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Welcome to Manas

Please join me in welcoming to the club of people who have lots of time and
nothing to do and hence think that spending time writing blogs is a pretty
neat idea, a friend of mine - Manas Alekar
(http://manasalekar.blogspot.com).

Maybe he will blog regularly from now on and go on to become a prominent
member of the club. Or maybe he will just stop like many other clever people
who realise the truth do.

What truth?

That there is no blog! Then you will see that it is not your blog that people
should be talking to ... but you.

Urgghh ... that was a bad one.

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