April 25, 2006

The long lost Post...

An elderly couple made their way to the President's office @ Harvard university.

Ragged and dressed in tattered clothes the couple did not make pleasant viewing..

The President had no intention of talking them. Displeasure showing in his face, and every word, he wanted to get it done with..

So why are u here, what do u want...

Our son was a student here for a year, he recently died..in an accident, we want to...

Whaaaat.., build a statue for ur son!!. Sorry we cant do all that. you can go..

No...,the elderly couple hesitated..

We were actually thinking of constructing a building in his name..

yeh rite. Do u have any idea how much it would cost....The principal sneered..,atleast 1M $ ........he trailed off.

The couple had a hurried discussion amongst themselves..

Isnt that too much for u...the president sneered again..

well actually no...,If it costs just a million Dollars, in that case, we wud actually build our own school..

The president gasped...

The couple that were sitting in front of him, were Mr and Mrs Stanford..

And thus was born Stanford University.......

PS: Translated from an article found in Kumudam...

PS to PS: :-)...Not bad eh...My translation skills from tamil to english are pretty good..
High time I started working on translating thirukural and all other poetry stuff into english...;)

As they say, orru paanai sorruku orru sorru patham...(meaning..tasting one morcel of rice from the pot is enough, to say if itz cooked or not)


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April 14, 2006

HNY

Happy new year folks...

btw, does anyone know what the tamil new year is called ;-)

April 03, 2006

Gmail is a Fraud

I know itz pretty ironic a title after my prev one..

But then,...IS gmail eroding ur privacy..

All Gmail users...Not sure if I have read anything on this before...
But guess, need to have this investigated...

Looks like Google has a software that scans thro the content of emails
and provides sponsored ads on the side accordingly.

I checked a few of my mails..

(1) A dell email with info computers- laptops and batteries
and the ads are similar to that/..
with discounts frm individual battery suppliers..
(2)Checked emails with the word fwd in the subject
Now they know most ppl just delete fwd mails...
and there are no ads for that...

(3) a email frm my friend..with no subject
he asked abt apt details and car details(specifically honda and toyota) in the mail
and lo wat do I get, ads about honda and apt rental agencies..

and this continues..

Man.,..if this is true, these guys are invading privacy..

Something needs to be done about it..