Review of Four weddings and a funeral at Atlantic

I think it was Love Actually which first prompted me to go for all the Richard Curtis movies and I was not disappointed. Four weddings and a funeral was one of them. Since then, I think it is the second movie of Curtis which I have watched more than once, other being Love Actually. A nice review of movie at Atlantic appeared here.

Atlantic on EVM in India

Atlantic has an article on use of electronic voting machine in Indian election. It reports operational difficulties and past cases of reported technical problems. I was amused to read this:

During last year's regional assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, for instance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) filed a formal complaint after an Indian National Congress party elder allegedly told tribal voters that the EVMs would electrocute them if they voted for non-Congress candidates. The BJP won the election, but the Election Commission's FAQ now reassures prospective voters that there is no chance of electrocution from "short-circuitry or [any] other reason."

Full article can be read here.

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ASM has collected links to some videos which may be of interest to metallurgists at this link.

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Mathematical expression explanations using visualization here.

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Gmail..where to find material for autobiography

Apparently Gmail was launched 10 years back on 31st March, 2014. This article explains how Gmail was born. It is a very good read. 

My first mail id was at yahoo. I still maintain a yahoo account and it has improved a lot lately. I remember when I first made an email account, it was at a cyber cafe. I mentioned it to my uncle and he did not believe it because he thought it cost lots of money. 

I first heard of gmail in 2005 summers. That was also the time when I first discovered orkut.There were competitions where gmail invites was a prize. Aakash, then at kgp, sent me an invite and then I had 5 free invites I think. 

Then gmail introduced chat in the same window. It was time before any cloid storage and app like pocket. USBs were costly. We used to save our assignments and reports on gmail. I used chat feature of gmail to send web links to unsuspecting friends so that I can later search and find these at one place. Writing this, i feel old.