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!In fiction books read as a kid everybody had a ‘study’ – a room full of books and a single rocking chair. From PG Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes…they all had studies of their own.

That’s why when Rekha announced that we had a spare room in our 3-bedroom house …I jumped up and said, “I …

Pranay Srinivasan (an old friend of mine - not old in terms years!) sent this forward. Since it made interesting reading, thought I should share it with the other Ouchmytoe readers.
Believe me…I didn’t make this one up.
The Mail Forward as Received

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- …

Cause: Erratic posts on this blog for the last two months
BeCause: An awesome ibibo Sawaal, which went live last night after months of hard work
Yours sincerely would be very happy if you can take a look at the new ibibo Sawaal and leave your feedback, here.

It becomes a double whammy when research agencies like AC Nielsen decide to use “mention in blogs” as a metric and corporates buy them!

According to a recent Nielsen BuzzMetrics Sustainability Monitor study, Wal-Mart is the corporation most linked with blog posts that mention ’sustainability’. Wal-Mart was mentioned in 1.77 percent of the 356,403 blog posts about ’sustainability’ measured between 3/15/06 and 3/15/07.
What’s not clear is whether these mentions are positive or negative. What is clear though is…blog speak (or wisdom of the crowd) is being heard. One for the …

What is Bruce Lee’s favorite non vegetarian dish?
Machlee (fish, in Hindi)
And what is Bruce Lee’s favorite breakfast?
Idlee
What does Bruce Lee like to have for lunch?
Thalee (Hindi for a 30-item meal in a stainless silver plate)
Who is Bruce Lee’s favourite cricketer?
Kambli (Vinod Kambli, that is) Brett Lee
What is Bruce Lee’s favourite social bookmarking site?
www.funnylee.com
Yes, that’s what these questions were all about.
FunnyLee is a new site trying its mark in an area – social bookmarking - already crowded by people like www.digg.com, www.indianpad.com, www.reddit.com, www.del.icio.us (and did you know that www.de.lirio.us …

The Klein family united via Yahoo Groups!
One of the daughters of two split sisters set up a group and sent across messages to all Judys born on April 7, 1940. This letter was also put up on the Group home page for all others to see. The KleinFamily Group | The Letter sent to all Judys
The plot got interesting when the actual family didn’t spot this Group but a third party spotted I and said: “Hey! I know a Judy who has been looking for her long lost sister …

Excel has a nice feature which counts the number of days between two dates. For example, if I wanted to find how how long I have been blogging, all I need to do is go to a cell and type:
=”04/21/2007″-”08/10/2003″
First I mention today’s date…and then the date I started blogging. When I press ‘enter’…the cell will display ‘1350′! Yes, thats the number of days I have been a blogger. Awesome, isn’t it?

In the deadliest school campus shooting a gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and Virginia Tech classroom on Monday and killed 21 people. The gunman was killed.

Virginia Tech president Charles Steger uttered a few words of condolence, but that wouldn’t help the parents who lost their children. Horrifying indeed.
The shooting at Virginia Tech continued for two hours. This is the second time in less than a year that the Virginia Tech campus has been closed because of a shooting. In August 2006, the opening day of …