In Emergic.org Rajesh Jain quotes Mathieu Balez on good god Google and the emerging scene of the computing world. Specifically he says:

You will literally no longer need any software running on your local computer (except the Google Web-browser of course, and a network connection). The computing experience will involve booting your computer, logging into the net, and having access to all your programs (and most of your data) which will reside happily in the ether - all protected and secure, we will be assured, by the good god Google.

This is a scary proposition as this entails your personal information being available to a private enterprise. This is true for most mails hosted on web servers like hotmail, gmail and many others. Google goes a step forward and scans these emails to generate revenue for that 2GB of mail storage. And personally i am okay with using gmail for my personal emails. Afterall there is little information contained in my personal mails that will hurt me if made public or otherwise. However there is a real danger of complacency kicking in. Once you make a web mail as your preferred mailing service its very easy to go ahead and use that for creating accounts for your banking transactions, and other such information that you would rather keep protected and safe somewhere with you.

But were the possibilities cited above to come alive, what then happens to all of your data. All files that you keep, all pictures and everything that is personal, and would be embarassing if not downright damaging in some way or the other, were this informaiton to become public? Either through malicious intent or because some hacker was able to access your information stored in a public server; or worse still a malfunction in the security setup of this web OS.

Would you then be able to trust such an operating system and replace your existing OS with such a web based system where the security, though guaranteed, may not provide peace of mind. Guess so, after all financial transactions over the highly insecure internet has become a reality.

I have decided to restart this blog and use it as a repository of the knowledge that i gain in the technology-sphere of the globo-sphere - if i may coin new words. The next few days shall be spent in choosing and updating the template of this blog and making other necessary changes. Going forward, i guess i will continue to use this blog site along with my two livejournal blogs.

(boy, do i have a lot of free time or what)

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mere nasib mein too hain ke nahee, tere nasib mein main hoo ke nahee
ye hum kyaa jaane, ye wahee jaane, jisane likhaa hain sab kaa nasib

yek din khwaab me, wo muze mil gayaa
dekhakar jo muze, ful saa khil gayaa
sharamaa gayee mai, ghabaraa gayee mai
kahane lagaa wo aa kar kareeb

baat ye khwaab kee, sach magar ho gayee
naujawaan main tuze, dekh kar kho gayee
anakhe milee hai, dil bhee mile hai
dekhe mile kab apane nasib

hum kahee fir mile, yek hasee raat me
baat ye aa gayee, fir kisee baat me
ab ke huaa ye, maine kahaa ye
muz ko bataa de mere habeeb

-- Mere Naseeb mein, Anand Bakshi.

What is it about them,
Murder, despair, mayhem.
Men have died at their feet
And yet they feel their need.

What magic, what mesmeric effect
On men has the bared breast,
The naked shoulder, the parted lips.
What craving, what desire.

And i feel that life is worth living
It will always be
I am surrounded with friends
People i love, care for
It is selfish, this desire
Need people to depend on me

And i am writing this, that makes
no sense since i ought to write
To keep this place alive.

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Just got an invite to orkut. Its one hell of a service, i have become a fan within the hours that i have joined. And i love google!

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first post in almost a year. Phew, livejoirnal sure rocks!

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your scudded cloud
Thats for this unknown woman on the net. I simply love her poetry. Correction. I love her poetry when i am in the low phase. Ther are so dark and gloomy. And her pics on fotolog! Simply amazing. A girl with sentiments. A girl with talent. Scary, eh?
You bet! But admirable none-the-less. If only i could meet her.. sigh!

Got a home to live in,
all my own.
No shared with three more.
Who cares.
Thats just for the nights to be lived in.
Somenights not even that.
Gotta buy a bike soon, so that some part of the night could be spent on the roads.
Bike Nite! Too many days since i had one.
Bike Nite, Palm Beach Road, Juhu Beach, Beer.. .