Category: Rants
T24 Mobile misplaces documents
God punishes you for greed (one of the seven deadly sins). On Earth, T24 Mobile are God’s designated agents. In the guise of providing free cellular telephone connections and free talk-time, their executives collect...
Political Correctness – The Healthy Way
Political correctness has not even spared a 30 year old movie from being mercilessly blurred into oblivion. High-handed anti-smoking campaign reaches new lows of stupidity.
What’s Dat Noise?
Audiophiles beware. Careless production and mastering processes are resulting in audio-cds that feature terrible audio.
Solution to control piracy: Hurt genuine customers
Content producers and distributors tend to punish the genuine customer in their bid to control piracy. The pirate and his fans remain dis-affected.
Arbitrary Cable TV Blackout – Score for Satellite TV
The Local Cable TV Provider has arbitrarily switched off channels from being broadcast and called it their ‘condolence’ gesture. This a good reason for me to switch to Satellite Television.
Hotmail – The New Hotbed of 419 Scam
419 Scams are nothing new, at-least not to techies. However there are scores of people across the planet who continue to fall for these scammers who are primarily based out of Africa. Why do...
The Overcooked Netbook
The new Sony P Series is by no means an innovative product. Years before the newly launched Sony Vaio VGN P15G , Sony developed and sold the Picturebook series Vaio VAIO PCG-C1XS laptop. Unfortunately,...
Bigger The Company, Harder They Fall
Reliance Infocomm‘s latest stunt has fallen on it’s face and become the gaffe of the year. Ok, maybe gaffe of the month. It activated ‘Ring-Back-Tone (RBT)’ for all customers without any prior intimation/permission. To...
The Winner Takes It All
Take the talent shows – so much in vogue in India. First you invite the industry pundits to join the panel of judges. You make them do the sweaty work of scraping the dirt,...