Posted on December 27, 2006 by silkboard
No police verification to get your passport. Bars and pubs must shut doors before midnight. Request for no cell phone towers near prisons (sorry, cant find the link). And the SEZ act itself.
I see a common thread running across these things. Read the spin.
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Posted on December 26, 2006 by silkboard
After I came out with those traffic gadgets for road-warriors pained by the (call center?) cabs aka ‘yellow plates’, cab drivers came over and asked me to design some for them as well. That made perfect business sense to me, so I said yes. After a few weeks of R & D (Race & Drive), [...]
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Posted on December 26, 2006 by silkboard
Few weeks ago. Right outside Innovative. While the multiplex was selling tickets for Baabul and Dhoom-2, our footpath video vendor had both the movies on a single dual layer (DL) DVD. I asked how about Hollywood mere laal, and he produced “Casino Royale”.
Movie distribution busineses should learn a lesson or two from these pirates. [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2006 by silkboard
A residential community in Bangalore recently bought this street cleaning machine. Tongues wagged and intellectually stimulating discussions ensued. Let me spice-up and present one such conversation to you.
Yadav-Gowda school of economics:
We got so many unemployed folks idling around. Machines like this one are a waste, they take jobs away. 5 sweepers may cost you a [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2006 by silkboard
I can’t stop talking about getting to the new airport, can I!? But a casual conversation with a KSTDC pre-paid cab driver revealed a few things I didn’t know.
The old fellow driving me home turned out to be a leader of a KSTDC drivers’ union. Out of sheer curiosity, I asked him if he knew [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2006 by silkboard
If you are an IT professional, you get to see job ads even if you don’t want to. So chances are you have seen this stuff, you may know these meaningless lines from those mass mailed job ads.
Whether you are advertising a 10 lakh per annum IT job, or a 2-rupees-a-packet shampoo, some common advertising [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2006 by silkboard
A late morning flight out of Bangalore last week presented me with a very good view of our upcoming international airport. Tried some pictures with my phone, here is what I managed.
BTW, as far as getting there is concerned, story remains the same. Airport construction seems to be on track (as per info on BIAL [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2006 by silkboard
Finally! I am so glad to see someone agree with me on the subject! I don’t know if the author got any inspiration from a note I posted here 5 months ago (Tata, please say not to petrol). But I don’t care, for now there is a good chance that people will start looking at [...]
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Posted on December 13, 2006 by silkboard
Trust me, I really miss those long train journeys I did in my younger days. Bokaro to Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi. All up and down, and countless shorter ones. I loved each and every hour on the train. There was so much to see, hear, conclude and enjoy.
Sometimes I think of how much I have [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2006 by silkboard
I chanced upon this discovery that I can’t dial 100 to reach police from my Airtel mobile phone. So I posted this note on Bangalore Metblogs. Then Ravi over there gave us an idea.
How about we try this experiment of complaining to the concerned authorities? If you are with me on this, and expect that [...]
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