Lost in Dreams…

According to the “Art of War“, one should know when he can fight a battle and when he cannot. I have finally come to the realisation, that some battles are not worth it. So as of today, I am giving up something which I had cared for all these 4 years just to avoid a messy situation. Somebody came up to me and asked me today, Why did you give up so easily ?  All I could manage was to quote Bernard Shaw, “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it“.

I am a dog who should be asking sorry… Please forgive me…

Have you ever wondered how much time you spend online? or how many times you Google on average?. Google has a not so famous notorious tool called “Web History”. Eventhough it has been in the receiving end of privacy watchdogs, I decided to try it long back. Few days back when I checked the trends of my search activity, I was surprised to find that it could be so meaningful. Below is a screenshot of my search activity.

As seen above the Feb 2008 was a dull period for my search activities since I was on vacation and away from the computers for most of the time. The period of Apr-May saw a peak because of the aftermath of my Hannover visit. The latter half of previous year was filled with work that I didn’t much time in front of the system and October visit to India was a cause of the drop. I was surprised to find my Friday activity to be quite higher than my expectations since I spent most of the day in the bed. Looks like Tuesday is the day when I am totally jobless. Lately for the past one year I have been trying to hit the bed early which is very much evident, and also evident are my lunch breaks at 2pm and last few hours at office after 5pm and consecutive climb at 8pm back at home and post dinner climb after 10pm and just before hitting the bed at 12 am.

For a one year period ending on 17th May 2008, my average searches per day was 12. Top sites visited were Wikipedia, Answers.com, Google, Experts-exchange, Support@micro$oft, Amazon, IMDB. The top three queries were test, whois and wikipedia. 

Coming clean on nuclear energy

Gulf News Published: May 16, 2008, 23:39

It is good to be cautious. And it is caution the UAE is demonstrating as it goes about developing its nascent nuclear energy programme. Nuclear energy is seen as being a significant supplier to the UAE for domestic purposes in the future. So it is only right that the nation is approaching the installation, technology and training of nuclear power with great care. The UAE has already signed agreements with the US and France, two leading suppliers of nuclear energy, to advise it on the installations. Now an agreement has been signed with the UK, also a major supplier of nuclear energy for many years.

With the US, France and the UK supplying technical know-how, the UAE can be sure it is getting some of the best advice available. Furthermore, by disclosing who they are co-operating with, the UAE is showing full transparency of the project, as it said it would.

The above article was the editorial of Gulf News today. If I show this article to somebody without telling that this was the editorial of the day, I bet their first guess would be that this was the Government publication. I fail to see the reasoning of Gulf News about supporting a nuclear program and the worst case is talking about the merits in an editorial. I assume US & UK will be helping in “training of nuclear power” to UAE (whatever it is supposed to be). I am no Oxford pundit but still that term look way off to be used in an editorial.

Source : Gulf News