April 2008 - Posts - Play Things

April 2008 - Posts

How to make friends, mix drinks and pass out

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
I don't know about you, but a lot of people down here in Mumbai are loooking forward to the holiday tomorrow. Time to kick up those tired feet, load a Ram Varma Gopal ki Aag DVD and throw back a few mid-week cocktails. But I am guessing that you've been tippling on those same old cocktails you learned to mix way back in college on that hostel...

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I am a Guitar Hero

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
The missus recently brought home that Guitar Hero 2 game for the PS2. It costs some 5000 bucks for the whole set, little guitar and game DVD, and is completely NOT the sort of thing she'd buy in the regular course of affairs. But, as regular readers are no doubt aware, the birthday is around the corner. And that is as good a time as any for some...

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Wifi hacker tera mooh kaala

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
What hot-blooded youth with a bent for technology has not wished a wireless network for himself at home? Exactly. All of us. Including me. So almost a year ago, after much research and development, I decided to install one of those cute little Netgear wirless modems at home. (They look white and nice. Exactly like set dosas when you order them by parcel...

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This day that year... look here

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Ok I am not trying to put what they call in Mumbai "ganda senti" or anything. But we all must remember that in just two weeks an event of epic proportions will unfold: my birthday. Not that birthdays have ever been particularly awesome for me. I always get some form of tummy upset or the other and once in a while I forget that its my birthday...

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Espionage for dummies

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Today we will depart a little from our usual agenda, unproductive timepass in the office, and instead look at how to keep a tab on all those pesky co-workers you have sitting around you making your life fairly painful. Now let's, first of all, face a few facts. Coworkers, even if some of them are harmless, ultimately are a threat to our career development...

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Tipping Mondays - 1

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
What better way to start off the week than with a couple of tips that could save you a lot of time, bewilderment and general workplace headaches... 1. WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS A DOCX FILE? WHY ARE PEOPLE SENDING THEM TO ME! Ans. Chill. If I had one dollar for every time someone asked me how to open a .docx file I'd have a lot of rapidly devaluing...

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Quit cribbing

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Finally I've done it. I've succumbed to all the Apple iMarketing pressure and bought myself an iPod. Both the missus and I still hold great love for Creative and all their products, but spending just a few moments with a shiny new iPod makes you wonder how you lived without it in the first place. Podcasts! My life is so much more meaningful...

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Click comfort

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
It's almost half past six in the office here, as I blog away, and people are beginning to gently slip into snooze mode. Phone calls are soft mumbles and you need to stand up and look over the padded partitions we have here to see if the neighbour is awake. So basically nobody around here cares what I am doing. Excellent. Editor is seated in the...

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Docs Gears up to go

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
How many times have you settled into an airplane seat, powered up your laptop and clicked up that Word document only to find that you have the sucky old version without that clever Paris Hilton joke and dynamite closing paragraph? Well maybe not in that exact fashion. But it has happened to you yes? Version control is one of the great pains of having...

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