Absolutely random...

A full round of the flu in the family. More snow, more snow pics. Tax prep time. Learning more about J2EE, VOIP, Asterix Open source PBX and about jobs, real estate in Canada. What a week!

The Oscars are tonight and the Indian news sites such as rediff, samachar have been rife with rumour about Aishwarya Rai presenting an Oscar- an honour, as noted by one of them. On the one hand these sites are jumping on every opportunity to criticize the USA and on the other they gloatat every every nod and smile that the USA effects in the direction of India. It might be ages before I manage to figure out what really is their stance.

The NASA examination fiasco: News agencies all over the world including the BBC fell flat on their nose on this one. No one has outlined clearly, however, why this kid and their family concocted this out-of-this world story.

Browsed the web for websites of IIT alumni associations based in Canada and interestingly enough the only one I found was a broken link on the IIT MAANA website. Nice!

John Wright has served his notice of intent to leave after the Pakistan visit. India's first foreign coach and what a difference he has made! Speaking of the Pakistan tour, the hype continues to be built up- Inzamam now pleading to his team to avenge their home loss earlier this year, the photo sessions of Ganguly and Inzamam in battle armour and who knows what else the ad media is cooking up back home.

The 42nd Mersenne prime has now been confirmed as found!