A cheap Satyam Joke

January 13, 2009 on 2:23 am | In General | Comments Off

A friend forwarded me a cheap joke involving Satyam. My Hindi reading friends will understand it.

New Scene from Sholay

Jay : Mausi, ladka Satyam mein kaam karta hai..
Mausi : Hai ram..!!! Aur kahin try kar raha hai kya??

Jay : kahan mausi, 2 saal Satyam me rahne ke baad koi Company leti kahan
hai...
Mausi : Hi Raam to kya 2 saal se Satyam mein hi hai..

Jay : haan socha tha 2 saal me salary hike hogi hi. Aajkal to salary
bhi jyada NAHI mil rahi hai use..
Mausi : To kya salary BHI KAM milti HAI..?

Jay : Ab appraisal bhi to asaani se kahaan hota hai mausi..
Mausi : Hai hai ...!! To kya appraisal bhi nahi hota uska..?


Jay : Senior se ladhai karne ke baad appraisal mein achhi rating to
nahin milti hai na... Mausi..
Mausi : To kya seniors se ladhta bhi hai..?

Jay : Ab 2 saal tak onsite Jane ko na mile to ho jaati hai kabhi kabhi
anban..
Mausi : To kya AB tak ek baar bhi onsite nahi gaya ..???

Jay : Ab Outdated technology ke developer ki kismat mein to yehi
likha hai mausi..
Mausi : kya kaha ladka Outdated technology mein kaam karata hai..!!!

Mausi : Kaunse college se padhai ki hai..?
Jay : Uska pataa lagte hi hum aapko khabar de denge!!


Jay : To main rishta pakka samjhuna mausi???
Mausi : Beta, kan khol kar sun Le...Sagi mausi hoon basanti ki, koi
sauteli maa nahi....Bhale hi hamaari Basanti Call Center wale Chandu
se shaadi kar Le par Satyam ke employee se katai nahin karegi .

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Lucasfilm’s Habitat

January 11, 2009 on 9:51 pm | In Technology, Internet | Comments Off

Lucasfilm’s Habitat from 1988 was an early experiment in creating an online social world. However, it turned out the program may have been ahead of its time, at least technology-wise. According to the book Rogue Leaders on the history of Lucasfilm games, the 500 users of the prototype ate up a full 1% of the system resources of partnering online provider QuantumLink. Consequently – though the project was later licensed to others and also spun off successors and might have influenced reminiscent projects – the US release of Habitat was canceled.


Concept art for the box cover

[Image from Rogue Leaders.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Lucasfilm's Habitat | Comments]


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Google’s New Favicon (Again)

January 9, 2009 on 7:04 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off

Google changed their favicon once more (the last change happened in May 2008). Above you can see the recent history of this icon showing in the address bar and elsewhere. The new design consists of four color areas – blue, red, green and yellow – overlaid by a lowercase white “g”.

[Thanks Scott and Vegetable!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google's New Favicon (Again) | Comments]


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Google Chrome Update With Form Auto-Completion And More

January 9, 2009 on 1:20 am | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off

The latest preview version of Google Chrome features a couple of additions, Google announced, including:

When I tried this version, it messed with my Windows task bar visibility, and also distorted this blog’s layout, so for serious usage I’d have to go back to an older version.

If you want to try out the preview, you need to:

[Via Google OS and the Chromium blog.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Chrome Update With Form Auto-Completio ... | Comments]


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Is Dell Buying Text Links?

January 8, 2009 on 2:40 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off

Is computer seller Dell buying text links ads, those non-nofollowed paid links which also happen to go against the Google webmaster guidelines? For instance, the following bit can be seen on the PageRank 6 OpenSourceTemplates.org:

The respective HTML for this portion (I added a line break and omitted some lines):

<h5>Sponsorship Friends</h5>
...
<a href="http://www.dell.com/business/servers">
        business servers</a>
...

Similar non-nofollowed links with the keyword "server" or related phrasings can be seen in the ad sections of other sites, including ILoveTypography.com, MovableStyle.com, Internet101.org and Oggix.com (at least these always look like ad sections, though they're often undisclosed under headings like "Unrelated", "Featured" or "Recommended"). The Yahoo site explorer lists more, as Yv, who pointed this out in the forum, explains.

The other ad links surrounding the Dell link point to a variety of things, often unrelated to the site showing the ad, like "Alcohol Rehab Programs", "Web Hosting", "New Cars", "Flash Memory", "Free Games", "Online Sweepstakes", "Wholesale Cell Phones" and so on. Here's another example, this one from PictoGame.com:

However, by itself that's no proof yet that Dell is buying these links; anyone could point to Dell.com in a paid links section of course, like someone who'd want to maliciously hurt Dell's image or ranking. Currently, Dell's PageRank 6 servers page ranks in near the top of result page #2 for the keyword "servers" in Google when I try it (but results may vary for others); there's also Dell AdWords showing for that search.

[Thanks Yv!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Is Dell Buying Text Links? | Comments]


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