tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52545592011-12-15T10:59:13.177+08:00as the title said rnd() :)randomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07572551171743760888noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254559.post-1145967422605535452006-04-25T20:11:00.000+08:002006-04-25T20:17:02.606+08:00

We all hate all those pop-ups, pop-unders, flashing banners and colorful gifs on websites. To avoid all those I do most of my surfing on Firefox with Adblock running and Flash not installed. Nowdays another form of advertisement, where words become links which show a pop-up if mouse is moved over them. You can see an example on Indian Express site. The idea being say people reading a story

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Google Mapscontinues to amaze me and I am quite fascinated with it. People link to all kind of things found on them with a latest refresh told by Google Earth blog, points to these, each of which is amazing.MaldivesLas VegasStone Hedge

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A recent conversation with a few friends along with this blog post about a desi feeling being discriminated against, stirred in my mind another reference to Boston Legal. Feels odd, cos before that only references I have ever made were from friends and funny ones and I did not expect a drama like BL to stir anything. Maybe it is better than the official light drama tag it has.The BL episode I was

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Now it is turn of Mr. Amartya Sen (AS) to set me off to a rant. I have an in-built dislike for feminists. Not feminism, just feminists. They all remind me of politicians, trying to earn brownie points. Combine it put kind of journalism we see nowdays, things never come out as intended. I am not aware of the context, but I did not particularly the way following statement was put."Talking of how

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A good piece and a different viewpoint on the Abhishek Kasliwal rape incident by Uptown Girl. It is written by a member of the fairer sex. But the cynic in me thought what if it was written by a guy? Would people had been similarly generous or they would have had a different viewpoint. The guy must be really sexist, MCP, When will Indian guys grow up and the usual shenanigans (Pardon the spelling

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Disclaimer: My sis is studying there.This whole saga going on makes me feel stupid! Let me just count the number of ways this whole thing sux.1. IIPM advertises with facts which to say the least are fishy, with certain selective facts.2. JAM publishes another set of selective facts which are damaging to IIPM. ( Do not spam me on that. We all are selective when we want to say good/bad about

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10337491Aha if it was only so easy. Actually, I was today only wondering about the frequent trips by nation heads to other countries. I think only difference between those now and earlier is during the times of royalty the kings used to come back with a new bride.

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One of my friends mailed an article, which talks about the normal rant of comparing what America did in Iraq and what it has been doing in general throughout its times in Vietnam, Latin and Central America and practically all over the globe, since World War II. You can find a bigger list of USA interferences throughout here. Another friend pointed out the obvious fallacy of the whole statement.

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Ro: "Before you know it, the renaissance will be here and we'll all be painting"

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I really hate the increasing number of places being targetted, the oddest was murder in Netherland last year, by terroists. But it does give rise to good journalism, thoughts, ideas and opinions which bring forward the real issues, which are far, far away from what the terroists think these are. Excellent example would be this Telegraph piece. There were two good pieces at The Straits Times,

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cyph3rpunk - IT very strong

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I was checking my blog after long time. I have recently started software product development company and since last post had been very busy with it. The first couple of weeks internet was not set up and I was not able to post. Then the whole routine set and lost the habit of writing. I would always get ready to write and short stop of actually doing it. Today, I was checking and found first

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I have not followed any Idols around the world, except the first few episodes which are sometimes genuinely funny. I found out there was an Indian Idol only last month. There had been earlier talent shows on Indian channels. I think Sa Re Ga Ma was the first one, followed by Meri Awaaz Suno which was a one time thing. Sunidhi came through one of these only. I am not aware of any other names which

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One of my friends raised the question of goodness of open-source, cos someone he knew who is knowledgeable in OSS got frustrated implementing Linux enterprise solutions and downloading Apache from random servers like Playboy. Below are my comments.________________________________________My guess is basically trying to say OSS is not good enough for two reasons. I will disregard PGP comment cos

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I was watching a documentary on Wal-Mart the other day on CNBC and could not help wondering what people really hate about it. Is it too much concentration of power? Is it its labor practices? Is it its utter drive for efficiency in every way? Or the big picture and the power of captialism when applied in all its ruthlessness? I could not pin-point what to fault with. McDonald's labor practices

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I am confused. Really. Because of 2 movies I saw recently. Pleasantville and The Village. The common thread being associated with living a life away from our current life, which can be termed complex in many ways. Pleasantville votes for the complexity, not in terms of life, but in terms of the human mind, The Village leaves that question hanging. Which one is better.?This complex life or a

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Let me start by an encouraging story before going into more gory ones. This piece in Rediff report of a village Samiyar Pettai village in Cuddalore district which suffered comparatively less damage becuase the people there had had training for disaster management and recovery and were able to survive through the disaster. This shows the long term approach which should be taken to mitigate the

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Finally, sex seems to have come out of closet and come to the living room....er I mean on the personal computer. The number of recent scandals and their availability from Pallika Bazaar in Delhi to Grant Road in Mumbai have shooked the nation. Their is Anara Gupta(right?) case from Jammu to the infamous MMS scandal and many more that I keep hearing everyday. Supposedly there are similar

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My theory nowdays is there is no killer idea for technology nowdays. Just a combination of tools which makes the tasks easier. Or killer combination. PDA-Phones anyone? Still sometimes you think you have got something which is a nice take on existing things and probably deserves a look. With so much focus on search nowdays, I was thinking of the work I have done this year. Beginning of the

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I have held strong views on the way computers are being used today. The whole personal computer has resulted in a boom but is it required. Of course there has been productivity gain and blah blah, use of essentially the same Personal Computers in Business arena and offices does not make sense. People are treating the computers they are in control of very badly ( well, if computers had lawyers,

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I had been away for trip to NZ from 25th till yesterday. Amazing place. But about that later. During the time I checked me emails once. That too I was checking about stuff in Auckland and had some time left on the clock. No net except that. After coming back I was going through all the backlog. Emails are usually no problems. The list might be long but they are there. With currently increased

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Talking to a friend, I told him that it will be pretty suave for Sonia Gandhi to not become PM. The reason being taking the heat out of opposition plans and anyway she does not seem so suited for that. Not exactly a PM material so to say. I do not know whether she also thought similarly but seems to have arrived at same decision with Manmohan Singh to forefront. And he seems much smarter, may be

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From the first looks at the moment, mid-term seems imminent. Which would be pretty ironic considering NDA will be able to say we will provide you stability and Congress would not be able to. See change. Actually first change in this long series has already occured. Earlier it used to be Congress vs Anti-Congress. Now it is more BJP vs Anti-BJP. Coming to this elections, I am not sure how much a

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First Reaction. Aiyaaa. Not Congress. But basically not Sonia Gandhi. Though many a slip between cup and the lip, it seems all set to happen. Just a small look at arithmetic. Congree ~220. Left ~60. Basically that alone seals the deal. Apart from that BSP ~15 and sure other smaller entities and independents will join, in case needed. Talking about maths, surprisingly so many states have clean

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Some utterly shameless copies from the slashdot regarding the war.War and America 11. America and RebuildingRebuilding: Let's see, how about some examples of "rebuilding" we've directly involved outselves in more recently (40 years):* Guatemala: urged by the United Fruit Company (outraged that the democratically elected socialist government was going to take their land, paying them exactly what

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