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"Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.We will be united in our common interests.Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.And should we win

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Firefox 3 created record for becoming the most downloaded software on the release day. Even though confirmation from Guinness Records is yet to come, I got my certificate from Mozilla. If you were also part of the Spread FireFox campaign, you can also get your certificate here. Download Day 2008 - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd:

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20th June is the first day of summer (Solstice). And Google celebrates with its own special logo. Its quite a nice one. I like it.

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"So, please accept my resignation, effective July 12. And I don't need any fancy parties or gold watches (I still have the one from '61 and '76). I will be spending more time with my family, tending to my small but growing alpaca herd and, of course, getting back to work with tin, my first love." The celebrated founder and Director of Product Management of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield wrote this

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The count down has begun. In 24 hours, the world will witness the release of the greatest and the powerful browser, Firefox 3. Download Firefox from Mozilla using this link and be a part of Guinness Book. I have already done, what about you? Lets rock!!

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I have been writing about what has gone (went?) wrong with Indian IT industry and have been predicting the fall soon. Well, Soham Das has covered the recent developments in Infosys. Infy, the poster boy* of Indian IT, is paving the road to innovation and success. It's time for others to wake up and, well, just follow!! *BTW, for countries and cars, we use the feminine. What is it for Companies?

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Chennai's politicians today celebrates the birthday of Chief Minister Karunanidhi. I have also got a reason to celebrate. Idli is cheaper by One Rupee from today!! For those who don't know, Idli is a dish which looks like a small saucer made of rice. It is steam-cooked and eaten heartily with chutney and sambhar by South Indians. I can hear the cheers for the price cut! When I first came to

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A lot have been talked about Twitter. People are addicted to it, I am too!! Well, I think that it's about Twitter down time that more people are talking about that Twitter itself. To prove the point, Twitter recently started a blog so that it can inform the world when the Tweets will be down. Today, I came across this interesting site. It's called "Is Twitter Down?" It has the nice url, http:/

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Sometime back, I has talked about the OOXML standardization and the voting in ISO. ISO approved it in April 2008. But now, three of the member nations, South Africa, Brazil and India have filed an appeal. The national standards organizations of these nations are challenging the flawed procedures in the ballot voting. South Africa was the first to appeal. You can find of it here. Brazil

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Fun. Fitness. Freedom. The 3 Fs of success. Today, I went for the cycling in ECR organized by Chennai Runners group in association with TI cycles.(The manufacturers of BSA and Hercules) A sunday morning sleep was disrupted. I woke up by 3:30 AM an got ready. By the time we reached (my friend Saju was also with me) the Toll Gate in Uthandi, it was 5 AM and you it was just the last few minutes

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Yesterday, Michael Arrington wrote about Naveen Jain and his scam, Intelius. He was talking about the sudden IPO decision and the scam that was bringing in revenue for Intelius. I am not going to bore you with the details of the scam and Naveen’s previous scams. I will just take you through the repercussions.Here are some interesting comments to Michael’s post.Then, son came to the father's

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Time: 11:30 am (local time) Date: May 29, 1953 Location: Somewhere in the Himalayas Two people were making their way up the hills. Even though it was close to noon, their fingers were numb due to the cold. Tired and weary, but still they carried forth. And finally, they accomplished it! It was today, 55 years back, that Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the

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Yesterday night, I was seraching for "Amazon Web Services" in Esnips (Of course, it's for copyrighted books!!). But the ads that I saw on the first page stunned me!! I was inquisitive to see the next pages. Below are the second and third page of search results!! So, what was Esnips targeting? Did the word "web service" in my search misled the system into thinking that I was looking around

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Guruji, the Indian search engine, recently launched its own Music Search. They say, "Any Indian Song. Name it. We'll play it" From Guruji blog, "Guruji Music Search – Guruji Music Search is a one stop shop for all Music lovers searching for Music on the Web. Our Music Index (enriched by songs crawled from all over from the web) has songs ranging from 1932 till 2008, across languages. Guruji

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The child was conceived in October 2007. But, it died prematurely in May 2008. This is an obituary. The idea was exciting: Reviews of top magazine articles in 100 words. Maybe, I should call it, the "Twitter of Reviews". Also, $5 for each published review was a good proposition. But it turned out to be a costly one. For those who came late, here's what Brijit was: "Simply, Brijit aggregates

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Another weekend coming up and I spent sometime analyzing my Google Analytics data. In browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox are head-to-head with around 46% each. Safari comes third with around 4% of share and Mozilla is behind with 2%. In OS, Windows leads the pack with a lion's share of 89%. Macintosh comes next with 7%. Linux trails behind in third position with a meagre 3.5%. For

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Rudra Technologies, a Singapore based Anti virus provider, released their flagship product, Rudra.An evaluation download is not available yet (this page says it will be available soon), but their product brochure gives some exciting news. [The following write up is based on the brochure and I take no responsibility if the product fails to keep up to this] Usual anti virus softwares use a

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Google seems to have changed its motto!Yesterday, Google helped in the arrest of an Indian professional for posting derogatory comments about Sonia Gandhi. Google shared the information about the user and the cops were able to trace back the IP to the poor chap!! I pity him. Google says that they supports the free expression of its users and is committed to protecting user privacy. But when

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The fight between DoT(Department of Telecommunications, India) and RIM (Research in Motion) has taken new dimensions. DoT was forcing RIM to share the private data of the customers...messages, transactions etc..which happened through Blackberry's. Security agencies were concerned about the potential usage of an un-monitored communication system by terrorists. This led to widespread confusion

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2008! 2009? Thanks to Gowri Sankar and Vishnu Prasad.

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Phishers never give up. Be it the Katrina Hurricane or the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2005, they are waiting to pounce upon. The recent prey is the China Earthquake. SANS Internet Storm Center wrote in a blog on 15th May that they were noticing a number of new registration of domains related to the China earthquake and Myanmar Cyclone. Quoting Jim, "These may not all be scams, but we

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Some time back, I wrote my 10 reasons Why Linkspank Sucks. Andrew, the founder of Linkspank, took it seriously and gave me his take for all the 10 reasons and the new changes they have made. Slowly, I started liking the site and then gave my 3 Stars for Linkspank. Due to the high "stickiness" of Linkspank, I was browsing through the entries and came across this. "10 Reasons Why visakhcr Sucks!"

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Satyam Computer Services,the $ 2.1 billion Indian software giant, has been sued for $ 1 billion by Upaid Systems, online and mobile payments specialist. Here's the extract of press release from Upaid. "Upaid originally filed the Texas lawsuit in April 2007 following the revelation in Texas of forged documents previously provided by Satyam to Upaid. Satyam had sought a High Court injunction in

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On May 16 1960, first working laser was demonstrated by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories. After that D-day, the world of laser has seen a huge growth. In medicine, in defense, in industries, and even in toys (the laser pen). Read a first hand report about the First Laser by Charles H. Townes from A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World. Also

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Recently, Bill Gates quoted, "Technology hasn't empowered workers enough yet." He agrees that the change has started, but haven't caught up much with the users. The other day, my team was planning for a picnic. We wanted a count of the number of people who will be coming. First, we started with the old thing: Passing around a paper and a pen and asking everyone to write their name on it. Seeing

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