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• JWZ, the ubergeek, switches to OS X. Kevin adds to the list of gripes. I currently go to Apple stores and drool at the iMacs.
• If you don’t use greasemonkey, you should, and try out Book Burro. There is a greasemonkey script for checking if a book is present in any of the libraries in the Peninsula Library System and one of removing pagination in the Times of India website. You can find all of them here
• Louis explains why he is going to Google. I wish getting a job was this easy.
• Housing in the Bay Area is now so expensive that it is cheaper to buy a house far away and commute by plane.
• Kuttan wonders why the communists are against employment generation.

• Dan Gillmor writes that copying and pasting entire articles in blogs violates copyright laws. There are many Indian blogs which just paste articles from elsewhere without any additional commentary. Be careful
• Top Ten Reasons why Episode IV is better than III and the only Episode III review you will need
• HOWTO apply for a Java job
• The story of THX sound
• Terry Gross’s interview with Thelma Schoonmaker, who has edited all of Martin Scorsese’s movies

The San Jose Mercury News is the main newspaper of Silicon Valley and according to a news today, its subscription has been falling. Circulation has been falling for other newspapers as well. The reasons cited are competition from Internet and Cable TV. But what is not mentioned is that most of these newspapers are pathetic in quality. You can flip through an issue of Mercury News and find that there is nothing important to read, especially for people who are interested in knowing events happening outside Santa Clara County. The pages are filled with advertisements with some news thrown in as fillers. One of the major reasons why most people buy the newspaper is due to the discount Pizza and grocery coupons they insert in the weekend editions.
You may not get indepth coverage of world issues in Mercury News, but they do have some columns which appeal to people living here. My favourites are Mr. Roadshow and Action Line. The Mercury News staff also has two excellent blogs, Silicon Beat and Good Morning Silicon Valley for people whose lives revolve around technology.
One day they will realize that they are not making money off the print edition and need to charge people for the online edition, like how the New York Times realized

Indranil’s parents went to Kashmir recently and he has some pictures on flickr.
Srijith taught me that, the reason they ask you to switch off cell phones on aircrafts is not because they interfere with the plane’s communication equipment, but because it interferes with mobile networks on the ground.
Ratheesh Krishna Vadyar finds people yelling em pee three, em pee three (April 29th entry) in Palakkad Railway Station. Along with chaaaya and kaaapi, you also get MP3 film songs.
Twenty Onwards has the review of the new Tom Friedman book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.
Does the future belong to China ? Fareed Zakaria’s cover story in Newsweek.

Associated Press interviews Paris Hilton

AP: Do you read blogs?
Hilton: What’s that?
AP: Um, they’re these things on the Internet where people write about news and stuff.
Hilton: No, I don’t really read anything on the Internet except my AOL mail. I don’t like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don’t know anything about.
AP: Paris, you just described my job.[Paris Hilton Yearning for Simpler Life]

That pretty much describes this blog too!

While Sandeep has called it quits, varnam will still continue. There are many books to review, and many secularists to bash.
The Acorn too will continue.

This blog has been nominated under two categories at Indibloggies. One of them is for the Indiblog of the year and the other for Indiblog Lifetime achiever. Since we are not pitted against Ravikiran as we have a lame tagline, this is a time for co-operation. We will be acting as the single bribe window for the whole Indibloggies voting. (Bribes meant for Ravikiran should be marked so in the Memo section of the check)

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Yesterday was a productive day as we found solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. By we I mean me and Ravikiran. Though he had made fun of Mallus many times I decided to meet him here in the Bay Area where he was visiting. But instead of giving me his phone number at the motel, he gave his fax number. I let it slide as well, afterall he gave me the GMail invite.
Though I was scared that he would knock me out with his PJs he turned out to be quite a affable person. We talked about blogs, A Roy, Nehru, and MadMan (I don’t remember exactly how Madhu came into this discussion). We also discussed the dangers of Communism, solutions on eradicating poverty and bringing world peace. Furthur discussions on this matter will be conducted at a Foregin Secretary level.
Ravikiran is now on his way back to India, where the challenging task of deleting spam comments on his blog awaits him.