Mes Secrets Inconnus

Knew all about the green houses and global warming but saw a program recently about global dimming. For those that don't know what it is, the carbon pollutants from burning the likes of gas and petrol emits small carbon particles, these then rise and sit in the upper atmosphere. These particles are actually smaller then the normal particles that would sit and attract water droplets which in turn would forms clouds. The result is that there are far more smaller water droplets forming the clouds, these in turn reflect more of the suns light back into space hence the term global dimming.

Global dimming has in effect been countering global warming but recent changes in emmission laws around the world has meant that global dimming is now receding due to the use of catalytic converters in cars and more filtering of carbon emmissions.
Net result is that all the theories in global warming have not taken global dimming into account and the experts reckon that by 2040 there could be dramatic changes (rises) in the earths average temperature resulting in the Greenland ice caps starting to melt, once this starts there's no going back and things will just continue to spiral out of control.
I suppose if you look hard enough you can find all sorts of doom and gloom stories but there's not a lot the average person can really do but what sort of future is there for the children?
There's no moral to the story but what have I done as an individual? Well I now only use my car when I really need it, walk most places, try to work from home as far as possible rather then drive in and changed most of the bulbs in the house.

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
Is it just a really weird bug???

Most people think it’s a Windows Notepad easter egg (I thought so myself, to be honest), but in fact, it isn’t. It’s just a lousy Notepad bug. Let me explain…
I was myself curious about the cause of this phenomenon, and I found out that this text is not the only one to cause problems. There are other strings that cause Notepad to screw up, including “this app can break”, which was another version of the bug that generated a lot of buzz. I’ve personally tested a series of strings that have the same effect, including “this api can break”, “this cat can split”, “jane can not dance”, “text wit hou tcaps” and even “abcd efg hij klmno” and “xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx”. What do these phrases have in common? They are made up by four words made up by four, three, three and five letters, all lowercase. So, by induction, all “4-3-3-5″ strings should work.
Now, let’s get to why this thing happens. First of all, it seems that Notepad writes the files just fine, it just can’t read them again correctly. As a proof, try opening your saved file, the one that Notepad screws up, with another text editor. I used EditPlus and it turned out to be OK. So why the Notepad thing then? Well, it’s a Windows thing. Notepad uses a Windows function that allows it to figure out whether a text file is Unicode or not. And that function, my friends, is the one that screws it up. Because the way it checks can easily be described as “guessing”. And it guesses that the file is actually Unicode, and not Ascii, as it is supposed to be.
Now, two different but similar explanations can be given.
The first is that, after the ASCII-to-hex conversion of the string, Notepad rearranges the hex codes not according to ASCII standards, but to Unicode, and that messes it up. Here’s the example:
Take “bush hid the facts”. The hex codes (they can be seen with any hex editor you want to download) for the string are:
62 75 73 68 20 68 69 64 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 63 74 73
Arrange the codes to make up Unicode characters and you get:
7562 6873 6820 6964 7420 6568 6620 6163 7473
You’ll notice that every code is hyperlinked. If you click on each one of them, you’ll see that each one represents a Chinese (I think) “letter”.
So this whole thing’s cause is the coincidence that the 18 ASCII characters happen to represent 9 Unicode characters. And, of course, Windows’ inability to determine the right encoding of the file.
The second explanation is slightly different, but the basics are the same: the difference between ASCII and Unicode. It’s just a matter of Notepad defaults. You see, when you save the file, in the “Encoding” field, the default drop-down is set to ANSI. So, by default, Notepad saves as ANSI. But if you do a File -> Open, the default Encoding is set to Unicode. That’s exactly what happens when you double click a saved file. Notepad knows the path, but not the Encoding. So it uses the default Unicode encoding, which spits the Chinese characters as explained above.
And that’s about it. No easter eggs, no conspiracies, no Bush interventions. Just plain old Microsoft

Anyone who is a devout fan of Sex and the City already knows what Iam referring to, although the term itself is pretty self-explanatory. The key to an SSB, your Secret Single Behavior, is that it is something you do indulgently and exclusively when alone because the presence of another person, especially a girl and extra-especially a girlfriend, ruins it because it makes you self-conscious about your utterly bizarre behavior.

Here are some common examples of SSBs:
1.Dancing by yourself in your underwear when there's no music playing
2.Singing loudly to the radio with the window down in spite of your truly wretched singing voice (extra coolness points if the crazy screaming mofo on the median stops to look at you).
3.Eating your entire dinner over the sink so you don't have to do any dishes (BRILLIANCE)
4.Taking a late shower, and smelling yourself all through the day..
5.Locking the dogs out of the room & mastrubating for 45 mins continuously:-) & reaching office 20 mins late. Heheheheh i have had people tell me this boosts thier morale.
6.Browsing porn in office.
7.Walking around the house wearing nothing but Superman/Superwoman underpants.
8.Working on the laptop while in the restroom.
c'mon readers tell me whats yours ??

The selectors have given Sehwag too many chances.Drop Sehwag, I would be gutted if they pick him for the series against West Indies and Sri Lanka. IMO, ideally I'd want to see Ganguly opening again with Tendulkar like the old times from the mid-1990s; Sachin and Saurav used to be the most feared pair in ODI Cricket before Sehwag even made his debut. And another thing is that they need to look at Dinesh Karthik as a specialist batter. Just wonder if they put half the effort to improve his batting skills then they have worked on Pathan, Karthik seems to have the confidence and the ability to go a long way

And come on, somebody have a word with Sachin Tendulkar. Wtf has happened to him? Watching him bat last night, it felt like he didn't want to be there, he didn't show the stomach to fight and his injury is no excuse. Once a great, most feared batsmen has now become India's most unreliable player. I just cant't believe it. Just wonder what it is that's holding him back, and I feel he'll come to his natural best if he opens with Ganguly in ODIs. He just doesn't get the freedom and is forced to played too responsibly in partnership with Sehwag. That's not him, Tendulkar has never given a livin' f*ck about playing second fiddle, he used to own every partnership which is not the case anymore.
It's never been about ability with India, it has always been about self-belief and desire. This last test match was about who wanted to win the most. South Africa have grabbed this test from India's throat because they showed the desire and they deserved to win, fair and square.

I am a happy feet now. The day's ended really well today.Just when i was in training a mail popped in my inbox - "10 yrs multiple entry B1/B2 visa granted". I ran out of the training to collect my passport

I guess it would not have been so dramatic, the only masala weilding stuff was that i had been refused visa twice before. oh!!! that was for F1, student visa. But i guess its all leveled now - 2 refusals & 2 grants :-)