Fwd: hey its a better country

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ananth ramanathan <r_ant@hotmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: hey its a better country
To: Undisclosed Rect.

Since I dont have access to the blog...

my few postings:

1.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WVPH5RGK2MUT5QFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=P30&blog=asia&xml=/news/2006/04/05/blasia05.xml

2. whatever forward there is below...

enjoy

Government of India has a online Grievance forum at
http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/
The government wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems
they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like
Passport Office, Electricity board, BSNL/MTNL, Railways etc etc.

I know many people will say that these things don't work in India, but
this actually works as one of our colleague in CSC found. The guy I'm
talking about lives in Faridabad. Couple of months back, the Faridabad
Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents
were very happy about it. But 2 weeks later, BSNL dugged up the newly
laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents
including this guy. But it was only this guy who used the above listed
grievance forum to highlight his concern. And to his surprise, BSNL
and Municipal Corporation of faridabad was served a show cause notice
and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has
asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as its clear that both the
government departments were not in sync at all.
So use this grievance forum and educate others who don't know about
this facility.
This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking
about the 'System ' in India.
SPREAD THIS MESSAGE
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on behalf of ant... and because I'll lose track of it otherwise.

Mortal Kombat- Desi Ishtyle

Check this out ppl..super funny!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLY0Sj-144&search=punjabi%20vs

munch @ moma

saw the edvard munch exhibition at moma today. ummm, don't know how one can be so utterly depressed and in love with death. well he is not around to answer, his paintings are - good paintings at that. if the name doesnt ring a bell, its the same painter from norway famous for the "scream" painting - the one typifying exististential angst. the scream painting got stolen in 2004, old west bank robbery style - at gun point from the museum. at display in moma is the first one he drew (with which he wasnt happy) plus lithographs for the famous one.
followed that up with a peek of modern contemporary architecture from spain. vibrant designs transforming the landscape of spain, felt much better after all the death and destruction.

The Inside Man

Just saw The Inside Man. Im not gonna give out the story..But EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH IT. Its a phenomenal movie. Denzel's performance: phenomenal, Jodie Foster: waste of airtime
Clive Owen: just too cool!!!..
dialogues are great, direction A+....oh and btw the movie starts with "Chhaiya Chhaiya"...

Check out this smart ass ... funnnny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFinnE9Y8Vc

Again keep up the volume

Indian spring break

Keep the volume on ....

Thank heavens I came here - it could so easily have been me!

Niraj

What the hell is wrong with Dravid

Anyone following the last test between India and England must be cursing the living crap out of Dravid for his bad decision making. We've known Dravid to be the most humble players in the world but his decisions in this test have been simply atrocious.
He wins the toss and elects to bowl, just cos he took 3 pacers in the squad. None of whom performed..They bowled well in the second innings and got a target of 313...Then he sends the most consistent batsman in recent times Pathan (surprised?..its true) to open the innings as a night watchman..stupid freakin move again to expose him in the last few overs..what happens hes out and we are a good batsman down..especially considering the fact that neither sachin nor sehwag have been performing...i think sehwag needs to be dropped...hes taken his place in the team for granted and seems like sachin has the same problem..
313 is not a huge target on the bombay pitch but it wud be a miracle if we do end up winning..

on a lighter note check out these links for the Aus-SA match highlights

http://rapidshare.de/files/15334984/Aus_5th_ODI_30_min_Aus_Inngs_Highlights.wmv.htmld=BXR0COQU
http://rapidshare.de/files/15401070/Sa_V_Aus_5th_ODI_30_min_SA_Inngs_Highlights.wmv.html

Sorry...

Have 90 minutes to burn, watch My Date With Drew.
Available in Blockbusters everywhere.

V

Go see V for vendetta... let me know what you think.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0434409/maindetails

This is hilarious!

Arabs vs the Mafia:

http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/23733.exclude.html

Someone at CNN has a sense of humor!

Metrics

Folks,

Put in a couple of 'blog analytics' tools on this blog, just to play around - been vaguely interested in numbers, data mining, analytics etc for a while...

Anyways, if you are interested in seeing the numbers on this blog here's your two options:

http://performancing.com/rss/boondogglers.blogspot.com
Its free and rather basic.

www.blogbeat.com
mavryx/mavr-156

Much more detailed, but requires a purchase at the end of the free 30 day period.

Cheers,
Akshay

Its all about the green

Money, grass, and...

Beer haven!!!!

Wish I was here !!!! would have been one drunken kitchen!!!

blazing glory

what legends are made of ... hmmm ... u can start by checking out au vs sa 5th odi ... on a perfect batting pitch ponting raced to a century in just 71 balls .. he ended up with a score of 164 off 105 balls (9 sixes)! ... along with 81 by hussey and 79 by katich australia broke the 400 barrier for the first time in one day cricket ... 434 for 4!

now u wuld think that with such a score u r guaranteed a win ... so did the australians .. its never over untill its actually .. truly over .... the proteas come to bat second ... despite losing a wicket on the 8 ball, graeme smith responds with 90 off 55 balls, gibbs rushes to his 100 in 79 balls, finally making 175 off 111 balls ... end result ... south africa beat au by scoring 438 for 9 with just one ball to spare.

gotta see the freaking match! :o)

Ben Casnocha's 18th birthday wish

Ben C. is exactly the kind of person I'd love to have a beer with - except he's about 3 years away from legally being able to do that.

Read this post that he put up on his 18th birthday.

If you don't recognize some of the names of the people/companies etc - follow some of the links and see what they are about - not a single person on that list that I would not be interested in getting a beer with - just to chat.

18 years old and a Master Networker... things can only get better for this kid... :)

Buddies

Check out e-buddies. See if you can get involved.
Its an off shoot of BestBuddies

Gullible?

A sample of the type of information available at this fine, prestigious source of critical news is :

March 6, 2006

#posted by huertas

• The Associated Press has over 15,000 obituaries of living people on file for immediate release when the subject dies.

• Only 20 percent of suit jackets are hung on suit hangers.

• The average resume contains 2.54 grammatical errors.

• Two thirds of the world's heads of state are related within three generations to another head of state.

• Theonion.com receives more hits per day than all the local news websites in the state of Ohio.

Check out the archives for the last 2 years at www.gullible.info

30 Boxes

Check out this app:

 

www.30boxes.com

 

Fantastic calendar application!

Just wish it had an import from Outlook and my organizational problems would get a little better!

 

Virginity

Not sure if this is sad, true, funny, or just plain stupid.

BOP vs the TOP

C. K. Prahalad - the author of “Competing for the Future” published in 94 has a new book out.

“IF WE stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.”

The Economist has an article entitled: Profits and poverty. Check it out.