Mental food, as you rush. Vinit Bhansali's blog

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Proof of Indian Democracy in our National Anthem

It’s still early morning, as I’m sitting for tea (and biscuits, of course) and the cook/cleaner is cleaning the house. Thanks to being close to St. Josephs (Indians) and Cottons, we are within hearing distance of the morning assembly. As… Continue Reading →

Term papers and Final Essays: The post-college version

tenders, college, hard work I remember dozens of term papers, final essays and project reports I had to write and work on during high school and college. They took up lots of hours, editing, formatting and re-proofing. Making sure you… Continue Reading →

Airtel marketing sucks! More proof

Airtel Marketing has some really cheap and nasty tricks up their sleeve … Here are a few I have been targeted with recently: 1) They call you from an out-of-town landline number specifically when you are travelling and paying roaming… Continue Reading →

Apple iPad vs. a generic Windows 7 Tablet

For a very long time, many people complained about the lame-brained approach of Microsoft to reduce a full-sized desktop OS and squeeze it onto Pocket PC’s and call it, well, Pocket PC! Apple now takes an OS designed for a… Continue Reading →

Microsoft CRM 4.0 supports Indian numbering system

There was a pleasant surprise when I started using Microsoft CRM 4.0 last month. Indian companies can actually use the support for lakh and crore instead of millions and billions that they are forced to use with other software packages…. Continue Reading →

“To leave a VoiceMail, dial the 10 digit mobile number…”

Are you seriously kidding me, Airtel? Sorry. Some background to this outburst. Indian mobile operators have only recently figured out how to give users access to technology that allows callers to leave a voicemail in-case the called-person is busy or… Continue Reading →

Tata Indicom and and funny marketing

So, I got back to BLR airport last evening, and the moment you get out of baggage collection, you are flooded with large banners advertising Tata’s new GSM service in partnership with Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. The good: I like Tata,… Continue Reading →

My Jai ho! moment.

I recently had to format my laptop because I was using a beta version of Windows 7, which expired. And this happened on day 2 of a 11 day trip. Yes, bhagwan help me, I know. However, the logic I… Continue Reading →

Firing an employee is never easy

Job cuts? Pink slips? Layoffs? Firing an employee is never easy for the owner of a company. It doesn’t matter how the media portrays the evil business owners. What you read may be true very very few times. In cases… Continue Reading →

What a Trekkie geek I am

So I get to play with Surabhi’s new Sony eReader and the first thing I want to do it take it out of the protective casing and walk around the office running diagnostics on random systems and using the PADD… Continue Reading →

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