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there's no accounting for stupidity

interface designers spend ages trying to design the perfect gui. but some idiot comes along and ruins it all for them…

admittedly, yaari does not cater to the brightest minds in the world.
but seriously… “yes”???

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the language of the gods

i’ve been fighting with illiterate delhi-ites for years, and now it’s official: english is not just the international of choice… it’s the universal language of choice. it has been confirmed by my favourite god-in-waiting, dr harry p. or harry p … Continue reading 

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the cleartrip game

here’s one reason i use cleartrip to book my tickets:

more reasons: graphs, a blog, an idiot-filled forum, prices include taxes, and no gimmicks. and customer service is pretty good, too… but the graphs functionality really tops it all.

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dissertation, my ass.

came across a paper titled “a universal pronoun in english?” by a student of linguistics at stanford.
and the pronoun? your ass.
to quote him: “We refer to these expressions collectively as your ass. Your ass is not simply a possessive
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the image was photoshopped… not

i came across this set of rules, while reading up on photoshop cs3. interesting ones, almost like a course in english to not get your ass sued 101.i have a few questions for the company, adobe® :

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i'm sick of downtimes

my site’s been down for long periods at a time, visible from certain computers and not from others, keeps flip-flopping between a new and a week-old version. i moved on, bought some new space from a reliable (i hope) host.
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seventeen thousand degrees of internet separation

at times, i have absolutely nothing to do… and then i tend to waste time doing that nothing by clicking through site after site on the interwebs… a game i call seventeen thousand degrees of internet separation. how you play … Continue reading 

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search strings

people have reached this blog in strange ways… a majority of them via searches for me. and then another bunch searching for my sister, pooja. she’s become pretty famous all of a sudden, on account of being featured at … Continue reading 

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lost it all… again.

i’m blaming surdy for this one. he’s just starting on his blog, and i was setting it up for him. and then i find he’s got wordpress 2.1, and i’m still on 2.0. and i love to be cutting edge, … Continue reading 

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seo what?

i subscribe to the google blog in my gmail webclips. here’s something interesting i saw today, their personalized searches. it’s not something new, but it should be cutting down drastically on the whole search engine optimization craze that’s going … Continue reading 

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