My evil mind already has a game to spook the users. Hang around these ATMs, the moment somebody uses it, follow them back and note down their seat numbers. On a 48 hour train, its bound to give them a couple of sleepless nights!

Jaidev:

There is some custom setting on your email client which is adding “|” characters and makes it pretty hard to follow the history of email. See below. Would appreciate if we can do something there.

Thanks
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I spent a good amount of time thinking what my response should be –

• google.com/search?q=email+quoting
• Don’t ****in read it, you inconsequential CC recipient

Eventually I chose discretion over valour and decided to post it here instead. Somebody in this industry has got to figure out what to do with pointy haireds‘ time.

[16:08:18 jaidev@~]$ host -t mx hotmail.com
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx1.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx2.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx3.hotmail.com.
hotmail.com mail is handled by 5 mx4.hotmail.com.
[16:08:21 jaidev@~]$ telnet mx4.hotmail.com 25
Trying 65.54.244.104...
Connected to mx4.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 bay0-mc4-f19.bay0.hotmail.com Sending unsolicited commercial or bulk e-mail to Microsoft's computer network is prohibited. Other restrictions are found at http://privacy.msn.com/Anti-spam/. Violations will result in use of equipment located in California and other states. Fri, 2 Feb 2007 02:37:54 -0800

And we thought they couldn’t innovate. The threat to use equipment located in California might just be the greatest innovation since electricity.

Well, don’t worry anymore. I’ve decided to step up to curb the madness. Next time someone does that, point them to the official email HOWTO. In fact I suggest you preempt the nonsense by posting a print out on their workspaces!

Incidentally, this isn’t the first of Segway’s problems. When I tried one of those, I was told that one of the earlier versions had a bug in the low battery indicator. The indicator wouldn’t warn when it should, which meant people were caught unaware when the battery ran out! I’d rather not be on this gyroscopic thing when the battery runs out.

But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
– Matthew 5:37

Now, scientific research proved it -

Admissions to the emergency department at Laussanne University Hospital over an 18-month period from pool cue related mishaps and the like were much more frequent amongst less committed schnapps bingers. The pattern was the same for both men and women.

This was a thorough research, apparently. One just can’t ignore the fact that they’ve considered the other side to the argument too -

A further finding of the study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and to be filed under Bleedin’ Obvious, was that people who never drank were many times less likely to wind up in casualty.

There you have it, either go all the way or don’t do it at all. The world is binary I tell you.

A probe into the the nutritional content of the average keyboard has discovered that it contains an unhealthy balance of bread crumbs, crisp fragments, meat, sugar, salt and jam. Worse still, this inadequate diet is supplemented with toe and fingernail clippings, grit, glue and pubic hair.

I’ve seen that my own keyboard accumulates all sorts of crap over time. On plain keyboards, I used to simply invert the keyboard and tap a few times till I got rid of all the dirt. Its harder on a laptop. The other day, I saw a silverfish crawling out of my keyboard. I wonder how (and when) it got there?

A: Play safe of course!

While I find some kind of protection (lower taxes?) to the Kannada film industry acceptable (I don’t think people who don’t want to watch Kannada movies will start to – unless the movies themselves are good), tying this to “the betterment of Kannada” is when it starts to lose credibility.

Excerpt from here:

It was also resolved that by December 10, Brigade Road should be renamed as Basavanna Road and Commercial Street should be renamed as Mysore Huli Tippu Sultan Road.

Now, I’m no authority, but shouldn’t they be Basavanna Raste and Mysore Huli Tippu Sultan Raste?