Refugees

 

I found this thought piece somewhere on the Internet.

 

Winters Back

 

It has been a rain socked Bangalore for the past couple of weeks. No complains there. But now it has also become increasingly cold, chilling cold. Temperature outside went below 18 degrees, and its even lower inside. Time to bring out the room heaters.

Further south, its raining elephants in Chennai. Its flooded everywhere, and they have brought out boats into the streets.

 

 

It is a pity that even though India is known for its monsoons and huge torrential rains, the country still gets submerged in even the slightest downpour.

While the death toll from the rains is still climbing (60 at the moment), cricket-crazy-dumbos are complaining that a test match between India & SA had to be cancelled due to the rain.

The Google-Doodle reporters

 

Google is now releasing more of their doodles, more frequently now. And this has opened up a few job openings, at traditional news agencies ! I couldn't help noticing that every time a new doodle comes out, all of the nations dailies put aside a separate article about it.

Here's some from a few days back. Google released a doodle on Hedy Lamarr's birthday.

And it can be seen that every paper in the world is covering it.

The individual articles are examples of worst news reporting. They are nothing more than content from the subject's Wikipedia article.

The NDTV article was written by a Aditya, and it seems all this person does is cover Google doodles.

Pathetic.

The Best made Animation movie is getting a Sequel !

 

Skype Adds new emoticons & Skype - Outlook Integration

 

Skype is getting more fun to use. They still have their boring old user interface in blue, but they are adding more new emoticons just for the fun of it. First they added the characters of the Pixar movie 'Inside Out' when the movie came out.

But now they have gone ahead and added a tonne of Indian themed emoticons along with Halloween charachters.

There's the dancing punjabi  bangara, 80's style disco dancer, and even chicken tandoori and chai !  They don't convey any emotions, just for fun.

Oh, did you know that skype can integrate to your outlook connection ? Just add your official email address to your skype profile, and skype will start showing you all the profiles of your official contacts.

So you will start seeing green squares next to your outlook contacts, showing their availability on skype !