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2009-05-10T22:57:00.002+05:30

Thanks for coming in !!!pseudonormicks!! has moved to www.LavinMirchandani.comPlease click here for the new blog.Thanks again :)

Autposy of the I Vote for Nobody email Fwd

2008-12-03T15:49:00.007+05:30

Post 26/11 Mumbai is totally different. In fact, it has spread across the country. Everybody is charged up and has an urge to do something, take an action, be a part of or trigger a revolution in order to take charge of the country. Citizens are putting their words into action and putting in all efforts to channelize their anger and pain into building a better, safer future for all of us.Post the

ROCK ON ... and keep rocking

2008-08-31T18:06:00.006+05:30

The Movie: Rock OnProducer: Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar |Writer, director: Abhishek Kapoor | StarCast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kolhi, Luke Kenny, Prachi DesaiPlot Preview:The movie oscillates between the successful present and the happy past of 'MAGIK'.Magik is a band formed by the four protagonists in their early twenties, when they escaped the quarter age crisis by doing the

The Smart Shopper Series

2008-06-30T03:58:00.002+05:30

Let me to introduce you to the smart shopper series that I propose to initiate here at !!pseudonormicks!!This series would comprise of posts that deal with various aspects of consumer shopping spanning across topics like how business works, tips and tricks to smart buying and of course some great deal listings.This is not a well thought of and a well planned attempt, so kindly bear with me if

Data portability on social networks : Bain or Boon ?

2008-06-17T20:27:00.009+05:30

Last week's Trend Candy (Trendhunter’s weekly newsletter) got me a catchy piece of news in their Hot trends section. The head line went like “Celebrity MySpace Hacking - Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan's Private Pics (GALLERY)”. After being a spectator to most of their private videos, the ‘private pics’ dint lure me as much as the phrase ‘data interoperability’ which was featured as a teaser

Rechargable AA size USB batteries

2008-06-09T13:22:00.008+05:30

Tired of buying the conventional Li-ion AA batteries that have to be either thrown out or plugged into an additional charging unit for hours to get back their power?If you said yes, then maybe Moxia has an answer to your worries. The USB cell ,launched in Sept,2006 ,is just like any other AA batery just that when it gets discharged, all you have to do is remove the its cap and plug it into

This job portal is shining

2008-06-01T17:48:00.003+05:30

Shine.com went live this earlier this week and i caught it up on the very first day. They began with a catchy campaign that lured job seekers in on the basis of getting them a job that gave them the apt salary; also promising initial registrants a lucky draw prize comprising an entire months salary.I thought I'd do some job hunting to while away my time and so I signed up for the same.Like a

Microsoft Imagine Cup winners are Novices at Work

2008-05-13T00:55:00.006+05:30

Paras Doshi, Veenit Mavani, Saili Dharia,Krunal Dedhia and Bhavik Vora from Vivekananda Education Society's Institute of Technology(VESIT) called themselves 'Novices at Work' when they unveiled their masterpiece 'Kalpavriksha' at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008,Bangalore.As their fate had it, the underdogs emerged triumphant at the software development contest of the Micrsoft Imagine Cup India finals

BARCAMP MUMBAI 3: It just got bigger

2008-03-24T21:16:00.008+05:30

Barcamp Mumbai 3 is coming on the 29th March,2008 at IITB campus.The good news is that it just got bigger from its previous versions. Here are some highlights:Accomodation (thats not lodging and boarding) for 300-400 participants has been arranged for; this time you might see mattresses on the IITB lawns.BLOG CAMP MUMBAI STYLE is happening for the first time. Although the name and the logo are

peek-a-boo: Entrepreneurship and my escapades

2008-03-19T20:01:00.005+05:30

This article was written for 'Vishwakarma', the annual magazine of Vivekananda Education Society's institute of Technology (VESIT). Apart from the editor's request, the article was written to promote the spirit on entrepreneurship in my capacity as co-founder and promoter of The VESIT Entrepreneurship Cell (tVEC) established in Feb,2008.------------------------------------------------------------

Virgin Mobile

2008-03-17T22:33:00.004+05:30

"VIRGIN'S GOT MOBILE FOR IT'S NAMESAKE"That would have been an apt headline if most of Indian youth were yet to have their tryst; but nevertheless theyll have their tryst with a VIRGIN now.Sir Richard Branson, the man known for exhibhitting a brilliant combination of entrepreneurship with a taste for the adrenaline pumping adventures, once again suprises the masses with what seems to be the next

DESI NEWS(read ABUSE) CHANNELS

2008-03-11T00:07:00.002+05:30

Yesterday I was surfing through almost all the channels listed in the acceptable spectrum for my 20 year old Onida with a desire to get a glimpse of Robocon 2008 on Sahyadri (now you know why I had to surf hard). I happened to pause at three Hindi News Channels : News 24, Aaj Tak and India TV.News 24 is the same channel that had Shah Rukh Khan spending almost an hour at their studio, trying to

