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[10 Oct 2005 | No Comment | 45 views]

Hey! I am back after a very long hiatus! I was basically tied up with so much stuff that I had little time and motivation to get myself to update my blog.
I was going through the best of Craigslist when I noticed a very interesting post by the CEO of experienceTHIS.us giving out advice to people applying for jobs online.
The gist of the post is that it is always better to be honest, elucidative, simple, concise, and professional when initiating that first key hiring related correspondence. Of course, different recruiters …

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[19 Sep 2005 | One Comment | 40 views]

I didn’t get to update my blog during the last couple of days, so I would like to apologize to my friend Vel for not spreading the word earlier than this. Anyway, here it is:
I have been involved with a great organization – Project Why for a while.
Read more about them here -
http://www.ideamani.com/2005/09/project-why.html
They have more than 500 children that they take care of and only have money left for a month.
A few bloggers, myself included have come up with an idea – A lucky draw for the charity with a …

Life and Personal »

[17 Sep 2005 | No Comment | 28 views]

I finally bought a car on Friday! It is a Ford Mustang and is in excellent condition, since of course, I bought it used. I love driving, and spent the better part of the day driving it to the temple, the mall, and the Indian movie theater.
More about this later!

Tech and Culture »

[13 Sep 2005 | No Comment | 23 views]

I was walking down the campus yesterday when I realized that almost 2 out of 3 people on campus had a personal music player of one or the other type. These devices were almost invariably MP3 players the size of one’s palm. Some people had headphones attached to their cellphones or pocket computers, but everyone was listening to some sort of digital media.
This made me wonder. The concet of carrying your music with oneself has really evolved during the last 2-3 decades. In the very beginning, after the birth of …

Tech and Culture »

[10 Sep 2005 | One Comment | 26 views]

I have been using Yahoo! Music Unlimited for a week now. My free 7 day trial ends today, but I think I am going to keep the subscription for some time now. The price is just too hard to give up. I can listen to more than a million soundtracks for $6 a month!
Before subscribing to Yahoo! Music, I had been using Real Rhapsody for more than a year. Rhapsody is a similar music subscription service. Both of them are based on the Windows Media DRM scheme and format, and …