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Last login: 13 hours agoInduscrypt is a 30 year old guy from Mumbai, MH, India.
It's Indus + Crypt ...and Sir Oliver Reed is back as my avi. Also, this page doubles as a scratchpad for the wySUwyg editor .
Jun 16, 9:44am
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
-Jonathan Swift
Chinas banks are an accident waiting to happen to every one of us - Telegraph...
Jul 4, 4:34pm    (3 reviews)  economics, china, banking, investment  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comme...
A question that has certainly crossed every mind.
Multipurpose National Identity Card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jun 28, 12:10pm    (1 review)  india, privacy, e-governance, database  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipurpos...
We are jumping on this bandwagon without enough thought, I'd say.
'Waterless' washing machine cleans using nylon beads
Jun 27, 12:03pm    (45 reviews)  science-tech, living  http://www.gizmag.com/xeros-washing-mach...
Now sandblast your clothes with nylon to clean them.
Living in Indian cities, one easily realises what a winner this technology can be.
( BTW,I remember hearing they used sand to clan utensils in some arid regions of the country)
BBC NEWS | Americas | US passes million swine flu cases
Jun 27, 8:51am    (1 review)  health  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8122...
From the page: "US health officials estimate that at least one million Americans have been infected with swine flu since the H1N1 virus emerged nearly three months ago.

The number is far higher than cases actually reported to the authorities."
The Long Strange Trip to Java
Jun 26, 4:27pm    (2 reviews)  computers, todo, java  http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/...
To read
Mr. Famous Comes Home - Forbes.com
Jun 26, 4:26pm    (1 review)  computers, programming, java  http://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/1201/144...
Patrick Naughton, before things turned bad. He's a bit full of himself, but a worthy read.
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/47/1847/1024/mercury.jpg
Jun 26, 4:10pm    (1 review)  programming, java, web-development, hardware  http://photos1.blogger.com/img/47/1847/1...
Indeed they pushed the envelope!
Though I am still not sure what resulted in the explosion in computer sales-the advent of Java and other web technologies or Bill Gates' eye-popper payout for a free web service.

(An early newspaper coverage on Java)
Fathom this-"It will make the Web as lively as CD-ROM"
Net big enough for Michael Jackson and Iran - Technotica- msnbc.com
Jun 26, 3:56pm    (5 reviews)  internet  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31571885/ns/...
From the page: "News of Michael Jacksonâ€s death broke on the Internet late Thursday afternoon. Not long after that, the Internet broke too. Twitter crashed, as did Michael Jacksonâ€s Wikipedia entry. Facebook lumbered under countless Michael Jackson video uploads retrieved from an over-accessed YouTube, and both ground to a halt.

Everything else online, including the historic battle over democracy currently being raged in Iran, pale"
Top 10 Weirdest Things in Space : Discovery Space : Discovery Channel
Jun 26, 12:42pm    (3 reviews)  science  http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/st...
From the page: "Recent studies suggest that the fabric of the universe stretches more than 150 billion light-years across -- in spite of the fact that the cosmos is 13.7 billion years old."
eh?
Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | No, Really: A Cave Dwelling
Jun 24, 3:30pm    (32 reviews)  architecture, living-lifestyle  http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/...
The Story took a heartbreaking turn--
abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story [abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story]
(Unable to Refinance, Missouri Family Puts Their Cavern on eBay )
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Well, somehow this article is newer than the foreclosure story....