The VultureKraft

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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Microblog: 2008-11-10

vsaket@gmail.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

The last thing I need on a Monday morning is a horrible traffic jam. May the fucker who caused it die of leukemia. #
Why are we here? #
@b50 One must keep it fresh and interesting. #
I really itch for a mad Linux rig. I wonder what I would do with it considering I love the Macbook too. Torn. #
Anybody has experience doing mass 301 redirects on IIS for SEO purposes i.e. website moved to new platform changing all URIs? Do tell me. #
Came across a blog titled ‘My MCP Life’. I was like ‘what?!’ then I realized the guy was merely a Microsoft Certified Professional! #
Is there a button in Facebook to delete all Apps at once? #
@sachinchaudhari Yeah seriously need it. Funny considering that we exclusively did Facebook apps for a living, for a some time. #
Removed TwitterBerry 0.7 Beta from my Blackberry. Now installing version 0.8. This seriously is the best mobile Twitter client ever. #
Happy Birthday Firefox. No matter how much I hate you, you still were an important first step towards the future death of Internet Exploder! #
TwitterBerrry 0.8. Awesomeness! #
Historic win for India. Heh! #
Lunch with @nishi_kant at Haka. Anybody at @webchutney joining? #
The day has officially ended, but I still have shyte left to finish, as always. I long for the day I’ll leave office at 6 #
Whats with Steve Ballmer praising the iPhone. Is that guy unwell or something? #
@punkpolkadots Upen Patel. Why? I mean thats gross. #
Just experienced the 0 unread items in Newsgator Nirvana moment. #
Just went through all my ‘To-Do’ flagged work email all the way back to May 08. Seriously, those were some much happier times. Feel empty. #
Finished doing the GTD list. 18 tasks is all I have? Seriously? Well, easier said than done, but I’ll go for it. #
Just got myself some some minimalistic, grayscale wallpaper featuring Angelina Jolie looking vulnerable, raw and sensual. Goddess! #
http://twitpic.com/l1o9 - If you like Jolie, here’s a treat. #
@krug95 You don’t think she looks raw, vulnerable and sensual? I mean, in that pic. #
Just followed around 15 more people on Twitter. Doing this on a periodic basis is too painful. #
@krug95 Ah well. Maybe I’m looking at her through a Guy filter. #
After being spammed on Facebook by Save The Turtles and Say No To Software Patents, its now time for Society for Protection Of Tigers. Weak! #
Kinda figured. Listening to music at work withj earphones is a crazy productivity booster. #
@krug95 I’m GMT+0530. #
Twitter is a unique social platform. In 140 characters, you are expected to create a personality for yourself! #
Horror. Had missed downloading my TWiT episode. Its done now. #
Zzz… Finally. #

Microblog: 2008-11-09

vsaket@gmail.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Okay, so we now have this satellite thing orbiting the moon which will crashland a Tricolor flag on the Moon’s surface. How does that help? #
I’ve decided to be a good boy and finish my RSS reading list as well as listen to all remaining Podcasts on my iPod today. #
Is it safe to say that OS X 10.5.5 runs faster than Ubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex on a machine with similiar specs? I think it is. Ideas? #
@awtaney @trippyhippy I think India’s moon mission is one of the lamest thing to happen in recent history. Chandrayaan eh? Grow up, suckers! #
Another observation: Windows 7 sucks. Like totally. If anything, this should have been released as the great ‘Longhorn/Vista’ 3 years ago! #
Stop customising Firefox to be ‘lightweight, fast, minimal’ or anything similiar. Uninstall it and get Chrome if you are a Windows user. #
Has anybody tried Songbird yet? Apparently, the 1.0 is out. #
What’s with all these .io domain names? #
No WiFi on the Blackberry Storm = FAIL! #
Yahoo is so fucked! I’m sure shareholders and employees want to whip Jerry Yang’s ass so bad, that its unrecognisable as being ANYONE’s ass! #
Mom’s watching a talent show on TV and two competing teams are ‘Centre Ke Sikander’ and ‘Purab Ke Suraj’. Is that FAIL or what? #
Craigslist to start taking money from hookers. LOL! Trust Valleywag to come up with the best headlines #
Opera Mini is a great browser which totally sucks on the Blackberry for it doesn’t have a friendly enough UI. I mean Opera Mini, not the BB! #
Feed reading done for the day. Now for a small nap! #
There’s an article in the Times today, about ‘legalising live-in relationships’. Excuse me? #
RSS, Podcasts and the Sunday Paper done. Nap done. Listening to some music now. Melodic IDM it is. #
Aphex Twin totally rocks it. Or should I say IDMs it?! #
Managed to cut myself with an almost new Mach 3 Turbo despite following all instructions at slickmach.com. And it was just stubble. FAIL! #
Traffic jam in Kandivli of all places. What next? #
Just bought a sweet pair of Sennheisers to go with my iPod. The stock earphones can die now. Thanks @trippyhippy for the inspiration! #
Heading to Cinemax after brief stopover at office. Watching movie with mom and bro. #
Boneheaded motherfucking son of an autorider has lost himself on way to Infiniti Mall from Versova link road. FAIL! #
@rohandighe @preshit CX300 in-ear Earphones. Came with earbuds of 3 different sizes. Noise Isolation. Great bass. Sweet for 1500 bucks. #
Back home after watching Bond flick. Must sleep now. Long day tomorrow. Good night, world. #

Microblog: 2008-11-08

vsaket@gmail.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Classic Saturday evening football on TV. Arsenal vs Man U #
Arsenal lead 1-0. Nasri scored. a quick one in the 22nd. Didn’t see that coming. #
I’m going on record to say that the Nintendo Wii is for gay people. #
Long chat with anirban81. Just had a personal epiphany. #

Microblog: 2008-11-07

vsaket@gmail.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:29:59 +0000

Who in their right minds schedules a meeting at 9 at the client’s office? My company is full of jerks! #
The marketing head at the client’s end has a cheap assed Zenith laptop. FAIL! #
Bored. One can dwell on a single website only for this much time. Can’t take more. #
Headed to office after the meeting, with some Clickhop to keep me entertained. #
Autowalas who don’t have the necessary change have blighted Mumbai. They need to be banished! #
I don’t know why Wakoopa tracker refuses to auto-start with my Mac. This used to work fine earlier! #
Listening to music on a brilliant pair of earphones. Thanks @trippyhippy! #
Me and @nishi_kant have the same pirated copy of Office 2008/Mac. Turns out both of us can’t use it at the same time from the same network! #
The last thing I need is ‘public service’ motivational messages in my work Inbox. Down with the SEO dept moron who sends them! #
Did I ever say SEO is immoral? Well, Now I am. It defeats the whole purpose of search. #
Are there agencies in India ‘cooler’ than Webchutney? I really need to know. #
@manimeow Find the nearest air conditioner. #
@punkpolkadots Why Pune? and whats wrong with it? #
Looking forward to the evening. Plan on watching Quantum of Solace with @nishi_kant and @trippyhippy #
Gah! Quantum of Solace canned. @nishi_kant unable to get tickets #
Off for the day. A relaxed evening at home beckons. #

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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