We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. --Buddha
Staying dumb may be the best option from Cricinfo
Around a month back, at the pre-match press conference before the sixth one-dayer against England at Jamshedpur, Sehwag was asked about Ganguly. His response was guarded, more an effort to pass the question rather than create a stir: "... there's no question of looking back ... We have already forgotten that chapter." No warning then, no yellow card, no nothing.
Mango Mania in India from NYTimes
Now this article probably catches the full essance of the mango season in India from a outside point of view. Though for me it seems that there is nothing unusual when the mango season srrives... Other than ofcourse that it is "The Mango Season" :)
So do you expect the girl to keep count? via IndiaUncut
I couldn't agree more with the comments made by Amit on this story. Do read.
Linux kernel 'getting buggier,' leader says from CNET
"I believe the 2.6 kernel is slowly getting buggier. It seems we're adding bugs at a higher rate
than we're fixing them," Morton said in a talk at the LinuxTag conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Friday.
Morton said he hasn't yet proved this statistically, but has noticed that he is getting more e-mails with bug reports. If he is able to confirm the increasing defect rate, he may temporarily halt the kernel development process to spend time resolving issues.
"A little action item I've given myself is to confirm that this increasing defect rate is really happening," he said. "If it is, we need to do something about it."
"Kernel developers will need to reapportion their time and spend more time fixing bugs," he added. "We may possibly have a bug fix-only kernel cycle, which is purely for fixing up long-standing bugs."
One problem is that few developers are motivated to work on defects, Morton said. This is particularly a problem for bugs that affect old computers or peripherals, as kernel developers working for corporations don't tend to care about out-of-date hardware, he said.
Nowadays, many kernel developers are employed by IT companies, such as hardware manufacturers. That can cause problems, as they may be motivated by self-interest, Morton suggested.
President Bush was in New Orleans. He said that, "We all pray for no hurricanes this year." This is all part of the Faith Based Disaster Management plan.
--Jay Leno
The plight of women in Iraq from The Hindu
This is a documentary shot by an Iraqi women about the situtaion of women in iraq. A few days heard abt this documentary on one of the many news channels... here is kind of a summary to it.
The film is particularly good at capturing the texture of family life lived in such insecurity, and one effective section concentrates on the tale of a young girl, just eight years old, who was picked up by American troops after an attack on the car in which she and her father and other Iraqis were travelling. The troops first took her to a military hospital, but then her family says she was held for three months. Her family was not informed of her whereabouts and she was interrogated by being asked to identify Iraqi corpses in photographs. Her grandfather eventually tracked her down in Baghdad, and as we see her weeping in his lap we sense her family's frustration at having no accountable authority to whom it could take its anger.
...To show the negative effects of these developments on women, Zeina travels to Basra. It will not come as news to those who have followed developments in southern Iraq that women are being forced to wear the hijab and prevented from living their lives freely. But it brings these developments home when we see young women and their families talking about being sent bullets and death threats because they played sport or did not wear a headscarf. As Zeina emphasises, this kind of experience is new to most women in Iraq, who enjoyed economic and social freedom before the occupation. "A while ago, I was looking at photographs of my aunt in college in the 60s, wearing pants and sleeveless tops, playing sports in the college yard; and then I looked at the photographs of the women in college today, and they are covered in black from head to toe, their faces also covered."
Occupation forces blamed
Zeina says the responsibility for these developments is solely that of the occupation — it has given sectarianism the opportunity to flourish. She simply laughs when I ask her whether she feels grateful for the democracy that America has given Iraq. "Democracy? What democracy? We do not have democracy. This democracy that Bush talks about — it is a completely empty structure, based on sectarian and ethnic interests. How can you have democracy when you are afraid that your life will be threatened, or your husband will be killed if you express yourself freely? It is a bad joke."
Not all women in Iraq are against the occupation — women are as divided as the men, and people in the West have heard Iraqi women speak in support of the U.S. war. But it is hard to resist the force of Zeina's passion as she describes the chaos that the war has brought to Iraq. She longs to go on documenting the situation of women, despite the very narrow limits within which she has to work.
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