Is Vista a piece of unalloyed garbage?

This is why I’m pretty sure my next PC. Vista is a bloatware monstrosity.

Ancient Hindu healing draws beauty tourists - CNN.com

Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu healing method, has seen a resurgence as India vies for a share of the lucrative Asian medical-tourism market by offering traditional massages and beauty treatments to wealthy tourists.

Well, really Ayurveda is not what they are popularizing. I have visited a classical Ayurveda School and spoken to an Australian there who was taking a 6 month course. A real Ayurvedic Physician has to study for at least four years. So, the Australian said there is no way that classical Ayurveda can work outside of India as many of the remedies have to come from the fresh plants and be freshly prepared according to the Ayurvedic principles. Personally though, I think Ayurveda works, just that it can’t be totally exported.

Another thing to worry about regarding your data security. Well I guess the answer is get a home scanner / copier and make sure your own hard disk is clean if you ever have to get rid of it.

Experts warn of identity theft risk - CNN.com

• Experts: Copiers could be used to steal personal data
• Copiers with disk drives store scanned information
• Identity thieves could potentially access stored data
• Encryption can prevent data from getting into the wrong hands

ICC Cricket World Cup 2007: Canada

Canada is one of the 16 teams that made the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007!

They play Kenya on the 14th of March

Was that rose? No, a cop! says the Times of India

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Gujarat police try to smell sweet

Police in India’s western state of Gujarat are to try out new fragrant, light-weight uniforms to see if they make them less sweaty and smelly.

So true!

Alan Hess Weblog: You’re a Photographer if….

And the most are in India if I recall what I hear in the news. So much poverty and also the richest people.

The World’s Billionaires - Forbes.com

Generally there just isn’t much to take pictures of here. Once in a while there are interesting clouds in the winter.

Infrared photo taken on my D70 of our house with interesting clouds. Ours is the one with the white car in front.

Click here for a larger version.

From Kotke.org

The Face2Face Project takes similar photographs of Palestinians and Israelis and displays them together in pairs. “After a week [in Israel and Palestine], we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families. It’s obvious, but they don’t see that. We must put them face to face. They will realize.” (via 3qd)

John Nack on Adobe: Beautiful patterns in nature & beyond

Check out the flight404 link and especially the iceberg photos.