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Apr 9

Lots of folks have been asking me to put up a post regarding my “Google Experience”, lol. After several days of staring at the empty notepad screen (writers’ block strikes again!), I finally have managed to sit down, determined to finish this blog post. Okay, so here it is:
Chapter 1: What is our hotshot “Google […]

Apr 9

“Finally, our code is working.”
- Famous Last Words.
Note: I’m under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement signed at the Google Bangalore office, so anything I might say in the following paragraphs may be a figment of my deranged imagination and entirely fictitious bearing no resemblence to any person or event occuring in the real world. Sorry. […]

Apr 9

“I love deadlines. I particularly love the sound of them whooshing by!”
- Douglas Adams
I (and my team) was one of the 12 finalists of the first Google India Product Prodigy Contest, which required us to submit a proposal for an awesome new product on an open-ended theme i.e. based on Google’s motto of making the […]

Dec 6

Note: This is an old post on an old blog. View the current version of this page on: http://neothebrute.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-love-keyboards-i-hate-people.html
God bless keyboards, especially at times when the mice decide to go on a hunger strike. I’m sick and tired of wireless mice, and am half inclined to walk right tomorrow and purchase an ordinary optical mouse. […]

Dec 4

Swim-lessons Saga: Part I

Posted by Shashank

From my old blog, posted on 20th May, 2006
I planned to write a post about how I almost drowned in the deep end yesterday, but then thought it something too trivial and stupid to post, but then decided that since this was sorta like a personal blog, and since I didn’t care if people read […]

Dec 4

This is from my old blog, posted on 13th May, 2006
Yeah, today was my first swimming lesson, and by the end of the one hour session, I was lazily floating across the pool like a corpse, humming Feuer Frei! by Rammstein and re-playing VH1-MTV’s Midnight Headbanger’s Ball in my head. That’s the only neat thing […]

Dec 4

GOing in Boeing!

Posted by Shashank

Just recounting some experiences of a morning last year.. when I was fooling around inside the New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, and I ran into some unexpected expected trouble.
Before anything, I must complain about the names that our airlines have been taking.. we started out with Indian Airlines and Air India. Now we […]

Dec 4

Me and my BIG Mouth

Posted by Shashank

Okay I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. Succeed most of the time, but often fail causing some rather stupid pain-in-the-necks.
This post is inspired by yet another blabbering-mouth thing, this time in frustration at what I like to call soft-spam. Hard-spam is like that unsolicited XXX kind of messages or “Buy This!” type things […]

Dec 2

Among things I despise the most in the world are men without spines and men who ramble too much. So much that their words hold little or no value at all. Often these characteristics are found festering in the same individual. The latter bear no respect for dignified silence to think, and have mostly nothing […]