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PyCon conference. Sendgrid’s developer evangelist, Adria Richards… present. Two more geeks behind her. They allegedly make jokes around ‘big’ dongles and ‘forking’. Adria tweet-pics them to her 9,000+ followers and things go berserk! Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way…
The last time I was so interested in a new product – juice, to be specific – was for Galla. Here is that post! – Welcome to the market, Galla and LMN. Galla soon died a natural death and was revived by…
So, HCL Technologies has responded. (My earlier take on this issue – ) I came to know about it via a story in Bangalore Mirror. The story quotes Prithvi Shergill (who is also the face in the response) as saying, “We have…
I was forced to take a fairly confrontational stand on Twitter, today. Courtesy Disney India’s #DisneyQ quizzes. The idea seems fairly solid – get reasonably influential (based on follower count, I’m assuming) Twitter users to act as quiz masters and let them…
I recall first reading about HCL Technologies problems with regard to offer letters on March 6th, in Business Standard. Then, a story in The Times of India, on March 7th. Then, a bylined (by M Saraswathy & Shivani Shinde) story in Business…
If you haven’t seen the 2002 film, ‘Equilibrium‘, by Kurt Wimmer, I strongly urge you to see it. Yes, the film’s poster makes it look like a B-grade take on Matrix, but it is not. It is hugely under-rated, one of the…
Jis waqt jo dil kahe, woh tabhi kyon nahi? Isi waqt isi jagah, abhi kyon nahin? … goes a voice-over in Pepsi’s latest campaign titled Oh Yes Abhi! The lyrics of the peppy song go, ‘Mujhe abhi, abhi ke abhi’, demonstrating the…