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I refuse to call Comics as Graphic Novels. It's just trying to be snooty. Thus said, I'm thinking of adding a few more comics to my collection... Absolute Sandman Vol I Absolute Sandman Vol II Absolute Sandman Vol III Absolute Kingdom Come Bone Sigh! another huge credit card bill... And I'm not the first one to think that calling comics as graphics novels is snooty... Some in the comics community have objected to the term "graphic novel" on the grounds that it is unnecessary, or that its usage has been corrupted bycommercial interests. Writer Alan Moore believes: “ It's a marketing term. I mean, it was one that I never had any sympathy with. The term 'comic' does just as well for me. ... The problem is that 'graphic novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics — because 'graphic novels' were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever wor...

Just this morning , for no particular reason, I typed in www.orissa.in and this is what I see... For a regular internet user, there is nothing strange here. Another squatter, who got in early in the game and is now raking in the cash, by putting up a parking page with ads on one of the many millions of URL's (Ain't Google Adsense wonderful). Since in the overall scheme of things Orissa figures pretty much at the bottom of the heap, I wonder if it is only Orissa or are the other domains also being squatted on... www.uttarpradesh.in Yup. So A quick lookup on who, what, where and we get the registrant as (drumroll...) the Government of India. Registrant Name:Government of India Registrant Organization:RESERVED NAME Registrant Street1:ERNET India, 6 CGO Complex, Lodi Road Registrant Street2:New Delhi Registrant City:New Delhi Registrant Postal Code:110003 Registrant Country:IN Registrant Phone:+91.1124361895 Registrant FAX:+91.1124362924 Registrant Email: So far so good. Wisely ...

Cisco globalisation officer: telepresence is the future. Why commute to compute? Is the question he is asking. Solve telepresence and you save time, money and even save the environment. -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com

Sunil Mittal feels he needs to create a Facebook account, because his children are using Facebook to keep in touch with their friends. Who is going to tell him about when it will become uncool to be there. Like in orkut or Friendster before it. Social networks are built on exclusivity. You take away the exclusivity and it becomes quite not the place to hang out. Sunil Mittal: more transistors than grains of rice are produced in the world. He doesn't know that Iraqi's speak Arabic. :) He mentioned in his speech, that using voice translation an Iraqi speaking Iraqi can communicate with a Chinese speaking Chinese... :o and he plans to launch mobile remittance services. Good idea. -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com

Mukesh Ambani says, the world is NOT Flat. It's not black and white, but shades of grey. So True. -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com

Over the past few years, I have been building up a collection of Comic Strips. I am through with Calvin and Hobbes and Farside by Gary Larson I am now collecting Peanuts from this new Complete Peanuts series. I'm already have the first sixteen years of Peanuts. right from 1950 onwards. I got 1963-66 , 1959-62 , 1955-58 , 1950-54 so far... these are twin volume boxed sets and there are single volumes also available for e.g. 1967-68 and 1969-70 I expect it will take me another 10 years to finish with this. Another collection that I recently started on is Complete Dennis the Menace I got the first 8 years so far... 1955-58 and 1951-54 . Again these are double volume boxed sets. Single volumes are also available like 1957-58 . Apart from these the above that I'm already collecting I have some more on the anvil. Dick Tracy , Terry and the Pirates and Popeye Last week, I also picked up The Completely Mad Don Martin . Its really quite good and MAD. :)

For an area (NCR) in this country which is the back office Capital of the world. Where is customer service headed these days.? This morning I was trying to resolve three very old cases getting some service in this country. Two of these companies are supposed to be stars of the Indian Industry and the third is a dealer of Bharat Petroleoum who someone has forgotten to tell about the new India. Read on for some short stories. Reliance Money indulges in petty larceny. Having had my fill of another great customer service organisation called HDFC Bank, I thought Reliance may be a breath of fresh air (and not to mention cheaper). Sometime late last year, Reliance Money came out with this offer for share holders (I own some Adlabs and RelComm) where you got 20% off on the trading fees. This offer normally allows you to trade to the tune of Rs. 5 lakhs for Rs. 500 as fees. so 20% off that means Rs. 375. So I fill up the application (with 21 signatures no less) and I'm assured by the smil...