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She is 36-year-old — the New York-based youngest daughter of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. But Amrit Singh is grabbing the world attention with her legal battle against Pentagon, that too when her father, the veteran architect of Indian free-market reforms, is busy making ‘friendship’ with her adversary none other than the US President George W. Bush.

Amrit needs not much introduction. As an Indian prime minister’s daughter, she has done what many would not even dream of doing. Armed with just a law degree and some experience, she has confronted the US government

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This is interesting enuff to share with you!!! he he he heh Democratic Ticket Aspirations? Yale Law School, ACLU all of that falls into place..... but i was thinking is the Bush admin feeling the heat? or is that like an ant trying to f*** an elephant

Alarm goes off - brrrr! brrrr! Shit! Forgot to take it off the annoying vibrate mode. Grope under the pillow to locate it before it gets louder . Aha! Found it! Shut it, you stupid thing!
Trudge to the loo. Bang into the bedstead, slip over a stray bag, curse, close the door and sit on the bog for blessed peace. Brush teeth, try to get the door key whilst brushing.I am doing most of the work, myself.
Looking at the nature - a couple of plants is all i can see.Teeth brushed.
Start loping off towards 1st floor,door's still closed. Give a tight knock and act as though i got up a few hours before. Soon enough, the door opens and mommy does not even bother to see me. Well i am her only son, phew. Order for the coffee, he ha that what i do. Sip first mouthful of coffee standing at the door step - ahhh, heaven. Trudge back to the sofa, look for today's newspaper step on a sray pen - damn, it hurts! Wince, hop and sit gingerly on a book, trying not to upset the coffee on the carpet.
Finally! A moment to enjoy that surrealistic experience of the morning coffee with the newspaper in hand. Only filled with city crime beats.. what a way to kick start the day.
Check laptop.. no new mails .. hmnn... does anybody know that i am still alive...
Switch Radio ONE - 'Roobarooo... Roshini.....' well, good morning to you too, ARR. Where are my keys gone? Drat! Oh good morning, nice neighbour.
Whew!
Where's that shirt I pressed last night? Drat! Was there a spot on it then? Oh hell! Well, this one here looks reasonably uncrumpled. Do I have time to steam it? Natch! Would get crumpled en route anyways. Trousers - black or grey? Blue. 'Bout five minutes early today - cool! Oy is the boss man going to be pleased with me today or what?
Doddering old man, out of my way, please. Why did I pick this silly shoe out of all the silly shoes in the shoeniverse? The bloody thing's hungry all the time. Chews my poor feet to pieces every time. And why does the light change to red the minute I go near a crossing? Lane discpline??? whats that mean anyways !!!
Hmm, traffic is light today. That's rare. Oh well, more space in the road for me. 'Someday ... by flipsyde...' man! do I love that song or what. Puts a nice spring on my step, that song does. Whoa! Why are you cleaning the pavement today, man? That's what the weekends are for!
GOSH!!!! some bloddy damn politician on his way..Now i am stuck. Stuck with another 500 cars or so.. Is this ever gonna end.
Finally! Made it - ooh! Where's the stupid security man gone? I ain't that early - they haven't even cleaned my desk:-)
lazy guys!!! always me on my job :-)

Well there are so many - so called software developers doing rounds who claim to code in this IT industry.Dan Bricklin's web site has an article named 'Why Johnny Can't Code,' an interesting examination of the dearth of line programming languages available today. At first I wanted to read this and say aha, here's a simple line oriented language that's available through open source, but after reading the article I couldn't find any. And being an fart, I remember the days spent with basic and fortran."

Acknowledging that its patching process has "not been an example of our best work," Microsoft this week issued a second update to security bulletin MS06-042, which was released in August. The original patch included a security vulnerability - and it turns out the fix introduced even more.The patched caused IE6 to crash when a site that uses the HTTP 1.1 protocol and compression is visited.It was later discovered that the bug also opened the door to attackers. The existence of a vulnerability in the patch was first announced by eEye Digital Security, which Microsoft chided for publicly disclosing the flaws.
Just think what someone had to say "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw". ok ok that does not mean M$ is a beauty!!!
but my 2 cents for M$ - "Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten"

What was your favorite book when you were in school?Did F. Scott Fitzgerald give you an inside look at a world of glamorous parties where the wealthy fell in love and went home with their feelings hurt?Yet every year, there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from schools and libraries nationwide
For 25 years, libraries and bookstores nationwide have been celebrating the freedom to read during Banned Books Week.

Now Google has joined the party. At google.com/bannedbooks , you can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged or banned. And while libraries and bookstores around the country celebrate the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week with special readings, displays, and more, you just might end up with a visit to your local library or bookstore and an old favorite or a new banned book in hand.

"The most insignificant book is the one which deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room"

How many times have you read the following in a help wanted ad or job description: must have good verbal and written communication skills? Almost all service industry jobs these days seems to demand proficiency in those areas from candidates considering employment.

When I read that I assume they mean they require people who can express themselves intelligently and have the ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely. They want you to have the ability to write a letter outlining a issue or explain something verbally to a customer. I would also believe that they require you to be able to listen and understand what you are told by your supervisor and a client.

The funny part ? well every one claims to be highly competent in these areas and you realize thier rating scale when you actually talk to them :-)

1. They can't distinguish between he/she. Its a license to mix them up as and when they want.

2. Keyword driven. Just utter the keyword and its you who have to draw out a series of questions to understand what they mean.

3. One line emails. For heaven sake we are not testing you ability to condense issues.

4.Direct - mother tongue translation. Just convert your ideas into english exactly the same way you would talk in your mother tongue,Don;t just bother syntax and semantics :-)

5.Answer a question with another question :-)

And to talk about, these are the very people who demand over compensation, threaten to quit projects in between and demand promotions :-)

Way of the world !!!!

