The other day SI readers boopalanj and guruprasad brought up the issue of different types of torture including the Chinese and Medieval flavors. We were reminded of it today as we were reading an article in the Sunday edition of our favorite newspaper, the New York Times. On P.12 of the print edition of the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi has lost his marbles and therefore gets a new name – Loose Paiya (crackpot). The decrepit dinosaur told Indian TV channel NDTV that Velupillai Prabhakaran (the notorious LTTE terrorist) is not a terrorist and is his good friend. No, we’re not making this one up, folks. This […]
Facing annihilation at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army, the few remnants of the LTTE terrorists are reduced to begging for a ceasefire. After the Sri Lankan government rightly rejected LTTE’s desperate cries for a ceasefire, the LTTE terrorists are now begging the international community for help. In a statement, the LTTE’s head of international […]
First it was the H1B software coolies that began screwing American workers (thanks to greedy U.S. corporations). Now, the down-on-their-luck American workers are being bitch slapped by other things Indian. The New York Times has an interesting article today on how Indian steel pipes are being used in an oil pipeline project in Granite City, […]
********** 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 […]
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 […]