I’ve been on twitter now for a little less than three years. In the Indian context, I can claim to have seen twitter when it was just another bulletin board for techies to discuss technical matters and share interesting stuff. I’ve seen twitter when it looked like this: and it asked “What are you doing?” [...]
Entries Tagged as 'thoughts'
Twitter Detox
May 31st, 2010 · 18 Comments · happenings, thoughts
Regular readers of this blog (fine, there aren’t any) will know that I’m an inveterate twitterer. Or a twitterholic, if you please. At close to 39K tweets, I have wasted13 days or so in a period of 2.75 years. Add to this the time spent reading the tweets in my timeline, and that goes up [...]
The buzz about Buzz
February 16th, 2010 · 15 Comments · thoughts
Cliched titles apart, this is what I have to say about Buzz from first hand experience. I am writing this post from the perspective of a user and not a technologist. It all started when @shadez tweeted that Buzz could be accessed via Google Maps for Symbian. I wasn’t too clear about what I could [...]
Tags:buzz·geolocation·google·google buzz·maps·UGC·user generated content
On Diwali. Three things I miss and three I don’t
October 17th, 2009 · 16 Comments · food, thoughts, twitter
Starting off with the ones I miss: The Diwali breakfast spread. 5 kinds of Poha: Dry, in Milk, in Coconut Milk, in Curd, with Jaggery. Banana Halwa. Usal. Spicy Cucumber Raita. And we all get up really early to make it. (sorry, no pics). [Mini-update]: I missed out Ambadyachi Karam. Chutney made of some raw [...]
Tags:Charity·Happy Diwali·Memories
On Blogging
May 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · thoughts
This is the first in a set of two posts. This first one is on the history of my brief experience with blogging. The second will be one on twitter and how I got addicted. It was around January 2006 when I wrote my first post on Blogger. I needed an outlet to write stuff [...]
More on peace…
August 18th, 2006 · No Comments · photos, thoughts
This one is from the Vietnam conflict.Amnesty got it modified slightly and this is what we have…
Peace!
August 13th, 2006 · No Comments · news, thoughts
For all my admiration for Israel … I think we need some peace in the world for now. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKv-b7HS08k] This man seems to agree to some extent
Tags:george galloway·israel·peace