If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Blog’s RSS Feed. Or my Comment’s RSS Feed. Your funny bone is definitely as big as your femur!Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I don’t know if you earn enough to visit the high-brow places where a pianist plays on his organ even as you go ahead with your dinner. I don’t.
Perhaps that’s why my whole family depends on my company’s largesse to take us to such …

Last night, it rained. This phenomenon doesn’t happen often in Chennai but when it does, it rains cats and dogs. In fact, today morning I spent half an hour removing cats and dogs from the clothes we had left outside for drying. During the exercise I also observed that wet clothes are a lot heavier. Perhaps that’s why rescuers find it difficult to lift people who drown in water and get their clothes wet.
Around 12 midnight, the sky had started thundering.
I once had an old, naughty grandpa who believed that …

I wonder if everybody knows about Orkut. I am told that it is the brain child of Orkut Büyükkökten – a Google employee. Talking of Google…did you know that Amit Agarwal who runs http://labnol.blogspot.com/ has named his son “Google”? Why? Take a wild guess.
Getting back to Orkut - here are some of the silly (and of course exaggerated) self-descriptions (or profiles) I have come across in Orkut or such other communities. You will find my comments in italics.
Seen on Jammy’s profile in Orkut
Know God, and thou shall know me. In …

Three months back I had decided to be in Madurai for a wedding on Sep 9 & 10. But on 6th I decided to drop the Madurai trip and attend the BlogCamp instead. After spending two days at the BlogCamp, I have realized that very little differentiates BlogCamp from a marriage.
Goodies for visitors: Had I gone to the marriage in Madurai, I would have got a coconut, a betel leaf, a lemon, some acre nut in a polyethylene bag. At the BlogCamp I got a black bag (with Yahoo written …

Sunil Gavaskar is here. I can see him in blood and flesh. Wow! To see the man who was just about my height and kicked the shit out of the huge West Indian bowlers is a great feel. I have even recorded a few video clips in my mobile and will be sharing itwith my wife.
As soon as the Yahoo guys walked him in, I saw at least 20 cameras aim for him. Made me wonder how he feels about it all. But then, has he been seeing all this …

I really mean it…the biggest open source conference – who said open source as a concept can only be used for software development? – rolled off to a Ferrari like start at 9 a.m..
Kiruba Shankar, who has been the inspiration behind this camp ever since the idea was mooted said the first few words.
His introduction was followed by an address by Satya of Sulekha. If one had already started forming impressions of the camp, he/she had to change it all when everybody started rolling in laughter with the next exercise. …

Update: Am thinking of giving regular updates on the Blogcamp India happenings. I don’t have a laptop as yet, so will have to depend on others …and that’s the only limitation. Do check again.

I know a friend who is addicted to alcohol. He says he can’t live without it and I believe him. While I think he needs to join an Alcohol Anonymous club and sort out issues, he doesn’t think so. Wonder why he thinks being an alcohol addict is cool.
I am exactly the opposite. I am happy if you give me a system (with broadband connectivity) and a mouse to click. I love the faint crash of internet pages when they get downloaded onto my system (don’t tell me your computer …