Strange bedfellows!
Though we all know about the emerging trend of enterprises rooting for Linux in order to cut costs and to have a complete control over the operating system and its security, doubts are being expressed on the Total Cost of Ownership and support issues while embracing Linux. Such thoughts are bandied about mostly by the mighty Microsoft whose market position is being threatened. But China and other Southeast Asian nations have successfully switched to Linux in a big way and have proven its worth as a server OS across big enterprises.
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Alien telepathy
Paranoid of being abducted by aliens?
Here is help on hand!
You can try the Thought Screen Helmet from the Stop Alien Abductions web site, if you are sucker enough (for $35)!
Seems there is no end to such outlandish business propositions!
A niche forum for Reliance Mobile users
If you (still:wink:) use Reliance Infocomm Mobile service then The RimWeb Forum that is being run by my friend and web host Arun is a must-visit for you!
You can get acquainted with the latest techno-funda about the happenings around the Reliance mobile, R-world and all that jazz in that forum.
The forum doesn’t just confine itself to Reliance India Mobile. It also dwells on the general trends in the cellphone world.
The Great Indian Loo
YouTube - Watch - Indian&Western Style Loos
There are basically two types of squatters on the pot. The Indian style and the Europian style. So when you start building your house, the engineer will ask you a query as to what style to put in what bathroom (rest room, in US parlance) - IWC or EWC (WC==Water closet)? You have to choose the right one. It is normally EWC for the master bedroom where the memsaab and the master will be cosy and comfy. But for the “common” toilet is relegated to the “desi” style. Even our trains have 1 out of four in “Western Style”. Though the converts to Western style commode is growing, owing to the comfortable seating and the possibilities that it throws up for “multi-tasking”, you can’t discount the inherent advantages of our Indian style. More on this theme as you progress!
The Euro style is really versatile. You can view the boy making it into a veritable paradise! Some folks are even more ingenious. The rig up a book-rack, hi-fi, a PC (or even a pantry :lol:) inside the rest room!
Yes. Toilet is the place people are at “ease”. Whether it is a mere pee or the “big one”, you release all the tension that has built up in you and you regain your poise and equanimity after the affair is over. So the loo is the real stress buster of your household. Read more
Crazy Frog video
Check out the nice mix of Jamster Crazy Frog+Axel F. You’d love it!
(in Flash)
http://dd0s.org/~wooolf/crazyfrog/
The site is down.
If you wanna view that video, I have a message for you in the comment No.15 
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The missing girls!
The human dichotomy, or the gender demography is no longer determined by biology, at least inIndia. Female infanticide is commonplace in many Indian villages and more specifically the teensy-weensy dwelling just beyond your backyard. There are some notorious villages in India which claim the dubious distinction of achieving record number of prenatal sex selection and abortion. Coming to numbers, the 2001 census of India showed the male-female ratio as 1000:933.
But what is your problem? Yes, imbalance. Too many boys chasing unmatched number of girls for marriage. Take the case of the urbanised, elitist Tam-Brams. Most of the eligible boys are busy tapping feverishly on computer keyboards (with little or no exercise, gathering a generous bit of mass around the part that comes into contact with the seat rexine). When the eminently eligible one seeks a suitable girl, using the algorithm of horoscopes (horror-scopes to many!), through matrimony dot coms, swayamvaras as well as the old faithful- newspaper classifieds, their parents find the tables squarely turned! Yes, it is no longer the boys’ hegemony. “Brides wanted” outnumber the “Bridegrooms wanted” by 3 to 2. The girls’ photographs are hard-to-get commodity (you need a password to steal a look at the nubile young things). The fairer sex has turned finicky and fastidious, thanks to the BPO’s and consequent financial emancipation. And the pre-requisite for an alliance is an upfront assurance on the girl’s career ambitions and premarital fiscal commitments. And do not forget the Anti-dowry act breathing down your neck. One wrong word, and you will find yourself in the “cooler”, perched next to the seers and their siblings!
And you ring up and coo into the bride’s parents’ ears that the horoscopes match, but their royal astroger thinks otherwise. The nine planets squatting in the squares of your Rasi and Amsa tables (XHTML, anyone?) are all skewed and they are perceived to be of such wicked potential that they render the very “varan” unmarriageable!
The empire strikes back!
Hey, what happens? Why the brides’ parents of this world act so coy?
Numbers, man. Numbers. Period.
Blame it on the indiscriminate ultrasound scans, amniocentesis, foeticide, one-child norm and dowry deaths aka gas cylinder bursts.
And the nincompoops preferred a son to the ever-faithful female of the species, the following wise words notwithstanding:
Son is a son till he gets a wife
But daughter is a daughter all your life.
And you still dare to quiz the doctor, ” Should I buy pink or blue?”
Gender preferences, my foot!
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