Last evening 8 bomb blasts in local trains in 11 minutes brought life to standstill in Mumbai. Reports suggest that life has got back to normal in Mumbai, people are back on trains and so on. Now just a spare thought for the families of those who lost their loved ones and those who are badly injured. Life will never be the same for many of them and the very thought of yesterday evening will bring tears and pain to them. I don’t want to comment on the failure of our agencies & government to stop these kinds of henious crimes which have been repeatedly committed.

I just want to say that countrymen that we need to be one not only during such tragedies but also when everything is normal then only we will be able to fight such acts of terrorism.

My sincere prayers & support to the families who lost their loved ones.

My request to fellow bloggers to show the terrorists groups - that we stand united, just put this image on your blogs and dedicate a page to all the victims of 11th July 2006.

Here are few related links :
Help Mumbaikars on Indiamike.com

Mumbai Help Blog

I am tagging four people (Others are also welcome) to go ahead and support the campaign :

Sakshi Juneja

Kiruba

Ekta Paneri

Smyta

This post’s title seems impossible but Kyle MacDonald has made this possible. One year ago, the 26-year-old blogger from Montreal set out to barter one red paper clip for something and that thing for something else, over and over again until he had a house.

He advertised in the barter section of the Craigslist local classifieds to barter red paper clip for something bigger or better. He traded it for a fish-shaped pen, and posted on Craigslist again and again until..he got a House

For more details read Kylie Mcdonald’s Blog

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The final of FIFA world cup 2006 turned out to be Materazzi beating Zidane than Italy beating France. Materazzi played on Zidane’s patience and he ultimately came up victorious. If such a incident had not occurred, I believe the result might have been different.

I am with Zidane (see the video below) for whatever he has done, he might have lost his anger but if you are provoked like that, it can happen to anyone and Zidane is human too.

Hers’s another video showing Materazzi dirty plays he had done earlier

But it would be pretty disappointing for all those who were hoping for French win especially French public, I hope they suport Zidane when he gets back to his country.

Zidane’s agent says Zidane “told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn’t tell me what”.

I am going to make a very strange comparison here with respect to man and technology that is available to him.

India might be on the way to become software services superpower but we must be bothered about with the way our organisations are being managed especially the Government organisations.

I had applied for a passport for my son which should have delivered to us in 5 weeks time or lesser time but it took 8 weeks and I received the passport today only. The catch is here, that on passport website it is still showing that it is going to be dispatched in a week’s time and the same is being shown since last 7 days. Maybe the passport authorities have different number of days in a week. They have the technology but no one is there to implement it and show the correct information.

Now the next thing that I am talking about is my Tata Indicom bill on which the last date to pay he bill is being shown as 9th July 2007 which is Sunday and all their collections centers are closed on Sunday. The point is Tata which owns the biggest software house in India i.e. TCS cannot make a software which should work in such a manner that it should not accept Sunday as the bill due date. I believe that is not that tough to handle.

The third example that I have is the optimum usage of technology which is being done by Google which can show any kinds of ads in its adsense block whether or not it makes sense or not. The other day I saw an ad which said,”Top Jobs in PDF” . As far as my knowledge in concerned there is no company by the name of PDF, so they have over-optimised the textual sensitvity. Hats off to Google and adsense advertisers.

If you have read till now you must have understood the comparison that I have made.

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