Oil price hike is good !

I welcome the oil price hike on a broader view!
This will give way to Hybrid cars and better technologies that are less dependent on depletable natural resource. Also when the oil requirements come down, some of the less courteous 'Oil producing countries' will become more courteous!

It is surprising to see the indian market going bullish inspite of the rising oil price! Its also worth reading this article in down to earth. Unfortunately, the indian (automobile) industries are too narrow minded that they dont spend money in R&D. Indian industries always want to win more money without loosing a paise. If they spend money for researches in solar and alternative energies, it would be worth their investment. Government should also provide benefits to encourage such expenditures. There is a battery operated car Reva which do not enjoy any tax benefits from government. Hence the cost of such cars are as high as a small car with petrol engine. This two seater car is ideal for city travel. It can speed upto 60 kmph and can travel upto 80 km in full charge. If this is promoted it would give way for better technology and probably battery recharge centers in the palce of petrol bunks! But reva currently enjoy good export business and they might probably think its more money than 'current' indian market!

More Blogs

Previously, I have been using bBlog which has convenient methods to catalogue my posts based on content. Since such facility is not available in blogger, I created different blogs for different subjects as you can see in my sidebar Blog Themes. Feel free to visit them. I am looking for suggestions/hacks may be using an RSS aggregator to aggregate all those blogs in one page. I tried Feedburner as seen in the bottom of this blog. But I am not all that happy.

'annoy'ans of medieval europe

I went along the romantic road (?!) of germany and visited an old town named Rothenburg. It has the typicalities to be called itself a medieval town. There is also criminal museum here about maintaining law and order in medieval europe. Few things i infered from there...
* I was surprised to find a high number of japanese population here!
* Some punishments were biased towards stronger people
* Some punishments were superstitious.
* Medieval europeans were good in calligraphy. I dont know why that art has faded now even with the advent of computers.
* Some punishments for school children mentioned in the museum are still popular in indian schools.
* The laws were somewhat partial towards males.
* Ridiculing was one of the punishments not seen nowadays.
* Some punishments were funny. (Tickling convict's leg after locking!)
* Torture methods were used to bring out the truth!
* Needless to mention, some punishments were cruel (iron maiden)

The european anniyan would give the following death sentences for the respective crimes:
Murder - Wheeling (running a sharp edged wheel several times)
Manslaughter - Beheading
child murder - drowning
Arson - Burning
(major) Theft - Hanging
counterfeiting - boiling or fire death
witchery - burning
Bigamy, treason, blashphemy and heresy were also punishable by death depending upon the severity.

How to float a party for dummies...

Recently captain floated a party in Madurai in a la-tamil fashion. Here are some tips for the future party floaters.

Pre-requisites :
You should have enough money from the schools, colleges or hospitals that you run.You should be related to the film industry in one way or more. For atleast one year before floating the party, your work in film should strongly condemn the ruling party's mistakes and mention that they will end soon.

Choose a party name that is jumbled out of dravida, makkal, munnetra, murpokku, jananayaga, valarchi, akila indhiya, desiya, anna, mgr, (periyar, kamarajar), iyakkam, kazhagam. Try to make it hard, but make sure you dont use the same name as another party ! Explain all the words in the party name except 'dravida'. Some choices are 'Akila indiya mgr makkal valarchi dravidar iyakkam', 'Anna munnetra jananayaga dravida desiya kazhagam', 'Makkal periyar murpoku dravidar marumalarchi kootam'. Obviously you need to get those names abbreviated for the sake of simplicity and confusing others. If you are creative, you can jumble those letters and have a different abbreviation !

Your flag must have black and red stripes with a strip of the color of your underwear that you usually buy. Its good to have the same coloured towel for your shoulder. Order huge amount of dhothis for party people with this flag coloured border. This would be funded by an industrialist who would want to set up a leather, sugar or any other stinking factory near drinking water pond in a village, when you get elected.

Convene a meet in a huge ground near the place where you were born and bring people from all over. Nowadays this is done by contractors who have access to the common pool of people whose only source of income for food is by attending such meetings. Choose few very dumb people to be around you always and let them elect you as the party leader which you should accept humbly.

Now what you would really speak in the meeting isnt that tough. There are standard templates available. You should think about things that would make villagers lazy, that would make women quarrelsome, that would make government employees corrupt and that would decrease the overall efficiency of any system. You should propose such systems as benefits for villagers, women and common man.

Mention very strongly about your dislike on caste discrimination and propose ideas that would enable only the unqualified people of lower caste to make a system fail. By this method, you prevent the unqualified people of upper caste from failing a system! Never mind, if lot of well qualified people are affected. The intention is only to fail a system and uplift the lower caste. The only loophole to this technique is from the qualified people in lower caste who could set the system right. But its a compromise that you make and the risk that you take.

Talk about your tolerance towards any language and how you would like to be peaceful with all your neighbouring states if they listen to what you say. Suggest a massively huge money eating plan that is less value for more money, but insist on the little value that it provides.

Last but not least, remember all the leaders who died. Mention their name with all their titles. Display whatever photos you have taken along with them. Talk about the 'popular things' they did and mention that you will follow their footsteps to do such 'useful things'. Say things that still makes india proud (inspite of people like you)and dont forget that despite your try they continue to do their good.

Salzburg

I visited the old town of salzburg, Austria which got its name from its salt mine. There are so many things that are worth saying about this small town. But I cant possibly say it better than the two brilliant movies. If you havent seen these movies, rent/buy this movie and watch them leisurely.
1) Sound of Music, a classial musical film that won 5 oscars
2) Amadeus, a film that is loosely based on Mozart that won 8 oscars

If you couldnt watch the movie immediately, atleast get the songs from these movie and listen to them first. But dont forget to watch the movie later. If you have seen this movie long ago, see it again !

And think of this... I actually went to many places shown in those movies and remembered not only the scenes but also the music associated with them!

back to blogging

I am back to blogging. My blog server got into lot of troubles in the past few weeks. This time instead of running a blog server, i chose to use a blog service provider and I am back.