I have heard of Shashi Tharoor sometime before when he was on the final list for UN General Secretary post. I believe he lost that because someone vetoed him. I couldn’t reason it out. No politics here.. I read this article about him in rediff this morning and it seems hez quite a personality..
One particular para in that inspired me a lot.. it says
“Tharoor began writing at the age of 6 and his first published story appeared in the “Bharat Jyoti” in Mumbai at age 10. His World War-II adventure novel Operation Bellows, inspired by the Biggles books, was serialized in the Junior Statesman starting a week before his 11th birthday.”
I donno if I could have been able to write a sentence correctly in English when I was 6.. maybe thatz the reason why I am still in this small cubicle world while he was conquering the world..
Feeling bad about India’s early exit from the Cricket World cup.. here is something big to cheer about..
International Chess Federation has crowned Viswanathan Anand as the top chess player in the world.. This is after his recent Morelia-Linares tournament win in Spain..
Google has come up with a technology to give free wireless service to homes across US..
More details here.. I donno how good this technology is going to be or how good the people is going to accept such a technology.. I don’t think people will outright apply for this kind of grossy idea.. they’ll have second thoughts.. even if its free.. certainly I do.. what do you think?..
Update – This is one of Google’s April 1st pranks for this year.. che..che..che..
Pamela from Escape from cubicle nation had an conversation with Dr. Srikumar Rao, professor at Columbia and London Business school to ‘Identify your true passions so you start a business you love’..
Here it is.. something interesting for your weekend..
Reuters has this article about how Malaysian authorities used sniffer dogs to find pirated DVD’s..
I just couldn’t believe how dogs can be trained to sniff ‘pirated’ dvd’s.. I donno if there is a smell difference between a normal dvd and a pirated dvd.. or maybe they can find only if a cupboard or room contains dvd’s.. and authorities has to check if it is original or pirated..
I don’t have a pet and don’t know how much do they can sniff.. what do you think?..
Young Go Getter had a list of 5 funniest videos got on video. I stripped it out down to 3 and had it ordered on my ratings.. You have to have this in your favorites and watch it whenever you are down.. simply amazing stuff…
1. This video is one of the most popular videos in YouTube.. I believe we also have an mp3 version for this and it is all around the globe.. if you haven’t noticed it yet.. here it is..
2. Four babies performing a chorus.. by simply laughing
3. If you believe ‘Haa Haa Haah..’ is funny.. what about ‘Hyuck Hyuck Hyuck..’
Entrepreneur.com has listed a 100 ways to be a better Entrepreneur… some of the things you already know.. but I always believe that when you read again and again something you love, the chances of you getting or becoming what you love is more..
