A rant on the media and its many shortcomings.
Entries Tagged as 'PITA'
The One PITA
November 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Daily life, PITA, python
Well, it is thanksgiving break and I was so far having a decent semester, straight As in all exams (a perfect score in economics – not that I should be proud of it or anythin) and then terror strikes. Or well whatever the college version of a cataclysm is. I managed to f’kin ruin (misunderstand) [...]
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Deccan Chronicle Ads
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments · PITA
Deccan chronicle is a leading newspaper in Southern India and its online version is marketed by a company – Pressmart. Deccan Chronicle’s blog carried the following ads this morning: The Indian media….
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News Bloopers
August 9th, 2008 · No Comments · PITA
I’ve caught incompetence on the part of news agencies yet again. In this article on the opening ceremony of the olympics by Xinhuanet News: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/09/content_9069055.htm. The article says that the ceremony was watched was 40 billion people. Dear Mr. Reporter, the population of this planet is just over 6.8 billion. So much for accuracy. 40 [...]
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IQ < 0
June 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · PITA
This is seriously stupid. Have a look at what something called ELCOT does to test the durability of their laptop
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SAT 2: Recovering from the “Shriphani Conjecture”
October 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Daily life, PITA, college prep.
The Shriphani Conjecture states that: “If something is judged by you to be impossible, then it is sure to happen to you.” Well here goes. Two days ago I chanced to look at my Toefl iBT profile on ets’ website and clicked on the “View Scores” button and wonders of wonders, 117 on 120. So [...]
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jammed dirname.py on top of mount.py
May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · PITA, Storage, python
Trouble’s struck !!. Ubuntu’s libATA has stopped functioning and my partitions are now seen as IDE subsystems once again. Hence we have a conflict between udev rules and device names leading to automount getting <censored>. I seriously can’t be bothered by this. Considering that I try to behave as much as a sysadmin as possible, [...]
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