Musings of a Mumbai bloke

Just found out a convenient trick ... about SMS.

You can send an email to any cell phone in the country by addressing it to 10digitnumber@teleflip.com. It's free, there is no registration required, and you don't have to know the provider of the person you're sending to.

this was posted by "gbotham" on this website Here you will find all the info about SMS you would ever care to know.

This article details the whole story. Its a nice article about the highly skilled, intelligent brothers, who lacked social skills, were stubborn and paranoid that someone will steal their idea.

All Things Considered had Dr. Greenstein, a Florida Dentist, on their show recently. He does stand up comedy and recently released a CD called "Spit Happens" excerpts of which can be found on his website.

Singing Dentist : NPR Radio

Dr. Greenstein's Web Site, the Dr. Dan Show

As a part of my ongoing apple obsession, I attended my first Mac user group meeting today. whe i mentioned about this upcoming meeting to a friend, he suggested I do not need a user group, instead i should search for an AA (Apple Anonymous) because i was turning into a hard core addict!

Well at this meet one Mr. Bill Dougal was making caricatures and did one for me too, as seen alongside.This club which has a membership of about 150 members, 30 had showed up for this grand Christmas celebration. There was a raffle, food and "stump the geeks" program. There were as many men as women, and most of them were in their 40's. I am led to believe that though iMac has been a comeback vehicle for Apple, it has not gained as big a popularity with the young <30 crowd. Hopefully the iApps, iLife, iPod etc will change all this and more youngsters will embrace this great product. Adopt and then get Addicted!!

Immigrants awaiting hearings monitored with Electronic ankle bracelets :

Illegal immigrants awaiting deportation hearings are being monitored by electronic ankle bracelets under a federal pilot program that is expected to relieve prison overcrowding nationwide and save taxpayers millions of dollars.
ADT Security Services is monitoring the bracelets to ensure the wearer remains within a specific area and alerts law enforcement if the bracelet is tampered with or leaves the area.

hear about it on NPR Radio

why I am an Appple fan

"With his (Saddam Husein's) capture, we exhale, after a long, deep breath we have held for a year" writes Nancy Gibbs in cover story on the latest Time magazine. "We can measure the meaning of his capture by the measures we have taken — old alliances and long traditions discarded to go to war to take him out and, in the name of democracy, a war that was opposed by vast majorities in most democracies on earth. Hundreds of soldiers killed, hundreds more wounded, $4 billion a month spent and billions more to come, a country broken in pieces that we will be helping rebuild for years to come. And so what is the gift this capture has brought?...."

Exactly what is the gift this capture has brought? What can be legitimate reasons for a democratic country to launch such an attack on another country?

NPR recently ran a stroy about a play about the indian telemarketers.

'Alladeen': An Indian Telemarketing Multimedia Drama

Using the backdrop of the legend of Alladin, as well as live performance, 3-D animation, video, and music, Alladeen tells the story of telephone operators in India training to telemarket to American consumers. The show is designed to attract younger audiences. It runs through December 6 at the BAM New Wave festival. NPR's David D'Arcy reports

“ The English have always been persnickety about punctuation, but a little book about commas, apostrophes and semicolons is making quite a pointed exclamation.” writes Charles Goldsmith in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL about this small time book written on punctuation which has become a surprise hit with readers. I quote from the article:

The book is "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Lynne Truss, a 48-year-old longtime literary editor,. Its title refers to a joke about a panda that walks into a cafe, eats a sandwich, fires a gun and walks out. But as its subtitle -- "A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" -- suggests, its topic is no laughing matter to many in Britain who remain punctilious about their punctuation.

The book's reputation spread largely by word of mouth, though it did make use of some marketing gimmicks, including a T-shirt that on the front says, "A woman, without her man, is nothing," and on the back says, "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
The book is due to appear in the U.S. next spring.


Another Example of the Brits’ love for the right punctuation is John Richards. An 80-year-old retired copy editor at several regional newspapers, Mr. Richards says he "got fed up with correcting reporters' copy, so I decided to do something about it" by founding the small society. Apostrophe Protection Society in Boston, a town in northern England. It has its own website which has examples of misuse of the apostrophe It has its own website which has examples of misuse of the apostrophe

Here's a trivia question for you.
Bush's family has an "indian" member. do you know what i am talking about?

click here for answer

read what melvin durai has to say

One of my patients was telling me the ordeal she went through shopping on day after thanksgiving sale. She went to Walmart to buy that $29 DVD. . well thats a story for another blog...but coming back to her 6am visit to Walmart. she was complaining about the horrible rush and the inconsiderate crowd.... etc. People were cutting between lines, jumping the parking spots...in short doing all they could to get what they wanted without being considerate of the other person....

after she left i was thinking about the bombay crowd...and the local trains. it reminded me of the time i went to a big garba function here in USA few years back. just as Hirak has written in one of his blogs The Little Voice- ISDA diwali show how ...indians here in US stand out as an unruly unorganised lot. i think its just the environment which has shaped us indians to be the way we behave when we are in a crowd... if people in this polite western world had to deal with the kind of mad urban rush can you imagine what kind of crazy situation it may turn out to be... our unruly indian crowd would have put them to shame i think.


p.s. that $29 DVD on SPECIAL sale at walmart can work only if you have bought a $20 cable !

type in "miserable failure" on google and...
then click on "i m feeling lucky" tab
and see the answer.

Or
just click here MISERABLE FAILURE and it will take you to the site.

and then if you want to know the scoop .... read up on the following link:
NY times