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SFO gives young Miles, keys to the city Nov 15. Calls the day Batkid day! Batkid saves the day, thumps his fist in the air to the cheering crowds as they burst into joy! What can be a better feelgood story than this one.

Cute Boy! Sweet thoughts. Listen to him, go vegetarian.

Happy Fathers Day. Miss you.

With all the unreasonable Terror in the world, We should look to Random acts of these "Humans" to be inspired. To have faith, that there is good, still in this world. Happy Long weekend everyone.

A Well made movie

Soon the dream of having a futuristic Electric Motor Cycle will become a reality. The Tron-white vehicle, code-named c-1 and manufactured by lit motors, is foretold to be in showrooms by 2014. The all electric motorcycle will have gyroscope that will eliminate the need to put your foot down for balancing. The expected 200 mile range on a 6 Hr charge is not bad for a Electric Motor Cycle. Innovative technology that integrates with your phone and internet, makes it really futuristic. Did I mention glow light tires? Here is a sneak peek

Happy New Year!! Everyone!!

Here is why colbert is my source for all the "real" news. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Norwegian Muslish Gunman's Islam-Esque Atrocity www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

Here is one company committed to Green alternative fuels and reducing carbon foot print. Google is no less a real life research lab. Plugin Electric cars are the fastest way to remove dependency on oil. They may eventually become energy hogs (if everyone will buy these), but for the moment, they are a viable solution. Advances in renewable energy may make electric even cheaper, easy to produce - until then, its only time for ideas.. like these..

They say if you don't have Firebug you are not a developer. But Chrome developer tools, is just as sweet developers in chrome. Firebug is a very powerful tool in itself. Chrome dev tools adds a few more features that make it a pleasure to develop on chrome. Here is a quick video that may have your head turn to Chrome.

If you just updated your andriod devices to froyo, you are already one step behind in android releases. But With all the goodness in each update, why would you wait. Howver, if you are an early adopter, Google is not sleeping when you are waiting.

Just updated the fresh-out-the-oven Google Maps. 5.0. Simply Awesome. The 3d images of NYC buildings, tilting, rotating, much smoother zoom operations, and better offline support make it a highly recommended update

Mark Shuttleworth recently announced that Ubuntu will do away with GNOME, The good old, desktop environment – as the default. Making Unity, (which is the current default for netbook version) THE default. The switch was barely absorbed by ubunters and is now followed by another announcement of replacing the X.org server with a newer, minimalist X server - Wayland. Wayland is still in alpha. So, for the pessimists this announcement and the switch is a little cavalier. For the optimists, this is a huge step towards a better GUI. To put simply, Wayland is different from X.org in that it (Wayland) leverages the newer kernel's ability to do much of the work X.org's complex layers do. It natively uses 2D and 3D support from OpenGL.Technically – Quoting Wikipedia Wayland uses existing technologies in the Linux kernel such as the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), kernel mode-setting (KMS) and the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) batchbuffer in order to provide a minimal display ser...

There was a time when this was joked about at lines outside US consulate in Chennai. Times really DO change. What will this mean to you?

Enjoy your weekend!

Looks like the recent video/voice chat plugin for linux is a stratergically set as a prerequisite for this big update! Now Gmail chat will have a new option to call real phones. This sounds like a HUGE competition brewing in sip world. Skype, especially, must be very worried, given the large base of gmail users. It also lacks a web client making it easier for roaming users to prefer gmail than their (might I dare say) own phone. This option requires you to have Google Voice associated with the gmail account. If you have not checked out Google Voice , its well worth the shot. Here is the preview of what it would look like

One more reason to buy an Andriod.. Ain't that awesome? These features don't need it to be a phone. These can also be used on Andriod devices not tying you to a phone data plan (although the use cases can grow exponentially, if you already have one).

This post is on personal security. Social Security #, Address, Phone number. Even your email address. Most importantly your Credit Card or Bank Account number All these are sensitive personal information you MUST protect at all times. Never tell a person/company you don't know, any of the above. Guard them with your life. Well not exactly, life, but almost. Dont even give out your favorites (colors, pets, movies), names of your aunts, maiden names, etc in websites that look dubious. These sites include, those which promise a free gift, winning odds, love life, sexual content, and dating partner. All sites/games/quizzes in FACEBOOK are solely written to collect and harvest your information. Donot give them ANYTHING. Best advice, treat this data as your child. If you will not give him/her away to a stranger/company/site, you will not give the personal data to them. Look at a related ad from Microsoft