This tiny piece of news made smile like I’d seen it all. I can only imagine what’s going on at Segway. The developers would be blaming the test team for not subjecting the product to thorough testing and finding the glitch in-house. The test team would (a) claim that they run more test cases than any similar companies, (b) complain that the specification isn’t detailed enough and (c) not have tested anything other than the user-interface. Amidst all this, there’d be a lot of graph plotting “higher-ups”, trying to get the most mileage out of the crisis.

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.

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The New Testament said so -

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.

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From an article on The Register:

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?

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Q: What would you do when you desperately want to avoid sure trouble?

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?

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