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I had a hard drive failure the other day, which naturally got me to thinking about backing up data, and about the times I’ve been more paranoid about it. I wrote my PhD dissertation back in those far-off days (1988) when you could put Mac versions of Word and Chem-Draw on one 3.5-inch disk (yes, that was possible, and I still have the disk to prove it). But I went to the disk-swapping trouble of putting my dissertation-in-progress on a separate floppy. So there I was, with a couple of week’s worth of dissertation draft on my floppy disk, when one fine day I insert the thing into the slot, and. . .it can’t be read. Hrm. I try other machines. I try them all. None of them can read the disk, under any conditions. It slowly dawns on me that my two weeks of work have evaporated, and a little later it dawns on me that things could have been much, much worse. I converted to the Backup Religion. Grad students writing up tend to get a bit paranoid under the best conditions. Once I made my back...

By all Means... MARRY!"I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste." - David Bissonette" When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."- Sacha Guitry" After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together."- Hemant Joshi" By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."- Socrates" Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them."- Dumas" The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? " - Sigmund Freud" I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me" - Anonymous" Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a ...

Artist - Not known Artist - Picasso Credits - I do not have any idea if this master-art is copyrighted. :)

एका संध्याकाळी अजोबा नातवाला युद्धा-विषयी सांगत असतात - " बाळा, हे युद्धं दोन लांडग्यांमद्ध्ये असते. " "एक लांडगा वाईट असतो. तो म्हणजे क्रोध, अहंकार, दुःख, हेवा, पश्चात्ताप, अपराध, अपमान, असत्य, पोकळ अभिमान, मोहं, मत्सर, निराशा, द्वेष" "दुसरा चांगला असतो...तो म्हणजे आनंद, शांति, प्रेम, आशा, क्षमा, दया, कनवाळूपणा, औदार्य, सत्य, विश्वास, परोपकार, व सहनशीलता." नातू मिनिटभर विचार करतो..आणि विचारतो... "आजोबा, अखेर कुठला लांडगा युद्धं जिंकतो???" आजोबा शांतपणे उत्तर देतात..."ज्याला आपण खाऊ देत राहतो तो."

The misty afternoon on the breck road. Posted by sony ericsson K800i.

Thanks Pigeon. Thanks Warney.” Everybody at the Sydney Cricket Ground knows what these words mean. They are a tribute to Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, the two Australian stars who are retiring from Test cricket after the final Ashes Test. It’s already old territory, and the match has only just started. But there is no way the commercial powers that be will let Australian people forget what this match is supposed to mean to them. Where 'Sydney CBD' or ‘Bondi’ (or wherever you may be) would normally appear on a mobile phone display, the sentiments at the top of this blog are digitally plastered onto peoples' mobiles at the SCG. This is fine if you’re at the ground, but I feel sorry for any tourists in the surrounding areas who, perhaps lost, will think they’ve wandered onto the wrong side of the tracks, which is where a place called ‘Thanks Pigeon’ inevitably would be. It doesn’t stop there, either. The advertising logos at the southern and northern ends of the grounds h...