What a frigging nightmare. We mean the fiendishly complicated U.S. tax forms. Finally, we managed to complete the darn tax forms. Today, i.e. April 15Â is the deadline for all Americans to file their tax returns for 2008. Notwithstanding its horribly complicated sections, we’re proud to tell you that we’ve always done the tax returns on […]
One country’s misery fuels another country’s prosperity. As the U.S. reels under a cataclysmic recession, Indian tech firms like Infosys Technologies that provide software and BPO services for large American corporations are riding the wave of success. India’s software giant Infosys turned in yet another quarter of impressive results and added nearly 5,000 jobs (gross) even […]
India has been a dismal failure at attracting foreign tourists compared to even tiny nations like Croatia. Frequent terrorist bombings in major Indian tourist hubs like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore et al, the global recession and rape and murder of tourists must surely be causing nightmares to the somnolent pen-pushers in India’s moribund Ministry of Tourism. As […]
Many summers ago, we read an article in Time about Herpes. The crux of the Time piece was – You can’t kill it. It can’t kill you. Not much has changed since. Herpes (including genital herpes) still doesn’t have a cure. According to Wiki: Herpes Simplex Virus is transmitted during close contact with an infected […]
********** Update 2: Back online after more than three hours. Update: Still no power, after more than 90 minutes…Backup UPS and laptop fading. Will respond to comments via iPhone. ********** We are seeing one of those rare outages in the U.S. Blogging on backup UPS and the laptop. Is it the continuous rain and thunderstorms on […]
All those Namita, Rajinikanth, Sivaji Ganesan and Kamal Haasan videos we spend countless hours ogling at on YouTube are costing Google a lot of money. A heck of a lot. Remember, Google paid $1.65 billion for buying the user generated video sharing site YouTube a few years back. Still, for all the popularity of YouTube […]