Wake Up India? - Article for the day 29 August

So right now the news is filled with Rahul Gandhi, Modi, the stock market, rupee falling, gold skyrocketing and the current account deficit. So this statement rung very very true

We moved on unconcerned to do what we love doing: crib about the sorry state of the country and play blame games, damning every political outfit in power, only to re-elect them as able political alternatives at another point of time.

http://www.firstpost.com/blogs/wake-up-india-neither-modi-nor-rahul-will-solve-your-problems-1042625.html

What is the solution? Well for one, get out of your armchair and vote the next time there is a election. There is a holiday for a reason. For everyone of you that says what will my vote make a difference; there is a politician saying that I don't care what the educated elite think since they don't vote anyway.

P.S. The logic behind these posts can be found in this post

 

The Karate Kid

Watch Karate Kid only if
- You are a Jackie Chan fan and will watch even his worst movies
- You want to see capitalism at its best. Pay money (Producer) to have your son play the lead role.
Utterly disappointed to say the least

Google Buzz - Thumbs down

I agree with a lot of Priya's comments in this post. Mainly the amount of time that I could spend doing more productive stuff.

So I decided to go ahead and delete my Buzz account as described in this post at life hacker. (Updated to remove the link since it is no longer available)

The worst part of this is that it deleted all the people who I used to follow in Google Reader. Sucks big time.

Latest in Reality TV

Guess who wins the prize of best reality show? Why our news channels after all. First Raj Thackeray. Now Mutalik. They have made stars of these little known people.

Is there nothing that you will stoop to in order to increase your TRP ratings?

Well. The recession is here. Jobs are disappearing and everyone is talking about how the internet generation is learning to live the way people did before the arrival of the dot com. Can we hope for the same in the media space that reverts us back to the age of 20 min news updates twice or thrice a day?

Facination for Roll numbers

The past few days my instant messenger client seemed to go crazy. It was showing a number in a majority of the status messages of my online friends. When I finally decided that it was not a program bug and asked people about it, I realised that people had posted their college roll numbers as their status messages.

Someone, somewhere started it either out of sheer boredom or as a witty conversation starter. The magnitude with which it caught on was insane. Bout of nostalgia ? Possible. But to with the number of people doing it increasing rapidly a poem by W. H. Auden comes to mind.

(To JS/07 M 378
This Marble Monument
Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,

For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.

Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found

That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.

Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.


Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.