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Sample: The Tao of Backup.

Revenge of the Sikh

Got this in the mail:

In the Diwali vacation, Jayant and a couple of his friends had gone to Delhi .

They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar, and boys being boys, Jayant and his pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to insinuate the old man.

But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.

At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid up the hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change. Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said, (in Hindi, of course) ''Son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in a very bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have just one request. Here I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this city."

Jayant continued, "That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single Sardar begging on the streets of Delhi ."

Friends, we all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that Sikhs are one of the most prosperous and diversified communities in the world. The secret behind their universal success, according to me, is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never beg on the streets.

A Small Village in Austria

Let me take you straight to this article [wiki] and also a related news story about a nice little village in Austria.

St. Germain on Flickr

Some neat snaps of my school - St. Germain Boys' High School on Flickr.


Originally uploaded by zimblymallu.

Code Monkey

Code Monkey is a song written and preformed by Jonathan Coulton which describes the life of a coder (who bears a very uncanny resemblance to...me!!). The song was slashdotted over a year ago and has developed a pretty good following on the internet. And the Code Monkey dance is pretty neat IMHO.

Do not Disturb

A 'Do not Disturb' list for India (to put an end to telemarketting calls). When you register your number on these sites the companies are under legal obligation to keep you out of their promotional campaigns.

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Hacker Tales: Part 2

A Short History of Hacking at Neatorama.

Hacker Tales: Part 1

"Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics." -St. Jude Milhon

I'm not much of a hacker myself but lately I've been very busy surfing hacker-related articles on Wikipedia. Hacking will never fail to captivate me. Starting with this post I'll be putting up links to anything interesting I can find.

The most facinating hacker article I've ever come across so far: The Great Hacker War.

Excerpt:

The Great Hacker War was a 1990–1991 conflict between two hacker groups; the Masters of Deception (MoD) and a faction of the older guard hacker group Legion of Doom (LoD). Each side attempted to hack the other's computers, across Internet, X.25, and telephone networks around the world.

The Tree of Ténéré

This was once the most isolated tree on Earth — the only one within more than 400km. See Arbre du Ténéré [Wikipedia].