The VultureKraft

Microblog: 2008-11-22

vsaket@gmail.com — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

I caught my mom voting multiple times on Big Boss over the phone at home. Sacrilege! #
Rakhi Sawant says she’s afraid of going into the big boss house hinting that she fears assault/rape by the inmates. This is really weak! #
I’m juicing my Macbook completely by throwing FixTunes again at my 5000 strong music library in the middle of other work. #
Did Vimax Pills recently get renamed to Naturomax? I mean its just that their ubiquitous pornographic ad banners seem to have been replaced. #

Microblog: 2008-11-21

vsaket@gmail.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

A Subaru Impreza just zoomed past at Lokhandwala. Wish I was in that instead of this rickety auto. #
Is there a way to get these SMS Gupshup guys to stop messaging me? #
After a great deal of deliberation, I’ve settled on the Steel theme in Gmail! #
Get @nimkarkedar to send you a wedding invite. The invitation card is killer. #
@sidin I’m lusting for a Blackberry curve pretty openly and plan to acquire one the moment I get this month’s Salary! #
@sidin Get a mac. #
Having some seriously tough time trying to get at Youtube using my Google Account! #
I hate electronic music tracks which last for a full fucking hour. Might make sense in a Party but not on the iPod or ITunes! #
@Aalaap I think that will end up being one killer feature on Google! #
@gurupanguji Fuck. Thats weak, dude. #
Wtf? My Mac hung! Trackpad unresponsive. #
At Totos Garage after what seems like an era. This place is still the same. Crowed and familiar. #
Wish I could scrobble all the tracks playing here to Last.fm in realtime. #
Missing @gahlovikram. Hell, we could have done some serious singing out loud now. #

Microblog: 2008-11-20

vsaket@gmail.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

The phone starts working. Finally! #
At Bangalore for yet another horrible meeting addled day. Why am I doing this? #
Jammed. Badly. And to think there’s going to be 6 hours of meetings after this! #
It is embarrassing when you are asking intelligent questions in a meeting but client servicing is undoing you by asking equally lame things! #
Off for lunch. #
Gah! Did I not mention before that I hate madrasi food? Especially the kinds served here! #
Done with what these people pass off as lunch in these parts. How come these people manage to ingest it every day? #
@sumants @awtaney Generic south Indian thaali served at the client’s canteen. Believe me, its bad. #
Can something be done about the fact that I’m feeling very, very sleepy now? #
Attempted to demo a Flex site on a Data Card. Colossal failure. Had to finally use the client’s laptop with the office-broadband. #
@ruch Doesn’t work for me. For I always have to be this Technology Dude who’s doling out gyaan, with everybody else staring wide eyed! #
Meeting draws to a close. I’m going offline soon. Mac battery at 14% now. #
Fucking Airtel SIM! It miraculously STOPPED WORKING again. Is it on drugs or something? As usual Customer Service Rep is useless! #
Thats all folks. I think I’m done here. #
Airtel had barred my outgoing communication WITHOUT ANY REASON WHATSOEVER! Said system error. FAIL! #
Switching to a dumbphone has made me realise how badly the cell info display has gotten raped by mobile companies! #
Enough fooling around. Off to sleep now. Good night, all. #

