Sandeep Chandur

Band-aids

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:57:16 GMT

The USA is the first country where I found band-aids available in different colours to match different skin tones. Heh.

Kid

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:02:23 GMT

Shruthi, circa 1985. Hadn't laughed so hard in ages.

Credit card

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:39:51 GMT

If your credit card was stolen, and you reported it to the issuing bank within 24 hours, do you have any liability insurance?

Before you answer the question, check with your bank's website.

The bank expects you to pay any fraudulent charge up to the point that you inform the bank. Any charge that appears after you report to the bank (i.e., after they have blocked your card) will be borne by the bank. Which will be, surprise, surprise, ZERO.

This if the friggin' zero liability insurance that you have in India. For more details, check out this article.

An informal poll

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:21:36 GMT

Which fingers do you use most often for alt-tabbing?

With me, it's the thumb and the ring finger (both left hand, of course).

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:10:40 GMT

Man saved from croc shot in error

Excerpt from the article:

Two shots

Crocodile attacks and shootings are rare in Australia.

To suffer both at once is - to say the least - unfortunate.

It arrived!

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:53:45 GMT

Not sure if any of you saw my post on the C&H Complete Collection sale. Anyway, I ordered mine even before posting that.

The shipment arrived today. Right now my grin is wider than Hobbes'. Best part? I had some 66 bucks in my Amazon gift certificate account, so in effect I paid $1.69 for my collection!

Fifth

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:48:38 GMT

I had never seen The Fifth Element until today. For some very strange reason, I thought for a long time that the movie was crap. Consequently, I had not read any of its reviews nor checked out user comments on IMDb.

And today I saw it. 10 years after the movie was released. And you know what? It kicks ass! Nobody but Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas.

On a related note, check out this funny article.

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:38:16 GMT

D'oh.

Just like BASIC, only LOLsome

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:23:50 GMT

What an overdose of http://icanhascheezburger.com/ can do for you:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
VISIBLE "You said " N VAR N " !!"
KTHXBYE

Go get some LOLcode.

Trip Planner

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:11:58 GMT

When planning your next trip, do check out the Yahoo! Trip Planner on Y! Travel. Great for new ideas, copying and customizing others' itineraries, etc.

Dinner

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:29:26 GMT

Sorry the photo sucks. I was too hungry to take good photographs :)

Best men's final at Wimbledon

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:11:47 GMT

Well, the votes on the BBC website are in, and the 1980 final between Borg and McEnroe turned out the best of the lot. I voted for the 2001 final between Ivanisevic and Rafter, and I still think that that was the best.

Obvious winner, but...

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:05:38 GMT

...damn, that was one fine men's Wimbledon final.

The iPhone story

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:27:43 GMT

Still contemplating whether to keep the iPhone or return it.

Playing in the head

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:04:47 GMT

For some reason, I can't seem to get Gwen Stefani's Sweet Escape outta my head. Hmm.

Fri, 18 May 2007 13:50:54 GMT

Incidentally, I was the first to break the news to the gadget world. Not that it means anything, but it's funny how the mainstream media is treating this as a newsworthy item. I don't think it's that big a deal, but I guess when "Apple" and "iPhone" are in the same sentence, everyone wants to have a say.

Tue, 08 May 2007 19:18:31 GMT

Funny, they never really fixed the slightly crooked logo (created by Gandhi, digitized in Gimp by yours truly):

Sun, 06 May 2007 16:48:53 GMT

Heh. Some mothers do have 'em.

Fadia redux

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:02:32 GMT

Groan, not another one. A member of Global Ethical Hackers’ Association (GEHA)? WTF? If you look at the whois info for ethicalhackers.org, the domain is owned by the same guy. And the website is currently "under maintenance." Or was it hacked, I wonder?

IMDb

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:03:10 GMT

One of the more interesting tags on IMDb: Babe Scientist

The fastest way to download Acrobat Reader for Windows...

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:31:41 GMT

... is to search for readstep2 on Google (notice I didn't say "Google for") and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button.

Quote of the week

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:10:40 GMT

"I am not a witch doctor and in fact you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor."

Source

Classic MAD Magazine moment #347

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:04:13 GMT

"If fans of New Kids On The Block are called blockheads, what should fans of Dick Tracy be called?"

- Editor

Wii PSU

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:25:02 GMT

Do you know anyone coming to Bangalore from Singapore/USA/any other place where Wii is available? If yes, please let me know. A friend got his Wii shipped from the US and due to a bad 220/110 converter, the PSU got burnt. Luckily he had not plugged in the Wii.

This is very interesting...

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:08:43 GMT

From Google Maps:

...especially since the petrol pump is actually named after Nikhil, Deve Gowda's grandson.