An Indian in Germany

Strange End To A Plesant Stay!!!

Our stay here had been rather plesant (In Germany!). The exit has been rather hectic. This certainly was not the way I thought I would blog this event. I had hoped to write about all the wonderful people I had (why has the we suddenly changed to a me!!!) please let me rephrase... we had met here in Germany.
Spent the day running around and finishing off errands, drawing money and doing a long list of things. And finally in the evening when it was all over, we visited the Brauhaus and went to an Italian resturant and had nice food.
Sarath was supposed to bring his luggage to my room so that we could finish the packaging and catch a little sleep. Now the promise of that sleep is non-existant!...
Sarath forgot his keys in the room with the jacket and passport inside it! Now he is trying to contact some one who can open it for him (12:00 in the night)... well dont worry!! we got this guy!
Guess thats how life is... a little unfair at times!!!
Hope I get some sleep!! got to catch a cab at 4:45 AM...
Luv,
Bhaskar

Urban Legends



Received any mails about one of the following?

1) Aids infected syringes in Cinema Halls!
2) Save my baby with photo and all the crap about an agreement with AOL?
3) Yahoo is going to make its messenger a paid service! (especially as an offline message on Yahoo messenger)
4) Forward this mail to 10 people you will get THIS and 100 people and you will get THAT!

Felt it was your responsibility(benificial) to forward this to your friends? Did so?

DON'T FORWARD SUCH MAILS.
FIRST VERIFY THE TRUTH!


This mail explains how to identify such mischevious (if not dangerous mails). There is also a note on virus laden email attachments.

So Please read on....

I am tired of listening to these 'URBAN LEGENDS'. A pure waste of time and money(time is money... or alteast bandwidth is)

Time we create an Urban Legend to counter these 'Urban Legends'.

Urban Legends definition: American Heritage Dictionary.

An apocryphal story involving incidents of the recent past, often including elements of humor and horror, that spreads quickly and is popularly believed to be true.

Usually some cleaver/stupid guy decides to have fun and then creates this kind of Hoax. In most cases (say 99%) these are hoax. A simple search in Google with a few keywords will reveal instantaneously that it is an urban legend.

There is a whole world of urban legends out there ranging from Aligators in NY sewage to Aids Syringes in Bombay/Paris Cinema.

Do they cause any harm?

1) Not usually..
2) Aids syringe things can give ideas to perverts.
3) Can lead to embarassing situation (Happened to me)

How to recognise?

1) Friend of Friend is the usual line in them.
2) You will recognise one if you subject it to suspicious scrutiny.
3) Pick up a few keywords say for example 'missing girl penny brown' and add 'urban legend' also.

In most cases the third trick will do the magic.

If you like funny urban legends, go to http://urbanlegends.about.com

or

http://www.urganlegends.com

and enjoy a chuckle.

A more menacing class of urban legends are Virus Hoax.
Dont believe what ever comes in. Verify it with a good site like www.cert.org

One final issue. Be careful while opening attachments. If it is an unsolicited mail better dont open the attachment at all. See the cert guide on virus attachments. Read about the KRESV test!

http://www.cert.org/features/green/email-attachments.html

If you think this mail gave you some information, and is harmless, please forward this to those people who have at some point or other, innocently forwareded hoax emails to you.


ps:- I remember a doctor on TV mention that the AIDS
virus cannot survive long outside the body of the
host. So dont take the first example seriously.