The Politics of Honest Voting

Came across a good article on Open Source: The Politics of Honest Voting
Read it when free..

Happy Valentine's Day

People think I'm a casanova. No, I'm not.
People think I'm a flirt. Well, probably yes I am.
That means today is the day for me, because today is the day of love. Today is Valentine's Day.

First of all, Happy Valentine's Day to all my readers. I know most of you are as single as me, in fact many of you are more single than me so this day adds fuel to the flame burning us all the time.

I proposed to a girl today, who has been a good friend for quite some time (a little under 9 years). Needless to say, I was turned down very politely (otherwise this post would not have been as sad as it is), and turned down for the second time. I told her that I'll not let her go and will try next year again :)

While I was crying by myself, I realized something.
The first girl I called up, to wish Valentine's Day was, let's say, A.
The girl I proposed today, let's call her B, is not same as A.
The girl I plan to give a Rose today, let's call her C, is neither B nor A.
The girl, people believe I might be serious about, let's call her D. So, (D != A) AND (D != B) AND (D != C)

However, the thing that is hurting me the most is that none of them is the girl I want to be with today. That THE ONE doesn't even know about it yet.

Is it really a Happy Valentine's Day? I wonder.

Michael Learns To Rock - Paint My Love - 25 Minutes

After some time I've finally made up my mind
she is the girl and I really want to make her mine
I'm searching everywhere to find her again
to tell her I love her
and I'm sorry 'bout the things I've done

I find her standing in front of the church
the only place in town where I didn't search
She looks so happy in her weddingdress
but she's crying while she's saying this

Chorus: Boy I've missed your kisses all the time but this is
twentyfive minutes too late
Though you travelled so far boy I'm sorry your are
twentyfive minutes too late

Against the wind I'm going home again
wishing me back to the time when we were more than friends

But still I see her in front of the church
the only place in town where I didn't search
She looked so happy in her weddingdress
but she cryed while she was saying this

Chorus:
Boy I've missed your kisses all the time but this is
twentyfive minutes too late
Though you travelled so far boy I'm sorry your are
twentyfive minutes too late

Out in the streets
places where hungry hearts have nothing to eat
inside my head
still I can hear the words she said

Chorus:
Boy I've missed your kisses all the time but this is
twentyfive minutes too late
Though you travelled so far boy I'm sorry your are
twentyfive minutes too late

I can still hear her say...

No title

This post does not have a title because it has too much in it, which cannot be described in a single line, at least the author cannot describe it. You need patience (lots of it) to read this one till the end.

/*----Original Post----*/
Title: Orkut is dead

No, not that Orkut is being closed or something. It, however, has died for me.
I have been unable to log into Orkut for 2 days now, and now it seems that my account information was mishandled. I'll tell you what happened, and why I feel the way I feel.

For the past two days, no one I know was able to log into Orkut but this afternoon onwards everybody has been able to log into Orkut; well almost everybody. I tried to log in, but it kept saying Bad, bad Orkut. No donut for you.

I tried to change my Google/Orkut account username and was able to do that successfully (the only success in the whole process, as you'll see shortly) but with the new username also I could not login.

I lost patience and tried to connect my Gmail account to my Orkut account. Now, when I tried that, it asked me to enter my Orkut account info which I did gleefully. Orkut replied, Invalid password!

What adds salt to injury is the fact that when I login into Google Accounts (www.google.com/accounts), it tells me that I am still subscribed to their Orkut service.

I think I'll change my stance.. Google sucks!
Google sucks more than Microsoft, because with Microsoft one can atleast restart ;-)
/*----End of Original Post----*/

/*----Follow Up----*/
Less than 5 minutes after publishing the original post, I tried to login again by clicking on someone's Orkut profile link and ALAS I was logged in.

So, I change my stance again.
Google still sucks, but now it sucks as much as Microsoft because it did the equivalent of a reboot before things started working :-P
/*----End of Follow Up----*/

/*----Follow Up to Follow Up----*/
Amazing! Something weird happening here.
My posts have started to disappear. No that's incorrect. I'll give you a good analogy from the world of my favourite operating system: Linux.

<ANALOGY>
root user, that's me, sets up a repository of all Bryan Adams' songs (okay, Pink Floyd's too) and gives all the users a read permission
[$chmod -r 755 BryanAdamsAndPinkFloydSongs/]

root then enjoys the songs for about 10 minutes, then goes to eat (let's say, cholcolate cake) and when he comes back does not find the songs folder there!! What's astonishing is that he finds a non-root user listening to all those songs from the same folder (not a copy of that folder, not a cached copy either).

While root is pondering over how this happened, that user comes to root and requests the root to share the folder again, which basically means that this non-root user also cannot see the folder anymore. No one now knows where the folder is!

A day later, root realizes he had made a copy of the folder elsewhere and therefore is able to get back the folder. Still, no one knows what happened to the original folder.
</ANALOGY>

Now I'll tell you how this is related to my original post and the follow up to it. So,

original post	=	the songs folder;
root	=	me, i.e. the owner of the blog;
non-root user	=	you, i.e. the reader;
current post	=	the recovered folder;

No, I won't change my stance again. Who knows, may be that's the reason behind my dis-appearing posts.
/*----End of Follow Up to Follow Up----*/

My god! You are really very patient.

Spend more time with your kids

I'm not advocating that here, thought I truly beleive in it.
Not sure if the following will work:


Source: iitk.fun (posted by Abhas)

If you really love her...

If you really love her, you should let her go. If not, then it's not love.

The quote is from the movie My Sassy Girl. It brought back some old memories.

I did :)

Rang De Basanti (2006)

I am not saying anything about the movie, except that I would give it the following rating:
(4.75 / 5.0)

Watch it not on your computer, not on your TV from a pirated CD/DVD, watch it in the theatres. You'll love me for suggesting this one.
Wait! Before you rush to buy the tickets, remember, you should not have high expectations otherwise you might not enjoy it.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405508/

Best blonde joke ever

Here's the best blonde joke ever.

It is hilarious. Had me laughing for more than ten minutes continuously. Picked it up from an iitk.fun post.