A quick quiz

This was discovered through Objectified via metacool. Take the quiz to find what font you are.

I’m Times New Roman.

This is an exercise in getting myself to post. Feels a little better. Lets off a little steam, which is all boiling inside.

A December update

A very eventful December happened.

First there was the first edition of Startup Saturday, Delhi, which I believe, was quite a success. Ritesh has a post up here on the happenings. He also has an interview with Narendra Nag who gave the very first presentation that day, on why startups don’t need HR departments.

The live tweets from the event can be found here. (mostly from me).  And according to tweetstats, the tag #ssd1 trended for 30 mins.

#ssd1 trending on twitter

For VoteYatra, things got cracking before Christmas and there was a lot of activity when it came to the website. We got it up finally, but there’s a lot lacking in the layout. So we’re looking for Drupal/Joomla developers who’d work pro-bono or for very less. Sadly that hasn’t happened so far.

The year at work was satisfactory too. Sales closed as per targets, which is good news.

New Year’s eve celebrations were great too!

January doesn’t seem too good, so far. Hoping for better things to happen.

Crop Circles – The modern way

Interesting activity.

Here’s the pic

Read the story on the link above.

sorry for all the lacklustre posts.
Don’t feel like posting about the exciting incidents in my life right now 😉

The land of Free and the Bigoted…

US government rejects Virgin America

Well that is what FT reported. Some snippets:

The US Department of Transportation ruled that the latest airline venture backed by Sir Richard Branson, the UK entrepreneur, was effectively controlled by overseas investors, failing its crucial test for granting an operating certificate.

and

“Virgin America would have to revise its ownership, corporate structure and associated agreements to be 75 per cent owned and actually controlled by US citizens before it can receive an operating certificate,” said the DoT ruling.

For a country that prides itself in its free market economy, this stinks of protectionism. Well 9/11 did happen didn’t it?

Obviously there was Congressional interference.

What’s the point I got to make?

I am a smart alec who reads international news.
😛

Butterfly Effect

See the link for more details …

According to U.S. Mint Director Edmund Moy, the U.S. vending machine industry stands to save $1 billion if consumers ditch their flimsy paper bills for $1 coins. The switch would eliminate maintenance on bill acceptance slots.

Talk about interconnectedness.
The comments board is open.

Dating can get you a PhD!

What do get when you cross absolutely jobless doctoral students with a top notch School and finding love?
Well … a PhD in dating.
So? Its the business of love.
This work carried out @ MIT Media Labs by a doctoral student and profs at MIT and HBS tries to optimise dating sites… and apparently its working
Read on

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates