The Osbournes

I Never realized how hilarious Ozzy really is. With a faint scottish accent, he has a really witty and well timed humour.

Once his wife sharon found him hiding below the piano in a blood stained white dress with a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other. Apparently he had shot all the cats in the house !!!

Quite a character.

No other news

Today morning I switched on the TV to catch news and guess what. All the channels showed some images of a large crowd gathered in front of what seemed a building.

A few seconds and some dramatic words used by the commentator got me to believe that Lord Indra and other gods were about to come out of the building. A few more seconds clarified the confusion. It seemed the Indian cricket team was returning back to Mumbai. The building was the Sahar Airport in Mumbai and of course, the huge population was the cricket crazy Indian junta who will from now on worship these cricketers.

I tried to skip through channels and i just could not find a channel telling me something that has happened in the world. No news - its cricket here. And i am sure its here to stay.

Hectic travel

Just got back from a hectic travel. Feel like taking a break. The ironical part is that the travel was supposed to be a break !

No Mobiles till you'r 17

The kannada government has decided to ban mobiles for people (mind u not kids!) below the age of 16 in schools and junior colleges. (here)

Whatever little sense remains with me after reading this, i try to understand what could be the possible reason for this. I rule out brain damage. I rule out the fact that the government does not want people at this age to communicate. However, i think i can understand that they wouldn't want children to be blowing up precious currency on stupid calls and discussing boy friends and girl friends. Especially since the spectrum has suddenly become so precious, the patriotic Kannada govt. has decided to retain all wealth within India so the PHIRANGEES cannot use it.

However, the govt. is harping on the health risks posed to these youngsters from the usage of cellphones...

Sigh....

RSS - Oh what thy brings?

I subscribe to about 30 news feeds including our desi New Delhi Television (NDTV for the uninitiated). I read the headlines of Reuters and they say talk about PPR's buyout of United retail. I read the headlines of NDTV and I read that a boy's eyes were pierced by a mob in bihar !!

Are we so full of our problems that we don't have coverage to events with a global footprint? Or journalism in India is reduced to teachers and MPs caught in fake scams ?

Unique/regular visitors

A very interesting article about whether to use Unique visitors or simple visits. I think any media portal needs to not just pull traffic but also retain it.

This is what is the major obstacle facing the numerous social networking portals mushrooming all over. Although the bubble seems to be ballooning in terms of traffic, the actual users will peak and die out simply because almost anyone and everyone is either on Orkut or facebook.

Period.

We need to grow up

To come to office everyday, I need to travel a specific corridor through a colony. I wont take names here.

Today morning i found the route blocked. The gate was closed and no one would allow me to pass by.

After about 40 mins of arguing where all of us presented our opinion and views as loudly as possible, I saw no point in pursuing the discussion since I thought my time was more valuable than theirs.

To cut a long story short, Only the people who have bought real estate from the builders who own that corridor are allowed to travel. Rest all have been banned to move within this corridor.

When asked why so - they said 'what if someone steals something'. I don't know if they keep India's nuclear policy papers or if Rani of Indore herself resides there. But at the end of the day, the inconvenience caused to such a large set of people is not something that concerns them.

We are in a country that prides in our unity in diversity. But i think we are still far from a day when we will all stand up together to share each other's problems and feel proud about the same.