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Computer scientists are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore a next-generation model for safe and legal electronic commerce that uses Internet bandwidth as a global currency. The application (available for free download) is an enhanced version of a program called Tribler.read more | digg story I like the way social networking has taken off on the internet. For any social networking site, the revenue generated has mostly been due to advertisements based on traffic, or ...

Take a well known legend such as Excalibur, travel backwards in time instead of forward, throw in some human elements such as A dedicated General [Colin Firth], an assassin like lady warrior [Aishwarya Rai], A Wizard preceptor [Ben Kingsley] a little boy as the protagonist, and mix it up in a story blanket of a quest and voila, you have the Last Legion. I first saw the trailer on television a ...

Wishing all my brothers and sisters spattered across the globe and at India, as well as friends of Indians, a Happy 60th Independence Day.  When we look back, its hard to think that it has been only sixty years, since the Independence.  Much has happened, some good, some bad.  Its hard to understand, but without our previous generations fighting for independence, I would not even be blogging about it.  So here's

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I'm bored and I need some inspiration so I'm throwing out a challenge. I want to see 200 words or less,  on the best moment of your day. Tell it any way you want, first person, third person, from the point of view of a tree, I don't care. Just show me the best moment of your day.

This was the challenge thrown to our writers group, by Sandra Brennan.  here is my response, which I dont

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Yesterday we changed our cell phone numbers.  We nixed our land line and made it a mobile.  Since the number was atleast  three years old, we decided to keep it.  So the switacharoo had to happen.  Obviously the i-phone was involved too.  The other phone was a blackberry. We ported the numbers but wanted a remap of numbers within our mobiles.  The AT&T personnel cancelled old plans, gave us fresh sim cards and registered the blackberry

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A special thanks to my new friend Agantuk, who is a linguist from India, and I met online. We were exchanging poems that we both like, and then he asked me whether I write poems myself. It has been a very long time, since I wrote poems of any kind. So I actually sat in one place, came out with this poem and sent it to him. He liked it. So now having gained some confidence, I am publishing the ...