Oh Sachinuuuu

Our railway minister to rail down rawalpindi express!!!

I tried this but apparently I liked it :-(

Cent wise dollar foolish

Want to save your privacy and associated nuisance. Here are my three cents.

(i) *www.donotcall.gov *- You do not have to be Jerry Seinfield to ask for the phone number of the ad company personnel. Probably, as many of you would already know, you could visit the mentioned website and get yourself off the unsolicited callers list.
(ii) *www.optoutprescreen.com* - Tired of receiving plethora of credit card mails. Want to save yourself from identity theft. Here is a way to opt-out formally. On the light vein, see www.nbc4.tv/money/5529720/detail.html . A credit card is issue to Never Waste a Tree :-) .
(iii) *www.annualcreditreport.com *- Free annual credit report! Bingo now you can see how many cc in your name has been issued.


-Madhu

Movies

Lately, I discovered that I have become a chronic couch potato. In last two days, I saw four movies.

(1) Hostel - Quentin Tarantino movie. It was co-produced by Eli Toth (Cabin fever) (5/10)
(2) Life is beautiful - Roberto Benigini (8/10)
(3) Shrek 2 - Excellent (6/10)
(4) The Chronicles of Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. - CS Lewis (6.5/10)

Schizophernia : Moo Vs Maa

Does the cow say Moo or Maa is the question? I was under the presumption that all Indian cows maawed. But recently I got into a saucy discussion about this with one of my american friends. He said he grew up in a farm and never has heard a cow maaw. It always mooed.
What? That's totally atrocious, I felt. In India where (even) cows are God, regarded in a mother-like stance, I thought all cows maah. Talking about Gods, we Indians were much sophisticated than any other culture in the world. Snake, Cow, Monkey, Tiger, Lion, Rat, Peacock, Hen, Fish were either worshipped or affiliated to atleast one or more Gods. I can start an argument here and say that we, Indians, were always in close quarters with our nature and animals and we even elevated them to God. Based on this pre-condition, Cows Maahs. But how?
Ok Ok time is running out. I got to articulate my findings asap. YES! VERICT: Cows MAAH

but how?

Online webster dictionary says that cows moo. To moo is to make the throat noise of a cow. It also means imitation. Yeah! American cows did not know to moo or maah before; it learned it wrong ly while trying to imitate its Indian peers. Indian cows were taught to maah by their owners who repeatedly called them Amaaah (Mother). Through our thorough simulations, we also found partial results that the Jersey cows were the first to learn to moo or (wrongly maah) (it is a chicken -and-egg problem here), as New Jersey is a popular rendezvous for Indian and Americans cows. So originally with 98.543% confidence level, we can say that Indian cows do not moo. Although, inital experimentation of our proof-of-concept, taken during semi-drunkedness and full-mappu (unconsciousness) suggests that American cows moo. As future work, we would investigate this issue even further.


Moral

What have I done, basically framed idea to write a technical paper. Taken a total incoherent problem. I supported with random arguments and concluded with a out-of-topic statement. The friend scenairo was just to gather the readers attention. It can thought of motivation. Future work again has become the original problem. With this kind of nonsensical, yet iterative looping, it is possible to write tons of papers with no plaigarism.

Usage of semicolon

I have never used semicolons in any of my technical and non-technical writing so far. Probably, today I felt the urge to know about its importance. After some Internet digging, I found usage of semi-colon can be summarized by three points.

(i) Seperate two independent yet closely related clauses.
My first day in army was nerve-breaking; the colonel seem to observe every move that I make.

(ii) two clauses seperated by a conjunction
It seems I'm running late; perhaps I have to go now.

(iii) Seperate semicolon when items in a series contain commas
She had lived in Mumbai,India; Colombo, Srilanka; and Canberra, Australia.

OEM - A software misnomer

OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturers. In software lingo, this stands for people who buy computer equipments and customize it for a particular (or many) softwares and then sell it under their brand name.
Recently, I am receiving way too many junk mails from OEM companies. This instigated me to find more about it.

Wanted to publish atleast one post on Happy New Year's day.