Google Birthday Doodle For You

I was very presently surprised when I found this doodle on my Google homepage this Sunday, which was my birthday.

Got a lot of queries about this one as I put the picture on Facebook and so wanted to clear all doubts and answer the queries.

1) No, it was not visible to everyone in the world, however much I would have loved if that was the case! This was a personalised logo, visible only to me, only on my birthday.

2) No, Google did not do this for me because I am an employee. We do have a few lucrative perks, this is not one of them. Any Google user can get this Doodle on their birthday, and here's how:

a) Go to your Google Profile 

b) Update your birthday and you're done!

If you go to the Google home page on your birthday (when signed into your Google account) you should also find the customised Google Doodle, with the little mouse over "Happy Birthday [firstname]"

Go ahead, get your own Google birthday doodle.

P.S: This was announced in this Google Blog Post.

S. M. Krishna's Speecho Portuguesa

A lot has been written and tweeted about our Minister for External Affairs, S. M. Krishna's reading of the Portugal Foreign Minister's speech instead of the Indian one at a recent United Nation's meeting. Most in fact mentioned he went on for 5 minutes before realising it was the wrong speech. Well, as in most cases there was some fire behind the smoke, however it wasn't as bad (5 minutes) as it was made out to be!

Here's a video of the gaffe, [source thestar.com and http://jacobjoseph.com]

Graphical Representation Of Valentine's Day

My opinions on Valentine's Day are similar to the rest of the world's about this blog - non-existent. Don't care a Hallmark's card or Muthalik's underwear about this day. Luckily my wife also shares my views and we have saved a lot of time, hassle and money on long lines at restaurants, ideas to surprise each other and gifts on this day. However, to quote Voltaire, to the public display mongering lovers I say " I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" [Source: Wikipedia] against the fundamentalists spewing inanities like "Okay to kiss, but not in public"

Anyway, this is not an 'Opinion' post but a simple graphical representation of this very expensive day. Here we go.

Source: www.coolmaterial.com