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Re: The State Of The Indian Entertainment Industry

blr bytes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:05:36 -0000

I did see a kiosk of sorts at the Chennai airport where you could browse, listen and buy music of your choice and they accepted most memory card formats as well as sticks and a burn to CD option...

Re: It Is Difficult To Search For Insights After Washing Three Bucketfuls Of Clothes

blr bytes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:01:27 -0000

And what of the loss of income to your poor maid servant huh? Huh? ;)

Re: A Long Distance Hug To The Girl With The Seven Pretty Blue Salwars

blr bytes — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:14:40 -0000

"you can truly appreciate having enough, only when you have known how it feels to not have enough"

How I agree. And how true it is. You should highlight and bold this.

Re: Let Me Introduce You To Some of My Less Fortunate Selves

blr bytes — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:00:08 -0000

They say success is not so much where you've reached but what you've overcome to get there.

One of your better posts, G.

Re: Necessity or Not: A List of What I Bought in Week 1-2

blr bytes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:05:05 -0000

Try oatmeal, not the quick cooking type, for breakfast. It's great!

Combine it with some flaxseed, apples, cinnamon powder and yoghurt for a super start to you day!

Re: On Why Newspapers are Dead

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:27:44 -0000

Dead wood rules!

But seriously, it's not so much fun reading on screen. If only I could get a Sony Librie.

Youtube has such sucky quality. If only you'd mentioned Joost and Bittorrent...

BTW, your comment form is ketta good.

Re: Is My Blog a Matrimonial Ad?

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:28:45 -0000

Dammit. Even before I got here...

I was wondering how many people who have blogs have dated bloggers...

Is it an incestuous circle of love?

Re: On Why Newspapers are Dead

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:27 -0000

Dude, get an Airtel unlimited connection and Torrent away.

Once you go there, you can never go back...

Re: Is My Blog a Matrimonial Ad?

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:37:22 -0000

Ummmm...

:}

Re: Is My Blog a Matrimonial Ad?

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:53:54 -0000

A gentleman isn't supposed to tell now, is he?

Re: On Why Newspapers are Dead

blr bytes — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:02:08 -0000

There are things you can do, port-forwarding and what not. Drop me a line, off-blog, if you'd be interested...

Re: Thirty Things I Want to Do Before I’m Thirty

blr bytes — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:01:30 -0000

Have assets of more than a crore.

If that works out, most of the rest of the list will fall into place...

Re: An Open Letter to DNA (Daily News & Analysis)

blr bytes — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:24:35 -0000

Well, at the least they've now published your comments and feedback from the author in question.

Not that it makes it any better but still...

Re: Tea, Coffee or Me?

blr bytes — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:04:33 -0000

Hmmm. Green tea for me. And a Lavazza espresso in the evening.

Re: Most Marketers in India Haven’t Heard of the Subservient Chicken

blr bytes — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:23 -0000

Here ya go.. All of them. In one video.

http://www.break.com/index/we-didnt-start-the-v...

Re: Why Should Brands Embrace Social Media?

blr bytes — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:15:15 -0000

I doubt it will flip the model but there will be greater benefits from interactions with social media.

Particularly fond of the notion of free:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02...

Re: An emergency landing

blr bytes — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:42:42 -0000

"I am constantly amazed at how unamazed we are at the efficacy, safety, and low cost of airline travel – and especially at the engineering marvel that it represents."

http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/04/18/the...

This article followed yours in my feed reader and I *had* to share. I've been in an emergency landing once, in Doha. It's scary, more so when the pilot dumped excess fuel out over the sea.

Glad it worked out well!

Re: Manguide 1: Cities and towns

blr bytes — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:34:25 -0000

And for my city and my brethren, I take a bow.

Re: I love Google Reader

blr bytes — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:08:51 -0000

I've been trying Google Reader out and it's nice but has a few significant shortcomings.

1. There is no way of sharing your entire Reading List. Only induvidual items. Bloglines has the Public View which is most useful.

2. When adding a feed, you can't tag or put it into a folder then. You need to do that later.

3. When renaming feeds, I can only rename one. After which it doesn't seem to want to allow renaming of others till I reload the page. Dunno if that's a FF specific problem.

Re: I love Google Reader

blr bytes — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:58:50 -0000

@ Andrew

Tried that out but it puts each folder on a seperate page. Bloglines displays it far better. With the folders on the left and the nested entries within. This isn't so hot.

One other feature that'd be cool, bookmarking within a feed. Say you've scrolled down to the 156th post from a feed and then you decide to read another feed, there's no easy way to go back to said 156th feed.

Re: I love Google Reader

blr bytes — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:10:29 -0000

@ Mihai

Thanky!

P.S. I've been accessing it via my mobile as well, http://reader.google.com/view/m, and the river of news style rocks. Especially if you have nothing to do, a few hours to kill and want some brain candy.

Re: Speaking of linking to other people…

blr bytes — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:54:49 -0000

Your link blog is like an uber-filter to the tech blogosphere. I like.

Re: Digg’s down?

blr bytes — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:18:43 -0000

Yup. Seems borked. Worked for a while in the morning but it's dead now. Rather, there's a message saying they'll be back shortly.

Re: Digg’s down?

blr bytes — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:59:55 -0000

And it's back.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

blr bytes — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:48:03 -0000

Surely someone can write a script where we all can submit our Google shared feeds list/rss feed and then use that data to come up with a functional Digg/Reddit prototype?

Until Google does the same of course...

Re: Social networks as “friend” Nazi (design flaws in Facebook, Jaiku, Twitter)

blr bytes — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:40:15 -0000

You know, I've been writing to Facebook support regarding the constant signing in, and they suggested I "...try clearing your mobile’s cache and cookies,
then try logging into m.facebook.com."

It did help. Once. It's most frustrating.

Re: Video comments? Dennis figured out I left the channel open

blr bytes — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:26:16 -0000

Not sure if you saw this but Cringely had a similar post:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_...

Re: The Inch Cafe

blr bytes — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:37:19 -0000

Closed now, unfortunately.