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Goodbye Blogger.

2007-02-08T23:02:00.000-08:00

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Worst article today

2007-02-08T08:52:00.000-08:00

and in a long time...
Perhaps the BJP, which is bankrupt of issues, may pick up this thread from the Shiv Sena and use the 82 year-old Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the next Lok Sabha elections, sitting on a chair and begging for votes. You can well imagine how the voters are going to react. How are we going to counter this emotional threat that shall be before us in the next Lok Sabha elections?

What makes me ( and millions others ) an angry young man ...

2007-02-08T03:54:00.000-08:00

Yahoo mail is down right now !

Infact I am so distraught that I can't think anything worse happening other than my primary e-mail account being inaccessible. Can you ?*

..oh wait, I can. If it got hacked, it would be worse because then there would be a human face behind it. I can understand (even if I have grown increasingly intolerant of system failures), but not human transgressions are

Funniest moment today ( and in a while ) !

2007-02-07T22:23:00.000-08:00

College bus arrives at the pick up stop. 10 minutes before the next trip starts.

I am in the bus already, waiting to take the trip back home. The driver whom I know ( and who knows me ) very well since I have been taking the college bus for a while now, gets up from his seat and says :

"I will close the door because its cold outside. If someone comes, just ask them to pull door and get in."

"

Game theoritic approaches to the Cauvery dispute

2007-02-07T19:18:00.000-08:00

Correction appended.

Lets see how it works.

Say Karnataka said they would give Tamil Nadu 200 units of water. Tamil Nadu says they want 250 units. I don’t know if X and Y are influenced by one another because each of them know what the other’s preference is. So even tomorrow TN agree that they are okay with 200 units. Then Karnataka will say they can give only 175 units. Or say Karnataka says

Inflation, inherent goodness and the like

2007-02-07T18:51:00.000-08:00

Perfect example of the horror of inflation :

Problems :
The government awarded all civil servants a 300 percent raise two weeks ago. Doctors and nurses have been on strike for five weeks, seeking a pay increase of nearly 9,000 percent, and health care is all but nonexistent.The trigger of this crisis — hyperinflation — reached an annual rate of 1,281 percent this month, and has been near or over

Never weather weather whether weather weathers you or not ( And it does ! )

2007-02-07T01:57:00.000-08:00

My homepage has had this setting intermittently for over an year now.
-14 C with wind at 20 km/h makes it -24 C with wind chill. The high for today in Pittsburgh ( -11 C) was lower than the low for Bangalore ( 17 ) by 28 C. If Google provided Mangalore/Manipal weather, the difference would be even more tragic !

I dont know why I have this on my homepage all the time - no, not because I am some

420

2007-02-05T21:08:00.000-08:00

One of the most informative articles of its kind in a while.
Still, Macaulay might have been amused by the fact that of his vast and complex Code, perhaps only two sections are known to most Indians. These are Section 144, which prohibits gatherings of more than five people whenever the Government perceives a threat to "law and order"; and Section 420, which defines what is counterfeiting.

Mumbai Mirror (mis)quotes me

2007-02-04T17:34:00.000-08:00

The day before during my blogging binge I wrote a scathing post titled "Ms. Rai and her many husbands" where I wrote about Ms. Aishwarya Rai's new found tree marrying habit. Folks at the Mumbai Mirror found it amusing enough to mention and link to this post of mine.

Towards the end of my post, I wrote :
No, thats not all. The night before as I was taking the CMU college shuttle back home at 2:

"Transparency, Indian Consulate Style"

2007-02-04T15:29:00.000-08:00

I am not going to say anything. Just read this.

Note : Mr. Prakash quoted in the article is the same as the rediff columnist.