We knew it right from 1992. Now the world knows.
Congrats Rahman!
I liked his acceptance speech:
All my life I had the choice between hate and love. I choose love and here I am.
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Great Monday
BD
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What a news to start the morning with
BD
Congrats ARR
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Is there anybody out there?
BD
I’m not sure if you share this feeling. Every morning, as I browse through the newspaper, it feels as if I already know what’s gonna be in it. I switch to TV, looking for some excitement. The same feeling again. Things have become so predictable!
I ultimately end up relying on my morning tea to wake up me fully.
However, the best part is my drive to work. It’s like playing a video game where you got to manoeuvre your car through myriads of obstacles. Every day is a new challenge, a new way to beat the traffic and reach office in time. That wakes me up! May be I’ll write about Bangalore traffic jams some other day. They are quite notorious if you didn’t know about them already.
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It’s been a long time indeed since these blog’s got updated. I’m not sure if you guys are still tuned in. Whoever is, let me ask you this. “How have you been doing?”
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Ritesh
Doing good
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Gary
Ah, suddenly something. Not too bad here btw.
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Priyanka
Good One. Someone once said: In India u drive on the left of the road… in blore u drive where the road is left
Looking forward to ur blog on Bangalore traffic
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BD
Hey! nice to hear from you guys
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Hemanshu
I’m here too dude.. always here. Nice to hear back from you!
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Kanupriya
Somehow, I still feel that you’re in America!
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guess
You are psychic? you already know whats gonna be in the newspapers? Can I have the lottery numbers then
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Lenovo thinking about Linux
BD
A while back, on Dell’s adoption of Linux for its home user segment, I had said:
Dell happens to be the number 1 PC maker in the US. It won’t be wrong to assume that other PC manufacturers would mimic Dell’s strategy.
And guess what, now Lenovo has this to say in its blog:
… One of our competitors has done so and it seems to be working out for them. (I won’t say who, because every time I mention a competitor by name, you should see the five-alarm fire that erupts over here. You all know who I’m talking about though.)
It also mentions:
… we’re spending way too much time on the enterprise market and not enough on the enthusiast market. Enterprises have been, and will continue to be, slow to adopt Linux for some of the reasons I outlined, but there are nonetheless a LOT of people running Linux out there, especially on their ThinkPads.
Lenovo has started a poll asking users to vote for their favorite distros which they want to see officially supported for their Thinkpads. Go ahead vote for your distros!
All thanks to Vista! Thank you Microsoft, you’re finally going to help us get rid of Bug #1.
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nandini
post something new, dis boring
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Amit
email me at amohanty**purdue**eduuuuuuuuuuuuu
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black_mamba
Is this gonna Kill You? No i Dont Think so !
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tarun1026
BD, I started this thing.
http://www.techbanyan.com/about
What do you think
Do lemme know. You do remember my fishing boat venture…do ya?
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Shantanu
Hey, have you stopped blogging altogether?
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Fatima
Pakistan is gearing up for yet another elections early next year, and for an indepth analysis, news and, discussion, and
extensive debate, click on
Pakistan Elections 2008
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On being separate
BD
An interesting video about non-dualism
At this juncture I’d also like to share an excerpt from Wayne Liquorman’s (aka Ram Tzu) poem:
Go back to your church, your temple,
Your therapist, your drug dealer, your ashram.
There you may find a moments peace.
You found it there once.
Here is only emptiness for you.
You’ll find no food for your ego here.
What if your precious sense of self
Were to shrivel up and die?
Where would you be then?
What would happen?
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I Me My
Beautiful poem! Do you think Blakes “Songs of Innocence” and then the “Songs of Experience” were a reflection of this belief? I
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nandini
To comment on a comment, but wouldn’t contrasting Blake’s poem generally show that God is indifferent?
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nandini
I was talking about the referral to Blake’s poem, contrasting the songs of innocence and the Songs of experience, can show that either 1. God does not exist or 2. God is indifferent .
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Milk for the Cat
BD
If you happen to be a cat lover, you surely must have read Harold Monro’s “Milk for the Cat“.
I had come across this poem at school. It’s been one of the most cherished ones till date; not only because it was amazingly detailed, but also because I grew up in the company of cats
But why am I writing a post on cats? It’s not caturday is it? No, what really triggered this post is this song I accidentally discovered on Youtube:
Both Harold’s poem and this video exude some kind of timelessness, which I find hard to pin point. May be it’s as simple as “love for cats.”
