During the last three days we have witnessed the gruesome and dastardly terrorist acts that took 180 innocent lives in Mumbai. Did they deserve to die..? Did their families deserve the sadness and the unexpected void that would continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives..? Did those innocent children who lost their parents deserve the loneliness these cruel animals handed over to them? No. they didn’t..! There were Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Parsis, and Sikhs amidst the dead and the bereaved? It is time we realized that sorrow like joy has no religion but a deep sense of irreparable loss….and the eternal silence that it creates in a family which is forced to live with that silence..Like all of us, they too deserved a life of joy, of peace and of harmony and like us, they too desired to live life to its full and not to be deprived of it suddenly. Did they deserve it..? No. They didn’t..!

We are a nation of 1 Billion people! 1 Billion Minds and 1 billion ideas and more. We speak over 250 languages between us yet today the only language we speak is that of undiluted sorrow. My dear friends, the time has come for us to grow up beyond our religions and our political faiths. Now is the time to react and respond to the global menace which is all set to envelop our country, our rich and proud country whose diversity is its religion and its imperfections, its perfections, its cosmopolitan and coexistent ideologies, its binding forces, its volume, its strength and we, its people the most treasured of all treasures! Can we shred off our faiths to mourn for our countrymen whose lives were snatched off them by the terrorists whose determination to break us apart has to be dealt with together..

Can we wriggle out of our nonchalant approaches to shed a tear or two for our valiant soldiers who laid down their proud lives to safeguard us…Can we think of ways and means to speak to the world and especially the forces who believe that destruction is the only way they can spoil our harmony, our coveted national pride and above all our oneness as Indians. We need to rise above the ordinary to create a feeling of togetherness among us. Let us on this day pledge that we will never discriminate our fellow human beings in the name of caste, creed or religion. Let us today decide to stand united in our struggle to achieve what our forefathers dreamt of in a united India…an India that is all poised to become a super power. Let our togetherness begin a thought stream that would ignite the fire of patriotism amongst our peers and let us together make our dreams of a building a modern, united progressive, economically and socially independent India, a reality.

Let us on this day salute the spirit of being a truly nationalist Indian. Let us bear the colors of our tricolors in our heart and believe that the blood of innocents are our own….Jai Hind!

Pictures courtesy : Iyad Tibi

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Foreigner Iyad Saab had great fun !!! He took some amazing HDR photos of the boat .!!!!

Indian House Boat by Dido©, on Flickr

Obama is the first person of African-American descent to be nominated by a major American political party for President,^[2] and the first person of African American descent to be elected President of the United States of America. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate. Obama won the 2008 presidential election and will take the oath of office and become the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009.

Source - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Thanks to the three musketeers ( Nishanth , Sebi and Nygil ) for clubbing us with them for the trip

All I hear from everyone is Dubai real estate bubble is going to explode by 2nd quater of 2009. Not sure how far it is true!!!

Integrated Interface - Use MailTags’ convenient side panel to add tags keywords, project, priority, notes to your messages. Use contextual menus to tag several messages at the same time. All of MailTags interfaces feel built in, not added on.

IMAP Support - Save your tags to your IMAP servers so you can access them from multiple computers.

List Display - Display your tags in extra columns in the message list view. See due dates as they approach.

Works with Mail’s Smart Mailboxes - Build smart mailboxes that search your messages for keywords, projects and even due dates.

Works with Mail’s Rules - Set tags automatically as you receive Mail by using MailTags actions when creating a Mail rule. Use with Mail Act-On to create keystroke rules to tag messages.

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RSS support - Tag news items for future reference. Ideal for workflow management where a RSS subscription notifies you of forum posts, support requests or tasks.

iCal Support - Create To Dos and Events in iCal directly from Mail and maintain the link between the original message and the items in iCal.

Send Tags in Messages - Not only can you tag your outgoing mail for your purpose, you can send tags with the messages to create an informal workflow with your recipients.

Incoming Reply Tagging - Automatically copy tags from earlier messages when receiving replies.  Maintain tags in a discussion even if the other correspondent doesn’t have MailTags.

Add functionality with Extras - MailTags new extensible architecture means that you will be able to add functionality to MailTags by adding an Extra.  Planned extras include components that work with Google Calendar, TaDa list and other web based task/event management system. We plan to publish an Extras SDK so others can extend MailTags.

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All for just 30$. Real worth for money

Sample screenshot of GanttProject

The most amazing things about this GanttProject are

• Available for major operating system Windows, Linux and OSX.
• Free - No need to pay any $$$
• Open source
• Task hierarchy and dependencies
• Gantt chart
• Resource load chart
• Generation of PERT chart
• PDF and HTML reports
• MS Project import/export
• WebDAV based groupwork

Next step was to download the browser and test it. It was amazingly fast. And really felt the browser was really light. I loved the simple and efficent GUI. Creating application out web was really smart move. There is no option for extending the browser with extension and themes. May be it is on it way.

Will Google target it like Adobe Air?
Will Google create more API inside chrome to support their web application ?
Have thousands of question rising up my mind and only time will tell those answers. But these guys are planning big time to reach more market share in web. They have already started to advertise about the new browser on Google homepage.

Will chrome dominate the browser wars by end of this decade ?????