Why "Goal Setting" Makes You Cringe ??

Gina Trapani writes on lifehacker, Why "Goal Setting" Makes You Cringe and she posted this @ 4am!!!

When A##h0l3s run the country....

My younger brother had applied for a passport a while back and today the police had called for verification. Apparently to get a passport in my town you need a letter from a third person who knows you whatever stupid documents to validate your existence and of course, "bring Rs.200/-" they say.

200 bucks as bribe and they are demanding it....

I got pissed, a bit depressed, started scrounging the net to get information on how somebody can get a passport without bribing. Not much hope really. But i found this guy who got a driving license without bribing and even blogged the procedure.

Also while searching found a "How to Battle Corruption" article by Kaushik Das and another one on my favorite subjects, "Defining Anarchy" by Mark Davis

Anarchy is a functioning society free of government controls.That is individual persons operating together in harmony based on freely reached agreements concluded between individual members and groups of a society.Anarchy is simply a free society.Anarchy is not the result of a statist-government failure; that would be chaos.The chaos in New Orleans is not due to anarchy, it is an example of the failure of statist-government.

for people against Science

People against LHC or any scientific experiment should be added to the list of "people to be left behind...when an asteroid is on a collision course with earth and we have to skip the planet".

It's Alive !!!! - LHC is "switched on"

10:25, 10 September 2008. Historic moment. The LHC first beam has just circulated. Amazing moment.

7 minutes ago from web

from cern on twitter

for the webcast.....which coz of heavy traffic is not showing up on my screen.

BSNL servers not safe from DNS vulnerability

BSNL's DNS servers are apparently not safe and can be exploited using Dan Kaminsky's DNS Vulnerability Exploit. Dumb Ar*es haven't patched their servers yet. Don't know about other ISP's in india.

Also noticing BSNL's sluggish behaviour recently. I am thinking, is BSNL already under attack? Think of all the black-hat hackers from pakistan who regularly screw around with government servers.

OpenDNS is suggested by Dan as a safe option.

Kikujiro no natsu / Nandalala

watched Kikujiro no natsu

A beautiful movie.

came across this title a few days ago and since the story sounded like the story of





Nandalala by Mysskin of "Anjathey" fame. I decided to watch this movie.

What is your next movie going to be?

Mostly Nanda Lala. It is about two kids travelling together to find their mothers; one is a seven-year old boy and the other though 20 has the mental age of a seven-year old. They both meet and start the journey together. I am trying to get the right kids for the film. The moment I get them, I will start shooting.

....My greatest inspiration is Kurasowa followed by Takeshi Kitano. Of course, Satyajit Ray is also there. That is why I have their photos in my room...

From an interview of Mysskin on rediff

Well hopefully Mysskin is not going to blatantly rip-off kikujiro frame by frame, It is possibly inspired and lot of the story elements has to be changed to cater to our crowd. It will also be good if Mysskin acknowledges the inspiration for his movie otherwise he is going to lose his respect and standing among movie-fanatics ( like me).

but i doubt his movie will be a success in beloved Thamizh Nadu. His previous movies were all gangster movies which is the staple diet of our beloved thamizh youth. The finest movies made in thamizh in fairly recent times were all violent(gangster/pshychotics running rampage) exception being "Anbae sivam", which was a massive flop by the way. So am keeping my fingers crossed about how Mysskin is going to achieve the almost impossible in the thamizh film industry.

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ha ha..... cool.