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Some freak economics a milkman taught me

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 12, 2009

Economics is a very facinating mix of theorotical science and practical art of managing money. Apart from spelling the word economics right, theres very little contribution to world economics from my side..
until now..
Few days ago, one interesting bill was attached to our common notepad – It was the milkman bill..Out of utter curiosity, I looked [...]

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Swine flue in Pune, India, some reasons and questions

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 12, 2009

Everything is justified.
However, India is more prone to any kind of epidemics because of the inherent unclean habits the common people have.
Add to it the careless attitude of people who actually are supposed to work on complex issues. The recent epidemic wouldent have had been so grave if the airport authorities would have done a [...]

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A sneek peek

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 4, 2009

Thats the first preview of India Force Linux Desktop. Stay Tuned…

TRAI okays net telephony in India

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 18, 2008

The Telecom regulator in India, TRAI on Monday allowed ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, a move that will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and lower STD tariffs.
“It is envisaged that customers will ultimately benefit from cost effective and innovative internet telephony service.
These recommendations will put Indian telecom sector in [...]

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Beijing Olympics 2008 kicks off

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 8, 2008

The Beijing Olympics 2008 ceremony has kicked off and officially, for next 20 days, we are going to see an exciting series of old records broken, new records being set. Top leaders from almost 80 countries are visiting Beijing for this extravaganza. Here’s a joke thats being passed here in India.
Dubya, the George Bush Jr, [...]

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Good Grief

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 22, 2008

This heartbreak hangover has continued for fairly long time, I mean its more then a week I havent been able to pick my spirits up. In one point of view, everything appears as a dead end, especially in this fast globalized ultramodern age, with so much technology and gadgets around, who would bother to wait [...]

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Yamaha kills competition, launches the topline sports bikes in India

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: December 5, 2007

Well, its time to rejoice…Finally after months of waiting, the fans of Yamaha in India are now presented a gift in form of this wonderful Yamaha MT ..This bike was launched in Delhi last night. Although the price isent clear, it will definately be a tad expensive then other bikes in India.
Eat your dust Bajaj…!!!
I [...]

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Sanjay Dutt sentenced to 6 years imprisonment

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 31, 2007

Sanjay Dutt, the film actor of Mumbai based film industry and one of the accused in the 1993 Mumbai Bomb blasts has been sentenced to imprisonment of 6 years by the special TADA court which is giving final touches to the case..11 people have been given death sentences, while 9 have been given life inprisonment. [...]

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A practical approach for blocking Orkut and saving trouble

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 12, 2007

From the past few days theIndian media is in all sorts of frenzy, displaying the news and reports telling that Indian government has instructed CERT India to ‘ban’ Orkut access primarily because,
1. Indian authorities believe that Orkut allowes creation of flame communities that pack enough ammunation to set cities on fire and a punch [...]

Can Yamaha and Bajaj come togather in India?

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 12, 2007

After Kawasaki, could a Yamaha-Bajaj alliance be in the offering? While loss-ridden Yamaha doesn’t deny the possibility, it is giving the Indian market a last shot.Yamaha plans to put in another Rs 800 crore and may churn out a 250 cc bike at the next Auto Expo.In the pipeline, is to create a niche market [...]

Pune rural police crack a rave party

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 5, 2007

Update on 6 Oct 2008
Vishwas Nangre Patil  on early Monday raided a rave party at a pub in Juhu area and detained 240 young men and women after seizing a large quantity of drugs.
According to a police official, the raid at Mumbai 72 Degree East, yielded over 100 tablets of ecstasy drugs and other narcotics like [...]

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Gmail gets into trademark troubles

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 28, 2007

Looks as if trouble is always in air for Google’s Gmail. First it was the privacy question, then it was the spam and now, its a legal problem, that could well rip Google off Gmail. I think Gmail spells ‘trouble’.
The company that recently won the rights to the GMail trademark in the UK has taken [...]

Rahul Roy wins Bigg Boss 2006-2007

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 27, 2007

Rahul Roy got 5 million rupees as a prize when he won the reality show Bigg Boss on 27 Jan. Bigg Boss is a reality show known for high emotional drama and various controversies involving clebraties, the latest one being from its UK edition Bigg Brother.
It should be noted that Rahul Roy taught a number [...]

