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Something about my paycheck was sitting at the edge of my awareness. I took a closer look and found that the line I sign my name on is actually a line of small text. Click the picture above for a close-up.

My XO Laptop is almost here. Watch this space for a technical writeup and demo video. —– Original Message —– From: OLPC Customer Care To: banth@….. Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:30 AM Subject: Your XO Laptop Dear Donor, We wrote you several days ago to let you know that your donation is in our shipping queue for the shipment of your XO laptop. We are awaiting the arrival of new inventory so that we may ship your laptop to you. We will send you another update in the next few days when we have specific shipping information. We appreciate your generosity and patience. Sincerely, OLPC Donor Services

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” — Dr. Suess

“My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.” — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, quoted in Time Magazine , January 14, 2008

RealMagick Article: The Seven Shaman Principles by Serge Kahill King Thought for the Day: Hallucination means “your dream doesn’t match my dream.”

2008 handsome priests calendar – Calendario Romano Not just for kids any more – now you too can have your own hunky priest… calendar. Piero Pazzi’s Calendario Romano features handsome Roman priests and beautiful Vatican churches. The calendar helps raise funds for London HIV charity The Food Chain .

No hope for help… | Oddly Enough | Reuters “I have a message for every homeowner worried about rising mortgage payments: The best you can do for your family is to call 1-800-995-HOPE,” … Bush said after a White House meeting with administration officials and lenders on a new plan to help. Unfortunately he was a couple digits off, it is actually 1-888-995-HOPE(4673) . That gets you through to the Homeownership Preservation Foundation , a nonprofit group which offers free housing counseling for homeowners. The article above gave me a giggle. The “subprime mortgage” problem is being beaten to death on the news, and I have no intention of beating it to death here. If you can’t afford a house, look for a cheaper one. When determining whether you can afford a house, you don’t count future increases in income or expected appreciation of the property into the equation. And if you’re a bank buying mortgage notes from mortgage brokers, ple...

Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group and Tata Motors, today unveiled the Tata ‘NANO’ – The People’s Car from Tata Motors that India and the world have been looking forward to. A development, which signifies a first for the global automobile industry, the People’s Car brings the comfort and safety of a car within the reach of thousands of families. The People’s Car will be launched in India later in 2008. “I observed families riding on two-wheelers – the father driving the scooter, his young kid standing in front of him, his wife seated behind him holding a little baby. It led me to wonder whether one could conceive of a safe, affordable, all-weather form of transport for such a family. Tata Motors’ engineers and designers gave their all for about four years to realise this goal. Today, we indeed have a People’s Car, which is affordable and yet built to meet safety requirements and emission norms, to be fuel efficient ...

Thought for the day: “Actually, it seems to me the life of a middle aged male is a race between hair falling out of its own accord and getting ripped out over stress and irritation. Women have it harder: ”they have to rip it all out.” — John Walker, founder of Autodesk in The Hacker’s Diet, Electronic Edition, 1993.