“the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
Samuel P. Huntington
Taken from “Where is Raed” link picked up from khorgath
If feel so infinitely blessed, all I have to worry about is that the dial-up connection sux, our washing machine needs a change. I need a holiday, will our TV be repaired by Sunday when India plays Australia
The only thing that could have possibly stopped this war was presence of a bigger bully . The erstwhile USSR did serve a useful purpose. Today there is no one in the world who can talk back to USA the way Khrushchev did at the time of Cuban missile crisis My knowledge of the Cuban
An unexpected thunderstorm today morning zapped Aasim’s PC, 3 ports on my main switch and a network card. It also fried the router / repeater at my cable guy, several modems at VSNL are also dead – I am stuck with a really lousy dial up again What does one do for surge protection via
What Drink Are You? Duh! I was hoping to be Bacardi 😉 Was Holi today – unfortunately Swati is allergic to all the colours used so we prefer to keep a very low profile. Couple that with the fact that cable net was down for 9 hours. However the day as once again saved by
(22:49:02) achitnis: https://dotnetweblogs.com/tmarman/posts/3814.aspx https://dotnetweblogs.com/pscott/posts/3820.aspx (22:49:24) achitnis: https://dotnetweblogs.com/JAvery/posts/3810.aspx (22:49:49) tariquesani: looking – no wonder they were cheating on the royalty checks
Talk about misuse of resources – Finally sick of Winduhs woes I am using X over VNC, A switched network and powerful machines rock 😉 After experimenting with several Network monitoring tools have settled for Nagios for details and IPTraf for the quick and dirty work. The efforts on configuring Nagios paid off when I
A nice weekend The trees around our house and office, since last three days, have been flocked over by hundreds of Dark Throated Thrushes twittering away to glory. Since Salim Ali’s “Book of Indian Birds” does not list them identification was a challenge which we enjoyed.. … The summer has really set in – and
1 year, 266 entries, 772 comments posted, 469 received. 46 friends and friends of 47. Can just numbers describe a journal… Can each one of you tell me why you keep a journal or a blog?
After playing briefly with Hover Desk, remembered Lite Step today, downloaded it. WOW! I now have everything other than mouse select copy on my Winduhs desktop Yesterday we spotted for the first time a pair of “White throated ground thrush”, today we spotted a pair of “Small blue kingfisher” near our home. The kingfisher has
It was ten years ago today that a series of bomb blasts ripped thru the bustling metropolis of Mumbai killing more than 250 people, injuring nearly a 1000, destroying property worth crores… … For most the blasts are distant, inconsequential, long forgotten. Just as the events which brought on the attack and the atrocities committed