http://wlog.suvirjain.com The Monologue of a Maverick Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is the best because you were born in it." - George Bernard ShawI read this the other day and then read it again and then once more. Then I laughed. I felt like someone was speaking my mind. As someone who has stayed ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/08/14/the-true-patriot/ Abdul Kalam was frisked by Continental Airlines some time back in clear violation of protocol. Read here. Well, I have been following this one of and on for the past few hours. Initially, I was disgusted that a person of such stature should be dealt with in this manner. tangent : I ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/21/insult-yeah-but/ Check this out. Interested reading. Apparently MS last year became one of the sponsors of the Apache Software Foundation. And now it contributed 20,000 lines of code to the linux kernel to improve Linux Virtualization in Windows.I can understand why the skeptics like Free Software Foundation say that MD shouldnt ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/21/microsoft-contributes-to-linux/ Wow, there is gonna be a solar eclipse tomorrow! Totality will be visible in India and China and apparently the best place to view it some god foresaken place in Bihar. It will just touch north-eastern Australia, too bad I am in Sydney. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_22,_2009 for more. I have ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/21/solar-eclipse-of-22nd-july-09/ Wow..everyone seems to be doing some good..After Bill Gates, its google's turn...adding to the already large number of books available for free reading at google books, its now entered into a partnership with barnes and noble. According to the deal, barnes and noble will commit another 1/2 a million books ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/21/google-books/ Well this is something thats occured to my mind often in the past few weeks.It all started with the "racist attacks on Indian students in Australia". Since I was in Sydney at that time, it struck me as a bit odd that suddenly a community was allegedly being attacked for ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/20/an-itch-i-gotta-scratch/ Read this off CNET..great piece of news...apparently Bill Gates has been busy after quitting the top job. And he's been upto a lot of good stuff. Apart from the massive fund set up by the Gates Foundation to combat AIDS, he has also done something he had decided to do ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/20/richard-feynman-lectures/ Hey guys, noticed something interesting on twitter and felt like sharing it. Its a scam! Yes its a scam! Well not a scam in the truest sense of the word, but it does involve people exploiting what they are given for profit. Well here goes, On twitter, a measure of your ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/15/twitter-stuff/ As we grow older, busy in our everyday lives, there are a few things that are almost universally common to all people..irrespective of race, nationality, creed etc. I am talking about simple pleasures that we all enjoy but probably rarely ever notice them. Not only notice, if you just realize ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/11/simple-pleasures/ The Hindu news feed reports : Speaking to retired civil servants, who met him on Tuesday night to discuss national issues, President Asif Ali Zardari said militants and extremists had been “deliberately created and nurtured” as a policy for “short-term tactical objectives.”“Let us be truthful and make a candid admission of ... http://wlog.suvirjain.com/2009/07/10/too-little-too-late/