googleapps / notgoogleapps

I was trying to add @googleapps to my Google Reader by copying the url from the address bar of firefox and adding it as a subscription. I have done same for all the twitter feeds I have subscribed to till now and all have worked properly. This is a first. The twitter handle comes as notgoogleapps instead of googleapps. Check out the screenshots.

 

  

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I finally added the twitter feed by clicking on the RSS icon and copying the feed address.

The Biggest Disappearing Act

Three famous Indian magicians are drinking at a “permit room” in Bombay.

The first boasts: “During my last show in Mangalore, I made two women from the audience disappear. Even the Sri Rama Sena couldn’t guess how I had done it.”

The second magician says: “That’s nothing. At my open air show in New Delhi I made the Qutub Minar disappear. Even the National Security Guard couldn’t guess how I had done it!”

The third sighs: “You guys are so local. When I went to Paris and made the Eiffel Tower disappear for a full hour. Even Interpol couldn’t guess how it was done!”

Just then a familiar figure walks into the bar. The three magicians turn quiet, exchange furtive glances and begin to slip away.

The curious bartender exclaims: “Yaaradhu maraya, what happened? Who is that guy?”

One of the magicians whispers: “He is the Master before whom we are lowly amateurs. He has done the biggest disappearing trick of all time. His name is Byrraju Ramalinga Raju. He made $1.5 billion disappear from his company’s balancesheet in front of everyone’s eyes over seven years, and the entire world is still looking for it!”

Via churumuri

Free Fall

Few days ago, I was in the lift in Oberoi Mall headed to KFC. If you have seen the lifts in the malls, you would know that its a glass enclosed one so that you can look through and see the crowd in there. Its a nice little touch, i say. Not only it helps people in the lift to have an outside view, but also helps to remove the feeling of being trapped in enclosed spaces for some. Some phobia, i forgot the name. There is a sense of more room in the lift. What I like doing most in that lift is to press my head on to the glass and look down while the lift is descending. It gives me a feeling of falling freely. True that the lift is not even falling freely but my senses really kick up and I have that familiar tingle of free fall i felt in my dream i used to have as a kid. As a kid, I used to have this recurring dream of people sitting on green grass. Picnic, maybe. This picnic would always be held on top of a hill. One second I will be surveying the scene and the next I am running downhill towards the edge unable to stop myself. I jump off the cliff and feel that sensation of falling freely and then I would wake up. It may sound weird but I don't know whether what i felt was fear or not. I couldn't tell because my heart would not be beating hard. That sensation of free fall remained for few secs and then wore off rapidly. Or maybe it is Fear. Fear of Falling. I am not sure. Would love to check out how it feels while Bungee Jumping and Skydiving. Someday...