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Yak Pad 2.0
After much procrastination, here it is. The Yakpad 2.0 (beta). Runs on WordPress. Also, I’ve merged all my blogs into this one (tech writing blog, usability blog). This is a work in progress children.
Youmint.com deletes my account finally
You signed up for youmint.com. Imported your contacts from gmail or Orkut and sent invites to your friends. Suddenly, your friends start screaming at you ‘What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you sending the same youmint invite 10 times!’ Shock laga? I was stunned too when a few of my friends started mailing me inquiring why I was spamming them.
So I promptly wrote to all the mail ids listed in their ‘contact us’ page and asked them to delete my account; there is no option on youmint.com to delete your account. Somebody did call me from youmint and assured me that the spamming will stop. But it didn’t. So I lost my patience and blogged about it. And, that post now comes up in the first results page on Google when you More...
Five years of blogging
Feels like I ate a Bata shoe. But then again, this whole blogging thing has been good for me. I met a lot of interesting people. Made friends with quite a few of them. I am on the verge of getting published in the MSM. Hmmm. Sigh. It is not all that bad. Why do people like metaphors? I mean, if you are a girl, and I told you ‘You look great’ you’d probably say ‘thanks’ But if I told you ‘You look as fresh as a dew drop’ you will probably kiss me. Ever wondered why? Here is my take:
1) Your brain evolved to defeat camouflage and discover objects. Discovery is great fun for us. 2) So when I throw a metaphor at you, your brain is decoding the metaphor and discovering what it means to you. More...
Saket has a magic mirror
Read this and wondered why he did a Shilpa Shetty. Now I know. He has a magic mirror at home. No, no, ‘does a Shilpa Shetty’ does not mean he did her. Take a look at him; he himself wanks off blindfolded I think, leave alone someone sleeping with him. I can ask our apartment watchman if he is interested. He is almost blind. Gaurav, would you be interested?
A little bit of madness
I wanted to know what it is to live without money in the city. So, I took bath at Central station, survived on prasadam at Kapaleshwarar temple at Mylapore and slept the night on the pavement of Whites Road at Royapettah. Wanted to do this for two days but gave up after the first day.[...more]
Wow. How boring this world will be if not for the mad ones?
IndiBloggies
I am sure a software engineer from some institute like Mangaathha Institute of Technology is behind the scheme and design of this year’s IndiBloggies. I hope it is someone I don’t know. I have a question for whoever designed it: dear designer, do you think users like me with the IQ of a physically handicapped, senile Cockroach, will go through your 5-step process and nominate a blog? If the answer is yes, then I am Brad Pitt and Sehwag is not fat.
It’d have made better sense if you had used a survey form.
To rub it in, they have a poll on ‘Is this nomination process easy?’ It is like saying ‘excuse me’ before thrusting a stick up my ass. I like the other awards but I don’t want to win them. Thank you.
Shobhan Saxena on Bloggers
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege. There are a lot of people who are sick and tired of having to eke their way through life. A lot of people are sick of being nobody. A lot of people’s lives have been reduced to inconsequential chatter with their inconsequential friends. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions and their lives a second-hand mimicry of others’ life. Such people form groups, stick together and find comfort in each others’ miseries.[Click for more comedy by Shobhan]
I agree. Every one has a right to be stupid. In Telugu there is a saying that goes ‘road lo poye paamuni guddalo doorchukovatam.’ It means catching a snake and shoving it up your… you know? Yeah.
NDTV Interviews Ravages
I don’t know if it was my post or serendipity or providence but Alaphia chose to interview Ravages!
Most journalists seem to have a problem with the possessive noun and pronoun. Hm.
BlogCamp Humour: BMK
On Sunday afternoon this dude started the session off with these immortal words:“Can you imagine a Bollywood without the big B? Can you imagine a Kollywood without Mr. Shivaji Ganesan? Can you imagine a BlogCamp without Kiruba Shankar?” sycophancy is cool in Tamilnadu. They built a temple for Khushbu a few years back, remember? So unfrown. But a blogger having such a fan following is amazing. I am sure the dude who uttered those immortal words has tattooed Kiruba’s name on various locations in his body. No, I am positive. So, here is my suggestion to kribs: start a political party now. Strike the iron when it is hot and all that. I have a name for the party too. BMK. Blogger Munnetra Kazhagam. We’ll call the volunteers of this party BJs. No not what you are thinking More...
Blogcamp Humour: Interview with a blogger
We felt left out that NDTV and CNN-IBN refused to acknowledge our presence. We were hoping some channel would give some air time, our moment of glory, youknowwhatIamsaying? But nada. Nothing. Alaphia of NDTV interviewed Kribs. We tried capturing her attention by hovering around when the interview was going on but she ignored us. Alaphia, you look better in person or is it the new hairdo? See! We can be nice people! Please show us on TV next time. The desperate among us used innovative attention-grabbing techniques. Ravages, tried this but couldn’t wank an interview out of this effort. Better luck next time bro.