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Archive for March, 2006

A wife’s letter

after a very long time today, I have come across Rabinder Nath Tagore again, and this time it has been a short story with the name Ritual and reform; courtesy of this website. This man is a genius, but unfortunately not appreciate as well as he should be. Last i saw the movie made on [...]

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Afghan on trial for Christianity

The trial judge holds the bible he says belonged to the accused

An Afghan man is being tried in a court in the capital, Kabul, for converting from Islam to Christianity.
Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he recants. story
Following [...]

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worries of US

US govt is worried the open source software would fall into wrong hands. given the fact that technology which covers the security software applicable to fbi and cia and the like is so readily available to an ordinary hacker is gnawing at US govt's heart.since forever i ve been hearing the pros and cons of [...]

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as i cannot decide which i like better! so here

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friday raptures

is it a rapture or a rupture? damn GRE! anyway i am so not a friday person and my neck aches like crap from exercising at 5 am. i actually got outa bed at 7.50 am, score…but then guess who i meet smiling at the 196 bus stop Atalay Ozgovde! and as always i got [...]

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a rainy day

not idiomatically, originally! and i am supposed to be at an optometrist’s in about 2 hours. and my machine is incredibly slow on the network right now, with 2 gigs of RAM it shudnt be, but wonder why it is…maybe its the network itself. someone was playing enrique’s hero today and i realized how [...]

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zahid e tang nazar ne mujhe kafir jana
or kafir yeh samjhta hai musalman hun mainnever was the truth of this statement so obvious to me until i landed in canada, and even more so when I had friends who were non muslims. i have spent hours, even days talking and debating my way through my [...]

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I am nobody, who are you?

I am nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell
They’d banish us, you know 
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

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wisdom hurts big time

and by wisdom i mean the wisdom tooth, maybe the ‘real’ thing hurts as well, i wouldnt know obviously
it has been over a year since this thing has beeen trying to just pop out or something but it wont.. i ve been told tme and again to go to a dentist and get this [...]

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Ian has been banging his office walls for past 10 mins now, and he has just gotten a new sound system, so we have some rap music in the build corridoor. and my damned ’s’ key has gone bad, hmmm i guess i ate too many chips using the keyboard as a plate :S
work wud [...]

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just came from watching gandhi, a movie apparently made in india quiet sometime ago, honestly speaking nothing spectacular, the people who are cast as gandhi and jinnah especially dont look 0.5% like the original people. but what struck me the most was the total disdain of the director or the story writer for anyone but [...]

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today has been a hectic day and all of my platforms are still down. it is pretty annoying when a build opens and no one tells you they changed the location for the source and you go bonkers with failing machines. heck my hands ache with typing and my neck and upper back is sore. [...]

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