Microblog: 2008-11-19

vsaket@gmail.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

I have a fucked throat and a heavy head. I wonder why I came to work in the first place. #
Retweeting @manuscrypts Yangst - the feeling when a CEO has to step down from this role in the company he co-founded #
I love the new sourceforge.net look and feel. #
Trying to install the MG880 (Reliance NetConnect) Data Card on Leopard. This needs some minor hackery. Lets see how it goes. #
At home, online using the ZTE MG880 which has now been configured to work with my Macbook. #
@garimadhiman If you are on Windows, Chrome is your best-choice browser! #
@garimadhiman Ah, well. Only after switching to a webkit based browser do you realise how horribly bloated the Mozilla Gecko is! FF? FAIL! #
@garimadhiman Oh well. I can email you on it if you really need to understand, but for now, take my word for it #
@garimadhiman Err, from google.com/chrome. Thats how everyone gets it. Do you have a firewall problem? #
@Aalaap Dude it just got launched. Patience. #
Got a replacement Airtel SIM around an hour ago. This thing will still take another 4 hours to start working. Never losing phone again! #
@sourceforge Anytime #
Just had a brilliant hot shower. Was feeling slightly feverish before but the shower has done wonders. #
Weird, why am I sweating so much all of a sudden! #
4 hours up. The SIM has failed to work. Customer Care most unhelpful. They say they’ve already activated it but the SIM must have a problem! #
Customer Service Rep refused all help and ask me to go the the gallery again. This is seriously not done. Fuck you, Airtel! #
@hiway Wouldn’t have minded! #
Only recently have I realized how horribly lame Facebook Applications are. A year ago, I used to educate clients on benefits of having one! #
@ruch Pray, what did you find so mad? We are just ordinary people living our lives and sharing our ideas and frustrations online! #
Man. Is browser based RSS Reading weak or what? #
Now WTF is a Blackberry Javelin? #
What I hate about NewsGator, the website is the fact that they built it in ASP.net. Man, are those URLs ugly or what? #

Microblog: 2008-11-18

vsaket@gmail.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

@sarahlane Oh nothing. I guess I was just in a bad mood, thats all. Sorry. #
I totally hate those moments at work when I don’t know where to start. #
The internet connection at work is very badly raped. How do I manage to live with this? #
Forgot to add ‘as usual’. #
Slow day. #
Confused with life. I kind of don’t know where I’m going. Or at least It feels that way. #
@krug95 My life aint mapped on GPS! #
The webchutney.net Gtalk channel has no one left. Maybe I shouldn’t be the only one. #
@b50 Cute chicks are allowed certain privilages. #
@gautamghosh They are kind of used to it. So many people on their lists do it. #

Microblog: 2008-11-17

vsaket@gmail.com — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Back to work on Monday after spending the weekend completely disconnected. Never imagined that losing Blackberry would be so brilliant! #
Today is Trance monday. #
Just flabbergasted looking at IBM’s project plan to move a client’s web presence to a different physical location. These guys are jobless! #
All that is needed is movement of some Joomla files + a MySQL DB. You don’t need a 3 page project plan for that! #
I’m not listening to a track called ‘Whore House’. No matter dark it promises to be. One has to draw some lines SOMEWHERE! #
@gurupanguji Sorry can’t share it. Client related stuff. But I assure you it is a great insight into corporate decadence. #
Listening to this track which has a chorus “Burn motherfucker”. Feels highly liberating. #
A client just uttered the exact words ‘I want to use my tool on it’. I won’t share the context. #
@Bhooshan Trance track. Artist: Nilu, Title: Burn, Album: Endangered Species. #
@b50 Man, thats weak! #
Gonna go grab a bite at Subway. #
@krug95 The new bond aint happening. Somehow Pierce Brosnan ‘fit’ the role. This guy doesn’t. He can’t carry off fighting crooks in a suit! #
I hate visiting online Forums without a search feature. What were those people thinking? #
Serious work done today. GTD list down to 4 easily addressable items. Am I good or what? #
Done for the day. Good night, you all. #

Microblog: 2008-11-14

vsaket@gmail.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

I managed to lose my Blackberry yesterday evening. Feel like a body part has been amputated. Worse, I’ll have to use a dumbphone for a while #
@dipankarsarkar No prizes for guessing. In an autorickshaw. #
Just discovered a Program called Fix Tunes. This shit cleans up your entire iTunes library with zero intervention needed. Almost like magic! #
A client just forwarded an email to me where a subordinate addressed him as ‘respected sir’. Jesus! #
Heading home after a twitterless day owing to the missing phone. Hell, TwitterBerry seriously is a great tool. Tomorrow’s gonna be quieter. #

