Digitally Toned

As the graphic says... This is a very positive change from the recent political climate in the US. This shows not just the renewed interest of people in politics, but also a serious challenge to the big lobby run election campaigns of the yore!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/03/solzhenitsyn.dead/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn My impressions of Solzhenitsyn is mixed. On one hand I have high regards for his humanitarian contributions in exposing the cruelties of Stalinist Soviet regime. On the other hand, his thoroughly right wing social view has disturbed...

Over zealous, and highly dramatized "concern" about "life" is one of the hallmarks of American Conservatism. A strong aversion to women's rights, especially reproductive rights is shared equally by both Christianity and Islam. Bush administration has demonstrated their unwavering support for the religious right by issuing a regulation...

The new three part series in National Geographic is one of the endless series of very high definition earth imageries that now fills the Science/Discovery/NG channels. This, like most other documentaries of the type gives a rather peripheral view of the earth and its evolution. The series examines different aspects of earth's life through beautifully...

We, me and Shobha had been waiting eagerly for this evening. Setup reminders in TV, turned on NASA TV in my computer by 5 PM. It sure was a nail biter. Shobha cried. I almost did. Ahh... what a wonderful landing. No, I will not get into the politics of it yet. Today, lets all celebrate. Tomorrow we will analyze the return on investment. Here is the...

Well, that should not be a special news from someone from Kerala. However, it is different in my case. I have been living alone as Shobha is visiting Kerala. We just finished our new kitchen and I am still in the process of stocking it and getting familiarized. I have not been cooking rice for almost 4 months in this house. When the old kitchen was...

I still love rain: I landed on the 22nd to the midst of a severe spring depression in the Arabian Sea. Really torrential rains for almost three days without a pause. A very nice reminder of the monsoons. Yes, it was disastrous, with large amounts of crops failing as this happened just when the paddy fields were getting ready to be harvested. The rain...

For a few years, we have been toying with the idea of getting permanent sterilization. However, since we have come up with a quite efficient plan of contraception and abstinence, this was not in the forefront of discussion. Last year, we asked our primary physician about it and he advised me to contact a urologist. Once I started the process, I soon...

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There was one time, when I would have accepted a Delphi project over pretty much any other. However, last several releases of Delphi has made me change my mind. Every release of Delphi after version 7.0 had been a total disappointment. Whatever is the official spin from Borland/CodeGear is, the botched effort at divesting and the following split up...