Can you relate to this? ;-)

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

- H.L. Mencken

Great news !!

Wow, now we have a professional political party focusing on the indifferent middle class population of India. Going though their website, it looks like a really good and promising one. They are building a good platform and support structure for all the aspiring professionals to overcome the fear and ignorance of entering politics. Though the organization has a long way to go, its a great starting point I believe.

I have asked my friend in Pune to attend their 'Open House' meeting, and check it out in reality.

Please go through the website, and if you feel so too, you can spread the word. Also, you can register in their website to show your support, and you will get updates about the happenings as well. And ofcourse, if you are in India, then you can participate and contribute in various ways as listed in the link at the end of this post - like setting up the local town or city chapter in your locality.

Also, they have a 'Funding' link for donations. If you are already donating for some NGOs or other social work organizations, then you can consider donating some or all of that amount here. Because, this will be more effective in the long run - here we fix the root cause for all those problems. This is a top-down approach - rather than sweeping the bottom of the pyramid all the time when the top is still happily producing more shit, we can look to reach for cleaning the top. I am certainly considering redirecting some of my periodic donations to this cause.

Here is the link to the website.

http://www.ppi.net.in/index.aspx?Id=1

How to participate and contribute

http://www.ppi.net.in/htmlsite/AboutUs.aspx?Id=9&SubId=44

Good one !

"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."

- William Penn

A profound thought !

"None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated."

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

C'mon its just 1 hour !

Rome's Colosseum is one of many famous buildings around the world where floodlights will be turned off during Earth Hour.

Between 20:30 and 21:30 on the evening of Saturday 28 March the organisers of the Earth Hour 2009 campaign aim to get as many people as possible to turn off their lights as a mark of concern about climate change.

More than 1,000 cities and countless firms, organisations and citizens in more than 80 countries around the world have already promised to turn off their lights between 20:30 and 21:30 local time next Saturday evening. The worldwide Earth Hour 2009 campaign is being co-ordinated by WWF. The campaign has become a truly global phenomenon since its launch in Sydney, Australia in 2007.

“The latest findings show that climate change is progressing even faster than was previously assumed,” said WWF Finland’s CEO Timo Tanninen. “We hope that this year’s massive Earth Hour event will encourage politicians to take the bull by the horns when they meet at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December and create a new global climate agreement leading to significant reductions in emissions.”

Interesting info !

There is this thing in Google called web history which stores all your search histories and trends. I was just browsing through it and was surprised to note that i have made about some 3000 google searches in the last 6 months. On many days, the number of searches has been more than 40 per day !!!!

I have seperate firefox search engines for wikipedia, youtube, amazon etc. So, this is just the number for google searches alone.

No wonder that I feel like being hooked into the net ;)

Is it really random ?

Lately, I have become very fond of listening to music in the car. Thanks to Finland's cold climate, the windows are always closed and you dont even hear the engine noise in the new cars, nowadays. Its like sitting in a small music space - full of music, without any knowledge or demarcation of the sources / speakers. Even with the home theatre systems, I have never had this ideal sitting-in-a-space-full-of-music experience. And my car's music system is also very good - so, pretty much I listen to music only in my car nowadays :)

Well, enough background, now let me come to the topic. Yesterday morning, as usual I was starting to office a bit late - a gloomy monday morning and the weather was really lousy. Only motivation going forward is the always-enjoyable music time. Happily inserted one of the mp3 CDs & selected random play, hoping for a real pacy one, among the 150 odd songs, to kick-start my week....gave a good roll to the volume knob in anticipation of a thumpy one....


"AAA-TEQQQQUILA OOO-TEQQQQUILA, HHHHEY SUNDAYYYYYYY !!!!" the song blared out.....