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Cell Number Mobility

NYT reports that from next month, subscribers will be able to switch services without having to change numbers... One wonders when this will happen in India, I'm just about sick of the service and am going to switch. Number moblity would be so cool...
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Making of a Saint

No Comment on the life and works and other controversies surrounding the Mother, just rah rah on the beatification... read the Wiki on The Mother , if you have more time read the book Final VerDict . The full text is available online without pictures... The Book looks at the other side of the personality
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The Death of Email...

There is some talk in the blogosphere on the death of email, saving email, rss replacing email, new email projects like Internet Mail 2000 ... what I'm trying to do here is to piece together the various points of views and solutions.. The premise: E-mail is dying. Why? because of the amounts of spam flowing into peoples mail boxes and the attack of viruses like SoBig. We will explore what Michael Fraase has to say now and then . At some point one will begin to wonder whether RSS will kill "email" or "email publishing" ... huge difference between the two. When one figures this out, one will realise that there are people on the other side of the debate too. i.e. feel email will live and of course someone countered this as well and a response to that and of course there will be people like me who will be bystanders attempting to make sense in the chaos that exists
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Diwali

The Festival of Lights This is one of the oldest Hindu festivals occuring in the month of Kartik, which commemorates the return of Rama to Ayodhya after an exile of 14 years. It also marks the beginning of the new year and is celebrated with the lighting of lamps. Diwali or Deepawali, literally 'an array of lamps', is the festival of lights and is celebrated on the darkest night of Kartik. It is perhaps the most important festival in India. Originally a Hindu festival, it has now crossed the bounds of religion and is celebrated by all in India with fervor and gaiety. This day is a public holiday all over India. Twinkling oil lamps or diyas light up every home and firework displays are common all across the country. The goddess Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu), who is the symbol of wealth and prosperity, is also worshipped on this day. This festive occasion also marks the beginning of the Hindu new year and Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, the symbol of auspiciousness and w...
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Google Compute

I have been running Google Compute for some weeks now... It is a distributed computing project like SETI@Home . SETI@Home is itself going to migrate into an open distributed computin platform which is due to start soon
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One of the advantages of working with a newspaper is that you meet all sorts of people, techies, editors, business people, Lawyers. A few things that I have been talking to people about recently in the company Preseidential Blogs Death of Email / Email Vs RSS Marketing the 3650 by blogs Social Sofware Comment Spam If I find the time to follow the incredible number of cross links and discussion threads expect more on these...
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