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Damn!!! I wish i was a kid again. Now what triggered this thought?? Well i met my buddies from school this weekend and as usual we were talking about all the crazy stuff we had been through and suddenly we realized that we hardly get time to meet. The craziest thing is this, my office is a 5 minute walk from my buddy’s office and yet we hardly meet not even for lunch. Back home i was thinking about how carefree life was when i was a kid. No thoughts about deadlines, work pressure, investments, expenditure, updating myself professionally etc etc…all i had to think was do i finish my homework now or should i copy it from someone from school the next day?. It was mostly the latter. I could play a song i liked really loud, over and over without worrying about what others might think. All the games where we made up the rules along the way. All those stamp trades, thirutu ice-creams. Life Was Good!!!. I’m not saying i lead a crappy life now, Life is still good. Its just that it has become very mechanical and I’ve gotta make schedules for everything now..wait its time for me to scratch……………….Ah that felt good.
I met another interesting person this week..My Lecturer from college. It was nice to see him after all these years. I thought he’d have trouble remembering me but he recognized me immediately which is good, but he remembered me as the skinny guy who always kept talking and causing trouble. Well…I’m proud of that too coz i believe that “if you cannot be part of the solution…be part of the problem” 
Talking about problems i had a nice argument with a colleague of mine. It was basically a Veg Vs Non-Veg argument. While he argued about vegetarians being similar to animals coz they basically eat leaves and fruits, a thought popped in my mind…Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken over there … I’m gonna eat the first thing that comes out if its butt”?. Well to each their own what can i say 
. i also overheard a couple of girls talking about “Split-Ends doesn’t that make you wonder, why don’t the hairs on your arms get split ends?
I have been thinking about getting a new mobile phone…I am tempted to get a SE K750i…but i have been successfully resisting temptation till now. I was talking about this to Karthik..our company’s IT-Manager and he asked me not to buy it now and wait for some more time and prices will drop. He even used the famous “Good things comes to those who wait†line. Let me ask you this, aren’t the ‘good things that come to those who wait’ just the leftovers from the people that got there first?
Anyway i will be getting the new mobile soon but the only thing that’s holding me back is the fact that SE is coming out with more new models, i don’t want to buy the K750i and then regret not buying a higher model later. Anyways i gotta get it soon coz companies are now giving away free gifts which brings me to another question Why do companies offer you “free gifts?” Since when has a gift NOT been free?
In the recent trend of lazily-conceived, absurd reality shows it’s refreshing to a show that doesn’t fit a clichéd formula and challenges the audience’s intellect with hilarious results.This is the funniest show currently on television. All you need to enjoy this show is an appreciation for high-quality acting and incredibly hilarious writing. Michael Bluth is perfect as the under-appreciated do-good guy who’s just trying to keep his family together and himself sane. Other highlights of the show include GOB (George Oscar Bluth II), Michael’s lame-excuse-for-a-magician brother; George Sr., Michael’s incarcerated father (he was jailed for “shifty accounting practices”); and George Michael Bluth, Michael Bluth’s perpetually nervous 13-year-old son (who just happens to have a strange infatuation with his cousin, Maebe).
It’s a sit-com made with very high standards, it’s a career revival for Ron Howard who as the narrator has done an awesome job. The writing is as good as everyone says it is, the cast is on par with that of Seinfeld,Whenever new characters appear, they are inevitably played by people familiar to fans of edgy, intelligent humor. People like Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Bateman are dependably good, Michael Cera is a standout, and David Cross is finally being seen for the talent that he is.
There are many bit and pieces lingering in the background that you might miss. when George Michael is dumped by his girlfriend and he trudgees home in a state of misery, you could hear sad Charlie Brown music. In the background, you could see a real - but bright red - dog house, with a real dog lying on top of it.
This comedy is smart where so many others are not. its one of the few shows on today that you find DO NOT have a laugh track which alone makes it unique, but with the excellent writing and acting make it a refreshing and hilarious change.
Bottom line, It could give Frasier, Friends and Seinfeld a run for their money any day.
Yipee i’ll be writing reviews and articles on a International Technology Board from now on…What..Why..and When..will be posted here later
Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites?
How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.
Transport: we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway; cargo comes by air and shipments by road.
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
And they told me it was a balcony with a view
I recently took a blogger’s test here and guess what.. This is what they had to say
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he he..now i’m not going to argue with that
You might have read the “Time Machine” Or seen movies such as “The Terminator” or “Time Cop”. Well here’s someone who claims he’s is from the future and has come back to the past to collect an old IBM 5100 computer.
In November 02, 2000, a person calling himself Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts about our time. He even posted images of his “Time Machine” on various forums.
He was supposedly a soldier sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer. The postings also described various future events between 2005 and 2037, including World War III. He has also predicted some very odd stuff about people suffering from Mad Cow Disease. On being questioned about the physics of time travel he replied that he was a soldier and not a scientist.
On March 21, 2001, John Titor told that he would be leaving 2036. After that, he was never heard from again, and no he did not say “I’ll Be Back” while leaving
Conclusion:
Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so get wasted all the time and have the time of your life 
One thing I always hate to do is to find the best Antivirus program by trial and error. I have always heard about Kaspersky and NOD32 and i kinda liked NOD32. For free software, I always look towards Avast or AVG. Of course, that is what I knew. But what i did not know was that there are some new players in town.
Virus.gr tested quite a few different software companies to see how they would stack up against each other. How did the 147,000+ virus test pan out? Here are the results
1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 - 99.62%
2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 - 99.62%
3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 - 96.86%
4. BitDefender Professional version 9 - 96.63%
5. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 95.98%
6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 95.82%
7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 - 95.57%
8. BullGuard version 6.1 - 95.57%
9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 - 95.45%
10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 - 95.14%
11. AntiVir Classic version 7.01.01.02 - 94.26%
12. ViruScape 2006 version 1.02.0935.0137 - 93.87%
13. McAfee version 10.0.27 - 93.03%
14. McAfee Enterprise version 8.0.0 - 91.76%
15. F-Prot version 6.0.4.3 beta - 87.88%
16. Avast Professional version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
17. Avast freeware version 4.7.871 - 87.46%
18. Dr. Web version 4.33.2 - 86.03%
19. Norman version 5.90.23 - 85.65%
20. F-Prot version 3.16f - 85.14%
21. ArcaVir 2006 - 83.44%
22. Norton Professional 2006 - 83.18%
23. AVG Professional version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
24. AVG freeware version 7.1.405 - 82.82%
25. Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 - 82.23%
26. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 81.47%
27. PC-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 - 80.90%
28. VBA32 version 3.11.0 - 79.12%
29. ViRobot Expert version 4.0 - 76.22%
30. UNA version 1.83 - 75.44%
There’s the list and as you can see there are several towards the top that really surprised me.
I expected NOD32, Avast, and AVG to perform a little better than they did. The site reports that NOD32 and AVG definitely fought back at the heuristic testing. Heuristic testing is extremely important because that is what gives an Antivirus the ability to catch a virus even it is not in the database.
Here are the best performers in Heuristic Scanning
1. Nod32 2.51.30 - 41503
2. Vba32 3.11.0 - 32911
3. VirIT 6.1.9 - 16469
4. AVG 7.1.405 Professional - 13624
5. AVG 7.1.405 freeware - 13624
6. Rising AV 18.41.30 - 12214
7. McAfee 10.0.27 - 10708
8. Ikarus 5.19 - 7191
9. F-Prot 6.0.4.3 beta - 6247
10. Ukrainian National Antivirus 1.83 - 5506