London Eye is a giant wheel on river Thames, where you can take a ride in a glass capsule and view the entire city of London.

The politicians and policy makers from Tamil Nadu keep visiting London and I hope someday they would think of creating London Eye or even a bigger giant wheel on the backdrop of Marina Beach and call it Chennai Eye (not certainly Madras Eye).

It all started with Santosh Madhavan, Oh! I’m sorry.. ‘Swami Amrita Chaitanya’, a petty shopkeeper turned swami, with a persuasive smile. Then came the action hero Mr. Himaval Bhadrananda (Thokku Swami) with a pistol and Motorola SLVR, which was later charged inside the police station! He is the one who claims to have predicted Tsunami and Chikungunya fever. Had the police not arrested Mr. Himaval, he would have predicted the chinese earthquake, which could possibly save 10,000 lives. (His arrest…Oops, that was a bad decision)

Of the small-scale industry (SSI) units working in the district, 31.5 per cent have reported continuous decline in gross output compared to the previous year. Of the 6,022 sick units listed in a study on the opportunities for small-scale industrial enterprises in the district, 987 (16.39 per cent) are food processing and allied industrial units. The study was conducted by the International Centre for Economic Policy and Analysis of the Department of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology.

Textile, leather and wood-based units are also facing a high rate of sickness in the district, the study pointed out. There are 858 textile units, 74 leather units and 263 wood-based units in the sick list. Among the food processing units, flourmills accounted for 32.5 per cent of the units on the decline.

Initially, you could enter the parking lot and go to arrivals without having to pay any parking charges since the first 15 mins were free. On one of my recent visits however I saw that they have changed that policy and if I need to take my car to arrivals I have to pay a minimum of Rs. 30!!!

Now that’s a pure rip-off! If my passenger is already waiting outside arrivals and I only have to drive up to pick them up why should I be paying at all??? I’ve not seen this happen at any other Indian or international airport. While I understand that GMR needs to recover its investment, I’m sure there are better ways of doing that rather than use dirty tricks.

Anyways, I doubt any amount of ranting is going to help, so here’s the trick to pick up your passenger without having to pay the stupid parking fees. Ask your passenger to come upstairs to the departure area. There is an elevator as well as escalators which the passengers can use. Driving up to the departure area is free. It might

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a body controlling airline operations in India, said dozens of pilots are found to have consumed alcohol during routine pre-medical tests every year.

India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world with dozens of new airlines competing with each other everyday, often resulting in pilots forced to fly at short notices.

The country has about 4,500-5,000 commercial pilots, and another 2,500 are undergoing training. Civil aviation rules specify that pilots and cabin crew cannot consume alcohol 12 hours before taking a flight. A pilot can be grounded for three months and he can lose his license if he repeats the mistake again. Some times flights have to be canceled because of drunken pilots.

The viper snake is a very short snake compared to most of the other type of snakes. She is 50 to 65cm long. But the viper snake has a very robust body. The viper snake has red and some have brown eyes they have yellow skin but some are also green. This color helps the viper snake camouflage. The viper snake lives in the forest floor.

The viper snake mainly lives in places that are wet in the rainforest like woodlands; riverbanks, bogs and also they live in mountains. The snake adapts by; they hang with their tail to a branch and catch their prey. Another way is when a bird passes the viper snake camouflages in the bushes and captures the bird. The viper snake mainly eats amphibians and the snake can stay a whole year without eating.

This bloated, pestilent gigabyte-swamping piece of ordure takes up enough computational resources to accurately model the world’s weather for the next billion years, and what do you get for it? Something that will format and display text? Don’t make me fucking laugh. What you do get is a profusion of bells and whistles thrown in a careless heap, each bauble lovingly designed to make the straight path crooked, the intuitive arcane, the simple impossible.

Take the “Help” for example. It’s not just help, it’s a new friend!

I don’t want a new friend, you shit-slurping choad-munching bunch of retards; I’ve all too many as it is. What I want is something simple where I can find a technical detail with a minimum of fuss and interruption. I don’t want animation. I don’t want natural-language interpretation. I don’t want to be led by the fucking nose. Give me a fucking index and get the hell out of my damn face. If I dismiss a window, I want it gone. I don’t want it to wave goodbye, or hesitate, or sneeze. I want it gone.

The document I was working on was very simple. No images, no tables, no nothing. One font, one style, that’s it. It would be perfectly simple in other system, even earlier versions of Word, but, oh no, not in this latest magnum opus of the word processing world.

Windows has two main lines. The older flavors are referred to as “Win9x” and consist of Windows 95, 98, 98SE and Me. The newer flavors are referred to as “NT class” and consist of Windows NT3, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista. Going back in time, Windows 3.x preceded Windows 95 by a few years. And before that, there were earlier versons of Windows, but they were not popular. Microsoft no longer supports Windows NT3, NT4, all the 9x versions and of course anything older. Support for Windows 2000 is partial (as of April 2007).

The flavors of Linux are referred to as distributions (often shortened to “distros”). All the Linux distributions released around the same time frame will use the same kernel (the guts of the Operating System). They differ in the add-on software provided, GUI, install process, price, documentation and technical support. Both Linux and Windows come in desktop and server editions.

There may be too many distributions of Linux, it’s possible that this is hurting Linux in the marketplace. It could be that the lack of a Linux distro from a major computer company is also hurting it in the marketplace. IBM is a big Linux backer but does not have their own branded distribution. Currently there seem to be many nice things said about the Ubuntu distribution.

Linux is customizable in a way that Windows is not. For one, the user interface, while similar in concept, varies in detail from distribution to distribution. For example, the task bar may default to being on the top or the bottom. Also, there are many special purpose versions of Linux above and beyond the full blown distributions described above. For example, NASLite is a version of Linux that runs off a single floppy disk (since revised to also boot from a CD) and converts an old computer into a file server. This ultra small edition of Linux is capable of networking, file sharing and being a web server.