A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality

Like they'll really stick to that oath, who are they really trying to fool?

About time...

Google is considering removing the beta tag from Gmail - and other online services - a mere five years after it was first launched.

About time they did that, already the beta versions are way ahead of their competition so it makes no sense to have that tag hoovering about.

Fighting paid election coverage: Women Journos Show the way

The “deal” between the newspaper managements or their representatives and the candidates was that the “coverage” would begin from the date of election notification or whenever the deal was agreed upon. Women journalists write to the chief electoral officer in Andhra Pradesh.

It's another matter that nothing came out of it or will ever come out of it. At least some one had the balls to do the 'RIGHT' thing.

Kanimozhi

Freedom Fighter and the said person is all off 39 years? It never ceases to surprise me this family starting with the head-honcho MK.

She was a sub-editor for hindu and then disapeared for a good 2-3 years before coming back into the public as a 'poet' and now supposedly is on the way to become a cabinet minister. It's one helluva ride and dude MK, three wives and still you get all moralistic and crap on others?

Holy Shit

I've seen it all now, Stupid Ben Stillers crappy movie getting more numbers than T:Salvation? Oh! come on America! Are you becoming that stoopid? For heavens sake it's Terminator series. Mind boggling really. Screw you American Public, you've lost it completely.

P.S: North Korea Announces 2nd Test of Nuclear Device. And looks like this time it is the real deal. Serves you right biatches.

DECCAN CHARGERS

WIN THE 2009 IPL!! Woohoo.....

From the bottom of the table last year, to the top of the pile this year!

Thanks Gilly! You D man of word. Oh yeah! not only have we got something to cheer about this year, we even have the bragging rights of being the champs, no less. All the best for the Champions league in October.

Have Tarantino and his 'Inglourious Basterds' got what it takes?

Heck yeah! And Roger Ebert thinks so too...

August 21'st it is then.


P.S: The Weinsteins were once kids here without a ticket. "We were hanging around the stage door, hoping to get in and make our way around to the front," Harvey told me. "An official festival limo pulled up, and Clint Eastwood got out. We probably looked needy. He sized us up, held open the door, and let us in. To this day, we both make it a point to let someone into the Palais."

Maybe I'll be the lucky one in 2015.

Tis' should be interesting

Another mockumentary which will be pretty in-accurate and over-hyped is on the way folks.

Michael Moore's movie about the economic crisis will unspool during the fall.

Are we true to ourself?

Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane's 2009 Commencement Speech.

How many people live their life as they want and not give into peer pressure?

One heck of a commencement speech, show our brains people thats' the secret.

Notice the Google Logo Today?

"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?

Take that you religious nuts.

P.S: Interesting back story behind this discovey, do read it here.

SEBI?

Bennett, Coleman's private treaties business sees sharp value erosion.

“Private treaties” was one of the most innovative revenue schemes thought up by Bennett, Coleman & Co, which publishes the Times of India and other titles. In return for advertising in group publications, Bennett would get equity in the company doing the advertising. The pay-off would come when the equity was offloaded for a profit (with long-term capital gains being free of tax).

If this is not insider trading then what is?

I guess even Hindustan Times is into this business model so can't really go by what MINT says. That leaves Business line, but its' more into presenting news as is than specualting so not much fun there.

Terminator: Salvation

A movie review by James Berardinelli.

3 stars, not bad I should say and more often than not berardinelli gets it right for these kind of movies. Now waiting for Eberts' review. Keeping my fingers crossed for more than any other movie, this deserves to be this years blockbuster, i.e. before Avatar hits the screens.

Wolfram Alpha

Basically its' a search engine but with a difference, in normal search engines once you input the query, links are generated from which you might get an answer for your query. But in this case, it wades through huge databases of information to throw accurate results and answers to queries, instead of a link where you "might" receive an answer to your query as in conventional search engines like google and MSN.

It's pretty cool do check it out.

And here is a query that I tried out and the info was generated pretty quick.

Is it going to be a google killer? I am keeping my fingers crossed because it is still in alpha stage and is pretty limited in scope. And also the small thing of how they will generate revenue based on this model is something which'll tell us a lot about the acceptance from the public at large.

The Years Are Short

The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short.

