Ultra-legal New Year Greetings!
Doesn’t it cover all contingencies!
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the recipient of said wish.
By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated. This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself/himself/others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
Rogues Gallery of Terroristan
These are the men who hold the world hostage, hiding somewhere in Pakistan:
(Pictures and story courtesy: Hindustan Times)
Microsoft is the darling of wisecrackers!
The other name for Windows, Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system is “crash”! It’ll crash at the slightest suggestion and at the most inopportune times. The internet and print media have dealt with the malaise of crashing ad nauseam.
Here is a whiz who has divined the reason for the crashy-crash. He avers it is after all, you own fault! His remedy: You type the following command: Hold ALT, CTRL, CAPS LOCK, and TAB while simultaneously pressing F8, HOME, ARROW DOWN, and ENTER!
This will bring up the following highly illustrative dialog box. Examine the tabs and options closely to select your preferences:
Here are some more fun thingys courtesy Microsoft!
Office Options unraveled:
Paper-clip helper:
Thanks: Mr. Nukie
Viral linking meme
There is an interesting debate doing rounds in Blogosphere on the pros and cons of viral linking. Elliott J. Cross has started a viral link chain in which my blog too has been “tagged”! I was also enthused by DCR Blogs “Drunken Virals” lyrics!
Generally when someone starts a viral link campaign, the purpose is to get coveted back links from other blogs pointed to them. Back links help to promote your blog’s page rank, Technorati score and improve readership by promoting your site to other readers that might not know of your blog’s existance.
But before I could jump right into the viral linking bandwagon, I was jerked back by a solemn warning from a concerned blogger that Viral links are bad for your blog’s health!
Now you have a blogger in a terrible dilemma. Primarily, I am not much obsessed with pageviews, comment counts, Technorati ranking, Google pagerank and all such parameters of blog-popularity since I blog as a pastime and for fun. But human nature being what it is, I am unable to resist a temptation to try a few teensy-weensy tricks to get a few more eyeballs on my blog!! But such moves hurt my ego too, since it is like badgering someone, “Roll up, roll up, here is my bloggie!”
But is there a better way?
A blog about Nothing talks about “Organic Traffic” thus:-
I am going to work on individual relationships. That’s part of what I mean by organic links. I’m throughly convinced that people are 100,000 times more likely to follow a link that is included as part of an actual meaningful post instead of simply lost amid a blob of other links. … I’ve come to the realization that simply getting your name mentioned in a valid article is thousands of times more valuable than getting linked in a mass produced list hundreds of times.
But people are bitten by the SEO bug and try to game the search engines by fair or questionable means. But it means nothing to a lone ranger like me! 
Stone age Islamic Deobandi fatwa
India’s most influential Muslim seminary, the 141-year-old Dar-ul-Uloom in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, has issued a fatwa (edict) forbidding Muslim women from conceiving through artificial means. This effectively means that modern medical techniques like in-vitro fertilisation, surrogate motherhood and artificial insemination are not allowed, according to the seminary “It is not right to masturbate in order to get children by artificial insemination…,” said the fatwa.
One of their concerns is that women would have to disrobe in front of male doctors for the procedure to be carried out. Mufti Imran, a high-ranking Dar-ul-Uloom official, said: “A woman whose husband is not able to give children is not permitted to use any other means. The fatwa also bans infertile women from allowing others to bear their babies.” The fatwa has raised a storm of controversy within the community While it has found support in some sections, several maulanas themselves as well as doctors and prominent personalities have opposed it. All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Khalid Rashid was among those who supported the edict. “A child should be created naturally,” he said. “If Allah has not given a child, He has not given the right to get one through artificial means either”
The Doobandi Dar-ul-UIoom has so far issued seven lakh fatwas since its creation on issues like use of western toilots, sexual relationship, personal hygione, and several other nitty-gritties.
Here are some sample Fatwas:- Read more
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