real world rules!

I was checking the scrapbook of some people on Orkut. My findings if you are a female, here is what you will see in your scrapbook

  1. hello XYZ this is abhijeet I belong to banglore but live in rajasthan I like to be in touch with new people
  2. hi i am from Foobar. can i be ur friend? see my profile and plz tell me ur reply
  3. hi XYZ wanna b frnds
  4. HELLO AM A SOFTWARE ENGR IN GURGAON TELL ME ABT U AND ADD ME
  5. poems
  6. ascii art
  7. copy-paste stuff (jokes/stupid poems/stupid puzzles) from emails
  8. hai fine? actually i saw ur cute still fine, ur studying where and see my profile about me and first make friendship then yeah fine ok cute send me a scrap.

If you are a male, don't expect anything to come into your Orkut scrapbook - thank god for small mercies.

And while I am in the rant mode - guys, here is a message from sanity department. Please take time to get to know the Real World. It is better to know girls in the Real World as opposed to trying to pick frnds in the Orkut forums. There are people I know who masquerade as girls on the forums - to serve as good material for jokes to pass time in the boring meetings.

The names have been changed to protect the fucking idiots. Am I the only one left in the world who is pedantic about spellings :-/

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one ring

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
One ring

The one ring is available cheap now

one ring, available cheap

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funny quotes

Original Jesus Official Random Quote (TM)

Why do people keep asking, "What would Jesus do?" How the hell should I know? I died for you, damnit! Haven't I done enough for you already? Pop gave you free will for a reason; make your own decisions!

— 'Original Jesus on the tribulations of being Himself.

This is taken from some blog

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"
"I don't know - I don't have any special powers like that."

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a principal of good user design

I am quite sure this guy is talking about emacs and vi war

Similarly, I have heard people argue against a tool that they ignore based on the fact that it can do too much. Too much functionality in a tools is a problem only if unneeded or unwanted functionality somehow makes it harder to use the needed and wanted parts. I have heard people argue about the amount of memory a particular tool requires, whereas the additional memory required might represent a cost equivalent to a few hours of work at most. A favorite idea is to label a particular tool with a name suggesting what it ought to be doing, and then arguing that it is doing more than that. For instance, a text editor that is capable of automatic indentation would be accused of being a ``kitchen-sink'' tool because after all it does much more than allowing the user to just edit text.

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Too may Steves in the house ?

< awormus> the funniest thing just happened
< awormus> we're having guests and my wife asked me what I'm going to wear
< awormus> so I said I was going to do the "Steve Jobs" thing
< awormus> she looked a bit puzzled and then said "You mean like ... "
           and started jumping around the room
< awormus> and I said "No, that's Steve Balmer"

Steve and Steve

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A witty saying proves nothing

And a witty error message does not look funny if it happens 5 times in 5 minutes.

and while I am in a ranting mood, what is the big idea in showing birthdays that have already elapsed

The above screenshots are from orkut - if you fail to recognize them that is

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