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On April 29th, Stephen Colbert vented venom, in an irony-filled talk, at the White House Correspondents Dinner. There are links to videos everywhere, including YouTube.com. Check it out, it is the most amazing thing in the world. Finally someone has the balls to tell the mainstream media that they are one bunch of pussies. More importantly, Comedy Central is celebrating this with the following tagline to the Colbert Show on their main page:

Who roasted George W. this weekend? The journalist with the most balls!

Atleast CC has the guts to celebrate this and not take it out on Stephen.

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I saw The Office last week, both series of it. It was a really funny, very well done comedy. Ricky Gervais is totally funny, really amazing. David Brent is quite the delusional boss; Gareth Keenan, Tim Canterbury, a very interesting group of people at that office. I feel a lot better about my office; atleast it is not the Slough branch of Wernham-Hogg.

I didnt know anything about the series itself, and only heard of The Office as being a very popular American tv show. Aswini added Series 1 to the netflix queue and I watched it without any sort of idea of what I was going to see. And man, was I amazed at it! I had to get the second series (the BBC calls them series; the American equivalent would be season) and the Christmas special.

The expressions made by David Brent are just really funny, like for instance, the way he points at the toy monkey (in episodes 1 of both series 1 and 2). His “motivational” speeches to his staff, the way he reinterprets events to show himself in a really good light, all just really funny. The music during the final titles is also nice.

I hope the American version is just as good.

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Aswini and I are currently in the business of providing business to the airline industry, with regular travels between the East and West Coast. As much as we would like to see the airline industry as a whole get out of bankruptcy, we would like to stay clear of bankruptcy ourselves. That means we are constantly looking for good deals for tickets.

Jason Kottke points to an article that describes one of the newest mashup sites that should open business soon, called FlySpy.com. I am really keen to see a website that provides the service that Jason himself describes. It would definitely help plan our vacation travels also.

This has got to be a story from The Onion, but it is not: Colon family in exploding toilet ordeal. And the colon in the human body does what?

During my random “websurfing”, I managed to do a google search for “Dave Winer.” The first link you see there is Dave Winer’s webpage, with the date in the title:

Now, if you go to Dave Winer’s web page directly, the date may or may not be the same:

What google shows me is the date on which it indexed Dave Winer’s webpage. This is an interesting way to find out when google indexes your webpage. Just add the date to your <title> tag on your site.

(I am sure this is old news to people who optimize for search engines and possibly others; I just discovered this today and found it fascinating.)

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