Google Answers for free or indications of my growing paranoia

looks like the "government" has finally lifted the ban on blogger.com. ah no need to use various 3rd party tools to access the blogs.

BUT.....the last few days have been spent exploring a few options of anonymous access on the net. now that's a thought for a long term implementation.

what were the guys thinking?? when they decided to block blogspot.com blogs? but allowing access to blogger.com to update blogs?

from a few of the news reports i did check out, i believe the directive was a few certain blog urls were to be blocked, but i believe the ISP's in their wisdom decided that it was easier to block the whole thingamajig, the reason given was that they did not have tools to block specific urls. hoik.

was this a situation to simulate a electronic network attack and to test the emergency reponse procedures of the government? where they able to handle the situation? i wonder what reports are being written up about this event.

now all "they" have to do is sit down, go through all the blogs where the smart bloggers would be crowing away as to how they beat the "ban". and then next time around all "they" needs to do is block what these smart blogger did.

i am sure something else will be available the next time around.

this seems to a good method of test marketing or it looks like someone decided to use the free version of the google answers. create a situation and wait for bloggers to come up with feedback and other inputs and solutions! the power of collective wisdom and the tendency of humans to share and be happy sure is such a powerful tool for research.

for those 2 or 3 readers of my blog...did jesus really live in india?

guess, what i thought was funny in feb 2005 ,is no longer funny (blog,search and get paranoid)

heaven aint in andromeda, it has just moved into your building. (get the connection in the feb2005 article)

times mumbai is going through

stuff happening in mumbai.

first it was the rain,
then it was the riots and burning,
and we had that 7/11 with lot of people loosing their life,
innocent people who were on the way home.
after a hard day work, to be with their family and friends.

all this in about a 10 day stretch.
life sure aint giving no guarantee, that,
once you leave your home,
that you will get back.
if mother nature dont get you, then, the "people" would.

i wonder what outraged thoughts, infuriates peoples mind.
who is the victim and who has been victimised.

there are those who have got back on the train,
and there are those who would take sometime.
the children wonder, will they meet their father again.
the spouse wonders if they would see each other again.

how many road must a man walk, before he can be called a man.
times, they are a changing.

picasaweb

here is my experiment with the picasa web just got to upload a few pics. for the first time have uploaded a few pics of myself.

here it is
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mumbai wet again

last few days the monsoon has broken .. and as usual flooding being reported all around. the road leading out of the housing complex i stay in, is kind of flooded. i took about 90 minutes to cover a distance of about 1 km. had to u-turn from my normal road as it was fully flooded.

and on the other road which i finally took, the water was reaching upto the bottom of the car(could hear the gentle lapping sounds of the water) since i was not doing much travelling, i used my mobile to get a few quick snaps while stuck in the "river".

generally things seems to be looking "normal" as normal can be in mumbai during the rains. no reports of scary stuff like last time..



the rest of the pics can be checkout here.