Mouli's thoughts and musics over two decades
It looks like Catrina Fake has already left, and Stewart Butterfield is on his way out on july. Stewart is apparently known for his wit, and he has submitted, in my opinion, the funniest resignation letter, I have ever seen. To give a brief background, Flickr, a photo sharing website, was founded in 2004 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.
Here is the letter for your reading pleasure.
(Source: valleywag)
Photoshopdisasters website has a blooper from Washington Post. Haha. The guy near Tiger Woods is both behind and in front of him. ROFL. Good catch.
Check out the blog here.
Public Universities are always running on a limited budget which means they sometimes come up with “innovative” solutions. A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages. This unorthodox platform was chosen because one of the techs was a Linux enthusiast and had convinced “the powers that be” that a cheap web server solution for this subject could be implemented using an X-Box rather than a standard PC or server. Grateful to save money where they could, the project was approved.
Several years later and most of the staff in the department had moved on to bigger and better things. There was a new manager and a brand new set of helpdesk techs. The department’s Unix administrator was one of the few people left who knew what the X-Box was used for. Each year before the second semester class began he powered up the X-Box and updated its software. Few of the other staff ventured into the server room so there was little reason to wonder why an X-Box was sitting on the rack.
Five weeks into the “Web pages for Philosophy students” class the excrement encountered the rotary cooling device. The IT department’s help desk started receiving calls from Philosophy students who were unable to access their web projects.
I quote verbatim from the website, since, I do not think, I can describe it as good as the author did. Wow. ROFL. The excrement hit the rotary cooling device – brilliant way of saying the shit hit the fan !! Well, since you saw the subject of the post, you know why the website went down !
Read the full article here.
What happens when you heat a cell phone in a microwave. See for yourself here. Do not attempt this at home
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(pic: sans serif -> Karnataka Photo News)
Whats up with Deccan chronicle and its stinginess for words. The ads are all over Bangalore. Apparently they use lesser words and more news. And hence they are fastr to read? And you can read the paper fastr? The next thing they will be doing is to write in the new fangled SMS English (or are they already doing that ?). Imagine a serious news being written in that lingo. This is how it would look like.
AIIMS gets doc bk
New Delhi: Centr on Thu suffrd a setbk with the Suprm Crt strkng dn the AIIMS and PIMER(A)A and restrng P. Venugopal as AIIMS Drctr. 🙂
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V will tame infl : PM
PM M.Singh on Thu promisd that the UPA govt led by the Cong would tame infl in coming months and roll back infl rate to reasonable levels. ;-0
Hmm. Cannot imagine reading news like that. Whatever will the austere kaapi drinking I-cannot-see-the-light-of-day-without-reading-Hindu mafia in Chennai do?
Well, I am not talking about any direct dealings between the big bazaar group and the police. It may happen, but I am not going to talk about it. It so happened, yesterday, I was waiting out the big bazaar on OMR (old Madras Road) to pick up my sister, who was coming by one of the KSRTC volvos. Well, the bus was running late, but I had preoccupied myself in watching the lonely police officer nearby, and his wonderful antics.
The big bazaar for those in the know is slightly on the wrong side of the road. Instead of proving my ineptitude in geographical descriptions, it is best to show a drawing.
As you can see by the thick red arrows, the easiest way to get to Big Bazaar is the wrong side way. The correct way is to continue down OMR for a little bit, and take a UTurn and come back to big bazaar. And this happened to be the vantage point for our friendly neighbourhood police officer. He would lurk in the shadows for a few minutes, and wait for his prey to come. When the offending motorist came near enough, the officer would pounce on him, and extract ‘his’ collection from him. In the 1 hour I was there, he caught about 11 two wheers, and 3 cars – his collection from each vehicle would have ranged from 50-150 bucks.
When his collection reached a threshold (I am assuming it would have been a round 1000 bucks), he went to this bike, put all his papers etc into the side box, started it, and went on his way …… in the wrong side way ofcourse !!
Now, I am not a male chauvinist, neither am I a feminist (last time I checked, I am still of the masculine species). But this really sent me rolling in laughter. The above snapshot is from the course listing of an executive MBA distance education program offered by the IICT, Lucknow. Is there something special about managing men ? Maybe frustrated wives can also take this course? How about managing women? Is that a specialization subject as well ? I cannot stop imagining all the possibilities ! ROFL.
Now that, India has its share of no-frills airlines as well, I think this video will ring a bell for most of us. Remember the famous (but brilliantly silenced) law suit, about Air Deccan refusing drinking water to a passenger. The passenger won ofcourse, citing that, water was a life-sustaining necessary item, that cannot be denied to any living person. Check out the MadTV parody on a no-frills airlines. A lot of these things do ring a bell with Decccan (not sure if anything has changed since Mr. Mallya bought it though).
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