If your car manufacturer announces a recall and you think that can't happen to your car then you might be mistaken. Never mind you took care of all the necessary maintenance; never mind other similar model year cars look dirty compared to yours. A recall means there is a considerable chance that the part affected may fail and needs to be fixed soon ( Read more... )

To what degree can you trust the information you receive from someone? There are some things you know because you have experience with it. For example, you know how an Ipod functions because you have used it yourself. But to experience everything first hand requires time, opportunity and interest. So, when it comes to matters that you don't know ( Read more... )

In Thomas friedman's new book Hot, flat and crowded there is a chapter in which he talks about how China/India are fast becoming like America in terms of consumption. Many people in China and India now want to buy the same Ipod, eat the same burger, travel to far off places, just as Americans have been doing all these years. (You can't really blame ( Read more... )

The way to defend a failure is to bring an even bigger failure into the picture and say this is nothing in comparison. That seems to be the policy of the members in the current ODI team. Dhoni brought up 2007 world cup defeat when we lost T20 world cup. Now, that we have lost another series which we really should have won, Sachin talks again about ( Read more... )