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The guest called Death

Feb 22, 2010 7 comments

For what is it to die but to stand naked
in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to
free the breath from its restless tides...

- Khalil Gibran

Last Sunday [Day before] I happened to see an accident .The first hand experience of this incident sent a chill down my spine, and left me totally disturbed with the fact how helpless we are .

All I could do was watch a man die and and do nothing about it, Things like this are hard to forget, the Man gasping for his last breaths, and the pain in his eyes , and the pool of Gore on the road , and some bloody foot prints left behind by someone...
Death at that time was just 5 foots away from me.
Your worst nightmares could be more pleasing than this.

A few Minutes later the place was filled with Cops and onlookers taking snaps in their mobile phones as if it was some sort of tourist spot.
I went home with a bag of Mixed emotion Grief, Helplessness, Fear, and above all - The realization of 'How mortal we all are!'
and questions like
Would the man have thought that this was this last goodbye, when he left home that morning?
Where was he going?
Wouldn't his family be waiting for him?
Would his daughter see her father again...

I don't know anything about him, except a broken license plate. Yet I felt like I just had lost someone I know.

Death is a guest who comes and always gifts it's host with a loss when he leaves ,a loss that can never be compensated. At that point we all realize how beautiful our lives are and How lucky we are just to stay alive, and to have just another day here with the ones you love...The real Paradise!

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[This is a tribute to Who ever he was : Let his Soul R.I.P]

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The Buzz about 'Buzz'

Feb 16, 2010 4 comments

As they say, Its better late than Never!

Google had caught up with the status update concept of-late, when Face book and Twitter has already acquired the market share 40% and 48% respectively. It seems that google never considered the idea to be potential enough unless they found the great success of Twitter.
In spite of it's late release I have been hearing some great reviews from the users about buzz.

As far as I am concerned the Idea of One-Id-For-All is a great concept, and there still would be people interested in it, thinking about the convenience of remembering 3-10 passwords for emails and social networking sites all togethe.

There are a few good things that I found with the Buzz....

1. One is that You dont have a 140 Character constrain:
I tweet a lot but didn't actually liked the way twitter refrained me to enter more than 140 characters in a single message...But Buzz in cool, you can can enter how much you want without shortening and screwing my message

2- You can integrate sites like twitter, picassa etc using Buzz, So that whenever I tweet , it is listed in the Buzz too, my every update in the sites linked to it is shown to my followers..

3- My blogspots: The feeds from my blog is pulled into buzz , now this is something similar to the previous point, but I wanted to give this emphasis, because I found this a very helpful tool to market my blog, each time I post something new, It's shown to my followers *Un-tampered* and I have found my hits on the blog Increasing after the buzz-Blogger integration.

4- It's easy: Another best thing about Buzz is that It's simple: Some of my friends still don't tweet because they cannot understand 'How To use Twitter' [Next time you I will get you a link for twitter for Dummies , I promise :P] but Buzz is simply 'Simple' that My grandma can go Buzzing !!!

5- Following friends: You can follow anyone in your contacts who has a buzz, that's cool!!! See the benefit of One-id-For-All !!

One thing I would like to see is in Buzz is; A two way data transfer to twitter [A Twitter API]- so that I can sit back in the office, and tweet through the Buzz;
This way I dont get my ass whipped by My Manager or Network guy :p!

[P.S: If my Manager is reading this post :Please excuse my french, I didnt mean you, I just meant -generally!!!]