You and I, in this beautiful world..

The Hutch campaign with the pug following the kid is back on air. Its a nice ad, little boy, cute dog, nice jingle but the truth is that the "our network follows" claim is utter bullshit. I think it is so very bullshit because in my office on Airport road right in the heart of Bangalore city where all other networks follow you without explicitly saying so, people with Hutch connections have plenty to cry about! And its not as if we are in a deep cave of something..shame on you Hutch..your network symbolizing omnipresent wrinkly toy doggy just cannot get past the access control in our office..
Update: And of course here is some trivia about the dog.

Dear social networking friends

All dear friends with social networking enthusiasm,
I am enthusiastic too...but a tad bit lesser than all of you who seem to be intent on replicating social networks on Orkut, Gazzag, Multiply and the likes. I have about 150 direct friends and to add them takes up a fair amount of time. I really really do not want to invest similar amounts of time going ahead and adding the same friends on a different social networking site. I do not see any value in it. If there is please do tell me. I am happy with Orkut and I am happy with the set of friends I have on it. So please resist from flooding my inbox with requests to join Gazzag, Multiply or whatever.

Google calls!

Its now official. I have resigned from IBM Rational yesterday and will be joining Google Bangalore in January. Will be in Nagpur on a 2 week break between jobs since my parents have just shifted back from Pune. Planning to relax a bit and then get the renovation of our house in Nagpur started. Here's looking forward to a good time at Google. Cheers!