Microblog: 2008-11-13

vsaket@gmail.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Have my noise-isolating Senheisers become ineffective or is this auto just making too much noise? #
Today appears to be reduced traffic day. I can deal with this much, definitely. Even the traffic can never get a hang of Thursdays. #
Office seems really peaceful. Why can’t everyday be like this? #
my Twitterank is 110.54! http://twitterank.com/?u=Vulturo #
Starting the day with ambient music seems antithetical. But what the heck, its looking like that kind of a day. #
@prolificd Let see. Bibio, Fila Brazilia, Robert Miles, Trilok Gurtu, Karsh Kale, Karunesh, Cafe Del Mar, Massive Attack. Yeah, thats it. #
Being spammed by @nimkarkedar’s Wakoopa. He’s still a newbie and I’m getting lame alerts of him starting to use Powerpoint & Google Reader! #
Bibio is rocking it today! #
Back after lunch at Haka. Brilliant Chinese and all that. But I feel sleepy! #
Heading out of office, to I guess some place interesting. Content. #

Microblog: 2008-11-12

vsaket@gmail.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

I hate Sarah Lane. She’s fucking irritating. #
My autowala is a massive loser. He gets stuck at every fucking signal! #
Used an app called MacDust to ‘clean local caches’ on my Mac. The smartypants software also deleted my Spotlight indexes. Deleting MacDust! #
Bitch! Its going take 2 hours to rebuild my Spotlight index. Next time an app like MacDust promises me the world, I’m gonna take it easy. #
I want Spotlight! I can’t CMD-Space anymore and type whatever I want. And that’s a fucking inconvenience. #
@krug95 No. I can’t tell for sure. I just started the day. Its just that I merely represent angst of the generation! #
Important lesson: never use any ‘beta’ warez on OS X. Most of them are time-limited and eventually stop working, even after cracking serial. #
Good ol’ Spotlight is back. Yah! #
Lunch at Urban Tadka was long and brilliant. I feel like one of the editors of Megadodo Corporation. #
@awtaney I’ve eaten there only once, and it was brilliant! #
Killer Entourage Feature: Select Multiple Messages and press Cmd+E to save all their attachments in a folder which you can select. #
@sagarjadhav Dude, you’ll get beaten up by a Bihari one of these days. Raj Thackeray isn’t cool, just so you know. #
@tushargujar I’m happy with my Twitterrific. Thank you. #
I wonder why PHP developers bother to put URIs for projects on their resumes. Everybody seems to have worked on horribly ugly websites! #
@punkpolkadots Why, darling? #
@tushargujar Doesn’t GoogleTalk already have invisibility? I kinda remember hearing of it as a new feature. #
I’m somehow feeling very methodical today. As if I’m some guy who’s just buried 8 dead bodies and made a clean job of it! #
http://shouldiusetablesforlayout.com/ Thanks @nimkarkedar #
@b50 Kinda late, don’t you think? I started fucking with mine from the second day! #
Not enough bandwidth available to stream music from Last.fm #
Why do people have things such as “Easy Mode” on the web? #
The ‘mactopia’ page at Microsoft.com has got some severe usability issues. When someone clicks on download, it should download. Missed it. #
Downloaded the RDP client. Why is the .mpkg file taking ages to install? Trust Microsoft to fuck things up! #
Just saw a full size illuminated hoarding advertising lingerie, depicting a model. That’s a big leap. So what if the model was white? #
With @nishi_kant at Alfredo’s. Getting Nishi to down some, subsequent to which we can hit Dhuan. #
@krug95 The lingerie was white too. What I meant was that an Indian Woman in Lingerie on a huge hoarding is still not an option here. #
There’s a Channel [V] show on TV entitled G-Spot which shows a lame chick doing somthing with a clunky XP laptop. Naming FAIL. #
Garlic bread with Green Chillies at Alfredos = total WIN! #
@tushargujar try Adium or Pidgin for Invisible Gtalk goodness! #
Alfredos done. Now for Dhuan. #
Long chat with @nishi_kant at Dhuan. Tiesto in the background set the mood. #
New discovery by @nimkarkedar: you can dial and 911 on any Nokia/Sony Erricsson handset even when the keypad is locked. Sweet! #
Lying in bed, trying to sleep. Somehow sleeping doesn’t seem right at this hour. #
Is today a slow news day, or what? I plowed through all my RSS feeds to unearth nothing of interest! #
@krug95 Didn’t say nothing. The number in India is 100, which unforunately doesn’t work with the keypad lock on. #
@krug95 Maybe. Should tide me through for 15 days. And then I’ll have to move up another. My biological clock keeps shifting to higher ones. #
Its time for zzz… Good night, those of you, who are still up! #

