mind for long. I always end up asking myself: what if all the people who [...]



Blogs attack!

By debashish • Oct 28th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

Forbes magazine has an thought-provoking outburst against the bloggers: Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo. [Via]



God bloggers on the prowl?

By debashish • Oct 17th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

David is back with interesting facts about the blogosphere. The figures may not be too accurate but the growth still seems bizarre to me, 70000 blogs created every day. Though the study shows that as much as 8% of these are spam or fake blogs, it is still a huge number! Technorati thinks that lot [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



39th Bharteeya Blog Mela

By debashish • Feb 9th, 2005 • Category: Miscellany

Ladies and Gentlemen! It's my privilege to host the weekly celebration of Bharteeya Blog Mela this week. And here is a formal invitation: Translated, that means: nominations for the 39th mela are open and may be submitted using the comments area for this post. If you go by rules, they have been quoted by last [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]