Tathva '07

Our college's Techno-Management festival "Tathva" starts on the 27th......here's wishing it the best of Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tathva Website

Religious Extremism and Free Speech

Nowadays one gets to hear a lot about islamofascists or something like that.....especially from a bunch of Americans. It seems that some of them have such a narrow minded view of the world that they have classified the whole world into "conservative american christians" and a bunch of " "(insert random abusive word).

Here is an example of one of those guys....my knowledge about him comes from an opus cartoon and a google search which succeeded it. I am all for free speech and everything, but I think this is one of the borderline cases. What separates this guy and Hitler is that they hated different things and our friend here didn't have the resources to go on an anti-everybody else campaign.

Of course I may be completely wrong in my assessment of the guy, but anyone who sees "hidden homosexual innuendo" in Teletubbies is almost surely off his rocker...

Incidently, newspapers are so afraid of offending muslims that they didn't run two Opus cartoons. This one and the one after.

I don't blame them because during the whole Danish cartoon I saw first hand(I was in UAE then), the madness that erupted. Most shops had huge signs proclaiming that they didn't sell Danish products(even though the abysmal spelling and grammar did mar the overall effect slightly). Then there is the case of Salman Rushdie who was a victim of a virtual kill on sight order after he published Satanic Verses. Even the Catholic church erupted vehemously against the Da Vinci Code without realising that they increased the popularity of the book by giving it free publicity....

Thats one of the problems with this world, one has to be politically correct to the point of being paranoid, so as to not offend any of the other 6 billion folks in the world.........

Also check this....

BlogPane

I just came across this site while I was checking through my reader statistics. It is a free service that enables us to add a directory listing to our blog that lists all blogs from our college. It is kind of an RSS feed that keeps track of all alumni blogs.

It's a pretty awesome idea and I wish its perpetrators (hmm...that word makes them sound criminally inclined ;) the very best of luck.

Unfortunately I am a complete zero when it comes to Javascript. For example, I have no idea why the "SAVE NOW" button at the bottom of the screen is steadily increasing in size while I type.

So it might take me some time to figure out how the hell I am supposed to install the damn thing on my blog.............

Ahhh...the button has stopped expanding......




Update:
check out its homepage

here's a video that shows how to install it and voila! I have the plug-in on my blog as well...

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally...after a hiatus of around three weeks I am finally ready to get back on track. The last three weeks were pretty eventful and everything with onam, exams and well...mainly exams. Anyways...I will try once again to maintain this blog as frequently as I can.................................