What We were!! What We are??

Well check these out and you will know what i mean:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7544360

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/science/27math.html

The solar calendar version Gregorian Calendar (aka Christian calendar which is different from Islamic calendar) had a discrepancy. The Christians bishops were aware of the problem but had no solution. A Muslim scholar Omar Khayyam measured the length of the year too accurately in 10th Century! His length - 365.242198581 days - was an accuracy which exceeds the very gradual slowing of the rotation of the earth. It has since been discovered that the number changes in the 6th decimal place over a person's lifetime. For comparison of Khayyam's accuracy, the length of one year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, and today it is 365.242190. However he was not only an astronomer but also a well-known mathematician, philosopher, and poet. I read a few of his Rubaiyat during high school. One stanza that i could not forget and i just love it is:

There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil through which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of Me and Thee
There seemed -- and then no more of Thee and Me.

                                                                                          (Translated in English by Edward FitzGerald)

Alas! My DSL connection.

I found out on coming here that Dial-up is connection is almost so expensive that if one uses internet for abt 1-2 hrs daily, its better to have a DSL connection. They aren’t cheap either but if it costs the same then why waste time with slow dial-up connection. So I called STC about 17 days back to enable my line for DSL connection. The operator there told me that it would take a few days and at max 5 days. So I was pretty happy. Days passed and after a week, I couldn’t take it anymore and called them. Their reply was that its in waiting status and you will soon be contacted by our technician. However 4 more days passed with no result so I called them and talked in an angry tone, so they replied “We are having problems with the lines in your area, so it could take about a month”. Already a week has passed, I am just wondering how long their month if their 5 days were that long !!!