Yashventures

Off to vacation – Mysore, Ooty, Kodaikanal

9 Feb 2010

Unplugging and going for a much needed vacation from tomorrow. Going to Mysore, Ooty and Kodaikanal. Looking forward to our great annual holiday that I and Bijal have been taking every year since we got married.

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Server is hung

In: Fun|Miscellaneous

12 Jan 2010

“Server is hung”, informs Rohit. “Hung”? ins’t it supposed to be “hang”? asks Vijay. “Its past contonous tense” tells Rohit. “Past continous?, I think that is present continous.” Param jumps in the conversation. “I think that is present perfect” I give my opinion. By now everyone is interested in knowing what tense is that. So I grabbed a marker and white board and start writing the twelve tenses.

Simple
I eat – Present
I ate – Past
I will eat – Future

Continuos
I am eating – Present
I was eating – Past
I will be eating – Future

Perfect
I have eaten – Present
I had eaten – Past
I would have eaten – Future

Perfect Continous
I have being eating – Present
I had been eating – Past
I would have been eating – Future

Hung is past participle (3pp) form of verb Hang. And 3pp is used in perfect tense. So the conclusion is “Server is hung” is present perfect tense!

Cool! So we have the answer.

And Rohit reminds “Dude, BUT the server is still down!” Ouch! Nobody remembered to reboot the server!

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New Office Photos

In: Uconomix

6 Jan 2010

So we have moved to a new office in a mall called Sej Plaza. Here are some photos -

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Bye bye 2009, Welcome 2010

In: Miscellaneous

31 Dec 2009

The year 2009 has been particularly good for me. Lots happening both on professional and personal fronts. Business revived taking the team size to 6. Got the new office, new car. My sister in law got married to my best friend – with whom we are going to spend our new year eve Watched lots of movies, visited Taj Mahal and enjoyed life and work alike.

2010 looks promising too. Lots of exiting work to be done. Need to double my team size and turnover of the company. Lots of new ideas to be implemented. Bye bye 2009. Welcome 2010!

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Why should Microsoft be forced to advertise its rival’s products?

In: Technology

17 Dec 2009

Read this entry on Digital Inspiration – Microsoft will show a screento its users in EU to chose a different browser than IE!

WTF! Why in the world should a company be forced to advertise its competitors’s products on its own product? And that too in a hard core capitalist economy! Rival browser makers are crying over Microsoft’s “bundling” of a browser with OS! Right, now

Adobe should sue Microsoft for bundling MS paint
Makers of Edit Plus should sue them for bundling Notepad
Swiss watch makers should sue Microsoft for bundling a clock in the task bar
Keyboard maker Logitech should sue for including an onscreen keyboard with Windows

Going by the logic put forth by Mozilla, Opera and gang, Digital camera makers must sue Microsoft for including print screen option. After all if people take a snap of their screen using a simple command, they wont need a digital camera to actually take a photo of the screen and its hurting their business!

Crap!

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Recipe for success

In: Entrepreneurship|Miscellaneous

29 Nov 2009

A quickie – Recipe for success

A bit of hard work
A bit of smart work
A bit of opportunity
A bit of intelligence
A bit of risk-taking
A few connections
A supportive family/spouse

And voila!

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Chopstick Kitteh!!

In: Cats|Fun|Videos

13 Nov 2009

This chubby cat is so bloody cute! I look at this video multiple times a day and still cant get enough of this puffy cat!!!

Ohhhhhh chooooo cute!!!

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And now a new office

In: Personal|Uconomix

2 Nov 2009

I am buying an office. The first one that I will be owning. It will have a capacity for a team of 10-12 + one cabin for myself Its not big, but it will be mine! It is situated in a wonderful glass facade shopping mall which has been converted to office complex called Sej Plaza. It next to my school. Railway station is nearby so it will be very convenient for my team members to commute. Deal will take a couple of weeks to conclude.

I am excited! Its raining new for me these days. New car, new office, badhiya hai!!

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Bollywood Leagues

In: Movies

19 Oct 2009

Diwali weekend, noting much to do so I made up a list of Bollywood stars and put them in different leagues.

Three movies have released this Diwali, I want to watch Blue.

Guys

A+ League – They are the kings, the movie is sold on their name
Shahrukh Khan
Aamir Khan
Akshay Kumar
Hritik Roshan
Amitabh Bachchan
Salman Khan – This man has to watch out, a couple more flops and he will be out of this league.

A League – They are bankable and the movie can still be sold on their names. But they do a better job when paired.

Saif Ali Khan – A couple more solo hits and this guy can move to the A League
Shahid Kapoor
John Abraham
Abhishek Bachchan
Sanjay Dutt
Ajay Devgan
Ranbir Kapoor
Neil Nitin Mukesh

B League – They manage to play a solo hero, villain or an important side kick

Imran Khan – Kidnap and Luck have broght him down here, he needs a another JTYJN to move back to A.
Ritesh Deshmukh – If Alladin works he may move up to A
Arshad Varsi
Vivek Oberoi
Arjun Rampal
Govinda
Akshay Khanna
Harman Baweja – Whats Your Rashee worked but the credit went to Priyanka, he needs a few more hits to prove himself.
Shreyas Talpade
R Madhvan
Farhan Akhtar

C League – They just add to the crowd, it doesn’t matter who you pick.

Sunil Shetty
Sharman Joshi
Aftab Shivdasani
Zayed Khan
Fardeen Khan
Tushar Kapoor
Kunal Khemu
Dino Morea
Arbaaz Khan
Sohail Khan

League of extra ordinary gentlemen – They can play the protagonist or can manage to grab attention wven while playing the sidekick.

Paresh Rawal
Irfan Khan
Vinay Pathak
Rajpal Yadav

Gals

A+ League

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Kareena Kapoor
Priyanka Chopra
Katrina Kaif

A League

Bipasha Basu
Deepika Padukone
Sonam Kapoor
Rani Mukharji
Kajol
Vidya Balan

B League

Amrita Rao
Lara Dutta
Sushmita Sen
Priety Zinta
Anushka Sharma
Konkana Sen Sharma
Shilpa Shetty
Tabu

C League

Dia Mirza
Celina Jaitley
Amisha Patel
Mallika Sherawat
Neha Dhupia
Isha Kopikar
Esha Deol
Soha Ali Khan
Gul Panag
Shamita Shetty
Tanisha Mukherji
Sameera Reddy
Priyanka Kothari
Ayesha Takia

Item Girls

Rakhi Sawant – The one and only! This girl is in her own league. Love her or hate her but you can’t ignore her. She has come a long way. She’s the only one who appeared on Koffee with Karan and was interviewed in Hindi! NDTV Imagine bet its future on her Swayamvar.

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Tags: bollywood

My new shining black Chevrolet Spark :D

In: Personal

8 Oct 2009

Whoa! It’s been a wonderful year! Barely a year back I bought my first car – a Maruti 800 and now I’ve got my first new car – The Chevrolet Spark LS. Its a sexy black beauty. Here are some snaps -