“My Dad’s burgling your house”

April 24th, 2005 Reuters reports that some joker sold Indian Prime Minister's house on Ebay to an American business man! And I thought selling the Brooklyn bridge was a myth! The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($802,600) for the house that was up for sale on a Web site as a "huge sprawling mansion in the heart of Lutyen's Delhi with 24x7 running water and electricity", the ‘Hindustan Times’ said. He soon received the title deed for the house and arrived in the Indian capital late in March to take possession of the house for an office he planned to set up only to discover he had been cheated.

September 26th, 2006 Dr. House MD is probably the best Television serial I have seen. Intellectual, witty and overall humane.

April 11th, 2009 We have seen luxury gadgets, fancy ones and even some crazy ones at times. But we need to spare some time for the place we live in.

April 3rd, 2005 A bill that would allow embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts cleared its second big legislative hurdle on Thursday with enough support to withstand a near-certain veto by the state's governor. Following impassioned argument on both sides, the state House of Representatives voted 117-37 in favor of legislation that endorses stem cell research, including stem cells obtained from cloned human embryos.

December 11th, 2007 We are looking for a full-time Linux system administrator to manage our dedicated servers and our internal servers, computers and network. He will also have to manage the MySQL server and other servers in-house.

April 6th, 2005 I am astounded by Google satellite view. You must check it out.

September 5th, 2007 Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read.

March 13th, 2008 Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life: A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

August 26th, 2006 Today I received a 419 scam email with a difference. It speaks of "genuine love".

July 7th, 2006 Today I received an email from Sudhir Thirumurthy [sagthirumurthy@fastermail.com] with a subject which screamed 419 scam. However I hadn't received any from Singapore and by someone who is clearly of Indian origin.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

October 25th, 2008 Elder parents and new born babies, despite having nothing in common, have one wish quite the same - the desire for independence. That strong will acquires a stubbornness at times and a thing of concern for you.

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

December 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).

July 2nd, 2005 An excellent job opportunity for working in Google at Moon (yes The Moon). Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007.