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I don't know whether this is useful or not. What you see above is the QR code of this blog. I suppose this makes it easy for smartphones and stuff to read this blog- don't know.

If you find it useful, please take a look at this post  and you can make one for yourself (Wonderful blog, one of the best. Worth subscribing to).

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The Plane Catcher

It takes a war to ignite our inventiveness.

Rumour of "secret weapon": a net made of wire which is shot into the air and in which the aeroplane becomes entangled. http://bit.ly/dYVzGbMon Mar 14 09:39:55 via EchofonGeorge Orwell
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More here-

A considerable number of German planes shot down in the last few nights, probably because they have been clear nights and favourable to the fighters, but there is much excitement about some “secret weapon” that is said to be in use. The popular rumour is that it is a net made of wire which is shot into the air and in which the aeroplane becomes entangled. - Orwell Diaries

Fallling Curtains - Draft IT Rules

Our apathy, given the resources we have, is unmatched. We seem to wake up only when it is too late, and then, we outdo ourselves in yet another round of righteous indignation. It would be far better to summon up a fraction of that passion when it might make a difference.

In the print edition of The Times of India, I find this news under the headline, "Draft IT rules threaten web freedom"-

Under the draft rules, intermediataries will have to notify users of their computer resource not to use, display, upload, publish, share or store variety of 'objectionable' content.
This includes ' infringement of proprietary information, blasphemy or abuse, information that could harm minors, content that impersonates another person or discloses sensitive personal information etc..'

Mubarak would have loved this. I am sure Gadaffi does.

I blame these people-

WARNING: No further hay till the son shines!Wed Mar 09 04:56:35 via TweetDeckSonia GaXdhi
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Chak de India! You have shown cricket can be played with a team that can't play cricket & that is indeed cricket as it should be!Wed Mar 09 15:38:02 via TweetDeckDr Manmohan Singh
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Google and its Discontents

It is a sad day when you see Google do something mean and mindless- I have nothing against Google doing something about content farms, of course.

But I read the sad news that The Digital Inspiration and The Complete Review- two of the best in what they do- which is producing excellent sum up of what is happening in their area of interest have been sorely affected by Google's changed algorithm.

They are not actually farms, if you look at the produce. Any self-respecting farmer would quit whatever farmers do if they are given The Complete Review and The Digital Inspiration as content farms. They don't produce much- may be a couple of posts per day. Do you call that farming?

Sorry Google, this is mean and mindless of you.

We are disappointed. People will find a way to go to these two sites, because they are one of the best in business, and any search engine that hides them in page fifty does not know what its business is. We will get round it sooner or later.

Google will the the loser, and we with it.

Hope Google does something about this. Something real Quick.

PS: Lest people cavil, we are happy to be labelled one among the content farms and laid to fallow. We have no complaints about inhabiting page fifty of Google search results. Or page hundred, for that matter. We would count it a honour to be entertained in Google's backrooms.

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The Daily on iPad

I got a mail today, informing me about the launch of The Daily, an iPad application, or rather- 'the first digital daily news publication' for the iPad. Now, it is from Murdoch's News Corporation, some of us may cavil at that. But publishers have to make money, or else we won't have quality content for our reading, right?

I think this is the way to go- more publishers are likely to follow suit. It costs about eleven cents a day to get The Daily on the iPad. The price is okay, you can share the web format of the Daily on facebook etc., through clicking a share button, so that is a good thing.

But then, it is exclusively for iPad I think, that does not sound good. But then, if The Daily succeeds, other newspapers will follow it, and I hope that one day, someone will come out with simple application that lets you read stuff like you read it on Instapaper in an ordinary GPRS enabled mobile.

I hate to see a quality newspaper like New York Times suffering losses year after year- mobile is the way to go. Hope they succeed with this. I am sure they will, for I read about two three days back,

Wireless traffic is already bigger than the internet was in 2000. Yes kids, mobile WILL be bigger than the fixed internet.

Mobile is exploding EVERYWHERE. Here in the West with smartphones and faster mobile broadband speeds, but also in the developing world where people are leapfrogging the fixed internet and going straight to mobile.- Business Insider SAI

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