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Easy way out of posting ... plagiarise.

Calling India

I am not one to forward emails, no matter all the "bad things" that could happen to me or that I am "ashamed" of Jesus!! But this one really put me over the top and I just had to share it ... not just with my emails buddies but the rest of the world!!

http://callcentermovie.com/movie/movie2.html

Now you know why you have to wait for 30 mins to get tech support or customer service!

One the same not I had a interaction with the HP online tech support and it is more than excellent, I probably had to wait for 30 second before I had somebody helping me. Compared to the 45 mins I had to wait on H&R block!

Human ingenuity #3854

So this whole post is about this guy in one of the most backward states of India who runs a radio station 'illegally' to provide FM coverage to villages spread over 20 miles using a home spun transmitter that cost him all of 1US$. Just goes to reiterate how people progress inspite of the system! Click to read about it.

"There are some who conform to this world and some who conform the world to themself, any human progress depends on the later"

Revision

This is a revision and a semi retraction of my previous post 'The pin pricks of democracy'. It was a realisation that dawned on me suddenly on why the government must have some semblance of control. Its called responsibility. There is no freedom without responsibility. The freedom of speech does not give anybody the right to infringe on another person's freedom which in this case is to live without any fear.

If its a punishable offence to threaten somebody face to face then it must be an a punishable offence to do it via the internet, be it emails or websites.

I would want the Indian government to give me a safe environment where I can live without the threat of violence against me.

So I have officially eaten my words online for the first time ... atleast partially.

The pin pricks of democracy

After the bombings last week in India, the government decided to take the drastic step of blocking some inflammatory websites. It was unprecedented in the number of sites that were blocked. The ISPs went a step ahead and blocked off all the blogging sites. Some of those sites that I went to didn't have anything out of the ordinary in them, atleast as much as I could see. The others like http://hinduunity.org/ have a hitlist for people. They even have address and phone numbers of people in the US of A who they think don't subscribe to their views. All this after running the site from NY. I always assumed that it was illegal to post people's addresses online and ask people to hurt them.

The oxymoronic nature of the whole affair is that freedom of speech applies to the opponents as much to the proponents of democracy. I am not a supporter of censorship but sometimes, just sometimes I understand the governments position! Then again its a necessary evil to let people have their say, even if they would bay for my blood!

Just a side note to say that I don't know what the big deal was about the president using the s*** word. Come on he doesn't have a special dictionary.

Also if you ever get a link to a site like this don't ever put in your password. Its a well thought out and old scam to get your passwords ... something I had tried out a few years back :)

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Odyssey - Book 2 - Chapter v - Meagan

So I was back to flying, this time for Meagan's wedding in Tally. As usually it was good to be back with friends. I bet it would have been better if some slob hadn't stolen her car. Also am amazed the number of wonderful new people I am having the opportunity of meeting. Made a few young, idealistic and energetic new friends ... almost makes me wonder what I am doing in this big city!

Also got to spend some time with Koshy anna ... you the man!

So here are the pictures. I am using google this time around. I know I need to consolidate all my pictures, the new job has eaten into my website building time. Anyhoo, maybe I'll get around to finishing it soon enough!

Iron head Mike!

So after helping me load all that stuff up with a lot of "wisdom" which only comes with age ... Mike decides to test the knot he put on the car!!!

The coat of many colours!

Betty's mom and grandmommade that for me. Each one of those patches was hand sewn!!! All this within a week!! I don't know if I can put in that much effort at their age!