Sharma Family Journal

Just found a check in my pile of mails to be taken care of and it was void if not cashed by a certain date, which happened to be last week.

I’m sure the fine print would’ve said the company will not reissue the check. A quick web search didn’t find any consumer advocacy group that fights this kind of profiteering. If you know of one, please let me know.

The supreme court of India says so

Early potty training in vogue for some US parents

I certainly agree about the harmful effects on the environment, but don’t see much of an option living in a country with carpets everywhere and two working parents.

Politics and the Internet don’t mix very well.

“Given the Internet’s importance to the world’s economy, it is essential that the underlying domain name system of the Internet remain stable and secure,” the letter said. “As such, the United States should take no action that would have the potential to adversely impact the effective and efficient operation of the domain name system. Therefore, the United States should maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file.”

These politicians have little clue that the Chinese government can legislate that all ISP DNS servers in China use the UN root servers instead of American ones. The C-net correspondent seems to be more interested in lecturing over the democratic credentials (or the lack thereof) of Tunisia and Cuba, than addressing the issue.

United Networks was featured on the Register today as a company with an interesting business model.

They resell Dell PCs with your Linux distribution of choice.

Cheaper Windows for the Rs 10000 PC. The cost of windows is projected to be 10% and “piracy” rates at 73%.

What Is Darwin (and How It Powers Mac OS X) seems to be another article about MacOSX which didn’t offer any new insights into why Apple continues to use it instead of FreeBSD, despite all the performance criticisms levelled against it recently by Anandtech.

Also, both Apple and Sun seem to have very little understanding of how to compete against Linux (hint: Single CD distro which people can recompile from scratch including the kernel)

Well, I haven’t read it regularly for about a year now, but some people in my family do. So I occassionally get to read about why I shouldn’t be reading it

This article was under the headline “US launches attack against Al Qaeda in Iraq” this morning. Compare this to the BBC.

Another article that ends as

Political cover thus found, the department vowed to continue working with Saudi Arabia on the matter.