Simply Unethical...and Unacceptable

Guess what the above sewage plant is to be called soon...."George W Bush Sewage Plant".

I have read a similar incident before. During Vietnam war, to show their anger against USA (or show support to their communist brothers in arm), the City of Calcutta renamed the street where US consulate was located . So overnight Harrington became Ho Chi Minh Sarani (street). But then what can be expected against the city which holds the record of longest serving (and still...) "democratically" elected communist party....So I understand it.

But now, the city of San-Fransisco voting for the above sewage plant to be named as "George W Bush Sewage Plant" is too much of "democracy". Instead of Bridges, Highways and other National Monuments this Elite leftist city thinks this is a befitting farewell gift for Bush. I am sure like me, many are not going to like it...You can make mockery or insult to an individual but doing that to the President of Your Own Country...I fail to understand it !!!

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Dedicating this song to mark the occasion of my first gas filling with $4.00 / Gallon from that Chevron Gas station on the way to my work! A RED LETTER DAY indeed!

By the way...I find this Feist Choreography Awesome....Or is it Camera Trick....Whatever...End Result is Impressive!

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Welcome...FIREFOX-3!

My first post using this new browser (just few hours old now). Was eagerly waiting for it since past few days and finally it is here. The look and feel is not significantly different....and I am still browsing and experimenting with few of the smart, cool and "safety" features. . Already experiences the built in spell checker (for web forms,blog post), tagging web sites, New Zoom Feature, Pause and Resume downloading.....I am liking it already (there was not even an iota of doubt though). With hindreds of other new or enhanced features, developed over last 3 years by 1000s of developers/users....it is going to set a new bar for any web browser (read IE).

Already 2.9 Million downloads have taken place since it was launched this noon....and within next 12 hrs (India, China and part of Europe are just waking up...) it certainly will well exceed the 5 Million Goal set by Mozilla while trying to set A Guinness World Record.

Already did my part in helping reach that...downloaded in both work and home PCs.....and now back to exploring more of the new features.....may be an Online Shopping and check out its Instant ID Favicon....!

Ominous Signs...

12th May 2008 : Deadliest Earhquake hits China

1246 miles SouthEast and 18 days later....
1st June 2008 : Magnitude 6.8 strong earthquake: Offshore Between Philipines and Taiwan

1000 miles Northeast and 13 days later...
14th June 2008 : Fatal Earthquake strikes Japan

How much time it will take that Massive Beast to Travel 5000 Miles further East....?

Let us hope The Huge Pacific in bewteen pacifies it......!!!

The Man With One Shoe

Webster and Oxford must be preparing to add this new word in the future editions...I think they will probbaly, and it will go like this.

Hypermiling: It is a technique of increasing vehicle's gas mileage by making "behavioral" changes in the way one drives, thus allowing to save on rising gas prices.

I came across this word for the first time this morning (thanks to NPR)..though a little research shows it is being discussed well among the enthusiasts for over a year or so.

As the gas price is soaring towards $5 per Gallon, there are many innovations, forums, groups being formed to tackle the crisis at the common users end and new words are being coined, tips and tricks being discussed. Hypermiling is one of them. And for this particular Hypermiler group from California (which NPR interviewed) they proudly showcased their mileage numbers..and analyzed that with what the reporter got in his trial run. It was amazingly more than the double.

Now there are so many tips and tricks...some of them are Risky (like following closely a 18wheeler on the highways to save on wind draft) , some can spoil husband-wife relation (like dont hunt on for getting best and the nearest to the mall entrance parking spot, or prefer parking face out, so that you save on by NOT reversing back and turning needlessly), some are ticket prone (like NOT doing a complete STOP on stop signs) but the one which I could not stop myself from laughing out loud was,

"Not wearing shoe on the accelerator foot to feel the pressure of the pedal more accurately"

But I guess I wont be the one who will be laughing after filling up my gas tank..... but it will be that "The Man with One Shoe" Hypermiler !