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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 [...]

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Embed tweets?

May 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · twitter

This is a test post. To check how well the tweet embedding feature works. This seems to be a new feature that’s now live. Twitter’s logic behind this is interesting. This also complements what the Korean researchers recently presented. It’s perfectly possible to construct grammatically correct sentences in 140 characters. Drop the sms-speak, people.Fri May [...]

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Delhi Tweetup (A quick update)

June 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · happenings

So the Delhi Tweetup did happen, at the pre-decided time and place. People made it, inspite of the short notice and that we just tweeted about it. Here is a list of attendees. Usual suspects (people I know) jasdeep sepiaverse limeice ankurb mekkanikal vimoh New Faces kalpik vineetsamson khwairakpam sneezymelon ankur_sethi ravemz kitallis mayankdhingra croaks [...]

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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 [...]

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Mid-Feb update

February 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · happenings, photos, travels

Like I told someone the other day, I am regularly irregular. I post once a month. On trivial things. Like websites and marriages. February has been quite eventful so far. Good events and bad events. Bad first. Of course. Increased pressure at work. The “recession” or “econamageddon” as someone called it on NPR’s Planet Money [...]

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