Archive for September, 2007

Spammers mess up BusinessWorld’s About Us page

Just saw this – a spammer has added his rubbish to BusinessWorld site’s About Us Page.
Hope someone there sees it and deletes the links to ‘inappropriate’ sites!

This is one problem with everyone who runs a site. If you allow unmoderated commenting, sooner or later it becomes a bloody nuisance. And moderation can be pretty taxing. [...]

Cops turn molesters, we are not surprised

I am not surprised by these two news items at all:
Delhi cops suspended
Delhi Police commissioner Y S Dadwal on Wednesday suspended the three cops who had allegedly refused to come to the aid of girl students, after they were molested by aspiring policemen at North Campus on Saturday night. A separate FIR in another case, [...]

Lionnel Mascarenhas’ Kashmir Again video

I met Lionnel at Not Just Jazz by the Bay, Mumbai last month. He was performing there that night. It was like, what, some two or three years after going to any kind of rock show? Maybe more.
 
Watching Lionnel perform – just how do they get on stage and do all that? Somehow I have [...]

Seventymm.com service standards slipping

Update: 24 hours after I wrote this, the requested DVDs reached me.
On Sunday, a friend visited. While talking, she asked me how my experience with the online DVD/ VCD rental service seventymm was. Told her it was not great.
The reason was two-fold: One, I find their range of movies just not enough. When you want [...]

Converting .lwp Lotus Word Pro file to .pdf

Had to share this. Friend came on chat; said he has received a press release in some strange .lwp format. Does not open in MS Word. What next?
I offered to do it. Was sure there would be some online converter for converting anything to anything. First I managed to find what .lwp meant – it [...]

Seriously man, Britney is doing exactly what?

You know, her fall from grace and general carelessness with underwear is kind of sad. But when performance on-stage suffers, it is no good reacting by trying to go on binge-drinking. Hope poor Britney Spears does not get any worse. After all, people my age grew up with her, though we found the songs definitely [...]

Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag or King Kong vs Godzilla?

So I watched it – first day, second show. Because I was sure this is gonna be a super duper flop. What else could you think, after watching the ridiculous promos on TV?
In the promos, there was Ajay Devgan trying to romance a play-acting Nisha Kothari in small pieces of clothing. There was the Yuvraj [...]

Reading The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple

I am halfway through The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple. So far it has struck me as a book that’s written quite like a novel. And so easy to read. For someone like me who would rather spend the nights reading science fiction, this makes it a bit [...]

A normal day in Delhi: Eve teasing a karate coach, blueline accident and motorcycle diaries

All that in the morning papers.
In the case of the unfortunate eve teaser who had the bad luck to try and grope a 24-year old Karate coach in a Blueline bus, I can’t help feeling thrilled. Tough babes are da sexy!
The jerks tried their stuff in the bus, and the young Karate coach caught [...]