Orkut is Blocked!!!

Wow...the other day I was wondering about the stupidity of my ISP and was thinking about ways in which it could degrade the quality of this stinking hellhole of a miserable experience that I like to call "Browsing the net using dial up with a paranoid Big Bro proxy watching over my back".

Then, I get a call from my good friend yesterday...Of course as I spend most of my time sleeping or reading, there was a 50% chance he couldn't reach me. When he finally did, he informed me about this incident, I wasn't well too shocked as it was already blocked by the UAE University server and I figured that the trend would surely catch on. Anyway, it seems that my poor buddy was "orkutting" so as to speak, when this happened. To quote him, "one sec I was there, next sec I was not".

Ouch.....

Well, I did some meticulous research (which is an euphemism for I did a quick Google search) and found out that somebody actually feared people were using the site to find sexual partners!!!

Now I don't deny that the claim is 100% false, but come on...whats next? Will they ban mobile phones coz guys and girls who aren't married will use it to talk with each other? Or destroy television sets coz they can be used to...I don't know, "culturally inappropriate material"?

On a funnier note, it seems orkut can still be accessed from the Media City and all iZones (the wireless hotspots in UAE are called iZones). I smell a conspiracy here, Etisalat is tired of its new rival Du, slowly but surely taking a good chunk out of the mobile services sector. So, I think it is trying to force more and more people to take other costlier services so that they can maintain their exorbitant profits.

Damn...I am in a bad mood now....

The Great (am)Bush

Nowadays all we can see are rants about how Mr. Bush is stupid, idiotic, a general pain in the ass, so on and so forth. Even yours truly occasionally indulges in what seems to be a global pastime. But what really pisses me off is that most Americans indulge in this sort of sentiment as well....

Now, I am not trying to endorse Bush or anything, but how can the American folks in general voice such outrage against this guy when they are the ones that elected him in the first place? I can understand if this was his first term. But for heaven's sake, this guy was re-elected. These might be the words of an ignorant guy, but still...how the HELL did he get re-elected?

This guy's popularity rating is lower than the temperature in Alaska(poor joke...sorry) and it scares the crap out of me that he still holds the power to autonomously control(i cannot describe the power of vetoing the senate in any other words) the most damn powerful country in this damn world. One who sees the UN fit for imposing sanctions on other countries while it ignores it in other matters (namely, Kyoto treaty, Iraq war, ...hmmm...can't think of more). I don't really think that any democratic system should have a position which can override a sizeable portion of the elected members. The fact that a person who has lost all credibility is able to do this...is wrong.

Ahh...well....who am I to talk about these things, but I don't want to just simply sit watching or hearing all this crap. Well, that might explain why I am typing this in the middle of the night to post it on an obscure blog....

As for the title, I am not that creative at 4 in the morning...hmmm...excuses, excuses....

18 Ave de Suffren Paris, 75740 France

I am just sick and tired of people making a big fuss about Paris Hilton. I don't know what people find so alluring about her.Is it the fact that she is a millionaire heiress or her looks(?) or (god forbid) her songs? Or the fact that she had no qualms in distributing...err...home movies(?).

Anyway, everything she or does makes the news. I can't comprehend the fact that most people have lives so mundane that they have to generate excitement by being up to date about their favourite celebs' exploits. It pains me to think that some folks might actually consider her to be a role model.

Coming back to Paris Hilton. Now it seems the latest buzz is about her jail sentence. Well, I have no idea what her crime was, but I don't think it matters to the general public. A huge fuss is being made by the media about everything, from what she plans to do in jail, to her new surroundings, to her to be jail mate.

Hmm..I am in the mood for predictions. I predict that her cellmate is gonna write a book that outlines her memoirs about sharing the same space as Paris Hilton. This might also lead to reality shows being made, where Paris Hilton lives with other people in extremely cramped spaces(a spinoff of her previous reality show) and the so called drama that will follow. Ahh...but today's world is shaped in such a way that I am sure that it would be a huge hit.

Networks...I hope you get this idea somehow so that I can brag about how I saw it all coming. Who knows...I may even decide to start my own religion...or atleast a psychic helpline...

But that is a discussion for another day.

Oh yeah, if anyone was wondering what the address above signifies....Well it points to The Paris Hilton(the hotel).....

April 15, 2007 or GSK day

On this day...I am sure that a hell lot of stuff must have happened. But which piece of news was splattered all over our news channels(I mean Indian of course)? The now infamous Gere-Shilpa Kiss (or GSK in short). I can't understand the furore that was created due to this silly incident. It seems that there are hordes of mindless people just waiting for something small to happen and then unleash their violence on public property. On the other hand, we have our lovely Shiv Sainiks who have justified their acts of violence by a statement that this incident goes against our "Indian culture". Hmm...so I guess, that according to them, destroying public property, unnecessary violence etc. showcases our "culture" pretty aptly.

Yeah RIGHT!!!

On a lighter note.....here is a pretty funny article on the same topic.

(Sigh...I know its a bit too late to discuss this, but hey, I strongly feel that our media and our all these "caretakes of Indian culture" have got their priorities wrong)