Tech-NO!

Close friends (Pastrami basically, and that fellow who sells dabeli outside Wadala station) know that this author has been harbouring a subtle fondness for the ASUS eee PC for some time now. Ever since the laptop made it’s appearance on tech blogs all over the world and took the 2007 Christmas gifting season by storm [...]

Good advice

HDFC banker on Monday: Good time to buy some Mutual Funds you know…
That lady who handles Citibank account later that Monday: Mr. Vadukut you must do some SIPs now. It is a good time to buy.
Pastrami most days: BUY BUY BUY BUY
CNBC: Due to the fluctuating market tendencies and the global uncertainties especially due to [...]

Anecdoting by the water cooler

Actually it was the open air eating area on the terrace where the journalists here retire to when they need a break from the hectic Youtube video watching pursuing of truth and fact for the upliftment of mankind. We were swapping celebrity gossip over lunch from Pritam when a colleague recalled this most embarrassing incident, [...]

Sehwag’s secret

At a dinner for the captains of all the T20 teams in London, Paul Collingwood recounts the advice he received from Sehwag during the IPL. When both players kitted up for the Daredevils. I wouldn’t dream of Sehwag saying anything else…

Psycho SPAM tactics

If inadequate manhood was not enough reason to make me potentially feel insecure, them SPAM sending fiends have taken this psychological attack on yours truly to newer, higher…er…heights. This snapshot is fresh from my Gmail spam folder:

Focus your eyes on email number 3 and 8.
Ugly and insubstantial is this man. Sigh.

Bye bye baby

BBC reports that the last living survivor of the Titanic tragedy has died. Millvina Dean has no memory of it of course, she was just nine months old when the liner sank. However it did give her an interesting life. She refused to watch the James Cameron movie, it seems. Lucky woman. RIP.