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Entries from May 2007

Phantoms and Phones

May 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

The Ruia brothers Shashi and Ravi run the Essar Group which is a USD 4 billion diversified group. Lately, they have been getting a lot of attention for their telecommunications portfolio. First, was the drawn out battle for Hutch and whether they would stay - there are. Secondly, the have entered the retail [...]

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Tags: Business · Cars

Mac Home Theater Setup

May 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The time has finally arrived where my home theater setup is complete…well sorta (which I’ll get to in a bit). I had a couple design criteria that were different from most other setup’s that I have seen. The first is when it was not being used it had to be hidden because the [...]

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Tags: Technology

Crickets Chirping?

May 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Yeah, those are crickets chirping in the background, not because there is nothing happening but because it seems everything is happening.  We just moved into our new flat and have been busy with all the fun stuff associated with that.  Such as calling the internet guy 5 times, getting the appliances installed, going to a [...]

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Tags: General

Turbulence at 10 feet

May 4th, 2007 · No Comments

One of the guys in my office talked about this plane he saw over the weekend in Bombay, I assumed it had reached it’s destination.
“Some residents said they had not complained simply because they assumed that the authorities would be making it a priority to get the plane out of the city. Five [...]

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Tags: General