Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

This is one of my favourite monologue in movie history by Alec Baldwin from the movie ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’. In this scene, Alec Baldwin is confronting the employees of a tough Chicago real-estate office. Alec Baldwin plays a perfect Hitler in this performance. The look on Jack Lemon’s face when Alec Baldwin pulls out the [...]

Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 15:41 | 0 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal, Video

Hey, this is really strange issue I faced today. I don’t know if it happens to anyone out there, but I guess this is a Bug with Twitter. I was playing around with my account when I changed my user name from “aakash” to “Aakash”. Curiously, I tried to create a new user as “aakash” [...]

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 03:15 | 0 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal, Tweaking

I still remember my first computer (that I could called mine) and the fun that I would have with it. It was a IBM PC AT (introduced in 1984), 6Mhz Processor initially having 2MB physical Ram. No HDD and would boot to dos prompt (A:\>). When all my friends would play Hide and Seek, I [...]

Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 04:49 | 1 comment
Categories: Personal

Today is the day when I first visited Central London and also the day when I landed at London Heathrow Airport one month back. It was a strange feeling touching down UK as this is my first time in Great Britain. Here for a business assignment, I received a wonderful experience so far and I [...]

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 15:29 | 3 comments
Categories: Personal

Lately I have upgraded my broadband connection from 590 NU (256 kbps) to 749 NU (2 mbps). I presumed that I’ll be able to access podcasts and watch videos available without having waited for buffering. But I am feeling like being cheated after this decision. I have always praise MTNL for their Broadband Services, low [...]

Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 17:20 | 25 comments
Categories: Personal

I bought a new HP Compaq Presario 707TU Notebook few days back. To my surprise there was no driver CD comes with it. I installed Windows XP Professional Edition in it and couldn’t find the driver on HP’s website.  They have only provided the drivers for Windows Vista Operation System. Later, I found that there [...]

Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 19:42 | 62 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal, Technical

OMI stands for “Open mind Index”, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music.  All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below. For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who [...]

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 14:02 | 1 comment
Categories: Musings, Personal
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H a p p y   D i w a l i May the Festival of Lights – Diwali Dispel Darkness, Ignorance and Evil from the World.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 13:46 | 2 comments
Categories: Misc, Personal

Few weeks ago, I bought new DG965WH (Media series) Intel Motherboard. It’s an ultimate piece when power, performance and media are taken in account. I’m not listing the full specification but you can find them here. The most tempting is its 7.1 Audio Output support. I’ve been using a number of Intel motherboards, i.e. 810e, [...]

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 17:04 | 1 comment
Categories: Geek Stuff, Personal

Recently, my site is put on warning by the Google. What I mean by put on warning is that when people search my site on Google, result lead to a warning page of Google instead of the targeted page of my site. The warning page of Google said that there is a badware/malware on my [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007 at 15:07 | 1 comment
Categories: Personal