hey everyone...

ok everytime I post a poem it means that I didnt have time to write my blog... lol (WAAAY too much being made of just a poem thats why ;) )

my last to last post I said I would talk a little about cricket ? but i realized that no matter what I say its not going to make much of a difference.... someone rightly said ..... cricket is played by 11 fools and watched by another million ! (besides basketball is my thing anyway... :D)

by the way todays rant will begin at marvelling the collection of blogs that have sprung up...... I just wanted to see which blog would be mine after mine i clicked on "next blog" ... AND i came across one on NAXALS, one in russian (despite my best efforts at trying to read the russian ad... COME ON -the only famous russian thing that I know is an AK-47 ! well that and the toy automatic car that my dad got me from moscow... which I might say even made archies jalopy look like a BENTLEY ! )

anyway before i get carried away... ok being a part academic ( part academic because in my opinion only PHDS and profs count as FULL academic ) I used the google scholar quite extensively.. its quite brilliant actually.... links to ACTUAL articles... but there are major copyright problems there, which I might talk about next time ( if its not in your destiny to suffer one of my poems :P )
BUT
what i wanted to talk about was whether google could take over wikipedia.. think about it for a second... what is google BEST at ? U say search... well thats a little superficial.. dig a little deeper... why did google start maps or why did it buy youtube (or on a rather sad note why has my homepage become google news :P )... its awesome at MANAGING information ! its an information world baby !

like youtube driven by user content.. wikipedia is massively driven by user adapted content ! the best part is it opens LIMITLESS opportunities (k now you will realize why I started with scholar). It would be brilliant if they were able to interface wiki with google scholar.. jesus I am getting even jittery at the thought !

anyways if u have any thoughts on this.. let me know.. cheers

( FINANICAL TIMES HEADLINE YR 2050 - GOOGLE MAPS NEARBY SOLAR SYSTEM FINDING LIFE ! )

to the departed


For those who have gone
we may not remember you everyday for it would make us feel lone
yet you live on not through your children nor by just your memories
you live on through your deeds
Forever immortalized in our memories
To cherish the moments that we had
Only to find that as we grasp them tighter

Like sand through the hand do they fade away faster

Part - ii

as we ventured into the mid of a forest following a path god knows leading us where... there was an odd sort of comfort. In my head I realized that I could never be as relaxed as then... in a way we didn't give a damn where we were going.. we were all so stressed out.. it was just a relief to hear the noise of a jungle... maybe tigers roaring were indeed FAR better than the cacophony generated by modern (s0me might say wonderful) man made machines.

As i realize i have digressed :P (btw before i continue one last digression for the APPALLING DELAY from my last post )
well we continued and it wouldd be stupid to think that we continued along t he same path and somehow made it without meeting some soul (perhaps casper the friendly ghost maybe :P ) We were pretty thirsty into something like i would say four hrs of biking.... we found an outpost and for a sec i tht at least (don't know about the other two) thought it might be haunted ;)... anyway we went in and we found a guy who was AMAZED that we had made it that far without a guide..

after a quick refill of water... we were on our way... (i think i have forgotten to mention i had the WORST hangover as i had finished off every ones drinks the previous day... yes i know was a drunkard but now i am far better.. HONESTLY... k maybe i am just getting there.. working progress u see ;) ) we reached the summit (we were going uphill) and had a cup of tea at a shack on the main road we had reached.... and then it was time to head home... if u can imagine something like 15 kms downhill ! it was brilliant.. though couldn't enjoy as i had terrible hangover which oddly enough seemed to kick in as the day was beginning to end and NOT the other way round...

anyways till next time.. cheers everyone (oops an abrupt ending... people who know me would say thats how i am anyway.. lol next time new story ! maybe a dip of match fixin and cricket craziness ! )