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Desi Specialists

Well, just stumbled onto this masterpiece on one of my friend’s friend Facebook album, don’t know whose capture this really is, but, a nice illustration of the direction indigenous medical development has taken in India. Enjoy and comment your pick.
(If you’re the photographer of this masterpiece, please email me, would love to give [...]

Paypal Issue in India

New Update on Paypal Blog
New Bank Withdrawal Instructions for Our Customers in India
In wake of recent issues Paypal users in India have been facing over last month for remittances of personal credits into their Indian bank accounts, Paypal today morning apparently has sent this e-mail to “affected” users:

PayPal

Dear Romil Javed,

We have been diligently [...]

Social Media ROI: Socialnomics

Whats really going on? Check out some trends which emerge out of US markets in this nicely crafted presentation:

How to choose a safe password

My friends often ask me (yes, they mistake me for a geek!) how to secure their accounts from increasing security vulnerabilities.  Also, some of them who are too busy to ask, I notice, use self-styled security measures as far as choosing a smart password goes.
What they don’t realize is the fact that, if one of [...]

What is Social media?

In this age of bits and bytes, we often stumble onto terms familiar yet still unfamiliar to us. Some of them confuse us a bit, Social media is one such term circling around in newspapers and online journals these days.
In simple terms:
Social media is formed mainly by the public as a group, in a social [...]

Joomla and Magento Integration

There is this talented young guy from Thailand called Anh Nguyen, from the class of  GSoC 2009 which Joomla! team has quite timely picked keeping in view the future of this great open source CMS.
So, Anh is working on J! Mint and I have been closely following the development through various sources, like this Webinar [...]

At the times of Swine flu

Well, not a very nice contextual advert to see when you’ve just read about Swine Flu updates in Pune.
Hope our wise men in the Health Ministry have finally ordered the H1N1 vaccines.

The server made a boo boo

Dunno, why I get such whacky errors first thing in the morning while sipping a cup of lemon tea. : )
Realized it in a bit, its a common Apache error.

Confessions of a Wordpress Server

First up this morning, I saw this “cute” error message on my Wordpress hosted blog. In contrary to “Bad bad Orkut Servers” or “No Doughnut for you!” errors at Orkut, it was a refreshing change though. While this error did not last too long, an auto-refresh after 10 mins made it go.
Here is the text [...]