Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Raul Siddhartha said the following on 07/12/2007 10:56: > Jay Leno yesterday :-) Is the writers' strike over then? Or was it a repeat? Ram -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHWPyrRQoToz9njMgRCFfdAJ0ZCdISU1qCsc3KX

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Raul Siddhartha wrote [at 12:26 PM 12/7/2007] : http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?AssumeGoodFaith It was also the "Rule Zero: Assume Goodwill" that really caught my attention about silklist. Well, that was the first time I came across it, at least. :-D Fairly interesting statement. I've alwa

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Raul Siddhartha
> And it is a sufficiently pat coinage that several people (including > yours truly) have independently come up with it. Though I, for one, > was referring to the current inhabitant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quit the Republican Party and has become an

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Madhu M. Kurup wrote [at 11:48 AM 12/7/2007] : "At some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." From: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html A variant of Hanlon's Razor? I thought it was a portmaneau-ish (!) combination of Hanlon's Razor

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Madhu M. Kurup
Hmm: Ingrid wrote: On 06/12/2007, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "At some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." From: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html A variant of Hanlon's Razor? I thought it was a portmaneau-ish (!) co

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Ingrid
On 06/12/2007, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "At some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable > from malice." > > From: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html A variant of Hanlon's Razor? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor *Hanlon's ra

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Dec 6, 2007 11:35 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "At some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable > from malice." Also, Madhu, as you must have experienced with some of your staff...at some level, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from

[silk] QotD

2007-12-06 Thread Madhu Menon
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[silk] Lights turn red for stunned Delhi jaywalkers

2007-12-06 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-30854320071206?pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true Lights turn red for stunned Delhi jaywalkers Thu Dec 6, 2007 2:10pm IST By Jonathan Allen NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pedestrians don't cross the Indian capital's chaotic streets so much as dash a

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-06 Thread Valsa Williams
Thanks Gautam ! On Dec 6, 2007 12:24 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Valsa Williams wrote [at 11:52 AM 12/6/2007] : > > > > >No local heroes ? Indian search engines ? > > http://www.onyomo.com/ > > http://www.guruji.com/ > > http://byindia.com/ > > http://bhramara.in/ > >

Re: [silk] Need some info

2007-12-06 Thread Valsa Williams
There is one more that I found out http://www.guruji.com/ According to my community friends, they havent got much visibility. Their solution has value as long as most of the indian language content is in some font encoding system. Thanks for all your help ! On Dec 6, 2007 12:09 PM, Udhay Shankar