tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75113299397862869662012-02-05T17:04:54.154ZApply what you know, do what you are and you'll have success coming your way - the philosopher within meShashankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525556284575118265noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511329939786286966.post-106067169952400942008-08-20T14:55:00.002+01:002008-08-20T15:09:15.368+01:00

It is great to see the fantastic appreciation and attention the Indian media is laying out to Indians doing well at Olympics. It surprises me to see how Indians run after the "India Shinning" idea behind everything. Be it an Idea Cellular Advertisement or the Olympics. People consider Bindra;s successes as their own and try to find happiness in it. This is not a bad thing but that happiness ends

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'F1' is not only just 'F1' F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong! When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!! F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!! F1 car engines

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Below is a series which exhibits some symmetry and looks interesting1 x 8 + 1 = 912 x 8 + 2 = 98123 x 8 + 3 = 9871234 x 8 + 4 = 987612345 x 8 + 5 = 98765123456 x 8 + 6 = 9876541234567 x 8 + 7 = 987654312345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432123456789 x 8 + 9 = 9876543211 x 9 + 2 = 1112 x 9 + 3 = 111123 x 9 + 4 = 11111234 x 9 + 5 = 1111112345 x 9 + 6 = 111111123456 x 9 + 7 = 11111111234567 x 9 + 8 =

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src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> On the last night of my most recent trip to Delhi I spent an evening trying to understand India's informal mobile phone repair culture by visiting Karol Bagh Market. Throw in the noise, heat and smells of Delhi and you already have a rich consumer experience. As in Nehru Place, Delhi many of the mobile phone shops and street

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Since many people in India's countryside often need to share one phone, Nokia's new models include features enabling multiple users for each handset. For the first time, the phones have a call-tracking application and a multi-phonebook to make phone sharing simpler for customers at the bottom of the pyramid. The low-cost cell phones will have FM radio and even a flashlight at prices as low as $19.

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I was a huge Kallis fan when he came to India for the first time and mesmerized everybody on and off the field. I must pay tribute to Jacque Kallis. Recently I’ve been on a private little ‘Kallis watch’ as he approached 235 Test wickets, Sobers’ mark. His 3/31 yesterday took took him to 236. Kallis passed Sobers’ 8032 career runs ages ago, and now he’s above him on the wickets table. So Kallis

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There are only a few people in this world who enjoy monopoly in their industries. Carlos Hemu, Microsoft, Google, all middle east royal families and George W. Bush enjoy it to an extent that there exists no competition and no threat in near future. For purpose of this blog, I will stick to Microsft and Google - my all time favorite topic.Monopoly exists in industries due to an entrepreneur's

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I got an informal feedback that some readers were not able to understand the 'user' and 'commodity' relation in the blog written day before - Google and its commoditization. What it means is - We, the users use google as a search engine and in turn google showcases this power ( number of users using google) to attract advertisers. So what happens is, the user become the product manufactured by

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I write this to get attention of many students and researchers alike who use library as their primary source of knowledge and information. When I refer to library it means the physical building that exists in our campuses and not the E Source E catalogs E Libraries E journals and E etc.Professors, Lecturers and deep analysts still believe there is nothing to beat the library when it comes to

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In today's world of computer ubiquity, we find computer not as a facilitator, or a product, or a service, but its a commodity. Commodity in the sense of 'commodization' of IT has a whole. Its no more a new product or service, its omnipresent and is a commodity.Microsoft was able to extract oil in it, but Google extracted oil, took it out, made polymer, moulded it, sold products, bought them back

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I have a few things to share about Dubai on the way back to home.I was looking for a subject to write in that day's blog when I suddenly noticed Dhoni in the duty free - yeah you are right, our very own Dhoni.He was shopping alone with some HOT girl 0 may be 20 or 21 with an attitude like Winehouse. They were happy and gay (ok now i cant use that for a team sportperson when i sighted him like

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I know blogging is not about copying, plagiarising or lifting or however you want to call it. But this beautiful email sent to me by friend, Arpit teaches us finer marketing techniques which I bet cannot be taught at Wharton's or Kellogg's, it can come to you out of passion and the war in the industry itself. Therefore, I blog what I learned from this and defy plagiarism. :)BMW comes up with an

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Day 4 - 26 July, 2008Whatever I wrote yesterday seems to be already stale with 16 serial blasts in Ahmedabad. The same agony, pain, destruction and political drama seems to happen consecutively. The strange fact about these (attacks) (blasts) (anti social activities) is that they are amateur, very well planned and not that destructive with a toll of less than 10 people in two days in a dense

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Day 3 - 27th July, 2008 It was disheartening to see the start of a new blame game after the serial blasts at Bangalore. If amateurs with destructive ideals are going to use ammonium nitrate and make explosives, where are we heading too? The BJP says there is no check on the rise of terror attacks from the center. The Congress says its a state subject also. In the meantime, Left blames both and

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I find this letter beautifully depicting the plight of CPI M in modern India and the basic errors committed by them. The problem remains the voter is too smart and political parties do not often learn from their strategic errors. Way to go for them and all.. liberal article so no offense to anybody. - Shashank Red Letter Day A letter to the LeftLal Salaam Comrades! Your tenure in government

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Day 2 - 25th July, 2008 Finally the great summer of UK is coming to an end for me when i will be heading back home. I think this was most the fruitful 4 months spent in UK since i have been here. I am sure everybody saw the big tamasha in the Parliament on the trust vote day. Lot of criticism and lot of shame. The other angle of the Parliament Paradox is that YES India still is the most

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I went to see a Bollywood flick with some masti, fun, romance, comedy, action and the usual stuff. Not expecting any Out of the box or breakthrough stuff from Aziz Mirza. It was disappointing to see how he could not get one of so many aspects right and one could feel he was not following a script. No wonder Shahrukh refused to do a role in it. Yes i am starting a new rumor. :). It was a

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Day 1 - 24th July, 2008 Today is my first day at blogging. I am getting into the mood of it. Loads of things to talk about but concern of the moment is LSE. Last day at LSE and gotta sum up tomorrow whatever i did in the past three weeks. Had a great time and learnt a lot from my colleagues and made a few friends. My life is at that moment where everything is calm and balanced and at the same

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