Me: Hello? Telemarketer: [in a heavy Indian accent] May I speak to Mr. Venkatesan? Me: Sorry. He’s not here. Telemarketer: May I speak to Mrs. Venkatesan? Me: Sorry. She is not here either. Telemarketer: Then may I ask are you who? Me: Their son. Telemarketer: Do you make calls to India? Me: Yes. Telemarketer: Sir [...]
A music blog I visit every once in a while used to post up remixes of popular songs in mp3 format. They thought it was legal since they are remixes and not the original songs. Well, the record studios didn’t agree and told them to take the mp3s down, but said that streaming is ok. [...]
Facebook was still good when: it didn’t become like Myspace with all those ugly apps. Yeah some of them are useful, but do you really need to give each other plants and write graffiti on each others’ walls? They just add way too much clutter. it didn’t try to copy Twitter by having everything in [...]
Today was WWDC (Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference). It is one of two big events (the other being the Macworld Expo that Apple no longer goes to) that Mac-addicts like me wait for and watch live. They always unveil some new products or at least refresh existing products. So, the Apple online store goes down [...]
