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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. – Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967) The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) My father always believed that books were man`s best … Read more

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers’ Almanac, 1978 Recently, an IT company conducted a survey to find out the reason behind thousands of dirty keyboards, it owned. In short, they wanted to find out what was in between the keys of their keyboards. I am sorry I … Read more

I didn`t write this one too. Promise. Here is a bulletin circulated in our office yesterday. Dear associate, We recently received credible intelligence that there have been seven terrorists working in our office. Six of the seven have been apprehended. Bin Sleepin, Bin Loafin, Bin Goofin, Bin Lunchin, Bin Drinkin and Bin Butt-Kissin have all … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more