Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Open Source Fetches $1.2 Billion in January
Less than one month into 2008, in the technology community the money and investments all appears to be flowing to open source. Just recently open source database software company MySQL was acquired for $1Billion by Sun Microsystems and open source adserver OpenAds received $15.5Million in Series B VC funding. While 2007 saw the acquisition of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source,Tech News by Tony
Monday, January 28th, 2008
NYC will run out of Lamp posts soon!
There will be lamp posts….but only good for the dogs. What with thieves on a rampage stealing the copper wires. With the ongoing astronomic rise of the prices of precious and base metals, thieves are targeting the copper wiring in the lamp posts. Park officials said more than a mile of copper wiring has been [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Bizzare by Tony
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Of Bold Foreign Movies
Where I go for work, there is this Central Library. Well, libraries have books, and I haven’t read a book in a while, so there I went with the intention of picking up a book or two. Books, I didn’t bring any but how could I? There were rows and rows of my favorite movies, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cinema by Tony
Monday, January 21st, 2008
icicidirect.com cannot withstand Indian Stock market swings
For the past half an hour, I have been trying to make some buys, so that I could at level out my losses, or even make a profit, and I can’t bloody log into my account. The internet speed is like a freeway here, and I can continuously stream youtube, but our Icicidirect won’t open. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Finance,Stock market by Tony
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Symonds Ki Maa Ki What?
Mihir Bose writes something very interesting. Apparently Harbhajan Singh did not call Andrew Symonds ‘monkey’ during the episode at the Sydney Test that provoked the recent cricket crisis between Australia and India. He actually said “Maaki”. Thank god Symonds heard it only as Monkey and not as Maaki, not that he would have understood. If [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Controversies by Tony
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Delhi Bloggers Meet, I will miss!
I love blog meets, and I try never to miss the chance of meeting new bloggers in a City. I attended my first blog I guess in Mumbai, and my last one was in Delhi when I first came to Delhi. It is time now for the Delhi Blogger meet again, but alas! I would miss [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Blogging by Tony
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
2007 Updates and First Post in 2008
Did I say that I will start updating my blog every day? It wasn’t meant to be a New Year’s resolution, but now that I have broken it, so be it. Anyway, 2007 would be the most uneventful year, ever. But surprisingly it went away pretty fast. I shifted to the NCR around end of 2006, [...]
