Sunday, April 29, 2007

one more week

Just one more week to go.

If i don't do well, I'm screwed. If I do well, I'm still screwed!
Well, better get screwed having done well.

The biggest problem with me and exams, all my life, has been that I never know how prepared I am. I have burnt my hands with over-confidence; I don't do that anymore.
As they say - only your results can tell how well prepared you were.

God bless me (please!)

Monday, April 16, 2007


yuppp, that sums up my world cup!

Saturday, April 14, 2007

DonationPeople and web 2.0

Its kinda late in the race, but better late than never. I think DonationPeople should move to the Web2.0 model.

I sat thinking why DonationPeople is not being used and here's what I came up - This is in order of decreasing levels of popularity! -
1. Its too complicated and not worth my effort
2. I didn't know about DonationPeople
3. I don't want to put that extra effort
4. I don't care about non-profits in India

Surely the next step was finding out how to make everyone aware of DonationPeople, how to make the process simpler and worth the effort.
Web2.0 comes in. What If this were a community driven effort such that evangelists could play their part and we could make the site worthwhile for those who just wish to help with little effort on their parts? Would the problem be solved? I'm eager to find out!

Here's *a* plan -
- Create a discussion board
- you are someone who wishes to buy a product online (worth >$25) but do not know where to find the best deal
- you come and post your requirements to the DonationPeople discussion board
- me and other member evangelists do a little research for you for the best deals on the internet
- then we post the results of our research on the board and also tell you if you can use DonationPeople to get that deal
- you may/maynot use our suggestions. no obligation
- If you do use DonationPeople, then a %age of your purchases go to non-profits in India

Do you think that'd work?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

DonationPeople

Have been on a pretty hectic schedule lately, and did not find much time to work on the site(s)! But i'd really love to get things started, and running. I've kinda begun to understand the logistics behind the obvious now.

I need to fix the site, and keep it updated. I need more people to know about DonationPeople, and not only that, I need them to use it.

Am i asking too much. How can I make it more simpler?

Help! Drop in your ideas and suggestions.

and don't forget to use -

http://www.DonationPeople.com

matrimonial? not required...

Is this a joke?!

This guy must've put a matrimonial advertisement in the Hindustan Times and the smart-alec that he was, put my email-address in the contact info.
Great! The next 4 days have meant a flurry of emails from fathers, brothers and brides-to-be inviting a match.

While I run an online ride matching service in my real real world, someone just played a joke on my virtual world. The web-mail.

What else is coming?

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

long time huh!

Heya blog!
wusup?

had been pretty busy, mind-overrun, and a lot pending in the last few days. Still not out of the slump but have time for blogging and creating new blogs :-)
- AnkushTech - stuff that teases me, and imbibes in me - the forgetfulness of useful information :p...goes in here. If I can use it later, why da' hell can't somebody else too!

fultu.com is live. wanna buy it? am only hoping that some nerd in India comes up with something to use this slang of a website!
Its up for sale - $501 starting bid.

Trying to get hold of things in office. last week was miserable with so many things going on and getting out of hands too.
Cable modem conked off at home, and I was out of internet for a couple of days. Man it was getting hard to get by!

Good news - I cooked. And I cooked about 4 times in the last 10 days. whoa!! surprised myself ;-). Just got sick of eating out day after day and then tried my hand at cooking after useful tips from Akshia and Shuchi and the great magic sabzi masala recipe from ma. Am proud to say i can c0ok french beans as well as Aloo-gobi. That added to my arsenal of Chicken, Daal and Maggi etc.

Just reading about 'Rich Jerk'. He must've made an amazing amount of money selling BS to people.
Do I believe in him? Yes, I do too. But I believe in his idea of selling BS, but not in the BS he sells.

peace