Pun Intended Consequences

`'Tis double death to drown in sight of shore.' -- Shakespeare THE mind boggles at the amount of death and suffering. The sheer...

I was chatting with a Sri Lankan friend about an hour ago and I mentioned to him my surprise that the Bam, Iran earthquake of last year is n...

A few weeks ago I caught a little household spider in a transparent plastic floppy disk case. I showed it to Yaman, who recoiled in disgust ...

Yes, I too make mistakes. I did a very foolish thing today. I was walking home when a man wearing a shirt and lungi greeted me as if he knew...

I don't know about you but, I'm a sucker for new (and improved) programs on my computer. This is what keeps me downloading and tryin...

This might be one of the more exciting events of modern times. The American people choose a new president and the rest of the world is rivet...

I've started using GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard. I've uploaded my public key to the MIT PGP key server, pgp.mit.edu. My key ID is: ...

After watching four episodes, I've finally decided it's one of my all-time favourite shows. Two teams, minimal team loyalty, and alm...

When I was younger, from nine years to about eleven years old, we used to live in Dubai, in a part of town called Deira. I was pretty happy ...

I am not a religious person. In fact, I consider myself an atheist. I never was very religious but as I grew up I saw no point in pretending...

A couple of days ago, a red link showed up in my Gmail inbox page below the mailbox list. It said `Invite a Friend' [to use Gmail], and ...

Well, my beard is gone. And for some people, good riddance. Damn, I miss it. After I had it shaved off, I felt like I looked completely diff...

Perhaps the time has finally come to let go of it. If I do go to the concert tomorrow, everyone (probably including me) will surely have a b...

[NOTE: NOT FOR KIDS, READ AT THE RISK OF BEING OFFENDED] One of the funniest blogs I have ever seen. I'm classifying it as a blog even t...

I can hardly believe this. I've been invited to sign up for, and I have signed up for, Gmail. I for one thought you had to be a much mor...

I was going to post something like this yesterday but the browser crashed and I lost that post. You'd think I would have learned my less...

It seems I'm spared from the mind-numbing hassle of university applications -- for the time being. I've decided to drop the idea ...

Sometimes I feel this great reluctance to get up and do anything. I'm so comfortable where I am that actually starting to do something,...

It's almost time for bed. We've had a more or less good dinner at Don Giovanni's, and had all the basic birthday elements -- ca...

OK, I've given up on my previous blog -- there's only so long I can wait for them to take it down. The new page is much better. I...