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: What ’search engines’ should become

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 [...]

25 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Hey, look! Squirrel!

27 September 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Glorious Basterds

The chapter format. Slow, direct, in your face violence that is in no means underplayed. Operatic in bloodshed. Humor and irony when one least expects it. And of course one dead as a dodo fuehrer.
Niiice.
But then Mr. Tarantino. What happened to the wits and charms of your leading men and women? No long monologues, no [...]

18 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Inspiration, writing, and self improvement

First day of a week without Web 2.0. It is going pretty well I must say (just been a day) and I am finding time to do stuff I like. Like writing.
Research has shown many times over that vocabulary, vivid articulation and intelligence are correlated. Correlation doesn’t imply causation and we all know that, but [...]

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17 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

A week without Web 2.0

Should be an interesting thought. What if I go without Facebook, Twitter, Googletalk, Youtube, Google Reader for a week? Will I get a lot more done (probably yes)? Will I miss out on so much information and news that the time saved will be a gain in futility?
My time starts now. I will blog about [...]

08 July 2009 ~ 3 Comments

One thing to learn from Bob McDonald

Robert (Bob) McDonald, P&G’s new CEO, sent us an internal memo; and something in that memo I feel is definitely worth capturing and worth trying in everyday life:
As a West Point plebe (freshman) I learned that I was only permitted four answers: yes, no, no excuse, and I do not understand.  These four answers are [...]

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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