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Hi!! This is your friendly Disaster guy calling!!

Dina Mehta has just posted something that will hearten every Indian [http://radio.weblogs.com/0121664/2006/02/15.html#a786]… The Hindu [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2006021401920400.htm&date=2006/02/14/&prd=th&] quotes: > Union Minister for Science, Technology

By Shrikant Joshi 17 Feb 2006

Desk-top this, baby!!

Mike Arrington [http://about.me/mike] over at TechCrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/?page_id=120] reports that the Big G has released the next version of its Desktop Search utility: Google Desktop Search 3 [http://desktop.google.com/index.html]. And he’s being very cautious about it.. I

By Shrikant Joshi 09 Feb 2006

The Park - The Final Part

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story until now…A simple whine resulted in introspection. She was forced to think about things in a totally different light. As she encountered newer situations, she began to realize that the simplicity of life was not as simlple as she wanted it to be. The light began

By Shrikant Joshi 09 Feb 2006

Technical Evangelism: Crusade or Crushed?

There’s a new kind of ‘Evangelism’ around the block and it has nothing to do with the word of God. So what is Technical Evangelism? According to Guy Kawasaki [http://blog.guykawasaki.com], (Expert on VC & Startup Advisories), Technical Evangelism entails falling in love with the product. Technical

By Shrikant Joshi 06 Feb 2006

The Park - Part III

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story until now…She was sitting in the park unhappy and tearful, blaming him for not understanding her plight. He understood that he had to provide her with some answers… The first two responses she received left her stunned, yet contemplative. Surely, this was not the way she

By Shrikant Joshi 04 Feb 2006

The Park - Part II

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story until now…The Park sees many people come and go. So do we. A girl is sitting on the park bench. She feels the world has been unfair to her. And she’s complaining. But who is going to listen? The one person she expects will listen,

By Shrikant Joshi 31 Jan 2006

The Park

She sat morosely on the park bench unaware of her surroundings. She did not notice him coming. Not that she would have noticed it any other day. He came and sat besides her making no sound or attempt to announce his presence. After what seemed like an eternity (but was

By Shrikant Joshi 20 Jan 2006

Wants & Needs...

Last night while I was reading I suddenly realized this: “I don’t know what I want, but I know what I need…” Is that what is causing all the trouble? Tags: Born Stinger, [conversation](http://technorati.com/tag/conversation), [rumination](http://technorati.com/tag/rumination), [thought](http://technorati.com/

By Shrikant Joshi 06 Jan 2006

The Anti-Microsoft war.

On New Year’s eve, Zhao Jing a.k.a Michael Anti, an out-spoken Chinese Journalist found his blog taken down. Note the words “TAKEN DOWN”. Not censored, not blocked, but TAKEN DOWN.[Rebecca’s post ](http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/01/microsoft_takes.html)dated 3rd of January,

By Shrikant Joshi 05 Jan 2006

The last day of 2005

… or the first day of 2006?? Well, optimism rules. So here’s a Happy New Year!! [http://i2.wp.com/photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1090/243/1600/Illusion.jpg]Look at the two images closely. The left one is snarling and the right one is calm. Now either squint your

By Shrikant Joshi 31 Dec 2005

Pretenses.

“People say they don’t like pretenses. Isn’t that the biggest one they put on?” Sorry folks, no story right now. In a tearing hurry and equally tired… Just wanted to get this line out of the system. Another question I wanted to ask is: Should I shift my

By Shrikant Joshi 12 Dec 2005

Yahoo! ate my homework!

The newest excuse for teenagers and youth wishing to avoid the chore of homework! Sounds exaggerated, eh? Well, not if you visit Yahoo! Answers [http://answers.yahoo.com/] Sample some of the questions asked by ‘Yahooligans’: * Is this just like a big message board and not a search engine? [http:

By Shrikant Joshi 10 Dec 2005
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