I was in Buenos Aires last week, at (what else), a conference.  Now, BA is a lovely city, wonderful weather, almost like a slice of old Europe transplanted into south america (old buildings, couples kissing in the parks, marketplaces with beautiful women who will give you a quick ten minute lesson in anything from waltz to tango, for something like ( Read more... )

Seeing all the noise around this made me think a bit.

Sneak propaganda and personal attacks masquerading as political action is reprehensible, whether it is Eli Pariser and Moveon.org doing it, or purveyors of right wing froth like Ann Coulter, or backstairs political manipulators like Karl Rove.

If you condemn swift boat (and I do) and think Ann ( Read more... )

I'm sure an old hindi movie can be made out of this story ( Read more... )

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.htmlRead more... )

Ah. An airport built on the site of an old temple and graveyard ( Read more... )

A delightful (!) tour of bombay - a city that I try to avoid as far as I can ( Read more... )

Take Back the Net -
Secure Your Computer and Sport the Grey RibbonThere's this huge amount of assorted nastiness on the net that goes on just because too many people leave their PCs un-updated and let them get infected by every kind of virus and spyware on the planet. Spam, DDoS attacks, ID theft .. all of which can be cured by simply practicing ( Read more... )

Hi, I've been going through LJ removing quite a few old friends entries - several users / feeds in my friends list were appearing crossed out, showing that those accounts were deleted. If I unfriended someone by mistake do let me know (am severely jetlagged and sleepy, no time to be lj'ing)

I've seen lots of LJ'ers of the "travel to the states and back on business" community generally dismiss Frankfurt airport as bad, dirty, overcrowded, with dirty toilets etc ( Read more... )

Well, it has been a hectic year of travel so far - flying out about once a month this year, or sometimes more, to lots of antispam conferences in one city or the other, and coming back after a short trip that's 3..4 days of meetings ( Read more... )