Was just writing a check today and noted the date. It is 9/11.

When the planes crashed Sneha was not quite 4 years old, and Kavya wasn't even in the plan of things. A month later we moved into our new house. A few weeks earlier we had gone to Bombay to attend my cousin Preeti's wedding, and I was then quite impressed with the security at Mangalore and Bombay airports.

I found this puzzle at the ModernMechanix.com as a spam comment to one of the posts. It was interesting to solve. You have to get the house colours in order first, for which hints number 1, 4, 8, 9, and 14 are more than enough.

The following facts are provided:

1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4. No two owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Additionally, the following hints are provided:

1. The British lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house (it also means they are next door to each other).
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question to be solved is, who keeps the fish?

My friend just sent me this e-mail.

Indian court uses blog reference to solve TVS-Bajaj patent issue

In order to understand the complex technologies under consideration, the judges curiously chose to rely heavily on a blog entry by J. Sai Deepak, a final year LLB student from the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law in IIT Kharagpur. The blog, “Spicy IP India”, deals with issues of intellectual property law.

Okay so all of you with open blogs justice will be done depending on what you write from now on:-)

Note this is the blog post in question: Guest Post: Bajaj vs TVS Patent Dispute

I sometimes check the Maploco map on the front page of my LJ. Just to see the number of views, mostly there are 35 views sometimes 65. I checked today the views were the usual 51. But one was from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from Kailua Kona, HI, United States, and another from Córdoba, Argentina.

So, premkudva, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in currency notes), 25% peculiar, 35% interesting, 18% normal and 20% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy tv). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 34

(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 72% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

I am surprised it is not more.

What a bunch of morons!

I am of course not saying who. Note that my tag doesn't say Indian politics. Any inference you make is your own and not mine. Also I deny that I have called anyone a moron. I blame the media for that!

My cousin Sharad called me just now. And asked do you have a LJ blog, when I said yes, he continues "premkudva.livejournal.com, yes I say thinking that maybe his son of nephews must have pointed it to him. But no he says "your blog has appeared in our newspaper, the Mumbai Mirror." Really I say, regarding what post I ask, and he goes on to say "Twinkle khanna arrested for obscenity, released..."

Sharad and me are laughing out loudly by now, and he says "goes to show that you have nothing better to do like me!" He has promised to send the cutting across. It has appeared in their Blogger Park section, and my blog is right on top of two others.

I had mentioned last time the weird way some young people write. You know like this "ThIs iS NoT ThE WaY I WrItE!" And was mentioning that it should be quite difficult to write that way. Until calvinscorner pointed out Spidertrain and Leet that is used to make those odd sentences.