Arun Raghavan » rant

The funnies

Arun — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:10:00 +0000

From a random link:

My future wasn’t just stolen. It was taken into a back alley, beaten, raped, stabbed, and then tossed back out into the street to die right in front of my eyes.

HDFC Bank is teh suck

Arun — Sun, 21 May 2006 16:52:00 +0000

Never, ever go to HDFC Bank for a housing loan. They’re third-class brokers for the HDFC Ltd., who actually give you the loan. Deal with HDFC Ltd. directly instead — they’re relatively decent and polite, don’t make false promises, don’t make you run around and don’t tell bare-faced lies.

Sigh

Arun — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:17:00 +0000

It absolutely sucks to be a buyer in a seller’s market.

As I said

Arun — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:42:00 +0000

Do you really want this to happen?

Yes, yes, I know it’s an old article – I’m just caatching up with my reading ever so slowly now.

Stupid stupid stupid

Arun — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:24:00 +0000

I wish IBM could have stood up for this Gaurav Sabnis fellow. Not endorse his view, but not succumb to bullshit like “bad publicity”. Stupid pusillanimous corporates and their unwillingness to make moral stands.

[Addendum: Naivete is bad. Perhaps all is not to be taken at face value]

[Addendum2: IIPM's "legal" notice was such a gas]

[Addendum3: As pointed out, the guy's manager asked him to reconsider, so IBM technically did do something to stand up for him]

GNOME Bangalore, my butt

Arun — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:53:00 +0000

Happened to be visiting gnomebangalore.org, and saw this. GNOME Bangalore is most certainly not, if the “Community” (it infuriates me that this is the word used) Meet is “OPEN TO: Those currently in NOSIP and those interested to join or know more about the program.”

Okay, maybe I’m wrong and it’s just an error. That is my hope, at any rate.

I do not believe the GNOME Bangalore body is managing to organise an actual community around GNOME-users/devs, but around NOSIP interns. I’m open to correction, if anyone knows better.