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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…

The last post on this blog.

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: December 3, 2008

A dream, a dream, a dream I had
The world, a theater
The stage, our lives
The actors, ourselves
Our dreams, our plays
Our audience, our souls
Alas, at last, the courtain’s closed
Aplause for dreams
Applause for peace
Applause for us.

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Slowly walking out…

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 21, 2008

 

 
Hi everyone.
Whether you have come here by chance, hunting for something you need, or maybe Google/Yahoo! guided you here, or someone recommend you to visit this tiny blog, I want to thank you for visiting.
I think the time is coming, slowly but surely and I am honestly losing my motivation to write. I think I [...]

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Top 50 inventions of the year 2008

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 4, 2008

Time magazine recently announced top 50 inventions for the year 2008.
Here is the list of those:
1. The Retail DNA Test
2. The Tesla Roadster
3. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
4. Hulu.com (hulu.com is an invention..grate..then what about other video sharing sites like joost, youtube and etc?? )
5. The Large Hadron Collider
6. The Global Seed Vault
7. The [...]

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8 terrorists arrested in Pune

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 6, 2008

8 dangerous terrorists of Indian Mujahiddin are arrested from Pune today. They used to  hack Wifi connections and use the connection to send threatening emails to Police and government. Its notable that each of them were well educated, the head honcho Mohmmad Mansur Asgar Pirbhai,aged 31 used to work @ Yahoo! one of the most [...]

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Google unveils Chrome, the browser (spyware) we were waiting for

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 3, 2008

Google finally unveiled Chrome, the beta edition of its web browser. Long ago, Google has predicted – ‘The browser is the platform’, keeping it in mind, it released Gogle Gears, now the Chrome. The tab button stikingly resembeles like he Yahoo toolbar, did anyone note that?? Of course, the Yahoo toolbar adds the tab functionality [...]

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Tips for Safe Chatting

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 21, 2008

Don’t chat about things that could enable a stranger to locate you. That includes your last name, the name of your school or workplace, the city you live in, and where you hang out.
Protect your info. Don’t put identifiable information in your user profile, including photos. What’s uploaded to the Internet can be downloaded and [...]

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The Ego and the flames

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 31, 2008

Ego is bad. Very bad. And when you find someone more egoistic then you, then its extremely hard to describe how badly it hurts. What exactly hurts is not known, but somewhere within, deep inside there is pain..lot of pain..words can describe it…but its real and it exists.
I found  a new way to get over [...]

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Sonali Kulkarni – the new face in Indian modelling field

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 20, 2008

I saw her first at Zee Marathi Awards 2008. I searched Google/Yahoo/Flickr, but all that I got was Sonali Kulkarni, the arts film actress. Finally, after much search and much wait, I got hold of her pic. Next time someone searches for Sonali Kulkarni images, this picture should be displayed in the results. Lets see…Its [...]

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How to write a kludgy news crawler in Python and challenge Google News to its limits

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 17, 2008

A kludge (or, alternatively, kluge) is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts cobbled together. Especially in computer programs, a kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge; this is essentially a kind of cruft.

I was [...]

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The New Age dilemma

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 9, 2008

S: (n) dilemma, quandary (state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options)

I have discovered a new ego bruising experience. If you are a single individual, and having lot of virtual girl friends on social networking tools like Orkut, then you might have noticed that whenever the girls status changes [...]

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Slambook

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 2, 2008

Slambook….after so many years, I remember this…I never got a chance to be in someones slambook, but it was something very hot in my school days. Usually, it was as self decorated book having different sections like we have on Orkut, except that we had to manually fill it in our own handwriting. Bad handwriting [...]

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Enlightment,a new hope

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 26, 2008

मी आसाच आहे……
धर्मासाठी झुंजावे…
झुंजोनी अवाघ्यांसी मारावे…
मारिता मारिता घ्यावे राज्य आपुले…
देव मस्तकी धरावा,
अवघा हल्लकल्लोळ करावा..

Men are haunted by the Future. Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how [...]

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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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Moments of madness and sadeness(and peace too)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 20, 2008

Its night. I am on the terrace, waiting for Nikhil. Our meeting is late by almost 2 hours, and on top of that, the sms meant for him went to someone else whom I have recently hurt a lot. Yeah, she was my only good friend who used to enquire – ‘Howz you’, no one, [...]

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Happy Blogging – Blogging completes its first 10 years

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 15, 2007

According to Wall Street Journal, this is the 10th year since the first blog came to life..thats quite an incredible fact.
Blogging has got several advantages
1. It allows people to create web content that people can read and comment on
2. It also made use of RSS (web site syndication), and also introduced several new concepts like [...]

320 GB of terrorism – Exploring a terrorists hard disk

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 10, 2007

Appearances are deceiving. A meek looking and soft spoken individual turned out be an ace terrorist in the making, can one believe this fact easily? Nope..
Todays paper had a news that explored the 320 GB ‘terrorist’ hard disk. The detailed stats are,
1. The disk contained well over 12000 files,
2. 5000 e-mails,
3. Videos of Osama bin [...]

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 [...]

Unwiring Pune – Indias first Wi-Max enabled city

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: April 2, 2007

Finally its there. The ‘Unwiring Pune’ project has kicked off.. This new wirefree access utilizes WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) technologies to equip Pune with high-speed wireless internet. Wireless connectivity will allow people to access the Internet through a laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA), sans the need for cables. [...]

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The Digital (Anti)Social Networks

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 7, 2007

Tired of getting friend requests from MySpace, TagWorld, Friendster, TypePad, Skype, AIM, Yahoo!, Chia Friend, LinkedIn, MSN, TextAmerica, Upcoming, Digg, Google, 30 Boxes, Second Life, Plaxo, Zooomr, ICQ, Flickr, LiveJournal, Dogster, dodgeball, Backwash, BuddyBridge, FriendFan, Classmates, Buzznet, ReferNet… not to mention Friend Surfer, friendsand, Friends of Friends, friendsbay.de, Friends of Friends, Friends Reunited, Friendoo, Friendset, [...]