Jumbo King takes on Mcdonalds

2008-02-18T19:10:00.009+05:30

I came across this print ad over the window pane in a Churchgate fast the other day.The print ad is from Jumbo King. The branded vada pav vendor seems to have rolled up his sleeve to match it up with Ray Croc's networking burger franchisee. I had once spoken to Ms Gupta (founder of Jumbo King) regarding an event sponsorship and she politely declined, emphasising that they target the railway

PRATIBIMB ‘08

2008-02-08T20:50:00.003+05:30

- FestBitch If you heard the chants of “Aamchi aai tumchi aai, Veermata Jijabai” on the 1st and 2nd of Feb this year, then you probably were hanging around in Matunga, in the vicinity of VJTI. The sounds were getting ‘reflected’ from Pratibimb , the annual intercollegiate cult fest of VJTI, that saw over 15 colleges participating. The crowd was low in number but the VJTIans certainly knew how to

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at Techfest '08

2008-01-31T00:24:00.000+05:30

"Imagine a world where anybody has access to the sum of human knowledge"And if Wikipedia is the first search result that you imagined, then you're right there!Jimmy Wales, the funder of Wikipedia was in town and the quote above was according to him responsible for the Genesis of the revolutionary encyclopedia.Wales walked up the dais to a standing ovation by the enthusiastic crowd only to figure

BarCamp Techfest 01

2008-01-28T19:48:00.000+05:30

Its been long since I wanted to be at a BarCamp, and finally i got a chance this Sunday at Techfest '08 IITB .Before listing my notes Id like to share what fascinated me in this concept and a little insight about what a BarCamp is all about.The barcamp has got nothing to do with the booze and the bar.This concept was started by Chris Messina and the name is inspired by FooCamp that has restricted

Elecrama '08: the industrial electronics hub

2008-01-27T23:37:00.000+05:30

Its not the best thing to do when you decide to visit Elecrama on the last day, not only do u gasp at its humongous outreach as a first timer but you are also left asking for more.Ive been postponing my visit to this international industrial electronics exhibition ever since my first year in Electronics engineering, but now in the final year , the guilt was to high to ignore, so i made a

Mean Machines are passe now.

2007-07-10T14:08:00.001+05:30

TOYOTA PRIUSI really can't say whether it is Just in Time manufacturing or sheer brilliance that gets Toyota another hit : PRIUS .Prius is a hybrid built from scratch unlike most other cars which have hybrids as evolved models.NYT reports that Toyota has already recorded a sale of more than 400,000 in such a

DIE HARD 4.0 LIVE FREE

2007-07-04T19:28:00.000+05:30

RATING : ** Every once in a while comes a Hollywood flick with almost pure (read: animation-free) action sequences to give the fussy critics a 'reality check', but Die Hard 4.0 goes a step ahead ; it revolves around the growing importance of digitizing the analog globe with minimalistic digital action

CAMPUS PLACEMENTS and the SOFTIES

2007-06-29T17:47:00.000+05:30

The sixth semester ends and there starts the official drive for on campus placements for the engineers : a part of the promising future of our country.Talk about placements and the first thing that comes to your mind is the Top Five Software conglomerates : TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS etc. often nicked as 'bulk recruiters'I'd been for one of their Pre placement talks (PPT), but before going in for

PSYCHE: Teleseries Reviewed

2007-05-10T21:05:00.000+05:30

VERDICT: ***Mondays: 10:00 pm Saturday :4:30 pm (Star World) Shawn Spencer (James Roday ) is very much like an average bloke in his twenties with a charismatic persona except from the fact that he possesses an innate ability of observing and successfully retaining the minutest detail in the surroundings. But for his father, Henry (Corbin Bernsen) , this feat is the result of the training

ROBO-KAAND

2007-05-09T20:00:00.000+05:30

Whiling away my precious PL(prep leave) morning over the myriad newspapers I have subscribed to, I came across a little piece :a pseudonorm that said ”South Korea plans Code of Ethics for Robots” : The scarcely populated country which comprises of old people (unlike ours which is heavily populated with a good proportion of young blood) would have new citizens 10 years down the line. These robots

Pseudonormicks Fab Phone Awards 2006

2006-12-31T15:08:00.000+05:30

-- XeoN 2006 was a roller coaster ride in the cell phone arena as we saw better cameras getting built into handsets, fashion phones walking the ramp, GPS and Wi-Fi integration becoming more essential, and advancement in mobile networks exposing us to faster downloads for content. Scouring the latest mobile devices on the Mumbai market, special attention was paid to design, features, functions, as

Glimpse of Modd Indigo '06

2006-12-29T20:30:00.000+05:30

If you are a fest enthusiast and you walk into day 2 @ MI then there’s very little you can do on the participating front as most of the elims happen on day 1. But if you got there just to maaro lukkha then there’s more than just one thing to do.MI just keeps on getting bigger and better every year and this year it brings to us the Indian Raaga. I heard of them bagging a huge sum in sponsorship

