Welcome to the world of Deepak.

Was checking out todays edition of ‘ The Hindu’ and noticed a quarter-page ad for Emerson. There were two things funny about the ad:

1. The ad was about saving business in Brazil. What is the point of putting up an ad in an Indian daily about Brazil? We are in a country where we are not even bothered about own natural resources. Does the company think we will jump in to save Brazil???

2. Was happy when I saw a bar-code in the ad. Immediately fired up my Android phone’s bar-code reader and scanned it. It took me to a page which didn’t open. It had a server error in the mobile module of the site:
http://www.emerson.com/nbdmobile/defaultnbdb.aspx

A company that spends such huge money in a newspaper ad, shouldn’t they have checked everything. I feel this is money down the drain…

connected to the net using my new 3G USB modem and BSNL 3G —

I have linked my Twitter account to my blog and whenever I tweet, it shows up as a post here. Earlier I thought it is cool as I can now update the blog through Twitter. However, I realized that the posts aren’t under my control and I have to log in here to modify the post-titles and stuff like that.

And I felt that the home page was always cluttered. Today, I took the decision to remove Twitter updates from my homepage. But I had a problem. These tweets are under a separate category. I don’t wanna unlink them. I just don’t want those tweets in my Home Page. After searching through WordPress docs, I came across this wonderful plugin -”Advanced Category Excluder“.

All I did was install the plugin, then in the plugin settings, removed off the ‘twitter’ category from showing up on my homepage…

Presto…. a clean home page …

I was playing around with my new android phone & as usual was inside the Android marketplace. I noticed Calvin’s app there and went inside to install it.

Once done with the installation, I noticed that there is no website listed under the developer’s details. This app has been downloaded more than 250k times.

What a waste of screenplace real-estate. The developer had left the website as the default one, which is example.com. Am thinking how much traffic us lost to his potential website. Hmm

I think I will drop him a line about this. Let’s see how this goes.

P.s. this post entirely written using my new HTC desire.

I use Twitter a lot nowadays. Either I am sending updates like all other twitters around the world or spend a lot of time trying to follow what others are doing – going to sleep, waking up or having breakfast and so on. I have even followed by a lot of spammers who have links showing me how to get 30,000 followers in minutes. Thank God, I am sensible enough not fall for these.

However, today, for the first time, I received an email spam which I thought I will post here.

Hi,

I’m sure you heard the news about Twitter growing
30% in one month,from 60 up to 80 million users…
This is a fantastic opportunity to build your list
of contacts, and increase your sphere of influence!
You could even get to be viewed as an authority figure
in your area of expertise.

http://xxxxxxx.xxx

But you really need to know which websites and
applications to use so you can take advatage of chet to text!
The Twitter Trick is chuck full of all the pertinent
information that you need,to take advantage of this hot
marketing trend…right now!
And yes, it’s only , so you can’t possilby lose,
you could spend twice
that for a latte at Starbucks!
Thanks,
ALLEN ENDREICHE
P.S. I heard this is just a test market, so don’t let this
slip thru your fingers,
Order Right Away!

http://xxxxxxx.xxx

So, people don’t fall for these. Be careful…