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It has been quite sometime since I've written an article with that title. Anyway, I've been really busy for the past few weeks (like I was ever really free :)). One might wonder that I have been doing a hell lot of activities but the truth is that I've been doing just two activities most of the time - 1. Sleeping and 2. Coding. Yeah something seems to have gone wrong with me. I've been sleeping for about 9 hours every day during the past couple of weeks.

http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/general/sparks

Inaugural Speech for the new batch at the Symbiosis BBA program 2008 by Chetan Bhagat

Below is a very interesting story of the life of Sudha Murthy. If you don't know who Sudha Murthy is, then read till the end to find out.

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel. Other girls were pursuing research in different departments of Science.

"I can't follow you everywhere..."

"Avoid using mobile while driving.."

From: Rahul
To: Sunil Mohan
Subject: Debian or Ubuntu

Some applications which I had backported while using debian etch along with the backporting difficulty level:

alltray (simple)
ekiga (medium - the etch version was giving problems for IP-to-IP direct calling)
ffmpeg / mplayer / avidemux (quite a nightmare ... I was trying to backport the testing version from debian-multimedia.org)
gwenview (simple - etch version had some bugs)
pidgin (difficult - because it was using libnss .. actually i installed libnss from mepis :D)

When a Girl Cries ------------ The World "Consoles" her
But when a boy cries ---------- Come on man don't be A "Girl"

If A Girl slaps a Boy ----------- Definitely the Boy would have "done something"
If Boy Slaps a girl -------------- Rascal doesn't know how to "Respect Ladies"

If a Girl is talking to Boys ----- She is "Very Friendly"
If a Boy talks to a Girl ---------- He is "flirting"

So who is the best friend - Srikanth (hereby referred to as the Hero). Who is the girl - Gayathri (hereby referred to as the Heronie). And who is the matchmaker - Me me me (well I was at least part of the matchmaking committee).

As most of you might have already known, my company Spinaxys had not been doing that well of late. The biggest hurdle we faced was that none of us had enough contacts in the industry. With time running out and our cash reserves exhausted, we decided that we would call it quits for the time being and perhaps at some later point of time get together and take another shot at entrepreneurship.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he/she chooses.

As I was passing the elephants, I suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not.

As per 135B of Representation of People (RP) Act, persons who are eligible to vote (i.e. those whose names are present in the voters list) and are residents of the constituency where elections are being held, are eligible to take a paid leave from their company for casting their vote. In other words, every citizen has the right to tell their boss that they are going to vote on the election/bye-election day and they cannot be denied their pay for that day.