Sharma Family Journal

compared to Indians. Shanghai composite is down 5% today.

From Drop Box

Noticed this when watching a Sholay (1975) song today:

From Bengaluru

It’s been a couple of weeks since ISRO’s Bhuvan was announced. While it seems to have crappy accessibility and usability (I didn’t install it because of the accessibility issue) – it got a lot of PR in the India press. As usual, none of them include a URL! This also meant that none of the search engines can find it and some guy with an Ad sense account is profiting from the queries.

So search engines take note: Bhuvan by ISRO

You’re probably not alone if you got the marketing literature about the “bi-weekly payment plan” and how its going to save you a boat load of money. Since I didn’t want to deal with a third party – I tried to do this through my bank’s bill pay service.

For some strange reason, the mortgage vendors want to block this and make you go through their advertised plan. Their standard party line is: we don’t apply partial payments. You have to go through the hassle of calling customer service and opening tickets to combine the two half payments into one.

Sigh. I’ll be going back to my regular monthly payment plan. This was Citi Mortgage.

Found this at big bazaar and a couple of other places: two bars of oil of olay for Rs 99 ($2). That sounds like roughly the same price as walmart/target.

I still miss quilted northern 2-ply toilet roll.

I’ve been trying to understand some of the comment spam that occasionally shows up on my blog. The most recent one is a fine example.

Sometimes its very clear that they’re upset about the income gap between the haves (typically NRIs and software engineers) and have-nots. At other times, it sounds like a teenager with low scores in english having a bad day.

There is also this perception that I’m somehow forcing my opinions on them and forcing them to read my blog. But the fact that they take the pains to go through the capcha and write something that takes more than 10 seconds indicates that the underlying forces are strong.

Got any insights about what’s going on here?