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Man, this is going to be a long list since Microsoft and its failures in the Internet domain are the stuff of history books:
* Bing Search (most likely, Microsoft’s next big Internet failure)
* MSN Search
* Live Search
* Soapbox – a YouTube rival
* MSN Internet access
* Internet Explorer – crappiest browser with tons of security holes Continue reading »
Holy Cow.
Listen, all ye Hindus.
Yes, we’re talking to you, the beef-abhorring, cow-worshipping bovine louts from India, Nepal, the diaspora in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and the far corners of the world.
Pay heed now:
Yes, we know all ye Hindus consider the cow so sacred that you find it sacrilegious to even think of eating the cow.
Yes, we know many of you Hindus consider the cow so sacred that you even worship it.
Yes, we know that ye Hindus consider the cow so sacred that some of you have even drunk the cow’s piss thinking it’s holy (no, we’re not kidding here).
Not for nothing do the Hindus say Go-Mata (mother cow). Right?
While most Hindus find the thought of eating the cow extremely distasteful, they do not show the same disgust when it comes to chicken, fish or lamb.
Many Brahmins (higher caste Hindus) too, who are enjoined from eating meat, increasingly eat chicken, fish or lamb slyly or even openly these days.
But the cow is verboten.
Yes, forbidden for most Hindus. No can eat, sir.
No must eat for Hindus.
Many Indian-American Hindus in the U.S. wouldn’t think twice about eating chicken. After all, you’d expect that chicken means well, plain and simple, chicken. Not beef, right?
So, we were surprised at what we found today in the Kentucky Fried Chicken in the U.S.
When you go to Kentucky Fried Chicken in the U.S. and order the new KFC Grilled Chicken, who in the world expects that what you will be served includes beef.
Yes, folks you read right.
The KFC Grilled Chicken contains Beef, as in B E E F.
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A KFC outlet in the U.S.
But the KFC people don’t tell you in the restaurants that the KFC Grilled Chicken contains Beef nor is it mentioned on the box for the takeout order or the bag they give you.
Beware, the KFC Grilled Chicken contains Beef
Sure, it’s mentioned on the KFC web site if you look carefully at the ingredients of the KFC Grilled Chicken.
The KFC Grilled Chicken contains Beef Powder and Rendered Beef Fat.
Among other things, the KFC Grilled Chicken is marinated with Beef Powder and Rendered Beef Fat.
But who visits the KFC web site to read about the ingredients of grilled chicken before heading out to the fast-food restaurant. Continue reading »
If history disturbs you, and you long to forget, don’t backup your data and sooner or later you’ll be free of it.
- Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times Magazine, p.24, June 14, 2009.
All hard-drives fail. Some hard-drives fail earlier than the others.
Most of us have precious and priceless memories on our laptop (we meant our laptop PC, not our bare laptop). 
But few of us care to do frequent backups of the priceless images, movies, billets doux and drawings on our laptop. Again, we’re talking only of the laptop PC.
As a business, we’ve been backing up stuff for several years now.
At first, we used the Archos 20GB floppy drive-sized external drive.
Then we shifted to larger external drives like AcomData and Seagate.
Since 2006, however, we’ve migrated to the sleek and larger capacity Western Digital Passport external drives.
We started with one 250GB external drive and then purchased one more. But one of the WD 250GB drives went bad recently when we tried to stop a backup in progress.
So, today we rushed over to Best Buy and got ourselves a new 500GB Western Digital external drive for $119.99.
These drives come in several colors including blue, black and white. Continue reading »
A bloody disaster.
That’s the box office response to Kal Kissne Dekha in the U.S. in the opening weekend.
Kal Kissne Dekha opened at No-62 in the U.S. and had an unimpressive total opening weekend gross of $13,861.
Here are the U.S. box office numbers for Kal Kissne Dekha provided in a comparative perspective:
Yes, we all know how much a desi hates to be parted from his/her/its money.
But when he/she/it must spend, the first thing it does is to look for some money-saving coupons.
So, to make life easier for the cheapo desis in the U.S. we’ve located the top coupon web sites:
The Maharaja is in dire straits and begging for a bailout.Â
Folks, Air India has run out of cash and cannot pay its employees, according to news reports coming out of India.
Instead of getting their June salaries on July 1, the employees will have to wait till July 15 to collect their pay check.
And what do they call Air India – India’s flying ambassador?
To us, India’s Begging Ambassador sounds like a better description for the ailing airline.
Have any of you flown on this airline?
We’ve never had the privilege although our family members have and are none too pleased about their experience.
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