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 Monday, December 18, 2006
Flickr Collections including "My Water"
I finally decided to go with flickr as my photographic gallery. I ended up loading hundreds of pictures today. My favorite is the "My Water" collection.
A couple of months ago, I was in Mumbai for IndiMIX and we were enduring a long taxi ride to the Microsoft office. I had my camera with me as usual and was snapping random pictures everywhere. At a stop light, I saw this very young kid standing next to a bus stop. He was barefoot and looked very poor and possibly homeless (which in Mumbai has a very vague meaning!). He was carrying around a discarded half litre soda bottle full of water.
I started taking photos of him purely on instinct (and because of his charming smile). He was so curious about something hanging from a small chain on one of the poles of the bus stop. He kept playing with his water, washing his head, and splashing water everywhere. He was very quite, didn't seem to be speaking at all. He would walk around and then come back to the thing on the chain and he was SO curious.
It was heartbreaking! And then he moved away from the pole and went to a shop with shoes lined up in the window. I just wanted to get out of the car and get him a pair of shoes. But to my shock he wasn't interested in the shoes. He just wanted to pour some water on the window sill and play some more.
At that moment I decided to get out of the car and just hand him some money. He was unsupervised so I hoped he could spend it on something he LIKED and not needed. But before I could do anything the traffic started moving and there wasn't anything I could do.
I went back through the same route the next day but I couldn't find the kid.
You can see the "My Water" set at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nukeation/sets/72157594424347659/
and my other collections at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nukeation/ 
Saturday, December 16, 2006
WinInfo Short Takes makes my weekend!FUD of the Week: IDC Says Microsoft Will Drive Users to Linux
I'm a big fan of "This Is the Year of Desktop Linux" stories because, a) it has never happened, and b) it obviously will never happen. But that hasn't stopped the prescient analysts at IDC from predicting that Microsoft, ironically, will be responsible for driving users from Windows to, yes, Linux. How will this happen, you ask? Well, Microsoft's heavy-handed approach to software piracy is so onerous, IDC said, that users will go running to the relative safety and friendliness of Linux. Hey, it makes sense. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
It's Official: Google Is Evil
Apparently, Google's corporate mantra--"Do no evil"--includes a typo, because the company's behavior is decidedly evil. I'm not even sure where to start on this one. There's the license agreement for Google's phishing filter, which basically tells you that, yes, the company is going to give away your private information. Then there's the debacle of last week's release of a Google-branded version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7, which conspicuously copied--in a blatant, wholehearted fashion--a similar Yahoo project. But my favorite little bit of fun out of Mordor--er, ah, Google--has got to be what happens if you try to change the default search provider on version of IE 7 in which you've installed the Google toolbar. It actually prevents you from changing the search provider to anything other than Google, using a feature that presents itself as protection against other applications that are trying to surreptitiously change your search provider. And you know how often that happens.
Courtesy: www.winsupersite.com | Paul Thurrott's WinInfo UPDATE
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Jungle Coast - Costa RicaThe website for Jungle Coast (Costa Rica) has gone live at http://www.junglecoast.com - designed by Nukeation Studios (as usual).  Jungle Coast is owned by a dear friend of mine, Cynthia Najim. She is perhaps the craziest person I know. I mean it in a good way (in this context). I met her a few years back when we worked on a project together (in India). Check out this excerpt from her profile:
"While living in Hong Kong for 12 years, Cynthia managed a variety of events around Asia, including the official celebrations for the reunification of Hong Kong and China, the APEC Business Forum, Chinese New Year Parade and others. Cynthia also studied in Spain, served the diplomatic community in Washington, DC, was Program Director for the Guam USO, did pro-bono marketing work in India, and led a tour through Tibet - among other projects." She's also a terrific photographer. Check out the visual gallery at www.junglecoast.com (under EXPERIENCE). Since we share a great love for nature, she's been telling me to come to Costa Rica - which I plan to in early 2007. I badly need a vacation - been working non-stop since 2002!! Anyways, I'm gonna upgrade my photographic equipment (Andy, help!!) and do my first "photo tour" in Costa Rica. It seems like such a lovely place. And I'm a reptile freak (along with a plain freak) so I'm told I'll love it there. Maybe even climb into a volcano. Swim with crocs. Check out the Tortuga National Park. Maybe even take a sidetrip to Galapagos. I love turtles/tortoises. In fact, my first word as a baby was "turtle". No wait, my first word was "onion". The next one was "turtle". Is it sad that I'm thinking how much fun it would be to blog about the trip as opposed to thinking how much fun the trip would be? Sigh. Anyways, check out the site, and if you're looking to invest in some property in Costa Rica, this is the person to call. :) PS. No, she is NOT trespassing in this picture.
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