Mixed bag
Sore throat and a bad cold.Big weekend plans, fail to take off.Phone screen screwed.Preliminary agreement on a deal we were facilitating. A mixed bag, eh?
Reading update
Current – Waldo (Robert Heinlein)Finished – Stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlein)
Reading update
Current (since a couple of weeks actually) – Stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlein)
Taking chances
I like taking chances. Normal and routine things don’t interest me much. I took a chance when I quit my cushy job and haven’t regretted since. I took another chance last weekend, when we decided we’ll go to a lesser known beach (Suryalanka) near Hyderabad. And thankfully, it was the most amazing beach trip I’ve…
Startup Challenges and Pitfalls
I wanted to write about this, but now won’t. Have got more important stuff to talk about.Like, we canceled our deal with the company who where developing our website, so we lost about a month in time (nothing in money fortunately). Our CA had some personal problems and so our company registration has been left…
720 hours
That’s the effort estimate given by the company Pinaki talked to in Mumbai for the mobile VAS idea. Absolutely ridiculous! This when Pinaki has made quite a bit of the technical design. All this is just for the backend application, we haven’t even talked about the front end website part yet. The amount they’re asking…
Busy Saturday
Was on the phone, gtalk for close to four hours today. Was talking to Pinaki and another guy about the mobile VAS idea. It was so hard to find a decent, free web conferencing facility where I didn’t have to install anything. And with STD rates (Pinaki is in Mumbai and the other guy in…
Website up!
I recently got my Joomla! website up on the internet, meaning bought a domain name and then hosted it online. Thinking of which domain to buy was an exercise in itself, but I had help from some good friends. Finally, I went with a suggestion from Bala (he owns a Telugu movie review, news site).…
Reading update
Current – noneFinished –Past through tomorrow – Robert HeinleinRocket ship Galileo – Robert Heinlein
Glad and Sad
I feel elated, and sad at the same time. I’m still on a high from last night – went out to a club with friends. Tamar is leaving today and Julia, Maya, Brenda leave tomorrow (they’ll be back later though). Katie’s already left. So it was a kind of last get together. The past few…
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