This movie can get even the driest of eyes moist, real story.

Satyam may lay off over 12,000 employees

http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/may/15/slide-show-1-satyam-may-lay-off-over-12000-employees.htm

Maybe it'll happen or not, but what they do is completely upto them and I don't want to hear from anyone saying that their families will get effected and crap like that. Agreed losing a job is a hard thing and getting another is even harder but hello India ain't a socialist state any more.

And please for heavens sake companies exist only to make profit, think otherwise maybe it's time for you folks to get a time machine and go back into the glory days of Nehru & Indras' India. You can't have the cake and eat it too folks. If you are willing to embrace the capitalist world then do it completely don't dither, it'll only end up making things much worse.

Seriously if this sort of a thing is what is in store, then the governments that are going to rule both the center and Andhra Pradesh will have a lot on their plates even before the swearing-in-ceremony.

Oh & btw a little birdie tells me that everything is in place for Raju to come out of judicial custody/jail before the end of summer and after that it'll be a very prolonged battle in the courts of law that maybe his great-great-grandson will get to penny up the mistakes of his not so great-great-grandfather.

IPL Semi-finalists

Delhi, Chennai & Deccan in that order for sure. It'll be between Rajasthan & Bangalore for the fourth place and I think Rajasthan will sneak through.

And there are others out there who think so and are backed by science.

Holy Moly

The Mumbai slum home of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has been demolished by city authorities.

What else do you expect give their house a legal status? Give it a rest al ready. Seriously if you want to help those kids, leave them alone and let them get on with their life.

No alcohol?

WTF!

Every idiot has taken it upon himself to predict (scientific & otherwise) how the general elections in India will go but me not being an idiot will take it upon myself to tell all those people who are lapping up these exit polls that come May 16'th these exit polls done with a sample of 1000-10,000 constituents in a population running into lakhs in each constituency will matter a zilch.

Take them with a pinch of salt or even otherwise no matter who comes into power, it is a moot point since that ain't going to change anything for you either today, tomorrow or in the distant future.

So I say give a three fingered salute to all those freaking idiots who have ruined your day with all sorts of inane chatter on the idiot box about something which no one really cares in the end.

In the end it's all a joke and no one realizes it till it's too late or it ain't matter any more.

P.S: I'll end this post with something which is amusing & beyond WTF'ness, only pig is one thing but to have it in a zoo enclosure? Ah! the fallacies of religion and it's stupid followers.

Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear.

What goes around comes around....

Many mutter darkly about the use of hormones in rearing livestock, and they seek out vegetables that have insect bites on their leaves - a sign that they have not been drenched in pesticides.

So true...

Lets see...

It's about time I started to blog about more mundane stuff. And with me starting my summer internship from 18'th of this month I've just found the right thing about which I'll have a lot to say about.

Well its just going to be little tid bits about how, what, why & where of my summers'. Read more about it here.

This is strictly going to be a two month affair and will be updated every day for the next 60 days. So make it a point to visit the blog everyday lest you miss out on my exciting life.

Want Press Coverage? Give Me Some Money

Ajay Goyal is a serious, independent candidate contesting for a Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh.
Never heard of him? Neither, probably, have a lot of people in Chandigarh because when it came to getting press coverage for his campaign he was faced with a simple message: If you want press, you have to pay.

Why is this a news again?

US Troops Proselytizing in Afghanistan

American troops proselytizing in Afghanistan.

Are they out of their freaking minds? Oh boy! this can't end well the way I see it.

Free Data Recovery Tools

If I had a penny everytime someone asks me this question by now I would have made nearly thousand bucks. Search no more here are the five best (free being their calling card) recovery tools that you can find. My personal choice is Recuva.

Prediction Time

DC has gotta win this one against CSK and have a feeling that it'll be a close fought win for DC.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Watch the trailer over here.

It's bigger, meaner and badder and that's basically what makes me scared, with Michael bay at the helm you wouldn't expect otherwise but that's the whole point. Hoping that this movie, if not better will be on par with the first transformers.

DC Vs RR & CSK Vs DDD

DC after a blip in the last match should have it easy against the sheiks' boys. I think we are due for a Gilli special today.

Should be DDD all the way, maybe his lordness Shewag will finally wake up from his slumber.