End of an era of the tekki banana!
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Sadly, Yes 
Webmonkey, the web site that made more folks tinker with web-building and back-end scripting than any teaching school could do is shutting down. We’ll all miss the “smart, sassy friend you wish you had”, as described by the Editorial founder June Cohen .
Webmonkey specialised in a zazzy, informal style of the writings on the site devoid all kinds of punditry. The site’s editors ditched the dry, lecturelike tone of other tech publications in favor of a flip, funny approach - the language Web geeks use amongst themselves.
The pain of the changing pattern of cyber-commerce!
Sad, sad indeed!
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Stunted Trees!
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I read this piece somewhere. It gives a sort of Caffeine for the Concience!
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Stunted Trees
Jean Vanier
Our universe is not made up only of beautiful trees, but also of
stunted ones. Yet each tree is important. Television shows us movie
stars, men and women with beautiful bodies and extravagant clothes.
But that is not the reality of the majority of people! The beauty of
human beings lies in their capacity to accept who they are, just as
they are; not to live in a world of dreams or illusions, in anger or
despair, wanting to be other than they are, or trying to run away
from reality.
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I feel like I need to tattoo this somewhere on my body!
NRI = “Non Reliable Indians”?
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While everyone is going gaga over Indian diaspora and the special status and concessions galore for expatriate Indians who make the $’s rain on the motherland, a different point of view (a jarring one, perhaps) has been voiced by Sunanda K Datta Ray in the Rediff.com. You can read it here.
May be the gripes are justified!
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Can we call it a “wide open” Welcome!
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The Prime Minister of India,Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, receiving the former Uttar Pradesh State Chief Minister, Mr. Kalyan Singh, in New Delhi on 3rd feb 2004.
(Photo courtesy The Hindu)
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Google’s date with destiny!
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The market is agog with the news of Google’s upcoming IPO. It is really going to ignite the minds of investors and techies alike.
It will be a cliché to say that Google has become a generic verb! Folks just “google for it” - be it a research thesis for obtaining a doctorate, or a techie trying to get a solution for his network problem.
In eighteen months:
* Google has quadrupled its size
* sextupled its annualised earnings
* boomed its profits by a factor of 23 to a mind-boggling $350 million!
I really turn green thinking of Sergei Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google who are in their mere thirties!
But Fortune has voiced a certain jarring note amidst the gaga. Besides the much-publicised news of Yahoo! and MSN pouring millions to set up their own search engines - the former having acquired Inktomi and Overture and MSN planning to bundle the search engine with its next version of OS, the real Achilles’ heel of Google being lack of customer “lock-in”. People come search and go, unlike in Yahoo, where folks dwell in mails, briefcases, my Yahoo’s, discussion groups etc.
Perhaps Google has perceived this shortcoming and has started an effort to have a sort of Googlised community. First in the series is the promotion of Orkut.com, a social networking outfit started by one of its employees. Google regularly throws out new products and services to see if they stick. Google News, for example, began as the personal project of Google engineer Krishna Bharat in 2002. Google has acquired Pyra Labs and Blogger and its discussion groups are very famous amongst geeks!
Google aspires to become a portal like Yahoo. Google already helps people shop, read news, thwart pop-up advertisements, get stock information and publish to the Web. With a social networking component, at the very least, it would likely feed investor demand for a public offering because of its diversified assets, financial analysts say. Investors expect Google to go public sometime in the spring.
Let us wait and watch (and if you have a finger on the crispy Greenbacks, try and have a piece of the pie!)
Much row on Mike Rowe (soft)!
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They are not known to be soft operators - not even on micro scale!
Yes, you guessed it right!
Now the facts of the case as reported in News.Com
Mike Rowe, a 17-year-old student from Vancouver, British Columbia, registered Mikerowesoft.com to front his part-time Web site design business in August 2003. Three months later, he received an e-mail from Microsoft’s lawyers, asking him to transfer the domain name to Microsoft. They offered to pay him a “settlement” of $10, which is the cost of his original registration fee.
However, after the case received widespread coverage on the Internet, Microsoft acknowledged that it may have taken things too far and promised to treat Rowe fairly. A representative of the software company told ZDNet UK: “We appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We take our trademark seriously, but maybe a little too seriously in this case.”
Mike Rowe may have a good argument for keeping the domain name, because it is his real name, and he isn’t pretending to be affiliated with Microsoft. But he said Microsoft probably regrets getting involved with the case because of all the bad publicity it has generated.
Letz wait and see what happens next!
Time(less) contrast!
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One of the places where you have to be constantly looking at the local time is the transit airport where you wait to catch a connecting flight. As you fly from one time zone to another, it is imperative that you are mindful of the local time so that you are present at the appropriate terminal in time to check in and board your flight.
New York JFK International airport is ideal in that respect since it sports a bright and bold Rolex wallclock (Rolex Oyster Chronometer Perpetual, to be precise)at every 6 feet interval!
In contrast, you crane your head all round but can’t find even one clock on the entire passengers’ lounge of Kuwait International Airport, except for a very small digital display clock at an insignificant location at the far end of the corridor.
I think the authorities concerned should spare some time to tell the time to the passengers so that they do not lose time and in the process miss their flight by not being there in time!
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