This post is specially for readers who live in or near to Banashankari 2nd Stage. Green Trends is a new beauty saloon that’s opened shop near the BDA Shopping Complex and which offers beauty care services using nature-based products (herbs, fruits, et al.) It’s a unisex saloon, but there are “separate private areas” for ladies […]
This blog was down for some unexpected maintenance starting 21:30 IST yesterday. Comment spam had really pushed me to the edge. I couldn’t do anything about it – short of disabling comments – since there are no comment spam plugins for WordPress 1.2 anymore. My whole night was spent in front of my laptop while […]
SP Jain Centre of Management (SPJCM) is set to become the first Indian business management school to start classes in Singapore when it opens its doors next month. It will pip the prestigious government funded Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), which has announced the opening of a Singapore campus but has seen the project […]
Unless you have had a multi-layer state-of-the-art spam defense system in place to scan your e-mails, the chances that you would have received an e-mail from a Nigerian (or other Afrikaans in general) offering you astronomical sums of money in exchange for your bank account number are close to 100%. Affectionately, this scam is referred […]
There’s no better place for a 05:30AM (IST) morning walk than in Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. The scent of fresh morning air with an earthy tinge to it is just exhilarating. It clears any cobweb in your mind and inspires you to face the day ahead. It’s also the one place where Vinayak finds the one […]
‘Most people think of “documents” as letters, memos and reports. But if you learn to treat your notes like the powerful documents they can be, they’ll soon do much more of the work for you.’ That’s the niche area Microsoft’s One Note addresses. If you have been looking for a way to manage all those […]
Lust, Anger, and Greed.
Here’s what today’s perusal of the [seemingly infinite] world wide web discovered: If you broadband the Internet using Internet Explorer, then chances are high that you would have been frustrated with Internet Explorer’s seeming inability to download more than 4 files simultaneously. Here’s how you can pump up that count all the way to 16! […]
There is a common assumption that if companies perform well, they must have good managers at all levels of the organization. It is, after all, hard to imagine a company surpassing its rivals if its managers are second rate. New research now confirms the notion that management matters to all companies, including the top performers. […]
How does it feel to go back to school (ok, college) after all these years? It’s a pain and a pleasure. Most of my free time these days is spent in wrestling with monstrous reading material. As part of the curriculum, each one of us needs to complete a set of “pre-foundation” courses delivered in […]
A fascinating three-part look at the Philippines, it’s past and present, from the BBC’s Documentary Archive. Don’t miss listening to Part Three. Part One (9.0MB) Why did over a million Filipinos risk their lives and march on the capital in 1986? Download part one Part Two (8.9MB) Rosie Goldsmith reflects on events in the Philippines […]
Translation: At first she used to say, “A groom who is an engineer in America is enough.” Now she says, “I will only marry someone owning a BDA site.”
Here’s a cool PDF reading which you can cook delicious South Indian dishes at home. Detailed instructions have been provided for Payasam, Sweets, Chutney, Raitha, Flavored Rice, Pickles, Fried Snacks, and more. The whole document is in Kannada. So that’s a prerequisite. Now, if only someone would prepare a few dishes and invite me! Download […]
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From Jack Welch’s Winning: “When you own the choices, you own their consequences.”
Like many other global companies, Danfoss had been taking a slow boat to China. During the mid-1990s, the company moved some of the manufacturing of its valves, compressors, and motion controls there to take advantage of low wages. It was selling some of the output around the world and the rest locally, at high prices, […]
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I used to be a fan of RadioCity until recently. From the past couple of months the number and quality of advertisements broadcast on RadioCity have both gone in the wrong direction. The number has gone way up and the quality has gone way down. The content in and the presentation of these advertisements is […]
Seventymm is a name you might not have heard about. It’s a new company in Bangalore with an interesting service – online movie rentals! Seventymm offers over 10,000 movie titles – on high quality DVD/VCD media and searchable online – for your viewing pleasure. The movies are delivered to your doorstep and even picked-up after […]
The application process for the one-year MBA at SP Jain is very simple. Everything needs to be done online on the institute’s website. The application itself is very simple. You need to have the standard details such as your personal information, educational background, and professional background (work experience) on hand. There are no lengthy essays […]