What if Harold Monro were to be alive in today’s times? He’d probably come up with something like the “Mean kitty” song
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The Sacrificial Lamb
BD
Just stumbled upon this:
Nepal’s state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft.
I don’t know who really is the sacrificial lamb; the goat or the passengers? If you happen to use Nepal Airlines for your travels, you better decide
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nuttellinu
which god is responsible for the airplanes?
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US bomber loaded with nuclear missile by mistake
BD
An Air Force B-52 bomber flew across the central United States last week with six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads that were mistakenly attached to the airplane’s wing, defense officials said yesterday.
The Stratofortress bomber, based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, was transporting a dozen Advanced Cruise Missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Aug. 30. But crews inadvertently loaded half of them with nuclear warheads attached.
(emphasis mine) Washington PostAlso read the story here.
Geosci blog has some reactions.
Having the worlds largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the mistake is no doubt embarrassing for the nuclear messiah.
But, at least they made it public.
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Mihir
They made it public because the nuclear missiles were no danger to anyone even if they were launched
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Mihir
These things don’t need to be hushed up. Hushing up every “embarrassing” incident is best left to the likes of the Soviets and Chinese.
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BD
Hushing up every “embarrassing” incident is best left to the likes of the Soviets and Chinese.
I’m glad that you finally got my point
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Mihir
Ach!
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Sam
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Marvel vs DC
BD
We have so many Mac vs PC parodies floating around, but this one’s the best I’ve come across so far. Here’s some Marvel vs DC action!
There are more here
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Prostitutes no longer criminals
BD
If the proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act of 1956 are passed, prostitutes would no longer be treated as criminals.
However their profession would still continue to be treated as an illegal one.
Fifty years after India enacted a legal framework to check prostitution, Government has finally decided to go for a radical change in the law.
The Immoral Traffic Prevention Act of 1956 is being amended and sex workers will now be treated as victims and not as offenders. They cannot even be asked to vacate the property they reside in.
“It’s not legalising, it’s decriminalising of the prostitutes. Most of them are in it not by choice,” says Chairman, Centre for Social Research, Ranjana Kumari.
The oldest profession in the world still continues to be illegal in India, depriving prostitutes of their legal rights, and thus making them vulnerable to exploitation.
Given the socio-cultural impediments, legalizing prostitution might be suicidal for the administration at this juncture.
But with this creative middle ground adopted by the Goverment through the proposed amendment, the prostitutes, particularly those who have been pushed into this profession against their will, might get some legal rights.
Women who have entered the profession voluntarily, or those who wish to stay, might have to wait a little longer.
One step at a time, I guess.
Related read:
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Anonymi
The new act proposes to go after the costumer. Considering that 60 percent enter the trade by their own fair judgement for financial motives, this act would further drive the market underground, The new act instead proposes to go after the costumer. Considering that 60 percent of the trade is run by non-trafficked individuals, wouldn’t this act be unfairly hurting their trade. Also it is only natural that an industry adapt to the needs of its costumer, this trade more so. Which means we will be effectively driving the industry deeper underground, which is the way the market will respond to protect the consumer, of course at an increased risk to the prostitutes themselves. Ineffectively half hearted at best, harmfully retrograde at worse.
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Anonymi
And yes, that was customer, not costumer
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Raindreamer
of course not pest but best intrests
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BD
@Anonymi and Raindreamer
You guys should start using Firefox — it has inbuilt spell checker
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topcat
i heard somewere in my economics class tat prostitutes are duly payin their taxes……
is that true????
wat do u feel????
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Google indic transliteration
BD
is simply the best indic transliteration tool I’ve come across till date.
Currently it’s just available for Hindi. Hopefully this would be added to Google’s localized pages — and support for more languages and scripts is always welcome. (via: india uncut)
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riteshm
Blogger uses it. Sorry
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sayan
awesome
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Parth
Check out the Tranliteration app for Google adapted to Joomla at the downloads section of http://www.tekdi.net
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sandeep
Presently Google is supporting only 5 langauages(kannada,tamil,telgu,malayalam,hindi). I am looking for transliterating into Oriya langauge. Please suggest me if you know any API which can support oriya,
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Azasphen
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pohentt
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Dr Pragatika Mishra
Hi
Also i am looking for an API / Plug ins for Oriya…
also i have developed a plug ins like IndicIME but could not able to eradicate the Glyph Errorcan any body help me out please ??
