Does livejournal support google adsense? I think i get a considerable number of hits on this page and am now thinking of “selling out” so that i can make some moeny wiht this.
Can someone tell me if LJ will allow it? and if yes, how do i go about it?
A few days back I had pointed out that Duncan Fletcher is racist and should be sent back to Zimbabwe and given the harshest treatment. Maybe in response to that the England think tank has tried to make amends.
Everyone had widely tipped Mal Loye to be part of the squad as a reserve batsman, considering his slog-swept sixes of McGrath in the recently concluded World Series Cup. However, David Graveny and co have sprung a surprise by picking Essex all-rounder Ravi Bopara instead.
I?m surpised we are not having a ?Challenger Trophy? before selection of the Indian team for the World Cup. For, of late, the BCCI practice before any big tour or tournament has been to have this mindless tournament, named after yet another of those politician-administrators N K P Salve. A tournament where the ?India Seniors? team takes on the supposed second and third string teams, with the intention of providing the 33 best players in the country a chance to show their mettle.
but have never gotten down to it. however, in this post, Vamshi has covered pretty much what I wanted to write about, so I do the next best thing – link to it!
seriously. i’m twenty four. single. and have absolutely no clue as to wehre i can find a girl. people who i talk to about this say “stop looking and you’ll find one”. i’ve stopped looking long ago, but still haven’t found anyone 
sad.
no i’m not talking about emraan hashmi here. i’m talking about someone more famous who can seriously give emraan a run for his money. just check out these pics.
Thatz why it’s good to have bachelor PMs such as Vajpayee and bachelor presidents like Kalam
PS: earlier this morning i put a friends-only post
At my dad’s behest I had read Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, and was outraged when he said something to the effect of routine jobs being shipped out to India, while the smarter ones remain in the US. In fact, this was the underlying theme for most of the book, and the condescending tone just put me off.
However, of late I think there might be some truth in what he said. I work for an American firm with offshore offices in Poland, Bangalore and Sydney and thousands of other places. MOst of the software development, however, takes place in Dallas, Krakow (poland), Sydney and here.
Having interacted with a number of developers, what I’ve noticed is that in general, developers in the US office are much smarter than those here. And the difference is marked (removing outliers from both locations). In this context, what Friedman says makes a lot of sense.
Given that Indians are suppsoed to be generally smarter than firangs, was wondering about this discrepancy. One possible explanation is that in india software developers are paid much more than their counterparts in other industries while that is not the case abroad. Overseas, a career in software development is a choice that one makes for the love of development. Here, it is a choice that one makes because other professions pay much less than what IT does. And hence, there are a lot of developers here who are in it for money, for sustenance. People who may not have a natural aptitude for coding. People who may not love coding. But are in it for the money! It’s no surprise, then, that the average developer here is not half as smart as the average counterpart in America!
(Credits to Phalgun for collaboration on this post)
The other day I was wondering why I’m not as well networked as some other friends. Don’t get fooled by my orkut statistics here, for most of the 750 friends there are “acquaintances”, with a considerable number of friends and a very small set of “good friends”.
And going through my list of friends showed an interesting trend – I share at least one “affiliation group” with most of them (affiliation group typically being one of my schools or workplaces). Where I fall behind some others is in my lack of speed when it comes to “path compression”. “Path compression” is a process where a friend’s friend becomes a friend. In my case, in most cases, friends’ friends end up as acquaintances and the relationship isn’t of much “value” without the “linking friend”.
In order to convert someone from an acquaintance to a friend it’s imperative to spend a considerable amount of time with him/her (at least i’m hard to get along with, so it takes people some time before they like me). And looking back at my “socializing”, one pattern i’ve observed is that I usually go out in a clique. And end up spending more time with people I already know, thus not adding quantitative value to my network (of course qualitative value addition are there).
Maybe I should start going out more in looser groups, say with friends and friends’ friends. Or attend these large arbit gatherings. Anyways.
It’s pertinent to mention here that I’ve once been part of a party at a table in a restaurant where the “X knows Y” graph was linear! it was at Mocha in Mumbai last may. I knew
Needless to say the gathering dissolved within ten minutes.
While aadisht does a series of posts on dowry, I think the whole concept doesn’t make sense. That something as trivial as dowry should find a place in the indian constitution, so much to make it illegal and stuff!
I just got a phone call from Hutch advertising about their postpaid connection! As if direct marketing calls from airtel regarding their different schemes are not enough! A couple of months back, I got onto Airtel’s do not call registry (by smsing ‘block’ to 222) and thought some relief are there (ICICI doesn’t have my number). And now hutch gets my number somewhere
Where the hell is the national do not call registry?
He abruptly cuts short the international careers of Vikram Solanki and Kabir Ali, and consigns them to playing for Rajasthan.
He leaves out Monty from the first two ashes tests in favor of an ageing and injury-ravaged Giles (of course that the latter can’t turn the ball doesn’t matter here!). Giles is a better batsman it seems.
After a stupendous performance against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Sajid Mahmood finds himself in the cold for the first couple of ashes tests. God only knows what Jamie Anderson did better than Saj to deserve a berth in those teams, apart from being firang of course.
Sajid continues to be forgotten for most of the one day series and no-hopers like Chris Tremlett are playing. Finally gets recalled for the last two group games, and England win both.
He calls up Ravi Bopara all the way to Australia as cover for the injured KP and Vaughan. Gives him one game. Sends him to bat lower than old man Paul Nixon. Asks him to bowl after the match is practically over. And after a decent performance, unceremoniously drops him for the next match.
Need we say more?
I hereby decree that Fletcher should be made to participate in the next edition of Bigg Boss on Sony, be called “the firang” and be thoroughly abused by everyone else in the house. He is sure to be the first to be voted out of Bigg Boss and after Blair has made his usual noises, should be sent back to his native Zimbabwe. Mugabe saab will then take charge and maybe feed him to his pet lions, after ensuring that sons-of-the-soil occupy every inch of his soil that is! Or maybe Mugabe might be more benevolent and have him for breakfast!