Marriages are made in heaven????

This post (http://www.gingerchai.com/2010/07/07/marriages-are-made-in-heaven/) i just read it over the net.. such a nice & entertaining one; well written.

The blog crossed 1000 visitors..

hey!.. 

i was waiting for this to happen since a long long time... see the site counter.. shows the total visitors > 1000.

I added the counter.. may b couple of years back...

2nd attempt: trying out google chrome

i am a fan of mozilla firefox.. i love it the most.. the extensions.. the flexibility it gives.. plugins.. speed all are so nice.. but wait! recently my office changed the proxy server.. i dont know what happend this fellow started cribbing.. for every site i need to add exception and only then i can use it.. still fine.. i still like it.. now comes another problem! My fav plugin: delicious (by yahoo) fails. On start up .. i need to add an expcetion.. and this is so painful.. it first cribs invalid certificate.. for abt 10 times.. and then allows me to add the certificate.. still mozilla is ok.. but things started irritating me.. as its mundane job every day.. 

previously i used chrome.. i liked it.. mainly for its simplicity in design.. and quickness in user response.. but wait.. google has his own problems.. its not flexible as firefox.. he gives delicious plugin but it has usablility issues... i think this is because of chromes architecture itself, i think he doesnt allow the side panel as firefox does. Also the plugins are limited.. and evenif they are available.. have usability issues (ok alreay said this still). However few plugins are gud like scribefire.. or i need not add exceptions for every simple site.. like google/ blogger/ delicious, as it happens in firefox.

now i m trying it again.. atleast i see firefox tyring to smoke me out.. lets see how it goes.

What a wonder ful morning...

Aaaha!.. today is a great morning.. i liked it the most.. yest night it was raining here.. not heavily though.. a biker can ride home.. and today morning.. the day was great... cool.. nice..  atleast i ride to office by byk.. so didnt feel the traffic jam much.. or it was ok.. taking the climate/ atmosphere into account.. 

i like the flyover at hyderabad central.. such a nice one.. a long one.. so smooth.. i enjoy the travel on it.. 

gud one

Once, an old man and his 24 year old son were going from new york to texas by train. The son sat next to the window with his father beside him. The son looking out from the window shouted,"Dad, look the trees are going behind!"

Dad smiled and a young couple nearby looked at the 24 yr old's childish behaviour with pity. Suddenly he again exclaimed "Dad, look the clouds are running with us!"
The couple couldn't resist and said to the old man,"why don't you take your son to a good doctor?"

The old man smiled and said, "i did and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he jus got his eyes today".

MORAL:
Dont jump to a conclusion directly cos wat u see is most probably not the truth.

... again got this from some blog i was reading this evening.. 

Akbar birbal

Nice thought from history:

Akbar said to Birbal:
"Tell me a sentence that if read in happy mood will make us sad and if read in sad mood will make us happy."
Birbal replied:
"This time will pass away soon!!!"

read this on a blog this evening.

Now what will pakistan use to search ???

Pak court banned Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Amazon... So what will they use to search over net?. All search engines are banned!

The news reads as follows....

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

The judge also ordered the PTA chairman to appear in court on June 28 with relevant materials.

Sidiq, in his petition, sought a ban on the websites for publishing blasphemous materials and twisting facts about the Quran.

Aslam Dhakkar, head of a local bar association, was quoted as saying that the court had given a historic decision.

He said the legal fraternity in Bahawalpur would observe a strike today to protest the publication of blasphemous material by the websites.

However, officials of the PTA said that they had received no instructions to block the websites.

They said they had only seen media reports about the court's order.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan, said his organisation had not received any directions from the PTA to block websites.

Pakistani authorities had blocked popular social networking website Facebook in May over the holding of a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

The access to the website was later restored on the orders of the court.

Burned Biscuits :)

When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening...When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite!

When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burned biscuits."

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said, "Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides - a little burned biscuit never hurt anyone!"

You know, life is full of imperfect things.....and imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else.

What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each other’s faults - and choosing to celebrate each other’s differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.

We could extend this to any relationship. In fact, understanding is the base of any relationship, be it a husband-wife or parent-child or friendship!

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket - keep it in your own."

God Bless You..... Now, and Always....

:)

Bhopal Union Carbide accident and punishment !!!

Few minutes back i read this on an online news paper:

"A local court on Monday afternoon sentenced all the eight accused in the Bhopal gas disaster case to two years' imprisonment and Rs one lakh fine each under section 304(a) amid tension around the court premises where prohibitory

order is in force to prevent the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster from holding demonstration.

The maximum punishment under the section 304 (a) is two years jail.

However, the accused were immediately released on Rs 25,000 personal bond. The verdict has come nearly 25 years and six months after poisonous fumes of methyl-iso-cyanite gas leaked from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory. It killed over 15,000 and affected nearly five lakh people over the years. The disaster had occured on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.

The convicts include Union Carbide former top brass Keshav Mahindra, Vijay Gokhle, SP Raichoudhary, Kishor Kamdar, J Mukund, KV Shetty and SI Qureshi.

The court has also imposed Rs five lakh fine each on three companies Union Carbide Corporation, Union Carbide of India Limited and Union Carbide Eastern (Hong Kong).

The court premises is heavily guarded and atmosphere is tense.

NGOs working for the gas victims have already said they would move higher court against the verdict for trial of the convicts under more stringent section 3049 (B) which provides for maximum 10 years jail sentence.

The CBI had filed chalan in this case in December 1987 and recording of witnesses statementbegan in 97. A total 178
witnesses deposed and 3000 documents produced in the court of the Chief Judician Magistrate. the incumbent CJM Tiwari is the 15th CJM since the case came up before the court."

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I remember a saying from  my child hood: Justice delayed is justice denied. I think this apts to this situation. Added, after 25 years of struggle... now the Court levies 1lakh rupees fine??? is this a comedy show or some kind of practical joke? Now let me add one more point.. this is the judgement by the local court... the local court which is within the vicinity of the affected area itself takes 25 years to say who is wrong... and who should be punished... imagine the time it takes for the supreme court to give the verdict!!!!


For cases like Kasab where some 100 pple of mumbai are affected.. the govt does hungama.. puts a special court.. special high security prison.. spends abt 10 crores.. makes some 1000/ 10000 pages of verdict.... How abt the case of this bhopal gas disaster??? why isnt it handled so carefully? I remember reading in TOI: " immediately after the gas explosion, the CEO was led to USA in one of the indian goveernment's official aircraft". What is this?

There is no surprise if i see the supreme court's verdict... after some 75 years/ 100 years when i m nearing my death.. like it happened with boforce/ any such case.

pple dont elect a proper government.... they go for a biryani packet and 250 Rs of money to vote or elect... the learned fellow who knows what is correct and what is wrong .. doesn't vote... and finally we curse the govt for being so bad.... If a biryani packet is ruling the state.. then this is what we are eligible for.. No offence.. !!!

its so bad to make such comments... but what do i say.. in my own cubicle.. last time.. only 3 voted out of 6.