Author: Amit Goyal

  • (oxy)Moron

    We have seen a lot of bad ad placements. Well, we have one more addition to the hallowed list (click for better resolution).

    Bad Ad Placement

  • Fight Club

    β€œThe things you own end up owning you.” – Tyler Durden

    So true. Sometimes you have all that you want, but none that you need.

    This article at lifehack (not to be confused with Lifehacker), tells us how to get rid of materialism from our lives.

  • Jottit – wow!

    I was trying out this new service by Aaron Swartz (man, he is younger than I am) call Jottit. It offers a person a simple and easy way of getting a page online with a customized subdomain. For example, check out my page.

    It took me no time to get it up and running and adding a resume page. It features a simple wiki like formatting with the help of Markdown. Some missing features according to me are:

    1. Blog integration
    2. RSS feeds
    3. Tags
    4. Sidebar modules

    Though I agree that this might destroy the simplicity of the whole thing, but I can still wish πŸ˜‰

    On a side note, happy 25th Anniversary of the πŸ™‚

  • Sense has dawned..

    … and Indian’s have finally dropped Agarkar. In tests, his economy is good enough for one dayers and in ODIs for a T20 game. For a T20 the lesser said, the better.

    I think they have chosen a good squad this time around, though I think they should have given Sehwag another chance. Here is my squad.

    Sachin
    Sourav
    Dravid
    Yuvraj/Gambhir
    Uthappa
    Dhoni
    Harbhajan
    Powar/Chawla
    Sreesanth
    RP Singh
    Zaheer Khan

    [Depending on the pitch 4-5 bowlers]

  • Mash 404

    The snap (click for full size) below is from Yahoo! Mash, the new social networking site. Pretty cool, huh!

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    Meanwhile, if you do want invites to it, mail me at goyal [dot] blog [at] gmail [dot] com