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Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

Here’s the link to Steve Jobs’ famous commencement speech (in case you haven’t read it already). A few excerpts : It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk […]

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Tejaswee Rao Blogging Awards

Feminist and fellow-blogger Indian Homemaker has announced Blogging Awards in the memory of her daughter Tejaswee. There are about 35 categories, in which you can nominate posts. I have added a few of my own which fit, and ask you to to do the same. If you have read of posts which fit into these […]

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The other Salman Khan

You’ve probably heard of Salman Khan, the popular hero of Hindi films (If not, head over to my Movie Review Blog). Now here is another – Salman Khan of Khan Academy – the completely free virtual school. The first time I surfed to this website after hearing about it from a friend I was astounded […]

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8 simple steps to move from Blogger to WordPress

Here are 8 simple steps to ensure a smooth transition from a Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. This post assumes that you already have a domain name (myblog.com) and web host (one of the several out there : GoDaddy, Blue Host, DreamHost etc.) Install WordPress: On some hosts (like BlueHost), installing can be a […]

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How to get smart : Bring BQC back

This is a Google-dependent world. What you don’t know is on the World Wide Web, and it’s yours for the searching. And when all knowledge is right there at your fingertips, available with a few taps on the keyboard and a few clicks of the mouse, is there then, any need to store it in […]

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The Great Big Book Give Away

Love books ? Reading your idea of heaven ? Think nothing is better than a good book ? Well then, welcome to the club ! Yup, there’s a club for that. It’s on Facebook, and it lists numerous books and how you can get them for free. No, no catch, no tricks, no reading the […]

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The Best and the Worst of 2007

I’ve picked the best films of the year – THE TOP 10 COUNTDOWN 2007, and they are at my blog, here, and also at Planet Bollywood , here. Also see the picks of the other Planet Bollywood critics in the Spotlight Section. And then I couldn’t help it – there were so many of them […]

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