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English Winglish

nirav — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:12:12 +0000

These are one-liner� goof-ups� that I’ve collected over the last 25+ years.� Believe me, people have actually (and seriously) used these in their day-to-day life. Writing mein likhke dena padega Without eggless cake hai � Benefit ka fayada hi nahin hua Galati se mistake ho gaya � (Very old & well known!) Time [...]

Lakshmi Trading Corporations

nirav — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:05 +0000

A devotee’s concerned letter to Goddess Lakshmi, on the eve of Diwali 2010! (… And no, there’s no typo in the title of this blog, i.e. “Corporations“.)

Jai Lakshmi maa,

Blessings, are what everyone *wants* from You this season (Diwali). Every devotee of Yours pleads, begs, requests, demands, prays and then, expects a [...]

Servicing the Bullet

nirav — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:20:58 +0000

My bullet (Royal Enfield Bullet) used to fall sick often. It had been chronically sick for a while now, though it was working as usual. I wanted to get it thoroughly checked up by a specialist, however I wasn’t able to get a really good one.

I had a couple of places that [...]

Our jobs, our salaries & us

nirav — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:23:48 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I was speaking to an old friend of mine, who’s currently in Delhi. She’s working as a Project Manager with an IT major there. Though she already has a couple of big client products & a large team to manage, she was grumbling over being overloaded by her [...]

Traffic woes, no one listens

nirav — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:40 +0000

I’d sent this e-mail on 26th Oct 2009 to the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Bangalore City (currently Commissioner Praveen Sood) – to highlight the lack of regulatory efforts to improve the traffic situation in Bangalore. There has been no response till date (11th Feb 2010)… Well kinda expected, you’d say. There’s little [...]

Which car to buy: Petrol or Diesel?

nirav — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:53:03 +0000

Have you pondered over this question?

While buying a car these days, a majority of us prefer to buy the diesel variant of the car of our choice (if its available), as compared to the petrol one. Even though the diesel variant comes:

at a higher purchase cost than the petrol variant (atleast [...]

Expensive celebrity endorsements & inflation

nirav — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:39:58 +0000

Q1. Have you ever bought something just because your favourite celebrity was endorsing it? Q2. Have you *not* bought something that *you wanted*, because a celebrity you disliked, was endorsing it?

If you said a “YES” for any of the questions above, you can go back to what you were doing before coming [...]

3idiots and Five Point Someone

nirav — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:14:27 +0000

I started reading Five Point Someone last week and finished it yesterday (17th Jan).� In-between, I saw the movie 3idiots on Wednesday 13th Jan, when I had partially read through the book.� That probably makes me one of the few (rare?) persons who partially read the book, saw the movie in-between & then [...]

Terror in Mumbai – 26 Nov 2008

nirav — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:24 +0000

** Dispatches – Terror in Mumbai (Video Documentary – ~350 MB) ** The untold story of 2008′s terrorist attack on Mumbai, in the words of its� victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and� descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced� and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, [...]

Skewed web-browser market shares?

nirav — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:47:42 +0000

After reading: http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/useragent.html, its clear that the web-browser shares are not 100% accurate… rather they cannot be 100% accurate.

Also see: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2003/02/properly-measuring-msie (a little old, however could still be relevant)

So how accurate are� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers and other “browser usage� reports”?

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Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part V (Last)

nirav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:05:27 +0000

Part V: Continued from Part IV:

Recap: Five auto-rickshaw drivers are mysteriously killed on the road over a week. The passenger of the first auto-rickshaw, Maanvi Sharma, potentially provided a clue of a bike driver being the potential suspect. The investigating police sub-inspector D. K. Gowda had received a note from the supposed [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part IV

nirav — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:04:32 +0000

Part IV: Continued from Part III:

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part III

nirav — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:28:59 +0000

Part III: Continued from Part II:

Recap: Two auto-rickshaw drivers are mysteriously killed on the road over a period of two days. They both were driving at crowded places when they were killed & lost control over their respective vehicles. The passenger of the first auto-rickshaw, Maanvi Sharma, potentially provided a clue of [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part II

nirav — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:21 +0000

Part II: Continued from Part I:

Recap: An auto-rickshaw driver is shot dead by a mysterious killer near the Adugodi signal, while he was driving his passenger, Maanvi Sharma, to the Forum Mall. Though there’s a bad accident after the driver loses control, Maanvi escapes without any major injuries & informs the investigating [...]

Whodunnit: Fictional Relief of Frustration – Part I

nirav — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:11:09 +0000

The shocked passenger was nervously happy to be alive with some injuries, after a close brush with possible death. The auto-rickshaw she was riding in, had suddenly swerved to the right & hit the median, causing the vehicle to topple to the left. Luckily for her, within a few seconds of the accident, [...]

“KINGFISHER Coach”

nirav — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:42:23 +0000

This is a picture I took on my way to the office today morning. Check it out, the auto-rickshaw is a “KINGFISHER Coach“, probably owned by Mallya’s gardener. (Actual picture)

And the main thing – there’s something (horribly + terribly) poetic written above it, which reads as below (copying the punctuation as [...]

Honk India Honk!

nirav — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:08:28 +0000

I know, we have quite a few (virtual) reality shows on TV with a similar name. This one is a unique pure reality show, though!

Welcome to THE SHOW OF THE 3rd MILLENIUM! We’ve had contestants from the 2nd MILLENIUM as well, right from the time the vehicle horn was invented. The [...]

WordPress Bug: Incorrect count of comments? – Solution

nirav — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:28:47 +0000

Yeah, I’d been noticing it over the last few days that the count of comments for the posts was incorrect. And it was consistently missing out later posts. I was unsure if the ‘bug’ existed in WordPress or it was due to the theme that I use (if that mattered).

I first thought, [...]

Vande Mataram: One Day, Maa Tere Hum

nirav — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:18:42 +0000

When was the last time you saw the Independence day flag hoisting or Republic day parade, live, or on TV?

Me: I seriously don’t even remember seeing it in the news – later in the evening – for the last few years.

When was the last time you sung (or even hummed [...]

Controls & restrictions at the workplace

nirav — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:10:29 +0000

All offices have numerous controls & restrictions in place, to avoid/reduce the obvious misuse of the facilities offered for work. Access restrictions to hardware device(s) (like CD/DVD Drives, USB ports), restrictions accessing the internet, blocking/limiting uploads & downloads, to only allow restricted software to be installed, and likewise; are very common.� Deploying & [...]