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 [...]

Police planning to ban Orkut in India

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 22, 2007

According to media reports, the Pune police is in full swing to ban Orkut, the Google owned digital social networking tool following its controversial communities and its probable role in anti social activities.
To a certain extent, I feel that there is a ‘real’ need in maintaining Orkut. Given its liberal policies, a madman can create [...]

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Google provided email ids to spammers – The reality behind the closed doors.

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 13, 2007

I got this mail a few hours ago.
hi there,
i believe we are in the same boat.
this is in regard to the mail i received from deepta from google and i understand u folks too have got the same. this was on 25th of Jan. later on 26th of Jan, once again i received a mail [...]

Google job opportunities as an Adword Representative

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 5, 2007

Sometimes its better to hear the most honest voice within you. I did that, and even if others might feel that I did wrong; personally I feel much better now. The inner voice knows all the secrets and truths.
Thats all.

Happy Birthday Orkut

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 30, 2007

Today is Orkuts 3rd birthday.
The Beginning
Orkut was quietly launched on January 30, 2004 by Google, the search engine company. Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google (required by its policy). Some discomfort with this exists among users and potential users of orkut, especially since Google’s [...]

4 months after the Google Wordmasters 2006 – an opportunity for a Google job

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 26, 2007

Google Wordmasters 2006 was a fiasco for almost everyone except for the winners(if any). Thousands anticipated their success, got almost dusted by the rather unfriendly and semiprofessional attitude of Google India..People vowed to avenge…Until..
Until they got a mail from Google India.(I received it on the 25th)

Hi ,

We are reaching out to you to check [...]

1 year of blogging

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 19, 2007

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

Google Wordmasters 2006 – From where it all began

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 6, 2006

Dear readers.
I want to tell you guys a few facts regarding this Google Wordmasters 2006.
Like we all know, Google. has found contests to be a good way to identify talented staff in India. It did that to hire engineers in India, and it’s did it again, to find graduates with good English-writing skills [...]

Google’giri’

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 5, 2006

Googlegiri is a new term which is used to symbolize an act of unexpected  fiasco of an overhyped incident arising mainly due to a lot of backfiring. This word was recently coined during the excessive wait of Google Wordmasters 2006 result, courtesy of Harshad Joshi and his colluges. Used largely in geek and nerd community, [...]

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 [...]

Google Wordmasters – The Aftermath

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 1, 2006

Desperation, fraustration, anger, hate, curiosity. If you want to know what does it feel like, ask every Google Wordmasters 2006 participants who frantically searched the web for the answer, but unfortunately couldent find it. Its a sort of dismay and disarray. 2 days, and no sign of result..Bingo, its a perfect formula to drive someone [...]

Countdown on Google Wordmasters 2006….

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 29, 2006

As I am typing this, there is less then approx 16 hours before the winner of Google Wordmasters 2006 winner will be announced to the public.
All things said and done, this job wont be easy….
A brief update – Please go through this updated link to know the latest information. ( Harshad Joshi on 29 [...]

Google Wordmasters, Pune – An insiders story(part 2)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 25, 2006

Gosh..only 5 more days to go and the winner of Google Wordmasters 2K6 will be announced on 30 October 2006. Theres a lot of excitment amongs almost 3000 participants across 10 cities of India. Whoa..who will be the lucky one to take the cream cake. Who will lead from the front?
Wow..its tense moments for some [...]

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 [...]

Google Code Search

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 7, 2006

It really seems that Google is on fire. It has definately taken search engine’s utility to a new level. Google Labs has got a new beta tool in its arsenal – ‘Google Code Search‘.
Developed by Russ Cox Google Code crawler gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. It includes:

Support for [...]

Google AJAX Search API (Beta)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 4, 2006

Each time I used to log in my Google personalized page, I just couldent used to stop me from wondering – ‘Can I add these rich apps on my blogs too??’
The Google AJAX Search API is designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:

Add a dynamic search box to your [...]

Google Wordmasters, Pune – An insiders story(part 1)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 1, 2006

In this post, I am about to present before you one of my worst ever documented literature in English language. And unfortunately it was at Google Wordmasters on 30 Sept 2006.
“I know that it sounds a little weird to when I call Google as my best Gini. It also sounds absurd concept to imagine [...]

Google Wordmasters, Pune

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 30, 2006

Today I went to the (much advertised and much hyped) Google Wordmaster competition held to find Indias most creative writer (!).
The competition was very simple(Google says it, not me). Two options were given, each having 20 words. We had to choose one of those two and had to write a paragraph/essay/story/dialogue/poem/whatever incorporating those 20 words. [...]

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, [...]

Ubuntu

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 23, 2006

Today I got my official Ubuntu copies from Canonical. It feels nice that this distro is doing good, and I am sure that oneday it will be one of the most preffered and liked version of OS. It has got a nice GNOME desktop and an uncluttered interface making it very attractive. Even Google [...]

Google Takover fails..

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 17, 2006

Hmm, I just didnt have any other options

 
 

Linux for desktop users.

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 16, 2006

Conventionally,GNU/Linux has always attracted the higher end market comprising of Geeks, nerds, techies, and for a time it was good.
But now, many useful changes are occuring and GNU/Linux is now available as a conventional ‘Desktop OS’, with sleek window managers like KDE, Gnome, Firefox, a good collection of useful software etc. Many end users [...]

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 [...]

Google Ads

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 29, 2006

Today Google Ads server failed to respond. The url is -
http://www.google.com/errors/asfe/system_down.html


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