It's still fresh in my mind. On how even small things would bring an immense sense of joy to me in my childhood days. Non event things like watching a favourite television show, wearing new dresses, eating my favourite dishes or going out for that matter was really interesting and fulfilling.

I was wrongly thinking that as an adult, I have over grown on all those silly feelings till last week. SriSivan completed one year on planet earth this november 21st. To us SriSivan is a remainder of all the good things in life. My wife insisted that we send his photo for Sun tv's Vazhalthalam Vanga (?) program so that we can see his photo on television. Eagerly I uploaded SriSivan's photo on Sun tv's website and waited for the day to arrive. Finally the day arrived were everybody at home was sitting in the front of the idiot's box and waiting in the bated breath only to find that Sun tv did not show SriSivan's photo. I was totally depressed but at the same time I am happy that child in me alive and kicking. He still finds pleasure in small things.

Finally, I have made up my mind to enjoy even the smallest things that life has to offer from hereafter. (It's sad that SriSivan fell ill and we did not celebrate his birthday on November 21st.)

In recent times I sometimes read comic strips in newspaper first, then digest the main news. I think this is a very healthy habit as I start my day with upbeat note. (Whatever! Meanwhile the other news are going to make you sick any way!)

My favourite comic strip are:

• Calvin and Hobbes
• Beetle Bailey
• Garfield
• Hagar the horrible
• Dibert

I haven't listed them in any particular order of merit and good part is they are available in most of the newspapers getting published in Bangalore. Finally there are bunch of science cartoons that I enjoy in New Scientist, Scientific American and American Scientist.

Here is a sample of S.Harris cartoon. You thought that Einstein is a tough nut to crack ?

The Occam's Razor principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. In other words given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler.One should try to apply this prinicple in everyday life for a better living.

Here is an example of application of the principle.

When I watch those tearjerkers in television, like Kolangal serial, I used to theorize why these characters in the plot are so dumb and inane? To arrive at satisfactory answer, i used to speculate lot of different ideas like , the director incompetent, is it the mass behaviour that we like tearjerkers etc. Finally with the help from Occam's razor I have reached the conclusion.

I watch Kolangal because, I am dumb and inane!

Today is children's day. Let their smile be there for eternity.

Apropos to the Gp's reply to my previous post.

It's raises an interesting paradox. Is the loss of information is an information by itself? I think it's not. Black signifies there is no colour information and it doesn't make black a colour by itself.

I remember a paradox in physics that I read pretty long time ago, the one relating to Einsteins relativity theory. Consider a brid flying at the speed of light. It's flying over a horizontal plane which has verticle wall over it. Now the shadow of bird is also travelling at the speed of light. Now when the bird crosses the wall the shodow of the bird travels at a very higher speed over the wall. If the speed of the bird is speed of the light then the speed of shadow is much greater than speed of light when it crosses the wall. Does this violate Einsteins relativity ?

Einstein need not worry about this because the shadow is absence of light, therefore absence of information. Which means no information can faster than light. The black colour of electron also falls under this category.

I really liked Gp's way of thinking out of the box and coming out with a trump! There are still four of my questions begging for an answer.

This is with respect to the post in Dilbert's blog. It's about writer's block. The irony is that even I was under the impression that my intellectual work is blocked it. Henceforth I will try to write whatever that comes to mind!

No more writer's block syndrome. How are you feeling :-) or :-(

Now for my asynchronous thought process!

1. What is colour of electron?
2. How does the sunlight smell?
3. How come Indian cricket is reaching great height?
4. Why I always write with fountain pen?
5. Why is that I always get stuck in traffic?
6. Why people watch those crappy mega serials?

Schools play an important role in development of India. Especially the ones in rural villages. I found childrens really intrested in attending schools and there is a mid-day meal scheme that helps the poor children.

Compare this with schools in cities like Bangalore. People are shelling out sum greater than 50K rupees to get their kids admitted in pre-kinder garden.

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this one. How about you ?
Flash News : Google and E-bay are merged!

If you are a programmer, then these two articles by Edsger W. Dijkstra are a must read for you.

1.The Humble Programmer
2.Go To Considered Harmful

"Global warming: does it affect our region?" - New York City radio station

Were is New York by the way!