Apparently, Wikipedia thinks I've made a positive contribution to Slashdot subculture.

:-D

The irony, of course, is that I intended the post to be an experiment; wanted to see how much /.-tter-like I could sound (which is why I felt compelled to put in credits and references). Guess we know now.

"Alas! Shireen!" at every stroke he cries;
At every stroke fresh miracles arise:
"For thee these glories and these wonders all,
For thee I triumph, or for thee I fall;
For thee my life one ceaseless toil has been,
Inspire my soul anew: Alas! Shireen!"- Nizami

The Telugu/ Kannada/ Marathi new year is here!

Ugadi subhaakaamkshalu/subhadigaLLu, and guDI paDva shubhkaamnaayee to everyone!

two days before the spring finally arrives, let us take time out and greet each other in celebration

For, as the Googlewhackers among us know already, the Merry Festival of Belgthor is already upon us.

Update: Belgthor presents from /.: mod points! Suggestions anyone?

An artifact from the past:- a ticket checker with a hypercool RFID(?)-reader checking everyone's tickets/cards to see if they have, indeed, paid the full fare amount or not. The checker comes to each one of us, asks us for our ticket/card, taps it against his reader, and then proceeds, presumably, to fine anyone who hasn't paid the correct fare.

But ah, we note with amused impunity, it isn't *buses* where we beat the fare system. :-)

Whatever it takes, never ever THINK of clicking this link.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you might be jailed, censured, tortured, or even sacrificed for the Great God of the Temple of The Tooth. In any case, forget you've ever seen this link here, coz plainly speaking, you HAVEN'T.

Goa's First Division has some very interesting matches!

... club secretary Diniz Sardinha said it was "ability" that gave his side the match.

#include<STD ISD.h>
#include<college.h>
#define MAAL beautiful_lady

main()
{
goto college;
scanf("100%",&ladies);

if(lady = = MAAL)
sugar++;
while( !reply )
{
printf("I Love U");
scanf("100%",&reply);
}

A patent war is hotting up in California.

The copyright, Reinbolt points out, prohibits others from not just copying the sequence of asanas, but also from creating 'derivative' works of the sequence, he adds.

Other sources as well.

So we're a mostly MS-only shop [*] out here with all of our current projects being developed on VisualStudio.net and coded in C#. In fact, we're one of MS' preferred partners in the region; they run to us whenever they want neat lil demos to demonstrate the power of .net to n00b Comp Sc undergraduates. In short, we're the "developers" in "Developers, developers, developers" chant that all of us so love.

Bhasha India.

I LIKE my colleagues! :-D

Places I've accidentally gone to, instead of coming home:-
1) McDonald's
2) The food court in the local mall
3) The nearby Tropical Rainforest (tm) where I saw a snake,
4) Airport, and thence to Antarctica (or any other random place)
5) The local subway/bus depot (mostly as a result of oversleeping)
6) The local red light district
7) The neighbouring country
8) A place I'll never forget.

Writing this as I wait for the boss to get ready and call me up. Yesterday was Bakrid out here and a public holiday, so today is the start of the week out here. We're heading to a client site today for on-site consultation and development.

Happy Chinese New Year, people; here's to renewed prosperity, success and good luck in this Year of the Monkey.

And oh, this is what you can expect this year.

[Obligatory plug-in: I'm a budding expert in Chinese calendrical traditions. Feel free to ask any questions here. :-) ]

Attached to a fluff on Microsoft-versus-MikeRoweSoft:-

But the high school student decided to fight back and his story got media attention to the extent that he was forced to shut down his Web site on Monday morning after getting about 250,000 hits. He managed to get the site back up after moving to a service provider with greater capacity.