ThoughtfulChaos

The order to blacklist certain sites, issued by DoT to all ISPs in India is now old news. I don't have anything original to add to the issue... everything that should be said has been said.

I was in Chennai for a couple of days on an official trip and did not know something like this was happening... the first inkling I got of something of both sad and funny was when waiting to board the plane at Chennai.

Needless to say the Government or CERT-IN or DoT or whichever body has initiated this is totally inept and clueless about blogs and the Internet. It scares me to think that these are the morons with powers to influence the Internet and take policy decisions about it in India. Funnily even the so called technology correspondents who wrote about this on various news sites seemed ignorant about the terminology and the technology behind blogs.

Continue reading "Something fishy about the DoT ban"...

This is why I love Slashdot. Do you have any other site with these kind of comments? I don't think so.

I really really have to be more serious about blogging. Really. I mean I keep promoting blogs and how soothing blogging is among my friends and then what do I do? I myself blog something like once in a month.

I do have lots of stuff I want to blog about. I start thinking about my something and at the back of my mind I imagine myself blogging about it... but some time later boom! everything is gone.

No more. Problem is not with intent... problem is with my time management. I really have to set aside half an hour every other day to blog. As simple as that.

This is a very emotional moment for me. I have been tagged for the first ever since this blog was born. *Sniff sniff* Very few of my friends blog and none of my blogger friends have ever tagged me. I always hoped that somebody would tag me, sometimes even thinking of just tagging myself but never got around to it.

I have been tagged by Koushik, author of My Days in Mumbai blog. The tag goes by the name of "Who can be my Lover?"... basically you try to articulate the qualities of your perfect lover.

Rules of the game are:

1. The tagged victim has to come up with 8 different points of their perfect lover
2. You have to mention the sex of the target.
3. Tag 8 victims to join this game and leave a comment on their comments saying they've been tagged.
4. If tagged the 2nd time, there's no need to post again.

Continue reading "My perfect lover"...

Atanu Dey writes about the the bigger issue related to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy:

1. The Freedom to be Offended
2. The Freedom to be Offended — Part 2
3. The Freedom to be Offended — Part 3

Quoting snippets from the posts will not do them due justice. Read the posts in their entirety... it is definitely worth it.