<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:56:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Wth</category><category>Gen</category><category>offbeat</category><category>pol</category><category>ap</category><category>community</category><category>congress</category><category>dinosaur</category><category>iraq</category><category>mafia</category><category>manmohan</category><category>mob</category><category>ny</category><category>politics</category><category>school</category><category>science</category><category>shoe</category><category>teacher</category><category>tharoor</category><category>wtf</category><category>wtf world general</category><title>Random Thoughts</title><description></description><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-1739333120525553606</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-30T07:10:30.503-07:00</atom:updated><title>Randomness</title><atom:summary type="text">Oxford English Dictionary defines&amp;nbsp; &quot;Random&quot; as :&amp;nbsp; Having no definite aim or purpose; not sent or guided in a particular direction; made, done, occurring, etc., without method or conscious choice; haphazard.&amp;nbsp; And
Wikipedia defines Randomness as Randomness is a concept of non-order or non-coherence in a sequence of symbols or steps, such that there is no intelligible pattern or </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/06/randomness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-8623564245594928462</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-20T02:20:09.565-07:00</atom:updated><title>Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs</title><atom:summary type="text">“The main problem in Egypt is follow-up,” said Sabir Abdel Aziz Galal, chief of the infectious disease department at the Ministry of Agriculture. “A decision is taken, there is follow-up for a period of time, but after that, they get busy with something else and forget about it. This is the case with everything.”


Speaking broadly, there are two systems for receiving services in Egypt: The </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/belatedly-egypt-spots-flaws-in-wiping.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-6510633237001906434</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-18T05:11:42.418-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">congress</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dinosaur</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">manmohan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tharoor</category><title>Family Dinosaur, sub type Congress.</title><atom:summary type="text">The Dinosaur family and the congress Dr. Holtz, who cautioned that the findings needed to be independently confirmed, noted that there had been a gap in the family tree between earlier, more primitive Tyrannosaurs that had relatively short legs and long arms and the later giants with opposite features. “This clarifies the sequence,” he said. 

.....................................................</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/family-dinosaur-sub-type-congress.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-3968038884266164538</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-16T08:00:03.480-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">community</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ny</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teacher</category><title>Benching &amp; Virtual Pooling @ schools.</title><atom:summary type="text">Across the city, principals are facing budgets that are 5 percent slimmer, a steep cut for a school system where coffers swelled until the current economic downturn. As a result, principals, who now wield extraordinary authority over budgets, are learning to say “No,” and hoping the changes they make will not result in academic ruin.


With cash in short supply but loud mandates from above to </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/benching-virtual-pooling-schools.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-252937559977566490</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-14T22:43:24.417-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wtf world general</category><title>Ambumani Ramdoss in Newyork?</title><atom:summary type="text">It seems that the residents of&amp;nbsp; the Big Apple are in for a Ramadoss kind of an experience. This time it is another doctor, the Health Commissioner of Newyork Thomas Farley is proposing to seek a ban on smoking in public places-parks and beaches. This comes on top of an earlier ban on smoking in in restaurants. 
However, unlike the diktat from the former health minister in our case, there </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/ambumani-ramdoss-in-newyork.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-2538588122424168034</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-13T06:31:38.563-07:00</atom:updated><title>first they screw us, then they eat our food. who is pleased?</title><atom:summary type="text">http://news.rediff.com/special/2009/sep/11/lashkar-funded-mumbai-attacks-with-fake-currency.htm

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/12/pakistani-forces-fire-rockets-at-india-bsf-retaliates.htm

http://news.rediff.com/special/2009/sep/11/hopes-of-thaw-as-isi-chief-attends-indian-envoys-iftar.htm</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-they-screw-us-then-they-eat-our.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-7391371681825004763</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-13T03:27:03.306-07:00</atom:updated><title>Hamare Paanch Aapke Do-Rich CM to Poor people</title><atom:summary type="text">That is from Yedyurappa CM of Karnataka after a trip to China.&amp;nbsp; This despite&amp;nbsp; the fact that he himself has&amp;nbsp; 5 children and 8 grandchildren.&amp;nbsp; One more case of our leaders preaching what they are unable to practice. While this is so, the union healt ministerGhulam Nabi Azad&amp;nbsp;has come up with a unique suggestion- probably after he saw all the publicly distributed birth </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/hamare-paanch-aapke-do-rich-cm-to-poor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-5833369190627501977</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-13T01:42:37.061-07:00</atom:updated><title>Telecom Suicides</title><atom:summary type="text">I sincerely hope that Telecoms in this country do not come to this, with the influx of new players in the sector.Telecom suicides</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/telecom-suicides.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-9130760468084206020</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-10T19:45:07.158-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ap</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pol</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wth</category><title>Jagan Mohan Reddy Chief Minister of Andhrpradesh?</title><atom:summary type="text">If you have an opinion and favour Jagan as CM, please visit my blog and vote.&amp;nbsp; Make your opinion count.</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/jagan-mohan-reddy-chief-minister-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-2368406609596479673</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-10T19:21:11.408-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">offbeat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wtf</category><title>Wrong address? costly mistake</title><atom:summary type="text">A person&amp;nbsp; in Denver spent about $ 30,000 before he realised that he was renovating somebody else&#39;s home. According to a report on kdvr.com 
DENVER - He bought his first home, spent $30,000 fixing it up, and now, six months later, Jonathon Kyte has learned the home doesn&#39;t belong to him.


