Archive for December, 2004


For a Few Dollar More

Saturday, December 11th, 2004 - 11:23 am

This article is just my thoughts and not really from a business savvy person, I am a not-so-bad developer with a stupid business brain.

It has to be accepted with a crossed finger that the US Dollar is indeed declining its value, specially in India. I have seen the worst decline like INR 42 per Dollar, not to mention that there was once a happy times when it gross about INR 48 per Dollar. With the trend of the Dollar in the past 12 to 18 months, the average psychological value had been around INR 44 per US$ and recently during the last 1-2 months, it had gone down to about INR 42.50 to 43.00. I am sure mega corps usually have a INR/US$ cap calculation fixed for a year or so but for smaller companies, this affects really really hard and is very distinct. And to the best of my knowledge there is no remedy or a way to equalize this in any way. Look at it this way, for every $1000 earned from outside, change of one rupee (INR) on a particular trading day of your bank will set you back by INR 1000; well then the multiplication is rather simple maths, the more amount transferred on an unfaithful day will set you back by many Rupees enough to have paid an average developer’s salary.

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Ocean’s Twelve

Friday, December 10th, 2004 - 6:59 pm

Unlike the previous movie (Ocean’s 11), this one is more about relationships, about code of conduct of the errr, thieves. There was not much importance to the wit of the thieves but rather about the criss-cross relationships between and amongst them. I just wish that the later story tag of Julia Roberts acting like “Julia Roberts”, and Bruce Willies was not there at all. It looked more like a lump of itchy rashes to the whole movie storyline, which again is rather like the old movie, similar theme, execution, plannings.

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Virtual Girl Friend

Friday, December 10th, 2004 - 9:02 am

Do you want a girl friend, a virtual one? V-girl™ is a 3G game for mobile 3G (or 2.75G) phone handsets with Java MIDP 1.0. You can watch your v-girl and chat with her. She will laugh, cry, flirt, chat, argue and even blow you kisses. She will also …

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Attitude adjustment problem with softwares

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 - 9:28 am

I seem to have an attitude adjustment problem with softwares, specially news ones that gets into the market. I was using Outlook Express till yesterday morning, then I shift to Mozilla Thunderbird yesternight and I am a much happier man with the matured 1.0 release. I tried Thunderbird coupla times during its pre-1.0 release but was never happy with the same, forcing me to stay put with Outlook Express.

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Google AdSense

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 - 9:21 am

Out of curiosity, I signed up for Google AdSense in September, 2004 and I am glad about the same. In two months, brajeshwar.com have already earned about $107. Received a check from Google Inc. recently for the same.
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Rajasthan Desert Tour, Dimpi’s Marriage

Monday, December 6th, 2004 - 7:05 pm

I woke up from a slumber, I could feel the grinding feeling of the sands between my teeth, I open my eyes and saw sands around me. Three camels were there already grazing among the most minimal vegetation found on the vast desert. I scanned around myself and found that both of my friends were there too wasted, tired, lying there along with me on top of the sand dune. We discovered that we were all clad in pagri (head gear like the Punjabi Turban), complete with the traditional Rajasthani earings on each of our left ears. I realize we were in rush when we set out for the journey that we had to had our denims and shirts on instead of the Rajasthani wardrobe which we had really wished to dorn with. I re-shake and tried to remember the whole thing, read ahead for the whole story how I landed up riding a camel, camped on the sands, had food in the starlit night, woke up waiting for the sun to emerge from the sands.

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