http://www.yash.info/blog Yash's adventures with life, business and technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:46:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/ashton-kutcher-looks-like-young-steve-jobs http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/ashton-kutcher-looks-like-young-steve-jobs#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:11:03 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=467 Ashton Kutcher shares a striking resemblance with young Steve Jobs. If Hollywood ever makes a movie about Jobs, Kutcher can easily fit the bill.]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/ashton-kutcher-looks-like-young-steve-jobs/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/how-facebook-helped-an-aspiring-artist-with-his-career http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/how-facebook-helped-an-aspiring-artist-with-his-career#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:25:35 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=464 This is a true story and by no means over. The guy in question happens to be one regular lower middle class chap who grew up selling combs to confectionery to augment the family income. He spent his childhood in the company of comic books. He wasn’t alone. For kids growing up in early nineties [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/how-facebook-helped-an-aspiring-artist-with-his-career/feed 1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/the-real-cost-of-zero-interest-emi-on-credit-cards http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/the-real-cost-of-zero-interest-emi-on-credit-cards#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:05:28 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=440 Many banks offer zero interest EMIs on credit card transactions. They apparently don’t charge any interest but only take a one time processing fee which looks to be very reasonable. Say you bought something for 6000 on a credit card and bank offers you an interest free option of paying it back in six months [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/the-real-cost-of-zero-interest-emi-on-credit-cards/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/sub-prime-crisis-an-explanation-in-simple-words http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/sub-prime-crisis-an-explanation-in-simple-words#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:50:56 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=113 I came across this presentation about how the sub prime crisis was created. It shows how borrowers, mortgage agents, banks, investment banks, rating agencies and governments f**** up! Very interesting. An explanation in very simple terms that everybody can understand. View in full screen to read the text clearly.]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/sub-prime-crisis-an-explanation-in-simple-words/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/do-you-think-those-who-do-not-follow-your-religion-will-go-to-hell http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/do-you-think-those-who-do-not-follow-your-religion-will-go-to-hell#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:12:05 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/do-you-think-those-who-do-not-follow-your-religion-will-go-to-hell/ If you believe in god and if you are a Christian, then do you think those who do not accept Jesus as their saviour i.e. the people who follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism will got to hell? Every religion claims that it is the “ONLY” way to get a ticket to the [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/personal/do-you-think-those-who-do-not-follow-your-religion-will-go-to-hell/feed 4 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/web2watch-keeping-an-eye-on-web-20-startups http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/web2watch-keeping-an-eye-on-web-20-startups#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:32:15 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/web2watch-keeping-an-eye-on-web-20-startups/ I have launched a new blog – web2watch.com. This is a blog where I will write about new interesting web 2.0 sites/businesses that I come across. Internet is my passion and I LOVE to spend time surfing the web, discovering new interesting sites and seeing at what amazing ideas creative people come up with. There’s [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/web2watch-keeping-an-eye-on-web-20-startups/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/uconomix/logo-talescom-a-blog-about-famous-logos http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/uconomix/logo-talescom-a-blog-about-famous-logos#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:55:03 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=43 I’ve started a new blog – Logo Tales. It’s a blog about famous corporate and brand logos. LogoTales tells the story of logos. Their history, their meaning, little known facts about the logos and interesting trivia. I’ve been attracted by logos for a time. Whenever I see a logo I try to analyze it and [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/uconomix/logo-talescom-a-blog-about-famous-logos/feed 1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/tools-to-find-a-good-domain-name http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/tools-to-find-a-good-domain-name#comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:24:14 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=37 It is becoming very difficult to get good domain names. Especially .com domain names. Virtually every name that you can think of is booked by some domain squatter who wants to sell it for thousands of dollars! I was looking for a good domain name for our new venture and was getting frustrated checking out [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/tools-to-find-a-good-domain-name/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/latest-entrant-to-online-advertisingindian-army http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/latest-entrant-to-online-advertisingindian-army#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:56:25 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=29 I just saw the ad of Indian Army on Indiatimes.com. This is cool! Army is advertising on the Net to recruit soldiers! I am impressed. Although the banner content is preliminary and the landing site is far from being called professional – its a good start. It’s good to see an institution like army utilising [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/latest-entrant-to-online-advertisingindian-army/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/bugmenot-bypass-compulsory-registration http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/bugmenot-bypass-compulsory-registration#comments Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:00:55 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=25 How many times you have come across a website wanting to read an article or looking for some information and the site forced you to register before you could access that information? Chances are that you have faced this situation at least once. Although such compulsory registration is free, most of the times it is [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/interesting/bugmenot-bypass-compulsory-registration/feed 0