Random Bits

Don't have anything coherent to write. So incoherence rules the roost for now...

YouTube completed 5 years yesterday. Pretty amazing isn't it that it was built on such a simple concept and became so BIG. Now there are 100s of sites which have copied the concept but Google has bought and brought YouTube to an unsurmountable place. A big thumbs up to the founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Isn't it amazing that they sold it to Google for $1.65 Billion. I wish them and am sure it would last many more years to come! For more on YouTube checkout this link

So Winter Olympics started last week. And it all started on a tragic note of a Georgian Luge athlete dying while practicing . Nodar Kumaritashvili lost control while practicing for his Luge event and was thrown off the track onto a pole causing his death. And this video of his death was shown to millions of viewers by NBC more than once on the day of the incident. Now even though it came with a warning, was it necessary to show such a disturbing video on prime-time television? I often feel appalled when i see that this ratings game makes reporters and channels lose any semblance of decency!

But coming from a country where sports in general is frowned upon as a career option and lack of any achievements in any Olympics, Winter Olympics looks like a fascinating event. Almost all events/games are so dangerous yet so elegant. And as a person who has tried Skiing i can understand how tough those sports are physically. Wonderful spectacle.

More blasts in India. This time it was in Pune. I know its so insensitive of me that i put it as just another event. But i do it with a reason. It has become like just another event, hasn't it. It happens so often as if its a common day to day event. When will our politicians stop putting on an act to the Indian people and start taking tough actions. I cant see such blasts going on without severe repercussions here in US. Why are we so passive? Why cant we show it, to these terrorists the costs of continuing on with such act and to nations supporting such terrorists what they can expect from us. But no, even such gruesome acts are used to garner votes and win electorates. Honestly i am pretty much sick of it.

Anyways i have lost the interest to continue with this entry because i am pretty sure if i write anymore, it would be some incoherent rant about Indian politicians and any such thing would be a little hypocritical from me since i am sitting in a land far away not even able to vote for the last 2 years.

So...

Peace!