Posted by: agsharma on: March 27, 2008
<Link> Rogers Communications Inc. is gearing up to make Internet use more expensive for consumers who have a penchant for chewing up bandwidth by downloading movies or playing video games online. Bandwidth hogs who exceed their allotted limits on Rogers’s networks will face service-fee penalties of up to $5 a gigabyte, to a maximum of [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 26, 2008
…………..I thought it would be a lot more………. Tata, India’s biggest vehicle maker, is paying $2.3bn (£1.15bn) for the British brands after months of negotiations over price and supply relationships.
Posted by: agsharma on: March 25, 2008
And then they wonder why they don’t win an outright majority…… OTTAWA — Next time you’re listening to your favourite radio phone-in show, those pro-Conservative opinions you hear from callers might not be as spontaneous as they sound. Some of those apparently ad-libbed musings are actually being choreographed at the Conservative Party of Canada’s national [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 24, 2008
From Reason magazine : When a prominent Indian politician said her political opponents had put a black magic spell on her, one of India’s largest Hindu TV stations invited Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku to debate black magic shaman Pandit Surinder Sharma on science and religion. That’s where it got interesting: During the discussion, the tantrik [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 16, 2008
<Link> Glaciers are shrinking at record rates and many could disappear within decades, the U.N. Environment Program said Sunday. Scientists measuring the health of almost 30 glaciers around the world found that ice loss reached record levels in 2006, the U.N. agency said. UNEP warned that further ice loss could have dramatic consequences particularly in [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 16, 2008
<Link> A baby died after her father forgot to take her to day care Friday morning, officials told KPRC Local 2. Houston police said the father discovered his mistake when he got to the day care at Crawford Street near Rosedale Street in southeast Houston Friday evening. He was there to pick up his 7-month-old [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 14, 2008
The first time I heard his music was on the sound track of Natural Born Killers. I remember listening to the song burn (the video is not for the faint hearted) and feeling goosebumps all over me. Ever since I have been collecting Nine Inch Nails albums. My admiration for the guy went up a [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 7, 2008
I wonder if his bubble has been burst by now…..Omar, dude, this is why I cannot stand this guy….. ps : Omar, you have got to start posting again.
Posted by: agsharma on: March 4, 2008
This is why I love Asimov : The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram [...]
Posted by: agsharma on: March 2, 2008
Posted by: agsharma on: March 2, 2008
I wonder how I would react if this happens to me? One of my colleagues is a fervently religious woman who is not content practising her faith on her own time, but instead interrogates her co-workers in their cubicles and preaches to them. On one occasion she followed me on my lunch break to a [...]
