Retro is Back

RetroGalI had always liked retro figures right from my earlier website and I had also got some good reviews regarding the same. I decided to move away from it because I wanted to try out something different. Now that the earlier design has outlived my expectations it was time for a new set of rules.

Firstly I had to re-install Wordpress on my local machine which wasn’t as tedious as I initially thought it would be. Installing it offline meant that I can carry my design development on Wordpress without disturbing the original website. For those of you who are interested in knowing more about it, click here. I had always had a colour scheme in my mind which was more youthful then it’s previous avatar and I just had to build a theme around it. The RetroGal - as I like to call all my retro figures, is also back on the header. The entire development took me just over a day & the end result was very satisfying. I hope this small change would enhance the user-experience to a great extent.

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6 comments December 18th, 2005

Leave Mumbai Alone For Us

Life in Mumbai SlumsMumbaikars (natives of Mumbai city) are well aware of the hardships which they face everyday. To name some of the few - train travels, bad roads, polluted water supplies, growing slums, etc. Just recently I had an argument with a friend who has come down from Delhi to work with us and he was unapologetically critical about this city. The fact of the matter is that I know what plagues us and I know that the solution lies entirely in the hands of the administration which is not focussing on the city right now. I lost my temper and hit back with strong words on this.

This was probably the first time that I took the comments on Mumbai quite personally and I have no explanation for this. Mumbai, marathi language, the culture of this city, etc. have been imbibed in me since childhood and perhaps I felt they were being mugged unnecessarily by an outsider who has no inkling of what actual hardships are (he stays in churchgate and works from the same place). I was also inspired from an article that I read in Indian Express where Farah Baria has written about the downslide of Mumbai. My colleague will be here as long as his job entitles him to and he will go back to his favourite place. The point I am making is that the natives of this land have lived & experienced problems since a long time and they are the best people to come out with the solutions too. If at all we want some winds of change to blow across this island it can only be with the help of people who want improvement and not otherwise. I know it’s only a matter of time.

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December 15th, 2005

Move Over Konfabulator

Here comes Kapsules, a freeware desktop widget engine built exclusively for the Windows system. It is built upon the Windows Scripting Technology and is reliant on the .NET framework for it’s working. While Konfabulator was earlier written for the Mac OS X System and later ported for Windows, Kapsules is exclusively designed to be used by Windows components. Check out the widgets available for Kapsules and also preview the Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets.

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December 12th, 2005

Of Tarts, Beer & All That

Beer MugWhen will I know everything and attain nirvana? This is a question I keep asking myself everytime I find myself in an embarassingly idiotic situation. We ordered some desserts in the office and it was my longtime wish to eat a tart. Let me honestly say that apart from a few references (and perhaps with some visual ones as well) from books, I had no clue how a tart tasted. This is my time to experiment with my palate, I told myself. So I went ahead and ordered a Lemon Tart and it finally arrived and before anyone could realise what I was doing I had started eating the lemon ‘cream’ from the so called ‘cup’. I also invited my friend Aadesh to the table to have a scoop and he did the same until everyone laughed their guts out. The tart was supposed to be eaten entirely with the ‘cup’ which was a bread. That explains why the cream tasted pretty much like our local shrikhand. Everyone had a good time laughing at me including our VP who’s going to speak to my Group Leader about the kind of “mentoring” he’s giving his lads.

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Continue Reading 3 comments December 9th, 2005

The Big Bang(alore)

Amazingly I have started enjoying my travels to the various parts of the country now. Last week it was Delhi and today I came back from a quick tour of Bangalore - The IT City in the south. The only choice that we didn’t have was in staying overnight at this place.

With travelling too much; one has become critical about airline services. Since Kingfisher Airlines is set as a benchmark for services, all of them are compared ruthlessly with it. Unfortunately then, I would say, we had a booking with Indian Airlines (IA). Least to say the hostesses were far from presentable baring just one in the early morning flight schedule. Just one of them looked keen in serving the passengers, the rest looked like they were doing a routine job. The food wasn’t too good and there was no inflight entertainment provided like Kingfisher and I must say that the private airlines are taking away all the laurels from this 50 year old airline. OK I know I am asking far more from IA but it has to survive in this stiff competition.

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Continue Reading 4 comments December 8th, 2005


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