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Archive for January, 2008

Lame Advertising: Hero Honda Hunk — The Bulls Had Only One Question On Their Minds

Published by Vinaya HS January 29th, 2008 in India Advertising Blog. 2 Comments

The bulls had only one question on their minds:

WTF are we doing in this ad?

Lame Advertising: Videocon — This Is How We Fund Our Lame Advertisements That Feature Multi-Crore Demanding Celebrities

Published by Vinaya HS January 26th, 2008 in Business & Management and India Advertising Blog. 15 Comments

Videocon first burns shareholders’ money in creating this meaningless and irrelevant ad. And when it’s time to cut that multi-crore check to each of the multi-crore demanding celebrities, they unleash this lame scheme on the public.

Maano Ya Na Maano!
Pay just Rs 12,990 for the Jumbo 34 Flat TV and deposit a sum of Rs 7000 […]

Tweets on 2008-01-23

Published by Vinaya HS January 23rd, 2008 in General Stuff. 5 Comments

January 12th was a significant milestone — one that I missed completely. On that day, I completed three full years of blogging! Whew! It seems like I started just yesterday. For sure, this milestone wouldn’t have happened without you. Here’s a BIG heartfelt thank you to you — my dear reader.

It’s also the time to […]

Tweets on 2008-01-19

Published by Vinaya HS January 19th, 2008 in General Stuff. 8 Comments

Caught this sweetheart wandering around my house!

Tweets on 2008-01-17

Published by Vinaya HS January 17th, 2008 in Finance. 5 Comments

Crowds consists of irrational, emotional humans. We are slightly-cleverer pants-wearing monkeys. We do very dumb things when pursuing the bananas. We have not evolved to understand capital market risk. We are optimistic by nature, and tend to ignore the negative, until its staring us right in the face and cannot be denied. Then, we (irrationally) […]

Lame Advertising: Barclaycard — So, Who’s Exactly In Control Here?

Published by Vinaya HS January 16th, 2008 in Business & Management and India Advertising Blog. 1 Comment

This brilliant ad from Barclays Bank for their credit cards would like you to believe that you are in total control. However, dig deep and you’ll find this:

Barclaycard Gold Card

Our fee free for life Gold card gives you simple options to tailor the card to your needs. Choose between a minimum monthly payment of 5%, […]

Wow! Experience: Courtesy, Dell

Published by Vinaya HS January 15th, 2008 in Business & Management. 3 Comments

I placed an order for the Dell 19″ SE198WFP Widescreen Flat Panel (Analog and DVI) monitor on January 10, 2008. I was given an expected delivery date as January 16, 2008. The monitor arrived at my doorstep on January 12, 2008 — in just three working days! The packaging was top-notch, the packaging was complete […]

Tweets on 2008-01-14

Published by Vinaya HS January 14th, 2008 in General Stuff. 4 Comments

I was busy all of last week building this rig at home:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz E6750 (1333 MHz FSB)
XFX nForce 680i LT SLI (Supports 1333 MHz FSB)
2 x 1 GB Transcend DDR2 800 MHz
XFX GeForce 8800 GT Alpha Dog Edition (512 MB)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250 GB
Lite-On 20x DVD-Writer
Cooler Master xTreme Power […]