If I knew when I would die

I am wondering since a few days on how one would (or should) feel when one is told of one’s remaining time on this planet.

Let’s say your most trusted doctor made a prognosis/diagnosis and declared that you would only live X more number of years.
Let’s say your astrologer told you your death would happen so [...]

Slapped actress!!

In South India, we have the crazy habit of giving tags to famous movie stars! For example, in the Kannada film industry, we have “Crazy Star”, “Hatrick Hero”, “Golden Hero”, “Tragic Hero”, “Rural Hero” and so on….
But the latest title I heard is “Slapped actress”. Apparently, a director slapped an actress for not showing the [...]

The art of publicity

The chief minister of Karnataka, after protests by the Indian hockey coach and players, has announced an award of 2 lakhs for each of the hockey players from Karnataka. The protests started after he announced a reward for the cricketers from Karnataka after India won the T20 finals. The hockey players were unhappy that they [...]

GOD sued!

One of the big “news” items over here nowadays is the lawsuit an Omaha legislator filed against “GOD”. He says he wants to make a point that a lot of frivolous lawsuits are being filed in the US. The lawsuit blames GOD for the suffering and pain that humans undergo, all the natural disasters, etc, [...]

Youtube all night

Not getting sleep….youtube happening right now…maybe all night….
Done with Johny lever standup comedy, paresh rawal clips, mike tyson knockouts, WWE montreal screwjob, bee jees (staying alive), bryan adams, michael jackson coming up next….
I am already missing Indian masala dosa and Idly ) Udupi garden next to my office is going to have a lot [...]

My machine’s RAM is as big as the disk (was)!

Yesterday, I upgraded my office machine’s RAM to 2GB. I still remember my first machine at IBM in 1999 which had 32MB RAM and a 2GB hard disk. I got to install and run OS/2 on it. Soon, I got a RAM upgrade to 64MB and everyone was envying me! Its amazing to see the [...]

Google is the new home

- The latest recruit by Google from the open source world is Robert Love. Andrew Morton, of course, works there already. I am sure in a few years, the lkml world will be run by the Google folks, just like it is currently by IBM.

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Whats wrong with me?

I have had a couple of queries about my previous post. I gave it a second reading myself and could not make too much sense of it. That got me thinking as to why I posted such a blog.
It could not be that I have too much spare time at hand. I recently read a [...]

Junkology

fuel – fire – mind – phone – ketu – sanity – role – destruct – bada – definitely – saptama – clear – time – mar11 – gaali – football – god

Overview on corruption

I found an article today on the nature and extent of corruption in Karnataka The webpage gives details of the situation prevalent in various departments of the Karnataka government and even has a chart listing the “standard fees” for various jobs to be done. The chart is called the “Bribe Rate Card”. Check [...]