As I was shopping online for airfares from Washington area to Delhi on Oct-2, I came across this incredible price of $569 return fare on British Airways (via Travelocity). Normally any price below a thousand bucks is considered a deal. So, as I was drooling over that price (the site said only 3 seats were left at that price), I considered if I needed a transit visa if I bought this itinerary that transited through London Heathrow.
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Tags: heathrow, london, transit visa, uk
It has been several years since the verb “to google” was added to the English dictionary. According to Wikipedia,
It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.
However, Gmail’s own spellchecker shows the word “googled” as a spelling error. Check out the following screenshots:
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Past one week has been kind of a roller coaster ride for me. It started with a travel plan and ended with no travel at all, with a number of lessons learned along the way. News of a family member’s death in India came on last Friday night. Within minutes I was online looking for air tickets to India.
There are two things about air ticket pricing that I fail to understand:
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Tags: air ticket, air travel, continental, itinerary, newark
While reading the e-paper edition of Greater Kashmir (a daily newspaper published from Srinagar, Kashmir) today, I saw an interesting front page advertizement from Srinagar Municipal Corporation. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Kashmir, Plastic Bags, Polythene, urdu
There is not a lot of detail out yet about who George Sodini, who killed 3 people in a Pittsburgh area Gym yesterday. But what is known is that he kept a blog, and already had his date of death written there.
Apparently, the killer’s blog site has crashed due to all the attention, but a number of sites have already duplicated the content. One good source was “Broke But Still Drinking“. Following is an excerpt from what is reported to be George Sodini’s blog:
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Tags: george sodini blog, george sodini diary, george sodini pittsburgh, george sodini website, la fitness shooting
This story is still unfolding. Looks like another armed maniac has struck and killed a number of people. According to this news item in New York Post, at least 4 people have been killed by a man in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania (outside Pittsburgh) in an LA Fitness Center. The man reportedly entered a busy gym carrying a gun and a gym bag and opened fire. According to the report, the gunman appears to have turned the gun on himself after committing the murders.
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Tags: kdka, la fitness bridgeville pa, la fitness shooting, pittsburgh tribune, wpxi
According to this People magazine story updated a few hours ago, Jaime Pressly (best known as Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (she won an Emmy for it) has got engaged to Simran Singh, an entertainment lawyer.
The name Simran Singh seems to be of Indian origin (Sikh or Hindu), but at this time there is not enough information about Mr. Singh’s background, except that he is an entertainment lawyer. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: engaged, entertainment, indian, jaimy pressly, simran singh
Charlie Foxtrot is not the name of a person (actually it may well be), but my “word of the day” today. Charlie Foxtrot, according to Wiktionary.com is a noun of military origin, meaning:
clusterfuck, as expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
[Usage] That project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who’s in charge over there?”
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Space Shuttle Endeavour landed successfully this morning at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:48 am Eastern. Watch out for the post-landing news conference set for approximately 1 pm Eastern. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television. There will be a crews news conference later in the day.
According to the information on NASA’s YouTube channel, this mission, STS-127 “was the 127th space shuttle mission, the 23rd flight for Endeavour and the 29th shuttle visit to the station”.
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Tags: Endeavour, landing, NASA, Space Shuttle
According to this report on abcnews.com, the government is apparently suspending the “cash for clunkers” program, started by the federal government to give incentives worth upto $4500 to people trading in their old, low fuel efficiency cars (also called “gas-guzzlers”) for new high fuel efficiency cars. This incentive has resulted in sales of thousands of new cars over last few days, giving a big boost to automobile sales in the country.
Tags: cars.gov, cash for clunkers, clunkers, old cars, suspended
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