Microblog: 2008-11-11

vsaket@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Listening to TWiT on my way to work. Here’s hoping for a great day! #
Is Obama serious about the CTO business he was babbling about during the campaign? #
I really love the way the folks at TWiT have cracked advertising. A personalised message is much better than canned audio ads in podcasts. #
Internet connection dying on you when you are trying to see a credit card payment = FAIL. Down with Webchutney’s connection! #
Why doesn’t Windows allow slashes and colons in the filename? They are absolutely fine in Unix and OS X! #
Rumpistol. Keeps Me Going. #
@ideasmithy Heh! #
Maggi cooked in a microwave smells BAD. If only my coworkers could understand that… #
“Good afternoon, Saket! You have 1192 unread messages in your Inbox.” Yes, Yahoo! Mail - that is so comforting… #
Okay. All 1192 Messages deleted. #
Lunchtime strikes before I can get any more work done. @nishi_kant is dragging me away from the desk! #
All set for an expensive lunch at Kailash Parbat with @nishi_kant. Welcome break from all those boring Versova joints. #
@nishitd I meant Linux, sorry. I’ve done slashes in Linux filenames I think. #
Gah. I’m sick of spammer ‘Fake Hot Chicks’. Too many of them on Yahoo! IM. Now a huge number of them seem to have made it to Twitter, too! #
Plesk Server log rotation is a pain. You have to do it manually for EACH domain! #
I see a Vimax Pill ad on Flickr, with a message at the bottom “Wanna go ad free? Go Pro”. Its a fucking conspiracy, I tell you! #
@nishitd I wonder how OS X Manages the / in the file name. I routinely name my files with dates e.g. Report 8/10/08 #
@zaphod You bloody marketer. #
@rsukumar Welcome to the club! #
@krug95 two pairs of socks? Pray, explain. #
@Shadez Tiesto rocks my box. #
@krug95 I used to feel the same thing before I joined them! #
Thin chick at office called Mariel just got nicknamed ‘Arial Narrow’. LMAO! #
Home at last. The day at work wasn’t so bad. Hope the evening is better. #
Just looked at an automated twitter-microblog posting on vulturo.com and realised how it is actually a ‘daily show’ featuring me. #
@jinal_shah Meet me. Trust it should be fun! #
Checked out some of my friends’ twitter pages for the day. This really is cool! #
@jinal_shah sure I am. I’ll dm my number to you. Just message me when you are around or leave a tweet! #
@krug95 aww, C’mon! I did nothing of that kind. I merely smiled or sighed. #
Just read a circular detailing an Annual General Meeting held in my housing society. Funny to see legalese which details my building people #
Apparently, members of the society’s administration unanimously voted to extend their terms in office till 2010. Politics. Its everywhere! #
@krug95 No. I follow nice people. And I don’t delete them off my list! #
Wondering if I should install the Opera Mini 4.2 beta. My 4.1 stable works just fine. But I’m such a sucker for version numbers! #
Facebook adding comments to the mobile version = Win! #
I represent the angst of our generation. That’s the best thing someone has ever told me. Thanks @ideasmithy! #

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My Tweetcloud [Flickr]

Vulturo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:30:20 -0500

Vulturo posted a photo:

Weighted cloud of my most used expressions on twitter. Work seems to be tops!

Mozilla Firefox Download Day [Flickr]

Vulturo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:05:20 -0500

Vulturo posted a photo:

The Mozilla homepage on 17th June.

Showdown at Office [Flickr]

Vulturo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:01:35 -0600

Vulturo posted a photo:

Stuff unearthed at the time of moving offices can be used to take intensely emotional pictures.

Yo Nigga's [Flickr]

Vulturo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:01:25 -0600

Vulturo posted a photo:

Stuff unearthed at the time of moving offices can be used to take intensely emotional pictures.

Life's A Mess [Flickr]

Vulturo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:01:12 -0600

Vulturo posted a photo:

This could only be discovered by the Webchutney Mumbai branch head, when totally random stuff got unearthed, on the great day of office shifting