Musings of a modern guy

Day before yesterday I finally managed to trace the ad that had talked about the washing machine. Spoke to the customer service, turns out that it took around 10 days for the check to get cleared out. As a result, they would not release the machine until the check got cleared. This took till the […]

One would expect companies to be more consumer oriented. However, I don’t think that this feeling has really set in. Around 2 weeks back, IFB had an advertisement in the Times of India essentially stating that you can get a new fully automatic washing machine for around Rs. 10,000 ($ 220). Our current washing machine […]

Well, I had been having my own problems with IE7. It would crash, and for some reason, I am not getting the ‘Open in New Tab’ option on Right-click (workaround being that I have to press Ctr when opening a link to open in a new tab). I wrote about this in earlier posts, and […]

North Korea might be planning to test a second nuclear weapon !! Read this CNN news and wonder what kind of regime this is ?
The security council slaps some sort of weak sanctions against it and what does not North Korea do ? It declares that sanctions are actually a declaration of war against the […]

I was reading an article that talks about the deal that Pakistan signed with the Taliban / Tribal elders in its remote province of Waziristan. You can also read the article here. In addition, if you do a Google search for more articles on this topic, I will link to this article from the BBC. […]

CNN is running this article that says that US tests of the air over the Korean peninsula shows on trace of radioactive debris. This could happen if the North Koreans successfully sealed the site, or if the test was a very low intensity test. Another possibility is that the test was actually conventional explosives used […]