Comments on: Penis envy

By: sydaus

sydaus — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:43:09 +0000

Buidling could become a Terrorist target? Come on. As if the terrorists dont already have a million other worthy targets like for example the Indian parliament. Besides, with the smog of Delhi they’ll probably have trouble finding it. If u ask me, more planes will probably crash into it accidently.

By: TTG

TTG — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:25:46 +0000

Shame, Sepia run of good articles finally comes to and end with this piece of tripe. Why is it that every single fucking thing in India has to go bck to poverty and illiteracy. If it bothers you so much, plese go back there, start a school, and do some teaching. Failing that STFU. Building a tall building means that you will need to find workers to build it – guess what there are people who need jobs in India. Once the building is complete, you will need to staff it. Guess what – people need jobs in India. When you see that the current state of infrastructure can’t support the building you will do one of 2 things – stop making the building – thus causing much embarrasment to yourself, and then attempting to imporve the infrastructure – or, you will simultaneously improve the infratructure to complement this building. This has already been replicated with the Delhi Metro. In order to support the Metro, a lot of other things needed to be added, so they were, including the privatisation and stabilisation of Delhi’s Electricty Supply. What is the point of teaching everybody to read and write, and to make sure they have enough money if they don’t have a goal after that? Once upon a time, mobile phones were only for rich people. But they are more of a necessity in India than elsewhere, and our mobile system beats the crap out of America’s any frikkin’ day of the week. As for the poverty and illiteracy, it has been decreasing steadily every year for the past 50 years, it’s just not doing it in Internet time. But for a place that has been around for 5000 years, the change is very fast. And yes – Delhi’s Airport sucks, but it has been put up for sale along with the Bombay airport, both of which are already in the process of renewal. For more info about the Metro, and the Airport, visit my site.

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:17:15 +0000

Dubai is planning a tower in the same height range.

By: antrix

antrix — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:54:11 +0000

Okay, that kinda makes sense why things are the way they are over here. Of course, I wouldn’t want spelling fixes, et. al. showing up! But things like the Guardian Unlimited thing you did here.. that’s okay, no?

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:06:23 +0000

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be open about the mistakes you make.

The write-for-8-hours-then-publish model of Slate, and the write-once, short paragraph format of Boing Boing, are very different from the way I write.

I sometimes tweak a single post 20 times. You don't want to see all that markup, nor would it even be legible-- you want to see the final version. If the error is acknowledged in the comments and fixed in the main post, that's what counts-- not an IRS-like audit trail.

I designed one iteration of Microsoft Word's revision marking features, so I'm intimately familiar with this area. And an obsessive reviser is the very worst case for markup. At best you'd want to see a diff of the very first draft and the final, if that.

By: antrix

antrix — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:38:16 +0000

Abhi,

What was changed in this post?

Not this one.. a general SM thing. Hence the OT remark

Manish, Ideally yes, the feedreader should do it. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be open about the mistakes you make. Slate, Boingboing, everyone else acknowledge changes upfront. It’s just the right thing to do, IMHO.

In the end, your blog – your call!

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:47:18 +0000

or “chai tea latte”??

By: Abhi

Abhi — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:17:36 +0000

Thanks ladka, I was wondering about that when I cited it. I’ll correct it.

By: ladka

ladka — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:12:28 +0000

it’s not from ‘The Guardian Unlimited’; wrong usage. It’s from ‘The Guardian’. The Unlimited is just random, the newspaper’s the Guardian. It is the same site as guardian.co.uk. Just thought I’d point this out, as it’s akin to saying ‘The Times of India Indiatimes’ reports…

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:04:35 +0000

when you make changes to a post, could you please strike-out the original and append the new stuff?

Ideally, your feedreader should do the doc compare for you.