Welcome back

It has been a long time in between a move to start my self employed career and the nitty gritty that ensures i am delayed to no end. Meanwhile there have been some very good introspective articles i managed to go through.

The best of which is this one published in NYT, which debates on the topic of economists, the rise and fall of obscure mathematics, how the economist would put up a view he or she thought would be acceptable to the larger audience as against presenting what he or any sane minded person would have guessed was actually the scenario.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?pagewanted=all

Blog Glut

I was away on an assignment and did not have time to type in a few lines of babble. It still is surprising how easily you can become a member of a large group of individuals who take to typing away on a terminal, publishing for a larger audience without proof reading or for that matter, even without a fair idea about journalism. Maybe that is why you get so many blogs left half baked, which could easily include mine, on the net waiting to rot. It is the seeming ease of entry which makes for so many drop outs, maybe even the lack of rigour in entry, like a dozen papers to pass and a thesis to prepare. Funny how access to a certain halo results in more people turing away from it than higher participation. It would be interesting to find out the percentages of drop outs in an activity or club where there is the said rigour against that which requires almost nothing to get in. It is also worth finding out who are these individuals forming this large mass suddenly found squatting in cyberspace, here are some numbers for the curious ones. Like everything else about statistics, do not ask where the numbers came from or whether the weighted mean has been used where data was missing or whatever.

Global demographics

Segmentation

Gender.... Aha... i see the whites of your eyes now!!!!

This is the link where i came across this, http://www.masternewmedia.org/blog_trends_and_statistics_the_state_of/

The figures are as of 2008 and given the exponential growth we may be majorly off mark but still the stats have a story.

Interesting piece of junk mail

FROM: SULE MOHAMED

AUDITING / ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)

BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.

My dear (my oh my aren't we getting a bit too comfortable with each other here?) I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION; I discovered an abandant sum of $11.5M(Eleven Million Five Hundred thousand United states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heritier. I cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds $11.5M(Eleven Million Five Hundred thousand United states Dollars) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.It may interest you to note that I have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual business endeavour by

furnishing me with the following;

1. Your Full Names and Address.

2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.

These requirements will enable me file a letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. I shall be compensating you with $4.6 Million Dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest $6.9Million shall be for me. Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for me for investment purposes in your country.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent email.Please reply in this my alternative email address only (sule_mohamed02@voila.fr <http://us.mc596.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sule_mohamed016@yahoo.com> ) for confidential reasons.

Regards,

Your;s faithfully,

Sule Mohamed

Indisputable Facts about Chuck Norris

A crazy page on frikipedia, sent to me by Anil, this is the article in full

Indisputable Facts about Chuck Norris

• Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
• He doesn't need to read books, he just gives this stare till they give him the information he need
• If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till." After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" heroundhouse kicks you in the face.
• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris
• There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull.
• Chuck Norris doesn't believe in Germany.
• Chuck Norris once shot an enemy plane down, by pointing his finger at it and yelling "Bang!"
• Chuck Norris invented the entire color spectrum. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.
• What goes through the minds of all Chuck' victims before they die? His shoe.
• Chuck Norris played Russian roulette with a full loaded gun and won.
• Chuck Norris does not think he has had sex with a woman if she survives.

http://www.frikipedia.co.uk/index.php/Chuck_Norris , yes their version of our Rajni

Swine Flu - 4

It seems to have quietened down a bit, what say? Sure the madness and panic with people keeping an active track of those succumbing to this suddenly popular flu, seems to have gone into auto mode. I wonder what the guys planning to sell the masks at a premium, end up doing with a house full of N95s.

Well they have one stoic customer, my wary head on the bookshelf.

Jokes apart, it still is a wonder how we begin profiteering in everything that happens around us. Apart from the mask fiasco, there are actual sms' where some companies producing drugs to fight against such disease are being recommended for purchase by the stock market brokers.

On second thoughts, we actually deserve this.

Millenium City I

There was and still is a lot of tension in the faces of news readers as they declare the lack of rainfall and the plight of the farmers who wholly depend on it to grow their crops. But in Gurgaon even the lightest of showers can put you in a tight spot. This is after a slight shower in Sector 50.

One good aspect of this being that old vehicles would find it hard to survive in this terrain, thus being replaced by more efficient or at the least new vehicles.

Express ways to goof up..

The Indian Express carried this story " Tamilflu tablets stolen from airport" which kicked my socks off. The now renowned drug "Tamiflu" has an Indian origin?? The last person with a serious case of Tamilflu was Bal Thakeray in the 60's which was revised to include people from other parts of the country by him and his own. Careful with the "l" guys.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tamilflu-tablets-stolen-from-airport/502385/