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Most bizzare chain mail

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I keep on getting my share of chain mails. But this one was strangest. I never understood why people after writing such strange mails want others to forward these further on.
This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen…
A man went to a barbershop to have [...]

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The dumb main stream media again

January 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

See this news item. Here is what the article claims.
Gourav Bhattacharya of Mumbai knows how to bell the CAT. He - like only 10-odd other management aspirants all over India - has scored a 100 percentile in the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Management.
I am not an expert in calculating percentiles, but I [...]

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The dumb main stream media

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is another stupid media headline. Here is what the headline says.
SACHIN SCORES ON THE FIELD, YUVI OFF IT—WITH DEEPIKA
This is supposed to be the largest mainstream daily for English news in India. I think we really need a new news paper.

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Shelfari and Yaari social networking sites

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Recently some of my friends mentioned that they got invites from me in two of these social networking sites. It sounded strange since I never sent invites to those people. Now my fears have come true. Both these sites are misusing information that one provides to these sites. See following links.

http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/11/shelfari-spam-basically-social.php
http://www.observer.com/2007/caught-shelfari-s-sticky-web-no-more-friends-please

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