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As the graphic says... This is a very positive change from the recent political climate in the US. This shows not just the renewed interest of people in politics, but also a serious challenge to the big lobby run election campaigns of the yore!
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/03/solzhenitsyn.dead/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn My impressions of Solzhenitsyn is mixed. On one hand I have high regards for his humanitarian contributions in exposing the cruelties...
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Over zealous, and highly dramatized "concern" about "life" is one of the hallmarks of American Conservatism. A strong aversion to women's rights, especially reproductive rights is shared equally by both Christianity and Islam....
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The new three part series in National Geographic is one of the endless series of very high definition earth imageries that now fills the Science/Discovery/NG channels. This, like most other documentaries of the type gives a rather peripheral view of the...
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We, me and Shobha had been waiting eagerly for this evening. Setup reminders in TV, turned on NASA TV in my computer by 5 PM. It sure was a nail biter. Shobha cried. I almost did. Ahh... what a wonderful landing. No, I will not get into the politics of...
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Well, that should not be a special news from someone from Kerala. However, it is different in my case. I have been living alone as Shobha is visiting Kerala. We just finished our new kitchen and I am still in the process of stocking it and getting familiarized...
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I still love rain: I landed on the 22nd to the midst of a severe spring depression in the Arabian Sea. Really torrential rains for almost three days without a pause. A very nice reminder of the monsoons. Yes, it was disastrous, with large amounts of crops...
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For a few years, we have been toying with the idea of getting permanent sterilization. However, since we have come up with a quite efficient plan of contraception and abstinence, this was not in the forefront of discussion. Last year, we asked our primary...
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Full transcript and video here. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBbKG
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There was one time, when I would have accepted a Delphi project over pretty much any other. However, last several releases of Delphi has made me change my mind. Every release of Delphi after version 7.0 had been a total disappointment. Whatever is the...
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I was off my rocker for more about 10 weeks now. Well, it is actually a recliner. Still, one of my asses favorite resting places. We started a rather long remodeling project earlier last year. Well, the full story of that probably will follow. Early January...
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The commercial shows the car in the desert, climbing a hill, etc. The sound says, "you may never drive it in a desert or climb 70 degree slope... [] but someone might. Knowing that we cannot engineer anything less" thus spoke the new Mercedes...
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US is getting ready to shoot down a defunct spy satellite. Read here. http://www.space.com/news/ap-080214-spy-satellite-shootdown.html . The funny thing is that US was causing so much noise against space arms race discussions put forward by Russia and...
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Codegear today announced their developer survey for Delphi product line. See the announcement here http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/2008/01/31/39017#comment-18925 . Being a long term Delphi user, and my strong opinions about the recent releases from...
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David I of CodeGear has written a blog lamenting about the amount of innovation is lost through software piracy. The thing I noticed was the familiarity of this argument with the one that is put forth by RIA. Then he brings in some statistics to prove...