The Shishir Kumar Website

May 6, 2010

16, 15, 14 were the ages of John Lenon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison when they started playing together. Richard Starkey was the real name of Ringo Starr. Ringo Starr was the first to actually leave the group, walking out in 1968 during the acrimonious White Album sessions. As a result, the remaining Beatles all took turns on the drums for some of the...

Recently I was reading a report on the rise of social networking giant Facebook in India and how it can eventually surpass the popular Orkut just by its sheer size. The news is a bit surprising, especially if you consider the fact that Brazil and India have been considered as two of the most popular markets of Orkut for years. Let’s start analyzing from our...

Windows world The first version of Microsoft’s Windows was launched in 1985. Today, it runs on over 90 per cent of the world’s billion-plus computers Penguin flop The open source Linux operating system, developed in the early 1990s, has failed to challenge Windows and has a meagre 2 per cent market share SEARCH giant Google on Wednesday unveiled a...

I’ve seen a lot of lists that try to focus bloggers on the types of posts that really attract readers. Some of these lists are as long as 50ish, or even 100ish long, and that seems little extensive to me. Not to say that the breakdown is not appreciated, but listing sub-categories to some larger overall topics seems little daunting. What I have done here is...