According to the City and County of Denver, Jonathon owns the dump, next door. He found out about the </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/wrong-address-costly-mistake.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-1159072169465108243</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-10T08:48:00.347-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mafia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mob</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">offbeat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wth</category><title>Pass this test and join the Gang/Mafia</title><atom:summary type="text">Lawsuits in these times have started to impact even yakuza&amp;nbsp;gangs . Enough to conduct written tests for new recruits in order to reduce the action on gang bosses for the doings of people down the totem pole.&amp;nbsp; This is an article in The Daily Manichi News:&amp;nbsp; Just take a look at the Final Answer - seems they are no different from us.

Yakuza group forcing members to take &#39;gangster exam&#39;</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/pass-this-test-and-join-gangmafia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-6314805403146771029</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-10T07:42:08.320-07:00</atom:updated><title>Ever wonder why American finance system failed?</title><atom:summary type="text">May be you could say due to Myopia or plain old asinine behaviour.&amp;nbsp; You just need to go through the link below to understand.
Ostensibly, someone at Bank Am wanted and armless man to give his thumbprint.Armless man to give Thumbprint</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/ever-wonder-why-american-finance-system.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-6491963724049222209</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-09T05:25:13.556-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iraq</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pol</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shoe</category><title>Today&#39;s Heroes-One minute wonders</title><atom:summary type="text">Do you wish to become an Hero?

Here is a simple solution and not too hard to be implemented, all that you need are the following qualifications:

1)&amp;nbsp; Good at hurling shoes

2) Conversant with bomb making and booby trapping of trains and flights.

Atleast that is what it seems to be or the impression that i get from seeing the heroes welcome accorded to the Al Megrahi the convicted in the </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/todays-heroes-one-minute-wonders.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-4028968830645849401</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-07T23:35:09.351-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wth</category><title>Honest(l)y in a Jam</title><atom:summary type="text">I am sure many would have gone through traffic snarls, wherever, in the world.&amp;nbsp; The change would only be in the magnitude of the difficulty faced in extricating from the clutter.
However, nobody would have experience traffic jams in Hyderabad.&amp;nbsp; Yeah! i know Bangalore is supposed to take the cake in this too. However, we are No2 down south and we Try Harder.
Where Hyderabad scores is the</atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/honesty-in-jam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-7124847544422064064</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-06T05:44:32.438-07:00</atom:updated><title>Progressive?</title><atom:summary type="text">This guy seems be stuck in the neanderthal age.&amp;nbsp; Look at his sign off and his comment. Thought i would share with you all.

In deveoped and progressive country Andra Pardes, it;s anachronistic that Tiwari, a bruman, is gov



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In deveoped and progressive country Andra Pardes, it;s anachronistic that Tiwari, a brahmin, is the governor and </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/progressive.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-7815630365397003133</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-05T02:10:00.364-07:00</atom:updated><title>Thank You Teacher!</title><atom:summary type="text">GuruBrahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Sakshaath Parabrahma, Tasmaath Sri Guruvei Namah!&amp;nbsp; Most of us would have heard this many a time during our journey from childhood to adulthood and thereafter we would have echoed the same.
I would like to remember the teachers who have had an impact on me since childhood.&amp;nbsp; I started of at Sarada Bala Vihar and i&amp;nbsp; remember most of my teachers from 3rd </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/thank-you-teacher.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-530075203072326968</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-04T04:58:19.024-07:00</atom:updated><title>YSR Shock! Yes it is.</title><atom:summary type="text">I was going through the blog of Amit Varma, YSR shockhttp://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/ysr-shock/. YSR cannot be compared to MGR. The route adopted by both to achieve the fame that they have done is vastly different.  YSR did not have the charm to garner votes, a la an NTR or an MGR.  He waited for a very long period of time to become the CM of the state.  Having been elected so, he lost no </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/ysr-shock-yes-it-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143696681676913055.post-7459322099440321676</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-03T22:52:47.480-07:00</atom:updated><title>Forgotten Fallen</title><atom:summary type="text">Have been glued to the TV since yesterday morning waiting with trepidation and hope for news on the safe return of Dr YSR. It was not to be. A dynamic and visionary leader of Andhra pradesh, hope to millions had passed from amongst us.All the channels were full of thoughts and commentary from other leaders and reactions from the common man.Amidst all this, none had taken the time to spare a </atom:summary><link>http://srinivasandra-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/forgotten-fallen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (srinivasandra)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>