This is the T-shirt that Sivashankar, Kusuma and I designed for Interwoven Engineering. The sarcasm is lost on most:
Our bikes and cars are getting dirty, and we need something to clean it.
There have been a lot of good advertisements on television of late. But I must hand it to the Budweiser folks, who make the best of the lot.
Yahoo! has published a video of its new messenger application on Windows Vista that uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to do cool stuff. Click on the screen capture below to watch it.
I’m extremely happy with BSNL DataOne’s free broadband upgrade for HOME 500 plan subscribers. Download speeds are much much better now. Just this morning I got a > 200 kBps download speed — yes, that’s an uppercase B — using BitTorrent. (When was the last time I saw a 100 kBps speed?) What’s more they also bumped up the upload/download limit from 0.5 GB to 2.5 GB a month. All this, and they reduced the price.
So you noticed that I didn’t actually call it iPhone. Whatever it is eventually going to be called, immersing yourself in the reality distortion field is something you must do. But as the effect wears away, not everyone sounds excited.
I make the first post of the year with a round up of the news in India so far.
We have all heard of the phrase “dog eat dog” which means ruthless competition, as in, “It’s a dog eat dog world.” But in India in 2007, we are seeing all the other permutations possible.