Main toh hil gayaa

I had skipped my prescribed medicines for 2 days. Being lazy & busy I had not found time to purchase the medicine. After attending a very lengthy meeting I had just finished eating some snacks and was at my desk trying to finish the backlog for the week. Then I felt few mild shocks / tremors; my fingers resting on keyboard were shaking a bit. I inquired with 2 of my colleagues whether they felt something unusual ? They both said "No". That made me worried, thinking that either I was too tired or something was wrong with me. But after a few minutes a colleague came to me saying that there is flash news about a minor earth quake. For a change, I was really relieved to know that I was not hallucinating but was more alert than my colleagues!

Climate Change. ( Blog Action day 2009 )

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it - Mark Twain

Now everybody talks about the Climate change, Global warming, Ozone depletion, ...
And we ordinary folks say it is a Global problem, what me a solitary powerless soul can do about it ?

Here is a simple real life story.

Abid Surti is a famous artist, cartoonist, writer. He writes in Gujrati & Hindi. His cartoon strip (in Dharmayug) on the character Dhabooji had a huge fan following.
Abid Surti who is now 70+ years old lives in the Meera Road suburb of Mumbai. He once read a Newspaper article about dripping taps ( faucets ). As per the article, the estimate of water wastage per tap is 1000 liters per month. Abid Surti decided to do something about it. He along with a couple of friends started a very simple program. They hired a plumber and started fixing dripping faucets free of charge. They only work on Sundays ( and only for 5 hours, not full day.) But the amount of water saved by them is really staggering.

I salute Abid Surti and his friends for their contribution.

So friends just look around, don't wait for World Leaders, politicians, ... etc to solve the problem. Find out what you can do and Act!

A Blog action day 2009 post.

Greatest Show on Earth

Greatest Show on Earth - the evidence for Evolution is the latest book by Richard Dawkins.



And here is a review.

Here is an interesting link on History of Evolutionary Thought.

"The whole nine yards"

9th September happens to be the birthday of one of my closest friend. Today also is one more interesting date and time combination. At 09:09:09, we will have 9/9/9 09:09:09. It will happen twice today!

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It is reported that Google US home page also displayed 090909 for a brief period.

Two Birthdays!

1. Debain is 15 years old.
2. Unix is 40 years old.

Wishing Many Happy returns of the day!

It seems "Ubuntu" is likely to overtake "Linux" as a search term according to Google trends!

Beyond words!

Just stumbled upon this amazing Video.


She is Kseniya Simonova, search the web for "Sand Animations"

Hiroshima 64 years later

1. Hiroshima 64 years later
2. Some photos
3. Hiroshima article from Wikitravel.
4. New findings from Nagasaki-Hiroshima studies.
5. History – “The Destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki”