1. Rules
Rules. There are lots of them in this world. Everybody you meet says rules are there to be, at the very least, bent, if not broken. But very few actually do, at least the right ones - the mindless unconscious rules - rules that owe their existence to evolution or some such unconscious and foresight-less force.
Perhaps it takes wisdom, perhaps it leads tranquility...
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Date Created: 20th June 2007
Date Modified: 20th June 2007
Number of Comments: 1
2. New Look
I am experimenting with various new looks. Do let me know what you think of the current look. 
Since this whole exercise is merely about changing the CSS, I can revert back to any previous look by replacing HTML tag! In fact, all the previous looks are available as alternate CSS's and can be displayed if your browser supports it. On Firefox /view/ -> /Page Style/ will show you available styles.
Update: I've added a menu to change the stylesheet (instantaneously).
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Date Created: 29th March 2007
Date Modified: 31st March 2007
Number of Comments: 1
3. Saturn in the Night Sky
Warning: This post contains pictures of very large dimensions. The collective size of all the picures in this post is 864 Kb. Please proceed only if such big pictures dont deter you 
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Tonight I spotted Saturn in the night sky and photographed it. Here is the picture showing saturn:
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Date Created: 6th February 2007
Date Modified: 7th February 2007
Number of Comments: 5
4. Managers
Reuters reports - "Royal Nepal Airlines has apologized to Peru after mistakenly using a photo of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal. The Nepalese airline also fired an employee in the rank of a manager who was held responsible."
I can picture how the whole thing might have gone. The manager would have called an apprentice and asked him to come up with a new photograph for the poster.
A: Sir, here is a beautiful picture, we can make something like this!.
M: Hmm, yes it is beautiful, go use it and make a poster!
A: But, but Sir, this was taken in Peru!
M: Is that a new model of camera?
The rest, as they say, would have been history.
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Date Created: 12th January 2007
Date Modified: 12th January 2007
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5. Problems and Puzzles
Here is a collection of a few puzzles or problems that were posed to me and I had the joy of solving. I got them from a different variety of sources. The only common denominator of all these problems is that I enjoyed solving them.
I plan to update this Article as and when I find problems that are interesting.
You can leave the solution or the approach to solve as a comment to this article.
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Date Created: 28th April 2006
Date Modified: 7th August 2006
Number of Comments: 3
6. The "Greedy" Planet
"The Greedy Planet", nice title that, grabs attention. Is this going to be a rant bemoaning how the world has come to become a greedy place? No, on the contrary, this post considers the idea the world is inherently a greedy place. I am not talking about morality here, instead I am talking about the world "running" a "greedy algorithm". Sounds geekish? Bear with me for a couple of passages and I will elucidate what I mean.
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Date Created: 1st August 2006
Date Modified: 1st August 2006
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7. Irony
Ad of NDTV Pollution watch:
A rusted old vehicle exhaust bellows and coughs out obnoxious fumes..
"If something is in the Air, does it have to be this?"..
more obnoixous gases..
"NDTV Pollution Watch"
"Brought to you by ONGC, Working towards a brighter tommorrow"..
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Date Created: 31st July 2006
Date Modified: 31st July 2006
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8. Problems and Puzzles :: Part 2
This post is not about more problems and puzzles, but about a place where you can share them!
<< Trumpets blaring 
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I have recently installed a SMF (simple machines forum) based forum to share problems and puzzles.
Please visit: www.rajeshgoli.com/pnp/.
I hope to be able to post some of the good ones shared over there on my homepage to reach a wider audience.
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Date Created: 16th May 2006
Date Modified: 16th May 2006
Number of Comments: 1
9. 'Challenging careers': Management lessons
Here are a couple of management lessons or rather 'tricks that managers use to get stuff done' I learnt recently.
For the purpose of the article, let us create two entities: BOS and SOB. BOS is either a person or an entity that represents the management, in short BOS is the boss. SOB is person that works under BOS.
Now, as it happens all the time, BOS wants some amount of crappy work done, and wants SOB to do it. SOB, on the other hand, thinks he is better than that. Now lets call the crappy work CRP and the alternative or the 'good work' that SOB wants to do PRC. Let us also say ASSES is some guy who is working on PRC (good work) right now, and he'll do BOS's bidding.
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Date Created: 21st February 2006
Date Modified: 21st February 2006
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10. A story:: Cheat death
I have seen that there have been a few stories floating around in biking forum that I frequent, XBHP [www.xbhp.com]. So I thought I'll try my hand at one, hence this story. A note before you start: My knowledge on a lot of subjects touched upon in this story is very limited, so it might contain factual errors, bear in mind that this is just an imaginary story.
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Date Created: 4th December 2005
Date Modified: 5th December 2005
Number of Comments: 3
