thought

What is achievement?

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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
-- Author Unknown

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
-- Thomas Carlyle

Indian view on HWYs

Impoverishing roads from The Hindu

Analysis of Indian HWYs

Mile by Mile, India Paves a Smoother Road to Its Future from NYTimes

It is tooo long (7 pages) but then it covers all bases of what happens when we have to construct highways in india. Really complete analysis and I found it unbiased though I would have prefered to have read in an Indian newspaper. Good read with how moving the temples or mosques could be an issue or cutting pipal trees etc. and lots more.

Science

The changing identity of the scientist from The Hindu

I always felt that science and a scientist was pure persuit of knowledge where other "benifits" were just by products of the process.
Point to ponder about--- has such kind of thought bought about theories like ID in the scientifice domain? Surely it does "benifit" some people. Has science become business much like everything else?

The individual has slowly become part of a collective. "A single instrument is replaced by an orchestra, with each individual striving towards the same goal. Of course, in science, as in any respectable orchestra, there will always be a couple of virtuoso soloists". It is these that the Nobel, Lasker, Dan David, Fields and such prizes go to.

Such shifts in science policy by governments and international communities, has led to a new model — that science should ultimately serve society. Industry wants science to make money. Governments want science to enable development. Citizens want science to clean the air, the water and make life healthier, safer and enjoyable.

All of these are possible only through ideas — ideas that need to be thought of, that need to be tested, found working and then applied to achieve the ends. And ideas come from individuals; this cannot change. Therefore the individual scientist cannot be replaced. It is him that we need to make more and more of.

And a sure way to do so is through schools, colleges and universities. It is these that we need to sow, nourish and multiply.

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It looks like the rain Gods don't want cricket in chennai!!
On second thoughts it might be that they might be taking the lead away from the moral police for being the disruptive force.

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Nopes it does not ... if anyone know how to save last sesion on firefox let me know.........

FireFox 1.5

The one thing that I missed in firefox has been fixed.
They can remember sessions!!!! Maybe I will switch to FireFox now :)

Scientific analysis of Buddha incarnate

Scientists to check Nepal Buddha boy from BBC

A meditating teenage boy in south-central Nepal is drawing the attention of scientists after attracting huge crowds in the past six months and earning
himself the name Buddha-reincarnate.
They are mulling over how to examine him without disturbing his meditation.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

If only this could be harvested!

Perspective: India's next big business? from CNET

"If you don't get into the Bay of Bengal now, you will be left back as an Okie,"
he said during a presentation at the International Petroleum Technology Conference last week. "Unless you step into the breach, you may regret one day dismissing me as a raving lunatic."
The optimism is grounded in massive oil deposits, close to 30 billion tons, in Central India. That's twice the size of the deposits in Iraq (13 billion tons, according to the Institute of Petroleum) and just shy of Saudi deposits. With this, India, which imports 70 percent of its oil, could become an exporter, Aiyar hypothesized. Although nations are clamoring to build their economies around clean industries like semiconductor design and outsourcing, there's still a lot to be said for 19th century activities like drilling holes into the ground and blowing up rocks.
Unfortunately, oil is stuck under the Deccan Traps, a deep layer of volcanic rock created 65 million years ago when the protocontinent Gowandaland smacked into Eurasia. The collision coincided with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
-- Clifford Stoll

More ways to organize your news!!!

Yahoo unveils RSS e-mail folder from MSNBC

Looking to gain another edge on its rivals, Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday will begin testing a new e-mail folder designed to make it easier for people to track the latest information posted on their favorite Web sites.

The free feature relies on Really Simple Syndication, an increasingly popular technology that can compile content from a wide array of Web sites catering to a user's personal tastes.
Millions of people have signed up to receive automatic feeds on everything from the international news to family recipes since Yahoo first began providing its RSS service last year, said Scott Gatz, the Sunnyvale, Calif-based company's senior director of personalization products.

song

chalo ek baar phir se ajabnabi ho jaye...

Another intersting feature by Google(ofcourse)

Hello, this is Google, your operator, speaking from CNET

A Web surfer can click a phone icon adjacent to an ad, enter his or her own phone number and then click a "connect for free" button. Google's service calls the advertiser's phone number and when the Web surfer picks up the receiver on his phone, he or she hears ringing as the call to the advertiser is connected, according to a Google Click-to-Call frequently-asked-questions page.
Unlike voice over Internet Protocol, a technology that sends voice transmission over the Internet, this service appears to connect two parties over the regular phone lines. However, Google declined to provide more details, including the specifics of the technology employed.

How do they do it????