Aint from around here, are ya boy

So I dropped the truck off at Longshop Auto. A friend of mine from work said that they are good Dodge mechanics. He is a local so locals a...

Getting back into it

Lifted Sunday. Wasn't too bad. The leg press seems pretty easy. It is fun to rack lots of weight on it being such a small person. I ...

WHY CARETAKER GOVERNMENT IS A VITAL ISSUE The caretaker system of governments has been effective to hold a free and fair election in the ri...

AROUND BANGLADESH * A solution to trafic problems creates more chaos . * Some beautiful pictures of the Sundarbans (mangrove forest) taken ...

POET TRIDIB DASTIDAR - RIP It's too late for you to arrive now, love It's too late for you to come now, life It's too late, it&#...

Back from T-giving

Well, anything worth doing is worth doing to excess, right? Well it has been 1 entire week with NO excercise. No riding , no lifting weigh...

GOOD NEWS FOR BANGLADESH ECONOMY The central Bank says in an annual report that the GDP growth is likely to be 5.75% in 2004-2005, only a b...

Have a very Froogle Friday

Well, it's Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when every patriotic American must either watch football or go shopping. If neither...

I'm wishing

We release a lot of stuff here at Google, but this one I'm particularly excited about. Every year near the holidays my Mom starts asking...

Good day today

Good day today. First had to do my non-paying job of Daddy fixer of things. Tried to fix my son's helicpoter that they broke the string...

KILLING OF AID WORKERS AND DOUBLE STANDARD I am shocked and outraged too like Natasha hearing the news of the execution of Margaret Hassan ...

First day of stength piece of cake

Got to the gym today. Did lower body strength phase. Below is the plan for the first week. Which is one Heavy day and one light day. The ...

Darn Blogspot

typed up a whole entry, then submit it and my connection was lost for a sec, and the whole entry is lost. I was in the habit of saving every...

RIANNA UPDATE II Hello there. I am almost 2 months old now. I can recognize the difference in people's faces. Ma is not sure whether I c...

2004 WEBLOG AWARDS At last Wizbang brings this year's Weblog Awards . Should be fun to follow! Don't forget to nominate your best c...

TOILET REFLECTS CIVILIZATION The word "Toilet" may be a taboo in discussion etiquette but they matter in a big way. The 4th World ...

BLOG NOTES * Jeanne of " Body and Soul " is outraged over the desecration of mosque in Falluja by the American soldiers. She says...

ON MUSLIM SOLIDARITY Ugur of the Turkish Torque brings up this interesting question : If the Muslim countries cannot agree on something as ...

WHAT IS LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL IN WAR I have lost the interest to track the news of the warfare in Falluja. It is the repeat of same old gueri...

UNFRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR It seems the haters like Mr. Kamath are growing in number in the neighborhood. See the venoms in the same re-rolling t...

VACATION BLUES I had a great vacation. I have not been fortunate like many of my colleagues to go to a holiday spot during the 6-days-long h...

Froze my ass off today

Forecast said partly cloudy in the 50s was overcast in the 40s. Totally underdressed -SS jersey,LS jersey, powershield jacket -light tights ...

First ride of the endurance phase

Well, I did 2 3/4 hours on the road bike today. Longest ride since my last race in October. Not too cold, but a little chill. I've be...

Blogging around the world

Since more than half of all Blogger users are outside the U.S., I recently took a virtual tour of blogs around the world from Armenia to Zam...

AFTER ARAFAT The burial of Arafat was a widely televised event. Many people of Bangladesh were glued to Television to watch his last rites a...

EID HOLIDAYS We are in the middle of six days long Eid holidays. The moon was not cited in Bangladesh yesterday and that means we are having...

Concentration

It's hard to focus on training when the races are so far away. When a race is coming up, it is easier for me to keep my eye on the priz...

THE INVASION OF CHINESE CONSUMER GOODS -II I wrote about it last year . Cheap Chinese products have flooded the Bangladeshi market resulting...

FREE SALAHUDDIN SHOAIB CHOUDHURY I received an appeal from Dr. Richard L. Benkin (Who wrote Dear Bangladesh ) to demand release of a Bangla...

Google's index nearly doubles.

You probably never notice the large number that appears in tiny type at the bottom of the Google home page, but I do. It's a measure of ...

The feeling is mutual

When people ask me about what it's like to work at Google, I can only say it's a lot of fun when Larry asks, "How can you help ...

Give up?

Okay, so WWWDOT - GOOGLE = DOTCOM, and M and E are interchangeable, and there are no leading zeros. Can you solve this equation? Turns out p...

when it raints it pours

Well. I am still sick, this is some head cold that is just lingering. All of us have it, Ansel, Lucas, and Karen and me. Lucas also got a ...

CONFUSED I am confused by a couple of news. One says its "famine" another says its " totally baseless and a figment of imagi...

AN APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF ABUL KASHEM FARUK, A BANGLADESHI KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ We earnestly appeal to all Iraqi groups for the release of ...

BANGLADESH ELECTION The next election of Bangladesh is still two years ahead. But amidst strong opposition movement the ruling BNP has alrea...

JAMAAT CLEARS ITS POSITION ON AHMADIYA ISSUE Its a bit of surprise by Jammat after keeping mum for long years regarding the issue of oppress...

Hypertrophy

Well, I'm suprised that I was not too sore from starting my hypetrophy. I've been totally soar many times when just starting lifting...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to in...

PONDERING ON BUSH RE-ELECTION Many Bangladeshis (and many in other Muslim countries) would be disheartened to see Bush winning the second te...

Morris Strength training

As you know from this BLOG, I am a complete zealot of the Dave Morris training program as outlined in his book, Performance Cycling. Right ...

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