Archive for August, 2007
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Ugh.
A day of terrible weather in Mumbai again.
Well not terrible as much as temperamental perhaps. The morning was cool and dark. Then a steady drizzle began, quickly turned into a downpour that sufficiently screwed up traffic everywhere and then, just when you thought offices were going to close and it was going to be a [...]
Fiendish Operating System: 1 – Sidin Sunny Vadukut: 1
I can now rest in peace. I have got my comeuppance.
Last night I finally managed to wrap up an installation of Ubuntu on my laptop. Minor hiccups aside, things like hardware drivers missing and wireless networking issues, I now actually have two operating system coexisting in peace on this laptop: Windows XP and Ubuntu.
This may [...]
Memories of a musical nature
Friday night I think it was.
I was motoring home in a suitably rickety Mumbai black and yellow. The audio was tuned to 94.3 I think. But I really wasn’t listening. Instead I was intently reading a New Yorker. The subscription was a gift from the missus. Something about housing in New York and how some [...]
That war we won in the pacific…
One of the more interesting benefits of working in the media business is the great joy of reading through in(s)ane press releases everyday. If you thought that what you saw on TV or read in your paper was ludicrous, then you have no idea how lucky you are.
For every morning our inboxes are flooded [...]
Chipolata’s vanderfool email
With all this frequent referencing to Pastrami here it is easy to think that I have only one friend in all of Mumbai, i.e. Pastrami. But this is not true at all.
I have at least one more: the great Chipolata BSc. LLB.
Chipolata is this wonderful and most lively woman who is party animal by night, [...]
Eight whatay facts about me
Around two months ago I was slyly tagged to this Eight Random Facts Meme type thing by my dear friend Pikey. After many weeks of research I have finally arrived upon those eight all important publicizable facts. But before that, as convention demands, I recap the rules of this particular blog leisure activity:
1. Each player [...]
The Jerks Shall Inherit The Earth
(Latest newspaper column. Not bad at all.)
I can’t tell you how excited I am to write this fortnight’s column.
See the thing is normally, one or two days before my column is due, I am sitting at home and pulling my hair out. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but writing humour is tough. [...]