Alternate professions are all the rage now, and in a week's time I've seen articles on career switch and dual careers in n magazines and websites. While at it, I must also admit that my dreams, immaterial of how likely they turn real, have been inspired by people around me..
Like every other ---- s/w engineer (apologies for generalising, I'm sure there are a whole lot of you who are here for good), I too have these occasional dreams of leaving the industry and doing fancy stuff. What those are, I'll tell you in a while, post digression. I'm not unhappy with work, on the contrary I've never before been as happy as I'm right now. But there are times when the romantic in me gets a hold on the complacent other half and starts dictating stuff to him.
Now is one of those times
These are a few options that are already on my list: Can you guys think of anything better or more fun?
1)Run a Farm House: My latest Fav and infact i am working on it. Oh i love this stufff... picture this - a tired techie (heheheh) runs away from city and settles down admist beautiful green fields with no internet, laptop and cell ( most essential stuffs for a techie). All in scenic beauty.

2)Start a restaurant: This a very recent addition, thanks to discovering the celebrity techie turned chef and his blog. A speciality upmarket restaurant perhaps, continental cuisine coz thats what I like best save andhra food(the bit about having to like what you do), and the andhra cuisine has suffered enough at the hands of the various wannabe restaurants in the city.
Pros: Its the fanciest stuff on my list. I love food. Mom not preparing good stuff.
Cons: and also the most expensive, perhaps.
Come to think of it, I could actually start one in my hometown though am not too sure the place is ready for it.

3)Join theatre or some performing arts group. This is fascinating, and I might actually go for it, given a chance.I am heavily talented. I am a joker and can make ppl laugh with my antics.

4) Start a montessori school. Its not coz I'm fond of kids, I sure am, but this is more like a nice business proposition, given all the young rich parents in blore.

5) Start a consultancy: Provide in house motivation to big corporates who are low on life and morale and in the process me rake money.

6)Start a training institute: Not that i have lot of intellectualy properties for discourse, but atleast i will not have deadlines.

They laugh at me because i am so different, but i laugh back because they all are the same..

I have had a bad weekend.Life in office took hair pin blind curve, that rocked everyone.My US counterpart just got fired!!!! Nothing spectacular happend socially as well. It was a sad weekend.So i decided to put some life by atleast ending it on a good note. After all "All's well that end's well".
We just picked up a DVD - Corporate and then decided watch Lage Raho Munna Bhai...We got the ticket but also loads of complex :-) Two HOT girls took the seat beside us. For once after seeing them we suddenly developed complex complex :-) The girls were so desirable but i duuno what was with us. Thiru refused to sit next to them and i was reluctant. The movie was good and the whole theatre enjoyed except for us, we were rotting with complex. And the worst part, what ever conversation we tried was not even in english.Golly the girls must have thought...:-) . And when we walked to the parking lot, we saw so many pretty girls that we just started our vehicle and zoomed .Well what better way to end the weekend.
Is that cheap? My self esteem isn't at its best today

Smile and the world will smile with you..... Laugh and they will all think you are on drugs......

So yesterday I got to thinking. Gandhi would be spinning in his grave if he knew what was going on. We could moan and groan about how bad things are but I have a totally different idea. Lets put all that grave turning to good use. I have a radical plan to use our disgruntled forefathers to power the future. My plan is simple yet elegant. We dig Gandhi up, cover him with copper wire, surround his grave with strong permanent earth magnets. Hook some wires up and let him twirl. My simple calculations show that one single “Gandhi” unit could produce as much as 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year.
Or 1 gigawatt hour of energy. This sounds like a lot but our country uses about 3848 gigawatt hours of energy each year. The only way we are going to be able to power our country is to dig up all of our great dead leaders and wire them up as well. Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, I am sure we can find enough. There is only one fatal flaw in this whole plan. Once our country is completely powered by the spinning of pissed off dead people, we would no longer need oil, gas, or nuclear power supplies. We would no longer have to pay large subsides to oil companies, go to war for more fuel, or elect brain dead oil tycoon puppets into office. This would have the effect of seriously limiting the amount of spin we would get out of our dead great leaders. I have thought of this as well, when we achieve this point, we will dig up all the old dead bad leaders and wire them up. This way we will have clean renewable energy for ever.

The “Utilikilt” seems like a great idea, its like a cargo skirt for men. I always wondered why men with “junk” always wore pants, and women, with no “junk” wear free flowing skirts and dresses. Frankly men should have picked up the kilt a long time ago. Long live junk freedom.

I can't believe this , Mozilla has accepted Microsoft's offer of help toward ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system.








Microsoft's offer to help came on Saturday when Sam Ramji, director of the company's open-source lab, posted an open letter on a blog used by Mozilla developers. Microsoft offered to open up a new open-source facility at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to Mozilla software engineers, including giving them one-on-one time with Microsoft workers. The offer includes help with Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.

Given the past history and reputation of M$, it won't be long before M$ starts packaging Firefox and Thunderbird XUL components into VISTA

This is real KALYUG (era of Doomsday :-)). While browing something I came across this interesting stuff :-) yeah such things always interests me ,there’s a 29 year old virgin, Sarah, who wants to lose her virginity before she turns 30 in November. WTF??? Where the hell does she live? No-Mini-Me Land? Check the pic out and if you are interested, you can contact Sarah here.
And yes trust me when I say, the lines going to be quite long to get to Sarah… Don’t believe me? Check out the long list of the contenders here, Apply to break her virginity here, check out Sarah’s Virgin Forum here or read the virgin’s blog here.

" I am Still a Virgin :-) Any takers ??? "

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