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 […]
Now, now before y’all politically correct folks get your knickers in a twist, the above headline is borrowed from a scene in Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger. We just watched the DVD (thank you, RedBox). A HBO presentation, the DVD features Black comedian Chris Rock’s live performances in Johannesburg, London and New York City. This […]
Let’s acknowledge the ugly facts first – Microsoft’s Live search engine is a piece of shit. Utter garbage. So it hardly comes as a surprise that even Microsoft employees (a.k.a. Microserfs) don’t use this junk search engine. As Google gets better and extends its search hegemony, Microsoft’s trashy search engine continues to lose ground. Look […]