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The book is nigh. Dork cometh. Full updates.

For the last several months Whatay.com has been suffering silently. Why? Because Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese has been the cynosure of my non-office creative pursuits. Dork, as I have begun to refer to it lovingly, is the book. The book.Yes. High fives all round.

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Romance ही romance

When we first met and got talking, it sounded just like another one of those coffee-shop mouth-off sessions with Pastrami. (No. Not that Pastrami. This is about the other one. Different business. Same complicated personality.) Every couple of weeks Pastrami, the missus, a few other mutual friends and yours truly get together to, by and large, [...]

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• Quite impressed by the Wordpress application for the Blackberry. Works like a dream. At least via the onboard wifi on the 8520 handset. Highly recommend giving it a go if you are a Berry owning Wordpresser. Go to here. #
• It is astonishing how much innovation is happening in the field of human waste processing. People are obsessed with inventing new ways to... err... process excretions. Like the new pocket toilet for women. Toilet. Pocket sized. For women. Oh yeah. Awesome. Gag. #
• Muammar Gaddafi is crazy. His son is crazy. His son is called Hannibal. His son beat people up with a belt in Switzerland. Gaddafi hates Switzerland. Gaddafi wants to BAN/ABOLISH Switzerland. I like. #
• Anil Penna is one of the nicest people I work with. In an otherwise frantic day at the office, Penna is seldom seen agitated about anything. And he is damn good at his job too. So you can imagine our consternation when the nicest guy in the office told us that his son had tested positive for h1n1. While Penna has been quarantined along with the rest of his family, he did manage to email us this first person account of how things work, or not, when a crisis like h1n1 happens. #
• Krish Raghav, my esteemed colleague, blogs about the most useful freeware application I have used in a while. Called f.lux, the app sits on your desktop and tries to match the lighting on your computer monitor to the ambient light around you. Thereby, I assume, reducing strain on your eyes. Most excellent. All you need to do is tell it what type of lighting you have and where in the world you live. The app will take care of the rest. Most highly recommended. #