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This day’s for all ye privateers and sprogs to learn to speak like Old Davey Jone’s himself. He’s gone to his locker and so tell no tales. But all ye blue blistering barnacles say “Aye Aye Captain” and go fore now. Else ye be walking the plank on aft soon. That after ye face rope’s end. Go starboard now or if ye wish, you’ll feel the hempen halter.Ye bilge rat.. Yo-ho-ho, shiver me timbers! What you staring at? Go fore now.

Ever heard about the Six Degrees of Separation game? The basic premise is any Hollywood celebrity could be linked to Kevin Bacon within 6 steps. Let me try this one. Fairly simple, but just to establish the game - Steven Speilberg to Kevin Baco.This is done off hand with no info, so there might be a shorter connection.

Speilberg directed Tom Hanks in “Catch Me If you can”
Tom Hanks was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon.
So the number of steps is 2.

This can probably be done with any Hollywood celebrity, but Kevin Bacon is typical because of his fairly large number of ensemble movies.

The reason behind this post is that, with the amazing rise in the number of blogs/bloggers, it might just be possible to link two bloggers similarly. What say Quatrainman?

I found this link on the personal blog of Evan Williams, the co-founder and CEO of the now-defunct Pyra, the company behind Blogger. He “works on Blogger” at Google these days. Interestingly, he still has a Blogger Pro button (even know?) on his blog. Amusing!Anyways, if you try to keep up the act of being immersed in work all the time, you might want to see this. I once saw a email forward like this, but this is specifically for blogs and webpages. There’s even copy and paste code to incorporate into ur own blog/website. Well, you might see one of these on my blog soon.

The reason behind the term “obVSly” is blogging. And I did not know that so far. Thanks machi for linking to me. Will reciprocate that before the end of the day…..

Did some long intended updates to this blog. Some long overdue additions to the Blogroll. Added Lazy Geek, Ramz, Mahesh Shantaram, Yodhan, Kumaraguru, Ravi Kiran, Shobha, Ranjith, Dill and Raapi. I have been visiting these blogs for a long long time now and I have to give them their due. Thank you guys, for keeping me occupied for the major part of a hour each day.Have also linked to the Script News blog, the Bharateeya Blog Mela and the Unoffical Blogger Support Yahoogroup. I might have left out some more links that I should have entered. Will do the necessary updates as and when I realise what i have missed.

Update-kke Update-a?
Ooops, Now i know who I missed - Anand !!!

Being a McLaren Mercedes man, I have always hated Ferrari, just for the fact that the &@$%@^% Schumacher (the elder) drives for them. But this hate has not extended beyond Formula 1, at least not until now.Fiat’s decision to gift a Ferrari 360 Modena to Sachin Tendulkar and the subsequent controversy has changed the status quo. Throughout the fracas and the spate of PILs that have been added to the already flooded Indian courts (the latest being this), Fiat’s only response has been a statement offering to pay the import duty for the car. This was about three weeks ago. But since then the PIL’s have only doubled and the company has been strangely silent in this regard. If the Ferrari was “meant to felicitate and honor him for his achievement” (equaling Don Bradman’s 29 Test centuries), then the company is doing him more harm by not backing him aggressively. So much that Sachin (already the most introverted among the ranks of the Indian cricket team) is is staying away from the media in a manner that has raised eyebrows. Surely, someone could sit beside him when he meets the media and tell the media before hand that only questions pertaining to the camp and other cricketing issues will be entertained. Or worse, questions can be planted. I am sure Sachin knows quite a few people in media rank and these people could be coerced to ask only those questions. In fact, the BCCI has a media manager appointed - Amrit Mathur, who himself writes columns and hence is known in the fraternity himself. But strange are the ways of Indian cricket and strange they will be till professionals take over the management.

And it is now known that the Government had in fact changed laws last year, enabling such exemptions on a case-to-case basis. While the Sachin issue set precedence (the law was changed to facilitate this case), surely this will be done to other individuals as well on a deserving basis. And I am sure that no person is more deserving than Sachin in this aspect. Hence this issue might be nothing after all.

Coming back to Fiat and their original offer. Come out to the open guys and get back on that offer. Let the people and the media know you are still behind Sachin. It looks as if he is a Lone Ranger now. However after all the mud racking, it is best that Fiat owns up and pays the money on Sachin’s behalf to ensure that Sachin is vilified no more and can concentrate on cricketing issues.

QOTD:“There was no championship, but equalling Sir Don Bradman’s record of 29 centuries is [a] landmark achievement. The spirit of the exemption notification is that the prize should reflect a landmark achievement. The duty exemption may therefore be granted.” - Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, elaborating on the reasons behind the exemption.

One of the femme-fatales (btw, this is just to humor her and yet to keep it anonymous, lol) in my circle of acquaintances sent me this link. I have not seen the whole of this page, but the little I have seen, has got me hooked. All ye connoisseurs of carnatic music, see and hear this. Couldn’t find any of Swathi Thirunal’s compositions which I have been hooked on ever since I heard the sound track from the eponymous 1987 movie. However I did find a set labeled Golden hits of M K Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. Should be a nice hear anyways. By the way, you might need to get a login for the site. It is free and takes no time.