Teaching English is not easy

Our maid requested if Nikita (my wife) could teach English to her daughters. They are 12-14 year and know only the alphabets. One of the daughters came yesterday evening for her first class. I was watching things as Nikita asked her to write down A-Z. First in capital then in small. And she did not […]

Who is Bhaskar Bharati?

If you are in India, you may have seen such hoardings around. Who is Bhaskar Bharti you may ask? And why did Bhaskar ditch so many girl friends? (and more interestingly, how did he make so many girlfriends in the first place 😉 Bhaskar (bana) Bharti is a new comedy show on Sony TV. The […]

Team: We need to improve quality of Gujarati translations

Upgraded Firefox for my dad, and that led to this screen. Essentially, it says that “Your Firefox has been upgraded to the latest edition”. But the translation to Gujarati changes the meaning. If I were to translate this Gujarati back, it would read “You have been upgraded/improved to the latest edition of Firefox”. C’mon, it’s […]

National Geographic Photo Of The Day Wallpaper on your Mac Desktop

I love National Geographic photographs. Sujeet linked to a Nat Geo photo on a tweet today, and that led me to setting up National Geographic Photo of the Day as my Mac desktop wallpaper using an Automator action. Interested? Here are some notes: Nat Geo offers free Windows and Mac screensaver applications of their best […]

Who’s following you on Twitter – bots?

Is the last person who started following you on Twitter real? Or just a software robot that’s out to eat every good Twitter feed? My Twitter follower count is growing, but some of them just seem too unbelievable! They don’t have any updates, have nobody (or only a few) people following them, but they are […]