Ranjith’s Castle

Male Chauvinism is one of the interesting stuff to listen to between couples. Whenever the wife says that you should do this, the male will not do it. But will do it if he is not advised by the female counterpart.

I experienced a related behavior when I was on my way home last night. I was driving my bike and was hanging my dinner bag on my left side of the handle bar. Since the handle is of Butterfly type, the hand needs to be held on the handle without moving it to keep the bag against a fall. It was so inconvenient for me to drive a couple of KMs in that mode. But the usual way I drive is my hands put on the handle firmly.

When you are put on a check even for your normal behavior, it seems that your mind will tend to violate from the normal. I believe the female species in the world also will have the same kind of behavior when put on a Check.

cheers - Ranjith

I was analysing some of the happenings around me with respect to the people around me and the mistakes we do. I segregate this into four categories.

Mistake is not a mistake - Person close to you makes a mistake. It will not be felt and it does not seem to be a mistake. This will be forgiven even if it affects you directly.

Mistake goes unnoticed - Person not so close to you makes a mistake. If it does not affect you directly, then the mistake is left with the saying, “These are normal things that happen in life”.

Mistake gets noticed - Person not close to you makes a mistake and that affects you. You get a little angrier and say, “You should have avoided doing that.”

Mistake is a Mistake - When a person you hate makes a mistake which does not affect you. You say, “I know about this guy, he is capable of doing all mistakes.”

Mistake is a problem - Person you hate makes a mistake and it affects you. You know what you will say or do.

Mistakes gets suppressed when the person move towards your inner circle.

What do you say ?

Cheers - Ranjith

I moved from bloglines to Google reader about a year and half back. I really enjoy using this RSS Reader from Google due to the good usability and the additional features like shared on a post basis which is not present in bloglines at the time I switched.

For the past two days, I am seeing some strange problem in Google Reader. When one of the cookie by name reader_offline gets set to the browser, only the top band of the reader gets loaded. I am not even able to sign out of the service to re login to fix the issue. It is necessary that I need to remove that particular cookie myself to make it work once again.

This problem happens in the latest firefox 3.0. It works perfectly fine in Internet Explorer 7. I have removed the Better GReader plug-in too which I had previously.

If anyone has experienced similar problem, do let me know how to get rid of this.

Check out the attached image on how much it gets loaded with the cookie present in the browser.

Cheers - Ranjith

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I read about http://www.88888.co.in/ the site that insist you to cut off all your electricity usage for 8 minutes on 8/8/8 at 8 PM. I think we should take this movement seriously and do this. I hate things that are always associated with a day.

Father’s day / Mother’s day - Do you think of them only on those days. You think about them all days.

In the similar fashion, it will be good to extend this to all days. You can try the following:

• Try to sleep one day night without Air conditioners if you are a regular user of it.
• Try to switch off all your fans, keep your beds arranged near the open windows for one day.
• Stop keeping electric appliance like Television in the standby mode.

We can have a long growing like this.

Let us give the globe a longer life !!!

Cheers - Ranjith

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I was there to Ascenda’s Food Court today evening. The infrastructure is amazing with leading vendors like McDonalds, KFC, Subway, etc., The prices too were amazingly high. My mind went into a comparison between the price of US and India. A veg delight in US cost around US $1.5. The same cost around Rs 50/- here @ the subway @ Ascendas. The price as such compared was Rs 10/- to 15/- higher in US when compared in Indian money.

But the real comparison should be the Cost to Salary ratio. A normal salary in US in a software industry [any industry ] will be around $5000. But a normal guy in a Software industry earns around 20 to 30,000/- which calculates to less than $800. India is much costlier when compared to US on the food industry as the salary itself is 5 times less than US. On the same note the normal wage paid in any industry won’t have much difference when compared to India. In India, a normal person starting his career in a mechanical industry will get some where around 5 to 8K in Indian money.

Check out yourself…

Ranjith