Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Had to post this one. Recruitment drive is on at Uconomix and I am receiving hundreds of resumes. As usual some have great quotes. Look at this gem I just received – Sir I want the job as my time is passing new batch on the way to come out. I have already send my [...]

Came across this image that includes 100 world personalities This is also my current wallpaper. Click on the image to download it. See how many you can identify.

You know why? Palak is damn entertaining. Raghu might have bashed her publicly but she is the ultimate drama queen. Why was she called back to the show? Becuase she fights, she creates drama, she abuses like hell and she beings TRP! What else do you need in a reality show man? She’s the anti [...]

I have launched EMICalc.net, another calculator site after AgeCalc.net (An age calculator). As the name suggest this site has a calculator to calculate your equated monthly installment for a mortgage or loan. There are tons of EMI Calculators out there but this one is bit different in the sense that it also tells you the [...]

It looks like Wikipedia’s annual fun raising is going on. I have donated whatever little I could contribute. In my opinion Wikipedia is a great service. I pay money to buy newspapers and subscribe to magazines. I use Wikipedia in the similar fashion – to gain information on various topics so the donation is well [...]

I keep getting this mailer from HDFC Bank about opting for e-statements and saving paper thus saving trees. I get a paper statement of my account every quarter and for my company’s account every month. This particular letter with the headline “There’s a substitute for paper, there’s none for the trees” is invariably sent with [...]

I just noticed Google has started using a new Favicon. It’s a lower case g in blue colour. I liked the old one more. It was a capital G with all of Google’s colours. More about the old favicon. I ran a search on Google and saw people are already writing about it. Google Favicons [...]

This stumbleupon thingy is amazing. So very often I stumble upon stuff that seems rather absurd. I just came across a sound test! It tests your hearing ability with ultrasonic sounds to ascertain how good your ears are! I couldn’t hear a sound above 12 Khz. Here’s my test result – You’re in a mid [...]

Missed call

In: Miscellaneous

28 Nov 2006

Usually I never call back people who simply give a missed call hinting me to call back (and save a few bucks of their own). Today I was in a good mood and called back to a missed call. Whoa..the guy was looking for a job! How professional! I liked the daring of that fellow. [...]

Updates…

In: Miscellaneous

13 Oct 2006

I have been missing from these pages for almost a month! A lot of things are going on at Uconomix. We renovated the entire office and doubled the seating capacity. We also launched the new product Uconomix Encryption Engine. Development on Janoos has started again and a lot of new features are being coded at [...]


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