Harish Narayanan Marketing Maniac. Tech Geek. And a firm believer that people are nice unless proven otherwise. By themselves.

And oh, a music nut. That is me. Good to have you here. Read on, and let us have a chat.

29 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Filtering the Internet

This an article about the next billionaire: The guy who separates the wheat from the overwhelming chaff.
Think about the evolution of the net. First it was a problem of too less. It was just a project by the US Dept of Defense, never meant for wide-spread use. But the work kick-started development on the very [...]

20 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Why I won’t publish on Facebook

Let us all be scared a little. Here goes:

When you post User Content to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, [...]

01 April 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Thank God for the recession

One of my favorite pieces of Web Zen: “The decent man is no longer one who lives within his own means. Nowadays he is one who lives, thankfully, within others’ means.”
They call it ‘a high standard of living’. I call it excessiveness. Garish, unnecessary, stinking of obnoxious opulence. One man’s luxury is another man’s necessity, [...]

04 February 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Marvinisms for today: 5.2.09

Akyab (n.): The contortions on one’s countenance, when a sneeze almost arrives, but doesn’t. Not to be confused with a Bhamo, which is the facial expression just before one is about to throw up.
Prome (n.): Complete exasperation at something so innately different that one can’t comprehend it. (e.g. The Toilet Paper philosophical divide between India [...]

01 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Fuck luck

Don’t wait for the pain, to scream, Don’t persevere, until twilight falls, to dream;Don’t await your old song, to dance,Don’t ask for that epiphany, to be yours perchance;Don’t pray, for the wind to flow your way,Don’t beg luck, to carry you in her sway;Don’t talk to your waking dream, seeking memories to borrow, Don’t live, [...]

22 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

So where do you figure?

“You’re the average of the five people you hang out the most with.”
One bit of internet wisdom that makes a lot of sense :)
Think about it; Who are the five people you spend most of your time with? And if you were an average of the five of them in intelligence, experience, maturity, coolness, [...]

22 December 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Best Diwali and birthday in a long time

Best Diwali and the best birthday I have had in a long, long time. Did not have the time nor the inclination to write about them. Some things are left unsaid because they are too special.
But this is a note, for posterity. To look back and smile at how these days were made unforgettable [...]

16 November 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Life is calling; where are you?

Dilbert creator Scott Adams on some reasons why the economic slowdown is good in certain ways; I especially liked the one below:
I remember driving home in 1989 and thinking I had a flat tire because the car went all wobbly. I pulled over and discovered that my tires were fine; the earth was moving. It [...]

14 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Marvinism for the day: 14.9.08

TauFu (n.): The act of talking to one’s computer / pleading with it / re-opening a software at a later time / hitting the keys harder, as if that is going to change the outcome of the executed command. (And with something as unpredictable as Windows, it works). Also known as Reboot Voodoo.

30 August 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Tall claims. Or possibly, the tallest claim

“XYZ is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application…”
“…possibly the best radio station in Singapore.”
“…probably the best Indian curry that you could ever have!”
A new clan of pseudo-claims.
What are claims? (Not the insurance types, and definitely not the legal ones). For the non-branding junta, claims are what the word means. Marketers [...]

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