Posted by: agsharma on: January 28, 2007
Aah!! Conservatives. No matter how much you hide, the true conservative nature always srings forth. Here is Harper’s administration demonstrating their maturity: The Conservatives unveiled three new television ads Sunday attacking Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, a day before members of Parliament return to the House of Commons. They also criticize Dion’s record as environment minister, [...]
I know that bollywood usually makes real woozy movies but over the last few years the industry has started to make a real comeback. And one of the prominent actors participating in this resurgence is the legend Amitabh Bachchan. The doyen of Indian cinema. He made a comeback into cinema more out of need than [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: January 27, 2007
There had been rumblings in the IT industry that the Moore’s Law in the chip industry is now going to be invalid. As most of you know that the Moore’s Law is: The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every 18 months. At the end of [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: January 14, 2007
This is a really good article on today’s youth. Teen angst is nothing new, and neither is rebellion. And many indicators show that most young Canadians are doing quite well — graduation rates are up, and teenage pregnancies down. But a significant minority has gone another way. Social shifts are partly to blame, but alarming [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: January 1, 2007
This is a description of Saddam Hussein’s execution. The curious part came somewhere in the middle of the article. The general prosecutor asked Mr. Hussein to whom he wanted to give his Koran. He said Bandar, the son of Awad al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court who was also to be executed [...]