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Battle of the search

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http://yagoohoogle.com/

As you can see from the results, yahoo relevance hits have gone up while we were not watching.

Thx to my bro for this link.

One more place for MSN vs Google
http://www.addysanto.com/dualsearch.htm

Written by Satish Bhat

April 5th, 2005 at 5:41 pm

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Is Mahatma Gandhi still relevant?

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Look around you, what do you feel is the most common emotion in people?

Fear.

Fear is one of the prevalent feeling around us.

Fear of failure.

Fear of rejection.

Fear of being left behind.

Name it, and every action of modern people does have a sense of fear behind it.

A great lesson to be yet learned by people of India.
Un-fortunate, but people of India seem to have either dietified him (Mahatma, 8th avatar of Vishnu, etc …)
or deride him and his non-violence movement as a weak man’s reaction to oppression.

Just y’day a relation of mine said he did not support Gandhiji’s values on non-violence as that was a weak persons reaction. Strength has to be answered with strength.

A 55 year old man still does not understand that non-violence is a position of strength! I was appalled.
What did Gandhiji teach? What lessons did he leave behind? I needed a reason to read his autobiography (Story on experiments with truth) and looks like I have it now ( I should read it at least within this year :) ).

A thought comes to ones mind, isn’t overcoming authority by non-violence a position of strength?
Doesn’t overcoming our fear and replacing it with resolve to overcome our obstacles a position of strength?
Being honest to self whatever be the situation, isn’t that one of most difficult things to achieve?
Shaking a stick menacingly at someone, but hands shivering with fear on the outcome, or ruling with fear, when
does these become a position of fear?

Come may any storm, I will face it. Come may any fear, I will face it. What I feel is right, I will do it.
That’s what I feel are the teachings from the great teacher. Overcome your fear and let a steely resolve overcome you to do good.
That’s what he thought.

  • Being fearless.
  • Being honest.
  • Fight in-justice.

If all three are not present then they haven’t imbibed Gandhiji’s lessons.
You need all these three attributes in equal measure to say it follows “Non-violence”/Gandhiji’s movement.

Written by Satish Bhat

April 5th, 2005 at 5:39 pm

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Hard selling or phising

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A call on my mobile phone on 14 January, 9:41 AM IST from +91-80-5119300 went
on the folowing lines:

Caller: Hello, Am I speaking to Satish?

Me: Yes.

Caller: Hello sir. I am calling from Hutch. We are providing an email
intimation service. Please give me your email ID.

Me: I haven’t asked for this service.

Caller: Yes sir. You have been selected for the email bill notification
service.

Me: I am not interested.

Caller: Thank you sir.

hangs up.

What’s wrong with the above call? Something was not right.

First, someone calls me up and asks for my email ID without explaining to
me why they want it. Second, no indication of the privacy policy and if they
are going to use it for further marketting or sell it to spam people!

Is this marketting gimmick or email harvesting?

What got my goat was the subtle way of ensuring that they get your email ID. If
you notice, the first step is to ask for the emailID. It’s your responsibility
to ask the right questions before divulging the answers.

How different is this from phising?

What saddend me in the whole process?

Am I getting a cynical view of the world? Do I see schemes under everything?
Have I started to read too much in my day to day setup?

My natural reaction on the call was very paranoid and defensive. Moment I heard
Hutch, I was on A-Alert mode.

I am not sure if I like progress/capitalism anymore :( . This guy sums up my feeling to perfection!

Written by Satish Bhat

January 17th, 2005 at 4:25 pm

Posted in General,Personal

Draw your mug

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Warning> Took me around 10 mins to finish my first attempt.
Cool web based application where an attempt can be made to draw your own face.

My first attempt My mug
Another shot at it I believe so :)

You too can try it here.

Written by Satish Bhat

January 13th, 2005 at 3:42 pm

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How nerdy am I?

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I always believed I was normal, but this guy wants to prove otherwise :)

I am nerdier than 95% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!


Previously seen here.

Written by Satish Bhat

January 10th, 2005 at 11:30 am

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Indian Ocean Tsunami

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PM Relief Fund

If you are in India, you can write a checque/DD to:
Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund
Address: Prime Minister’s Office, South Block, New Delhi-110001.

Donate here:
Oxfarm
Sarvodaya, NGO in Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Of India’s Relief Fund
Aid India

SEA-EAT blog
Google page
Amateur Seismic Centre in Pune
More Links
Wikipedia
Report on damages

Written by Satish Bhat

December 30th, 2004 at 4:11 pm

Posted in General