Author Archives: Varun

Jake starts blogging

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Varun

My friend and co-worker Jake who is also the most vocal advocate of Microsoft technologies I know of, starts blogging – Jake on IT. Welcome to the world of blogging Jake!

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Test Post

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Varun

Test post

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Social security? – Ye Kaisi Aazadi Hai !

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Varun

A thought-provoking video on social security by my friend Pravin. Song sung by Jagjit Singh, it’s beautiful. More videos from lightzmedia

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Looking for something good to read?

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Varun

Then what are you doing here? Didn’t you know that there is a Little Red Riding Hood In Town? Duh!

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Borat, I liiiike

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Varun

What is genius? It is difficult to define but one thing for sure is that it is out of the ordinary. I just saw the movie Borat. And I found it humourous, shocking, gross and annoying, at various points throughout … Continue reading →

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Onam Aashamsakal (Happy Onam) !

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Varun

Happy Onam world! Did you know the legend behind Onam? I am missing my family right now, am missing the slightly different mood on this day and especially missing the home food.

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Makes sense

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Varun

Dheeray dheeray ray mana dheeray sub kuch hoye, Maali sainche sau ghada, ritu aaye phal hoye. ~ Sant Kabir

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Wordle graphic of blog home page

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Varun

Feed a block of text or a URL to wordle.net, tweak a few options (words layout, font, colours etc.) and voila! you have a cool looking frequency-based cloud of the words in that block of text. Click on the thumbnail … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome – try it out!

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Varun

Google Chrome, the browser from Google is here. Read the comic, the announcement, my review or other reviews. Or better still just download it and try it out. It is fast, looks good, works as expected in most cases and … Continue reading →

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Times of India flicks from Twilight Fairy’s Flickr stream

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Varun

Since ages technology has kept on making it easier to share information. From Gutenberg’s press to current day blogs it has become easier to record something and share it with others. The Internet is especially powerful in this regard. The … Continue reading →

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