DISQUS

I recall the nickname of Raman Raghav as "kanpati-maar". BTW.. plenty of bizarre ones have existed all over the world. Just Google for Crime Library and check them out for yourself. Do it on empty stomach and you may not even have to puke.

Or, you could just erase Ayn Rand's works.

As Sakshi said, the blog takes forever to load. I think that's because of this external commenting system.

You're right. That was an inference I drew.

If it were the in-laws who were given the money, the reporter (even a bad one) couldn't possibly fail to explicitly mention it as evidence of the govt. perpetuating a social taboo.

Ah.. I didn't pay much attention to the title.. that's how much the first sentence irked me!

The threaded commenting system does look cool, I'll admit. However, it suffers from a fundamental problem: when the comment threads go long, comments tend get pushed more and more to the right.. eventually looking like a mess. It has happened on a couple of your posts already. I know you'll lose all comments when you switch, which is why I say switch now and regret less (as compared to the future switch) ;-) Plus, then all your data (comments) will be under a single management system (blogger).

Widgets.. I'd do away with the TTLB Ecosystem, MyBlogLog and SiteMeter. You'll always know the stats anyway. I have never been hugely impressed by a blogger showing his visitor stats. It is the content that matters.

PS: My blog.. hmm.. actually, that a case of the not-so-well known bureaucratic disdain against other bureaucrats. It is not an access block, the blog is gone.. there is nothing there right now. The password protection had to be done because the URL is paid for till May 2009.

Is it because the "most distressing" case cited isn't really distressing (within context, of course)? For a change, Govt seems to have done the right thing by putting the money in an FD in kids' name rather than giving it away as cash to relatives who might later split.

I am also quite irritated with the very first sentence of the article. Just WTF is meant by "nearly 68 persons lost their lives"? Was it 68? Or 67? Or 67 dead and one in coma? Oh wait.. I know.. it means the reporter didn't even bother to check the number of dead before advancing his sympathy credentials shamelessly.

PS: Can we please switch to blogger commenting system? I know I have been pestering you for a while to improve the template.. and kudos for improving the colour-scheme.. but this commenting system sucks. And you have too much widget-clutter.

I wondered about the "OMG-I-asked-about-her-mother" post too. My thoughts were not too far from yours. Generalizing, overreacting idiots.

In Google Reader, you can - while sharing an item - attach a note to it. Then, you share the feed of your shared items (or it's URL).. and your subscribers will know your feelings about a particular shared item. If you want to write detailed responses, it would anyway be better write a blog entry.

Shakira?

You're allowing other people to use my name on your comment-space?

Robert,

Okay, you got us to pay attention. But if whatever M$ is doing is really going to change the world (that's a huge, huge thing), then I expect it to get plenty of attention anyway.

Having said that, let me add that things that change the world usually do not require eyeball-counts to do so.

Quoting from Alfred's post:

Is he [Scoble] a developer? Not hardly.

Not hardly? I guess that does make you a reporter. At least you have your English right ;-)

The Next Big Language.. umm.. whatever it turns out to be, can we name it "Goo" or "G++"? :)

"The Galle Fort is the only living fort in the world.."

Umm.. what about the Ajmer and the Jaisalmer forts, to name just two?

"I told a friend the other day the marketing challenge for a big company is to appear small and the challenge for a small company is to appear big."

Have you been reading "The World is Flat"?? Or is it the case of great minds thinking alike and all that?