UK Government and it’s forced IE6 use 4

UK Government and it’s forced IE6 use
As a developing country, we often take a look at how are some of the infrastructure problems handled by the developed nations. In fact in most of these cases, we end up emulating them … the western culture, the accents, the products … we are more than happy to borrow from our western brothers … ...

What Women Want

What Women Want
LinkedIn had done a survey among career women and came out with this brilliant infographic. It’s encouraging to see these trends … stuff such as around half the women surveyed considered their appearances did not play a major role in their career. Was this questionnaire designed by an MCPsexist? Jokes apart, I really like the ...

Wololo or How Obama won the election

Wololo or How Obama won the election
In case if you missed the reference, then you clearly haven’t played Age of Empires (and it’s subsequent Rise of Rome expansion pack).

Confessions of an Ambush Marketer 1

Dear Internet Surfer, I have sinned. Ever since I have found about HTML forms and Emailing systems, I have been lurking around in web-pages awaiting to spring that form on you When I found about javascript and the onLoad event, I welcome you to my pages and bidded for my time. The time to spring ...

Google Search Easter Eggs

Google Search Easter Eggs
The good folks at Google have a great sense of humor. Ever since the launch of GMail on the 1st of April, and the subsequent April Fool jokes, we are always guessing what hidden joke lurks in each of the Google products. Here are some of them that I have found, you can check them ...

Mumbai Rain, the Driver’s Pain 2

While the Twitter world went abuzz with the Mumbai Rains, I was not seeing the big deal with rains. So what? Then I went to my car on my drive back to home. Potholes are not visible, you have to look for them and differentiate the pot holes from shallow puddles The car is slow ...

N00bs!

CV Gaffes 11

We are hiring, and are screening resumes of different candidates for interviews. Some of the resumes that we came across are hilarious and I thought I might take the liberty of sharing it here (I am not disclosing the identity of the people, but if your CV does contain a line or two from these ...

The world without Microsoft Office 3

In a discussion with a friend (and an ex-colleague), we were joking about work life in general (euphemism for mutual bitching). It seems that a lot of us are destined to work on Microsoft Office Powerpoint and Microsoft Office Excel almost all the time; be it a job in the sales team, the financial analyst ...

LIONs are whores 2

Scratch that picture of a feline with cheap make-up and gaudy mane!! I mean the new style of declaring yourself as a LION (Largest Internet Open Networker) on LinkedIn to say that you are open to connect with one and all. In other words, you are connecting promiscuously – a connection whore. I am not ...