Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

One of the forward I recieved today!

Tamils are always proud to be Tamizhs; Pretty courteous (that is what they think, at least!). They speak yenglish but sorry, no indi (Hindi) saar...what da??.The more common Madarasi (chennaisi..., now?) is an ardent fan of kireeket matches.

Their counterparts in ...


I have 6 e-mail invites. Needed persons can contact me through e-mail or post a comment here.


Pretty shocked to see the news that 3 MIT sudents got suspended for ragging.


I got a mail from Mr. Krishnan (36317), Joint seceratary of MITAA, Chennai chapter yesterday on the MITAA website. MITAA is MIT Alumni Association. These guys are planning to redo the wesite from scratch and they are in the progress of collecting the Alumni data. I am going to help ...


One of my signatures in MS Outlook today read ...

Boss or Leader? A Boss creates fear; A Leader creates confidence. Bossism creates resentment; Leadership breeds enthusiasm. A Boss says:I; A Leader says:We. A Boss fixes blame; A Leader fixes mistakes. A Boss knows how; A Leader shows how ...

I am back to work after a long weekend. Yesterday was "Krishna Jeyanthi" (B'day of Lord Krishna; belated b'day wishes to him!) and was a holiday to me.


Today I found out the reason for the wierd behaviour of IE6. There was an adware called 180Search was installed on my computer. I am not sure how this one got in. I have removed it completely (Courtesy: Norton Antivirus).


MKS wrote a detailed review on GMail at his blog.


Today I noticed in my IE6 that non-existing sites and other errors are taking me to a site titled "Internet optimizer". I looked into my installed programs and I was quite surprized to see a program called "Internet optimizer" installed. I am puzzled because I never installed this and also ...


Today "Varalakshmi Viratham" is celeberated by some of the Hindhus. On this occassion, married women pray to the God for the long life of their husband. They undergo fasting in the morning (To compensate, there would be a couple of unlimited meals with a lot of varieties in the afternoon ...