Valley Chai

my 3-yr old twin boys barely notice the transition. but i think their lifestyle has changed significantly, and do believe their trajectory is going to be profoundly different.
in the bay area, they used to have a quite an opportunity for playtime. we had a townhome right across the street from the dixon landing park in […]

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quick check-in after 2 months of arriving in bangalore with self and family. most things are in place, except for the cable tv hookup. more on the gadgetry later. but i thought i’d post about a few aspects of bangalore life and contrast with bay area life in the next few posts. here’s the first […]

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the media rumor-mill aside, the message from yahoo management aside, the decision tree leading to yahoo!’s test of google’s adsense for search product for it’s sponsored search ads is perplexing. look at the two possible outcomes of the test -
(a) a success - i.e., google’s adsense for search performs better than yahoo’s own sponsored search […]

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finally (!!) we got our household goods delivered to our home in bangalore yesterday. here’s the story of the voyage of my stuff across the 7 seas.
we basically chose our shipping carrier (air7seas) on the basis of the ads they place on various free mags that we used to browse around at desi food joints. […]

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i live in an apartment block called Embassy Tranquil, which is one of those places where companies house their expats on the cheap. so here’s a short incident, per my wife - she’s gone to the neighbor’s apartment to hook them up with a maid-servant.
knock-knock (on the neighbor’s door).
– a man opens the […]

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