If you dont want to stand in the long queues to buy an iPhone, you can buy them off eBay for the paltry sum of $660 (upto to $1500)
Everything sold by Apple is way overpriced. I am not giving Steve Jobs any of my money.
Edit:
More on this outrageous hype from Information Week :
“Craigslist [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Do you want an iPhone ?
Posted in Fun, News on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
All the roadrunning
Posted in Personal on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As of this 27th June, I completed 29 years of a mysterious journey called life. It kinda makes me nervous as I think about it. It is not that I am getting old, but the total lack of a worthwhile achievement so far makes me diffident. It makes me wonder whether my dreams in my [...]
Favourite Text Editor
Posted in Fun, General on June 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This week’s poll results on CodeProject:
Unbelievable !
BTW, my favourite text editors are Textpad & Emacs.
Brokeback Mountain
Posted in Book Review on June 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Brokeback Mountain is a poem hidden away under beautiful prose. It is a short story, about 55 pages, yet it is profoundly heartwarming, with a subtle flow of true emotions and comes across as a refreshing, cool, light rain showering on your heart but comes back to haunt you and touches your soul in the [...]
Hacking for Dummies
Posted in Fun on June 14, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I couldn’t help laughing aloud reading some of the “hacking tips” on a blog post here.
Tip 3 is the most amusing:
There are a couple of commands in DOS for refreshing the BIOS password. These stuff stuff works only on windows earlier than XP where direct DOS boot was allowed. Sorry I don’t remember any of [...]
Salary for different jobs in the US
Posted in Fun, General, News on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the hits on my blog come from people searching about salary for jobs in the US. So finally, here is a list created by Salary.com from the data collected from the top 20 metros in US.
Google Calls for Increasing H1-B cap
Posted in H1B, IT News on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Quotes from an article on Information Week:
Google executives on Wednesday called on the U.S. government to raise the number of foreign worker visas — or H-1B status — by illustrating the plight of one of its founders.
In congressional testimony, Google VP of people operations Laszlo Bock cited the emigration of the parents of company co-founder [...]
Modern Life
Posted in Fun on June 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Modern Life (posted on Reddit).
So true !
Microsoft Threatens Its Most Valuable Professional
Posted in IT News on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From The Register :
As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft.
In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most [...]
Quit Infy If You Want, But You Can’t Join TCS, Accenture, IBM, CTS or Wipro
Posted in IT News on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I feel we are going back in time.
From The Economic Times :
WHEN Infosys employees accept their annual hike letters this year, they will sign on more than just their annual salary rise. Alongside the hike letter, Infosys has also asked its employees to sign a non-compete agreement letter saying they will not join any customer [...]
