What does your birth date mean?

Your Birthdate: February 24

You understand people well and are a natural born therapist. A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around. You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you. You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people. Your strength: Your devotion Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness Your power color: Lilac Your power symbol: Heart Your power month: June

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Pink is the color of my..

..town. The stupidity season is back again. This time, the authorities in the small town of Aurangabad in Bihar have decided to paint the town pink in an attempt to reduce crime.

Wait a min.. The article nowhere says that the color will help in reducing crime, It is meant to raise the morale of the people of the town who are fed-up of the crime rate in the town.

Also, read at India Uncut.

Dumb gets dumber

We have someone here who loves getting crank calls at odd hours in the night, and if she does not get one, she feels she is not good looking anymore.

Good job guys! Keep the lady delighted.

Times of India - ePaper

I just happened to browse the e-version of the Times of India. The site requires registration (Free) and leads you to a portal where you can browse the sheets the way you would do with the print version.

When you scroll over the articles, it gets high-lighted (the way it would appear if you use a yellow highlighter in MS Word) and on clicking it, the article enlarges. (highlight shown in the image below)

So, If you happen to miss reading your print version in the mornings, you could always catch up with the e-version later from your office.

Red Volvos - The new speed demons in town

Just about 2 days ago, I was telling my wife that I was not too comfortable seeing those Red BMTC Volvo's being driven at neck breaking speeds. The one I had seen on Airport Road that day was being driven at least at 70 - 80 km/h and the driver had his hand firmly on the horn to keep the people and vehicles on the road away from the speeding demon.

Yesterday, disaster struck. One of the Red Volvo's ploughed into the HAL Bus Stop on Airport Road killing 3 people on the spot and injuring another 20. Most of the news channels and papers stated that the driver lost control of the bus. Obviously, he would. If one was to drive a bus which has a laden weight of at least 10 tonnes with say 20 people in it and driving at 70 km/h, you cannot solely rely on the braking power to get the unleashed momentum under control if a pedestrian or another vehicle was to come in the way of the bus. The bus (costing over Rs. 75 Lakhs) was burnt by an irate mob and also a couple of other vehicles were burnt, the entire situation leading to a huge traffic chaos which lasted for about 3 hours.

On one hand, you may want to blame the Bangalore Traffic Police for completely losing control over the traffic situation in Bangalore where it is now so common to see a public transport vehicle or a call centre cab being driven at speeds which are definitely no where close to being termed as 'safe', the same set of vehicles with their high beam 'on' during the nights. A few months ago..I was caught by a cop for driving with the high beam 'on'. I informed the cop that what he was referring to as high beam was actually fog lights..He consulted his senior (who agreed with me) before letting me off. Today, you actually get to see so many people driving with the high beams and there is no one to catch them on the road.

On the other hand, you have BMTC. Did they not install any governors or any speed controlling mechanism in the bus? Or, if it was actually a case of "brake failing" which the driver seems to have shouted loud before fleeing from the scene of the accident, Did BMTC not do any of those regular checks on the bus? If the latter actually happens to be the case, it really makes me wonder at times - Was it really a safe decision for Lalu to do away with the regular maintenance of the railway engines and coaches and instead opt for a distance based servicing mechanism?

English German Dictionary..

..The most popular query by Indians in August 2006.

Sania Mirza, Aishwarya Rai and Wikipedia in the top 15 list for 2 consecutive months.

It's V for Van..not Bhe for Bhan

A few days ago, During lunch I just happened to get into this conversation with my pal about how some folks from the western part of our country have problems with words that have a "v" in them or that sound like one.

For ex:
(1) "Bhen" for When
(2) "Bhere are bhee going?" for Where are we going?

Ok, now that you know what I am referring to here, let me get to the episode which my pal narrated.

During one of the client's visit in his previous company, A gentleman who had a similar problem (let's call him Mr. X) was to give a presentation to one Mr. Dave (client) and this is how the conversation goes..

Mr X: Good Morning Mr DaBhe..My presentation...
Mr Dave: Excuse me, It is not DaBhe..It is Dave

Mr X: Yes, I know.. Mr DaBhe..
Mr Dave: Dave.. "V", "V"

Mr X: Yes, I am saying the same.. Bhe for Bhan
Mr Dave: Its not B for Ban..It's V for Van

Then, Mr X's manager had to step into explain what the problem here was all about..

No offence here.. just an article about a conversation which I found quite hillarious.

Annotate Pictures

I just came across this free tool which helps in annotating pictures. It is compatible with flickr. Pictures tagged with FotoTagger are converted into flickr notes.

Self Made Man

I found this image very powerful. Man carving himself out of stone, carving his character, carving his future.

“Self Made Man,” chiseling himself out of a solid block of rock captures the essence of the freedom philosophy – that left to his own devices, man will use his God-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of those around him, thereby influencing in a positive way his own destiny.

Bobbie Carlyle - the creator of "Self Made Man"

Link to a Google Search rather than a site

via Anand

End of the Indian UN Secretary General dream

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end.

- Jim Morrison

What Shashi Tharoor said in the UN