“It wasn’t how I wanted to do, but I made it!”

How I did it: After moving to the US life changed a lot and for the first time in my life without a car or motorcycle, I had to use public transport and walk a lot.Back in India, I tried working out for a few weeks but that didn’t yield any positive results. Now I realize that it’s possible to lose weight without …

My new friend… a little camera shy… her name is S****u.

Michael Hobbs of Waco, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to five counts of burglar and claimed that he learned how to break into homes by watching the Discovery Channel TV show “It Takes a Thief”, as reported by First Coast News. Hobbs is sentenced to 12 years in prison. The show features two ex-convicts who show property owners how vulnerable they are to theft.

Most of you should have already noticed that Mobile-Review.com, the popular Russian website is down from the past 5 days because of a DDoS attack supposedly by Apple fan boys after the iPhone review was published on the site. The site gets upto 200,000 uniques per day and serves upto 700,000 pages exceeding a bandwidth of 500GB.

Eldar Murtazin, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com posted an open letter today talking about the attack. Here is an excerpt from …

Amit Malhotra, the son of a Ludhiana garment manufacturer and property dealer, won the auction organised by Hutch for the mobile number 9780000000. He payed a jaw-dropping INR1,550,000 (US$39,300) for the number.

“What do we say,” chuckled a Hutch employee who didn’t want to be named. “If people have the money, let them buy the moon.”

Amit learned last week that the company was going to release ‘VIP’ numbers and applied for one. Then he was told it planned to auction these …

I am preparing to take the GRE next month so I thought of adding some kind of vocabulary help on my blog.

So I coded this little hack which shows a random word and its meaning in the blog sidebar. A new word loads every time you navigate to a different page or refresh the page.

Let me know your views about this. The word is right below the blogroll on the right sidebar.

I wanted to make it more advanced, like showing …

Apple seems to be trying too hard to promote their iPhone. They have gone as far as reporting false specs about their competitors’ phones.

Today, Apple put up a page on their site with a couple of images comparing the battery life of the preliminary and production iPhone versions. There is another image comparing the specs of iPhone with the Nokia N95, Samsung Blackjack, Blackberry Curve 8300, and Palm Treo 750.

The image shows that …