Anil Sharma

A friend and photographer Sankar Sridhar is heading to Leh on 11 Aug 2010 to help with the flood relief work there. He knows the area and people well – he will be able to contribute to the relief work immensely if we all support him. The flood has left Leh in shambles and it’ll take a lot more individual effort and contribution to try and rehabilitate the people who have lost everything in this natural disaster.

One reason why the history of computers interests me is probably because I can relate to it more than I can to all the excesses of the past kings and their queens. The fact that I’m using a particular computer today makes it interesting to know about developments in the recent past leading to this model. It sometimes also helps me predict the future and take decisions.

On 16th July 2010, www.macrumors.com predicted that the new iMac and Mac Pro range would get USB 3.0 and Firewire 1600. These are powerful features, when the new range was launched today, both these features were missing from the new models.

Instead, the new iMac range got an upgraded graphics card, higher speed Ram and an advanced SDXC slot – none of which were predicted by any of the rumor mongers.

In the absence of any intelligent solution being proposed by anyone else, I humbly offer to solve the problem between Pakistan and India – once and for all.

The Indian media and the Indian government are obsessed with Pakistan – constantly highlighting how Pakistan is a problem for India. The Indian public in general doesn’t bother- unless the Pakistan cricket team defeats the Indian one – that’s all we care about…

We bought a prepaid cell phone number from their relationship center in Dwarka, New Delhi on 27th June 2010. Copies of my PAN card, AIrtel Landline phone bill as address proof, driving license as my ID proof, the required application form and money were submitted and verified by the agents. As promised, the cellphone activated on 29th June 2010 and was working. On 13th July, I received the following SMS from Airtel – “As per Govt of India directive, documents received for your Airtel Prepaid Mobile are incomplete and your services will be discontinued. Kindly contact the Airtel Relationship Center or the Dealer from where you purchased your Airtel Mobile immediately”. Immediately after that, the cellphone service died.