rediff.com: Narayana Murthy on the coalition govt he would prefer, In India, articulation is mistaken for accomplishment

Narayan Murthy: ".......Secularism is not about forgetting who you are; secularism is about saying I will respect you for what you are and that we will take all decisions without considering what religion you belong to. That is secularism. ......."

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 'In India, articulation is mistaken for accomplishment'

"......here (In India) in this culture, if you do anything with your hands, it is considered less honorable that anything to do with your brain.
Here everybody wants to be an engineer, nobody wants to be a technician. So when a society does not value implementation, execution, what happens is you create more and more reports and nothing gets done. ....."


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Humanity Still Lives....

Creativity...

I was going thorough blog post of one of my friend Sunil on creativity. In his opinion people need relax for being creative. I was seriously looking at that aspect, but most of the time i find that when people rest instead of relax and  they start 'rusting'. But yes, if people always kept busy in non creative and manual work for long time they really cannot manifest creative ideas. I am of firm opinion that creativity has lot to do with work environment. I recently saw a video by Tim Brown. He speaks about different aspects which can help people unleash their creativity. Excellent video with lots of techniques we can use at our home or organization.

Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » This is not the end of capitalism

Excellent post by Mark (Man behind Ubuntu and a capitalist :))
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » This is not the end of capitalism

I totally agree with him on a point regarding regulator. Do we really know what are the backgrounds of regulators ? Whether he has any direct interest in any concerned industry / department ? What track / success record he has if he is from the same industry ? What salary does he draw ?

Next (Capitalistic) era will and should decide on quality and responsibility of regulators.
I believe same issues discussed by Mark (especially "A great regulator needs to know a lot about an industry, but be independent of that industry.") applies to our politicians as well. They are also becoming sort of regulators (They should not be, ideally). (Remember MNS (India):))

Threaded mails in Yahoo Mail..!! ?Coming soon..

I was trying to add Yahoo Mail Tips. And i saw some strange arrows in my subject Line..And what i see...!! "Go to next thread" And awesome feature that was missing since a long time and since gmail provided this people switched. This is particularly useful for discussion forums and to track of communication. But as soon as reported this .it was pulled down...:) and reply to mail was "It was temporarily added. Will be added in some other form soon". Hope fully in much better format.

Update : Its back... but i think it need some better user interface. I would like it to be similar to gmail but simple button with dropdown displaying list of next and previous thread will do. :)

Live documents : "Future of Office" Or "Future for Office" ?

Sabeer Bhatia has announced a Microsoft Office Killer Live Documents. Is this a real killer to Microsoft’s core business application, Office ? Sabeer Bhatia, one who received millions from Microsoft for purchase of Hotmail. Now he is targeting Office. Google has already made a huge attempt by introducing Google Docs with core applications (Documents, Spreadsheet and Presentation); Combined with Google apps for domain. Perfect suite for Small and Midsize Enterprises.

So what MS is doing ? It started an attempt to share and collaboration for it Office suite. But Where is real killer ? So This time also They are gonna buy it from Sabber Bhatia ? Is that's in Sabeer's mind too? Overall look of LiveDocuments is similar to Office 2003. It offers synchronization of desktop Office too. And much more for MS Office like sharing and offline editing etc. A ready mixture for Microsoft ?
Remember Hotmail made online presence of MS on web significant in 1998 ? So is this time for it again ?

Lets see what real promises like and Interoperability and Shareability. As per their description, Application like spread sheet are built using Flex. Now Thats where we will see how it gets on the Open web ? Will Microsoft buy something like this when Its already investing on Silverlight ?

Wait and watch.! Invitations are open. Get one for yourself.
Sabeer Bhatia has another reason for celebration. Congratulations to India's most eligible bachelor. He is getting married...!

Update : Opps..! I am late..!! Microsoft has already launched it own service. Office Live Workspace Its still in private beta. (I haven't got any invitation yet..!). Unlike Live document; It has not released any details on How the product will really look like but says "You can Edit Your Document". Lets see What it really delivers.

Internet Explorer 7 on Linux ..!!

We always have issues with testing web application on IE. So here is the solution. IE4Linux.
It works well. CSS and colouring is not as per Windows but it better then nothing. Rendering engine is still of IE.

Installing Flashplayer plugin on 64 bit firefox on linux.

From Ketan's Blog
Installing Flashplayer plugin on 64 bit firefox on linux. It worked fine for me on Fedora 7. Try it.
Flash Player Plugin for 64 bit Firefox on linux
It works for other plugins like adobe reader
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