Also if any body can solve/ develop can i get the update information sharing pls ??
Regards
Dr. Pragatika Mishra
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Dailytimes Hacked
BD
Just got this via email (thanks Ayesha). It seems the website of leading Pakistani daily Dailytimes got hacked yesterday. The exact time and the duration of operation is unclear, but the site is back up and running today.
The hackers posted the following message:
“hack3d by ic3d r0s3
:) greetz to (linuxg0d) ,(savechanges) ,(pagefault) and old whackerz crew;;;;;; to PHA and yeah to the criticized one (abunasar) : keep it up kid;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; and still after 2 yrs ………….. — THIS IS THE END BEAUTIFUL FRIEND ?? ;;;;; Mr. Mush PLz GOOOOOOOOO;)”Apparently the hackers were of Pakistani origin, and their message seems to be directed against Musharraf.
Will update this post in a bit.
Update: Blogosphere coverage
Update 2:
It’s 11:26AM IST, DailyTimes has been hacked again, apparently by the same hackers. The same message has been posted
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none
what gave away their pakistani identity? sayling plz, greetz? keepi it up beautiful friend?
its quite hilarious actually
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Deja vu
BD
It seems wordpress.com was blocked in Turkey. Almost seems like a page out of history.
Thanks to RTI we came to know how the Government blocks websites in India.
Update:
Official reaction from wordpress.com regarding the ban in Turkey.
The letter mentioned in the above link contains the list of blogs that led to a Turkish court order to bring down the entire wordpress.com domain in Turkey.
Go have a look at these blogs before they are taken down!
These blogs have now gotten more publicity because of the entire censorship process. What an irony
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Matt
Censorship is such a dangerous path, and clearly against the first amendment in the United States Constitution here in the US. In America, you can say *almost* anything, exceptions being saying you’re going to kill the president and yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater. People do take advantage of this freedom, often in America, by insulting others with hate speech, but at present I see no way around this, as it is critically important for people to be able to criticize the government without negative consequences for them.
It’s good to hear from you BD. Keep the faith.
Matt in the USA
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Scot
Waz up bro it me scot in Phoenix,Az
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I Me My
Yet another!
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Synchronous Hermaphrodite
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Tagged
BD
So I’ve been tagged by raindreamer. I usually give tags a miss, but this one I feel like taking up.
I’ve to list 7 blogs that I like, though I’m just going to mention three. ( Argh! what’s with these tags and the number seven? )
Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind (RTDM): The thing I like the most about greatbong’s blog is that it highlights and glorifies subaltern cultures within India, the ones that are usually despised for the sake of sophistication. Greatbong makes them palatable for the ’sophisticated junta’. Of course that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The humorous seasoning that comes with each post makes you wanna read more and more of the same.
All Things Pakistan: Simply the best thing to happen to the South Asian blogosphere. A nice mix of culture and politics topped up with honesty, passion and occasional humor. Although the USP of the blog is the community that surrounds it — ranging from extreme left to far right. You may be done reading a post, but you keep coming back for the never-ending discussions that follow (much to the misery of the moderators
).The Spinster chronicles: Amazingly candid. “The story of a single woman in her 30s travelling through these modern days; sometimes funny, other times serious, always real.” Very real indeed! One would assume that the blog’s posts, which are really honest personal expressions, would give an insight in to the writer. But in reality these posts give an insight into one’s own self. At this juncture some would say “key to understanding others is understanding one’s own self truly”
There are many more, but my stamina only permits three per post
err … who do I tag next?
zeebee I guess? ( I am determined to break the number 7 rule
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Marinkina 6:38 pm on May 21, 2009 Permalink |
Качество друзей тоже надо учитывать. Дональд Трамп, например, на двадцатку потянет.
Gavrilin 3:26 am on May 23, 2009 Permalink |
1 п. “Не имей сто друзей, а имей сто шекелей” тоже хорошо рифмуется
8 п. Ты никогда не потеряешь работу. Когда закончатся фотографии можно размещать рисунки (да хоть бы и конкурс объявить на лучший рисунок Одри (-:), аппликации и фотографии поделок из пластилина…
9 п. Сто пудов !
Cederash 2:32 am on May 24, 2009 Permalink |
Спасибо, пост действительно толково написан и по делу, есть что почерпнуть.
Ferinannnd 11:37 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink |
Шдето я что то подобное уже видел
Avertedd 12:51 pm on May 26, 2009 Permalink |
красиво, сделал! Благодарю!!!