1 year of blogging

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 19, 2007

Gosh..Its my blogs 1st birthday today. Happy birthday little blog.

Switch off the crap Bigg Boss/Bigg Brother

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 18, 2007

‘Pathetic and Weak‘ , ‘Intellectually Crap‘ – probably this is what a civilized society will say about (un)Reality TV based shows like Bigg Boss in India and Bigg Brother in UK.
The so called reality in these shows promote *racism(Shilpa Shetty incident in UK), and often misguide the common public.(Bigg Boss in India) At least in [...]

Apple iPhone – The evening after in India and rest of Asia

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 11, 2007

Apple iPhone is todays equivalent example of Sony Walkman of yesterday. Theres no path breaking features that it offers, but apparantly, its PDA and smartphone capabilities(alongwith very good marketting) can help Apple to reach a wide customer base and also it will give comman non technical consumers the chance to learn the Apple way [...]

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Apple shares up on iPhone launch(Well finally..)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 10, 2007

Shares in Apple Computer closed some 8% higher on news that it is launching a touch screen mobile phone, the iPhone.
News of the device – to be used exclusively on the Cingular Wireless network – sent shares in smart phones, iPhone’s competitors, sharply lower.The iPhone, costing from $499 (£257) to $599, [...]

Microsoft Vista released for sale

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 30, 2006

As I am typing this post on my blog, Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, starts its global roll-out on Thursday, being first made available to business customers.
The system, a replacement for the firm’s current Windows XP operating system, will not be available to home consumers until the end of January.With Windows running [...]

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The Great Indian ‘copying’ challenge

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 25, 2006

Watching the TV continiously for a few days has made me realize that all the major TV Channels in India have absolutely lost their creative ideas and are hell bent in aping the US reality TV shows  and hopelessly trying to ‘indianize’ that version.
Its a shame that these people, who are capable of having a [...]

An overview of free and open software(part 1)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 21, 2006

I support and use GNU/Linux kernel and open source software mainly due to following factors.
1. Its free. Nothing can beat that.
2. Its stable and seldomly crashes. Memory management is more efficient.
3.Most of the documentation is available for free either online or offline.
4. It has got great desktops and allows one to fully customize the environment [...]

Google Co-op Search Engine

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 3, 2006

I think I am a little late on this topic,but anyway…
This is my new Google Co-op Search Engine over here.
Feel free to experiment, but note that it dosent index thousand/million/billion pages. However, it does incorporate nice links and good content for technology/food/linux/Web 2.0 fans and users. And following Googles method, its currently in beta.
Direct [...]

Broadband in India and abroad.

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 13, 2006

If by any chance you have encountered this image on some other site for more then 40 seconds, then you know that you are not using Broadband to access that particular site.
Broadband is often called high-speed Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 [...]

Mission Google Wordmaster

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 29, 2006

Tommorow is gonna a great day. 298* people. 6 different cities. One competition, One aim – Who is going to be a Google Wordmaster..??
Here I come…
Because I blog of nothing but mainly of Google and its related technologies, I shouldent worry much. But its scary when someone asks you to write [...]

The future of Google and conventional computing(beta version 0.01)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 27, 2006

Today I had a nice closer look at . Infact, I must say that it is a nice product, definately a good competition to its paid and bloated counterpart MS Word.
Going by current product releases by Google, it seems that now the paradigm is slowly but surely shifting from offline, desktop based apps to online, [...]

1st cheque from Yahoo!

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 21, 2006

Today, I received the Yahoo! cheque. It feels great to see the first monetory gain from Yahoo!. Actually, I was expecting my first $ cheque from Google, but sadely we didnt have a mutual agreement on the conditions and terms, so I had to say say NO to Google. As a part of this, there [...]

Google Takover fails..

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 17, 2006

Hmm, I just didnt have any other options

 
 

Maps on Orkut

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 13, 2006

Today, 13 Sept 2006, 12:30 IST Google has now added an extra facility for Orkut users. Yup, its the much awaited Maps service allowing users to view their friends location.Please click here to view the snapshot I got…
I ask myself an obvious question – Was it necessary? I mean theres a more good friends mapping [...]


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