Monthly Archives January 2007

How to Digg befriend those who befriended you?

Honestly, I’ve no idea and I’m having a hard time trying to reciprocate those who have befriended me. I don’t have the solution but wanted to ask if there are smart ways of picking those who have befriended you in some sorta check-list to manipulate.

What about an RSS feed or a notification when people befriended [...]

Big Brother - Shilpa Shetty wins

Shilpa Shetty ends the Racist controversy at the Big Brother - well she won. Yes, Shilpa has been crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2007 after polling 67% of the final vote.

Shilpa’s devotion to feeding the housemates didn’t quite win her unanimous support, as Danielle, Jade and Jo debated the health and safety of [...]

How to access Flickr if it is blocked

As Flickr is one such popular site, people spend a lot of time on the site. Some organizations are known to block Flickr. Organizations don’t want their employees wasting time on social networking sites. If Flickr is blocked in your organization, the easy way to access it is though a different url.

For instance my original [...]

Salaam-E-Ishq

I wasn’t really sure if the Movie would live up to the hype and publicity before the release; the scarcity of the tickets at the box office (in Pune) yesterday was tempting me to wait for today - the day for which I got the ticket for Salaam-E-Ishq. I missed the usual Paid Preview I [...]

26th January is India’s Republic Day

Every year, the 26th of January is celebrated in India as the Republic Day. It was on this day in 1950 that India was formally declared as a Republic. To mark this occasion, a grand parade is held in New Delhi, the Capital of India.

Different infantry, cavalry and mechanized regiments of the Indian Army, the [...]

Sites banned from Digg

The Mu Life has a lists of sites banned from Digg. Here is my first encounter of a banned site which I tried to submit - Tech2.com. I saw the “url is on the banned submit list” tag.

Others banned sites

Career Builder

English speaking pandits in demand, Marriage outsourced to India

For some strange reasons, English speaking foreign nationals are interested in getting married in India. This is perhaps the pinnacle of outsourcing to India. In Jaipur where Marriages are done in grandeur, it is attracting more and more non-Indian marriages to the typical Indian Hindu Marriage.

Well, Marriage Pandits are now in high demand and specially [...]

The Covenant

The Covenant is released today (19th Jan, 2007) in India. Well, it’s not a good movie at all.

The movie tries to be like one of those old witchy world sipping into the Modern world. Somewhere in early 1690s, 5 families of the Ipswich Colony of Massachussets (who had fled from France, England into America) formed [...]

Digg - be prepared to be hit from the Indian Troll

Times of India, one of the most popular newspaper in India carries an article on Digg. So, beware, there might an Indian troll on Digg looming around the corner ready to pounce anytime.

The Indians are very patient, they can do repetitive and mundane task very effectively, they are quick to catch up with simple, quick [...]

Spider-Man 3 Spoilers

We are not really supposed to write spoilers but hey, let’s enjoy. I just found this article - Spoilers From Spider-Man 3’s Battle Royale which talks about some major SpiderMan 3 spoilers as the Movie progresses through post production and more and more sequences approach completion.

There’s a tremendous action climax to the film, set in [...]