American Economy

Ever wondered why America's economy fell off the cliff??

READ ON....

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (Made in Japan) for 6 am.

While his coffeepot (Made in China) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (Made in Hong Kong).

He put on a dress shirt (Made in Sri Lanka), designer jeans (Made in Singapore) and tennis shoes (Made in Korea).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (Made in India) he sat down with his calculator (Made in Mexico) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (Made in Taiwan) to the radio (Made in India) he got in his car (Made in Germany) filled it with GAS (From Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying American job.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (Made in Malaysia), John decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals (Made in Brazil), poured himself a glass of wine (Made in France) and turned on his TV (Made in Indonesia), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in America.

AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT....Made in Kenya.

Accident, by chance.

The latest news is that I fell off my bike yet again. This makes it 8th time in life. As usual the wounds are good enough to make me sleep on one side on the bed. Total left side of the body got rashes. But nothing to worry.

But you know what, this accident made me feel light at heart. I am bored of life that is quite routine all the time. Those wounds just reminded me how careless we used to be in our primes. Not that I am enjoying the burning sensation physically, but actually enjoying it from inside. I am sure many of you will feel that I am not making any sense, but stop for a minute to remember all those things we cherish.

• Meeting Vishnu for the first time in life; actually happened because of wounds due to my first accident off a bike. He chanced to brush off my wounds in a queue to submit the application forms for BCA entrance. I hated him at that point of time and was shocked to see him as a classmate when I joined Sardar Patel College. And now, he is a friend of mine for life.
  
  
• Vishnu and I fell under the Elephantia bridge returning from Sangeet off his LML Vespa.
  
  
• The day I rushed to "Satya" Tutions with box of sweets on the occasion of my sister's engagement. Ram driving my kinetic 'straight handled'.(Biggest of my list till date)
  
  
• Ram and me falling off my Suzuki Fiero on the Tank Bund and going with all bloody clothes to see off mommy to Australia.
  
  
• My bandages on both hands after an accident on the day of our 1st family lunch.(They resembled a boxer's inner gloves)

Life is too small and try enjoying it every bit. If you have a positive attitude, every thing in life turns out to be positive.

Google Talk, Labs Edition

I have just checked out Google Talk, Labs edition which is basically in beta stage. This is a cool tool from Google, but with lot many drawbacks. The much awaited invisible mode is available along with smileys, integration to google calenders and orkut.



But the drawbacks are really major things like lack of file transfer feature and a separate window for every individual chat. This makes this tool unusable in an Office environment as an internal communication tool. All the chats appear as tabs in the main window itself rather than a new window. If you have a habit of closing the main window, to save space on your task bar, the icon in the system tray blinks whenever a new chat message arrives. This might not catch your attention always and there is a chance of losing the whole point of communication itself. Unfortunately, I close the main window. So, this Labs Edition is unusable for me.

To download the Google Talk, Labs Edition, visit here.

For detailed differences between the regular Gtalk and Labs edition, visit here.