Tryst with Paper Dance

2006-11-30T21:56:00.000+05:30

Microprocessor and Microcontrollers(MP) is just three days away, and yet I go to this alumni reunion of my school, well I had to just because I’m onto its OC. So what’s the big deal with Mp? Umm.. nothing much, just that its a core electronics subject which had more than 30 chips (not wafer chips...those computer processing chips my friend) and expects the student to know them in and out for him

The New Year Prank

2006-10-24T20:20:00.000+05:30

KK came down from Bangalore and so did KaKhe from Pune for Diwali, so it was ideal to meet all high school buddies and other IIT prep class buddies in the form of a new year outing. KaKhe and me joined KK,Nik, Tanveer and Archak at Toss n Grill and on our way to Carter’s CCD the chirpy Hitesh joined us. The scene was pretty cool as Hitesh started of taking Nik’s case joined in by Archak

Project Pure Diwali

2006-10-19T14:28:00.000+05:30

So Diwali is here finally!! Like every year well be doing the routine Diwali chores : Umm some cleaning/tiding up . shopping, arranging for sweets and dry fruits ,some decoration, calling ppl, sms-ing, bursting crackers Aha there it comes. BURSTING CRACKERS. Well why do we Burst crackers??? Any idea?? I know one story, which says that Lord Rama came back after winning over Ravana

ACKREDATION

2006-03-12T22:47:00.000+05:30

[You need some time in peace to get this one right]That is how the term accreditation has been conveniently phrased by the junta on my campus. The term was on everybody’s tongue-tip and was used as blatantly as possible. It spiced many a conversations and salted a few fights, sparked many a rebels and hopefully should give many of us a chance to wish the college admin.: “HAPPY REALIZATON !”Well,

LASS_LESS.eng

2006-01-05T18:01:00.000+05:30

If you were taken aback when the IITians unveiled their hornier side at an event in Mood Indigo ’05 , or probably raised an eyebrow on noticing the proximity among the VJTI guys making out together (the solution of a problem () or felt like a winner seeing a group of guys from VESIT dancing alone at the back, at a DJ nite…THEN LET ME OFFICIALLY WELCOME U TO THE WORLD OF ENGINEERING, MATE.An

MOOD HIGH

2006-01-05T12:42:00.000+05:30

“We IITians have been known for excellence in whatever we’ve done .”, righteously said Prof. Ashok Mishra ,Director IIT Bombay at the inauguration of the biggest cult fest in the country -MOOD INDIGO which arrived with the spirit of water, a cool bubbly blue mascot “SPLASH”, and a budget of around Rs 45 lks to rock the folks royally with its “AQUA” theme.With around

OF NEW YEARS AND MORE

2006-01-02T17:38:00.000+05:30

Come 31st of December and it’s a boom time in the economy as the junta is all geared up to rock their way into the new year .The streets are full of banners speaking more about the coming parties than the new IPO or the sale at Shopper’s Stop. Every one has plans to make up or speak up and “What’s on the 31st?” is the talk of the town. Whatever be the logic or let there be none, its simply a

BOOK REVIEW

2005-12-24T22:32:00.001+05:30

One Night @ The Call Center -Chetan BhagatRATING : 4.0/5 Before starting let me ask you a few questions (as Bhagat does in his new book) :1)Are you tired of reading self help (gyaan-gambhir ) books?2) Is it that you feel that these self help authors have no right to manipulate our lives on their way to minting money?3)Are you a die-hard fan of Yashraj Films/Harry Potter/Melodramatic fantasies ?4)

WOT ZE EH ??

2005-12-22T22:03:00.000+05:30

“The biggest power of money is to give it away.”- Mr. Narayana Murthy(Chairman and chief mentor Infosys) in conversation with Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Pranoy Roy

FOOD FOR THOUGHT... SLURP !!

2005-12-22T21:47:00.000+05:30

Heard of Jumbo King??Ok what about Yellow’s ??Jay Sandwich ??If these names sound bizarre, then probably you’re of the kind that hogs at no less than a 7-star (he he then why would you be reading this dumb blog of mine???)# Well Vada Pav is a popular Maharashtrian fast food delicacy : the Indian counterpart of the burger. Jumbo King is a local Mumbai firm started by an MBA duo(The Guptas) who,

CONMAN'S DAY OUT

2005-12-17T20:40:00.000+05:30

MOVIE REVIEW>>BLUFFMASTER>>RATING: 2.5/5Roy (Bachhan) ,an invincible conman dupes a raging producer who is currently a loser because of his director-son perpetually failing to make his artists work up a good movie. He proposes and gets Simi (Priyanka) into marrying just to break up on the day of their engagement thanks to his victim ,who turns out to be Simi’s uncle. On his way to get her back,

MULTIPLEX MANIA

2005-12-16T15:40:00.000+05:30

A visit to the dome at IMAX ADLABS, Wadala, Mumbai makes you feel heavily expressive and also a bit lighter on the pockets. The worlds largest dome theatre is huge enough to overwhelm your stress transforming it into ‘a high’. Just when I got this sought after ‘kick’ , I realized the lack of something – an interval !!. The 2.5 hours of non-stop “Goblet of fire” ( the latest in the Harry Potter