Hyderabad Blues

Another viscious attack on the heart of the hyderabad city. Another illusion shattering. The Local behaviour of terrorism is always a matter of heartburn. No one wishes his/her place is vulnerable. It is not sad, it is downright mean. It is quite easy to smuggle a bomb into a crowded place. The chilly feeling you get when walking through the hustle and bustle Charminar on the eve of Ramadan is no more a joke or something to be trivially talked about. The sadness of the whole thing lies in the fact that, the fragile nature of communalism gets itself boosted here in these instances.

One could easily start Muslim bashing as usual. But wait, Hyderabad! It is not just any run-of-the-mill areas where you can do all your bashing and get away with it. A place known for its Nawabs and Islamic culture, clearly something is wrong in here. Maybe it is time to blame it on Hindus. The Mecca Masjid clearly points to the same. Maybe it is the retaliation. Maybe it is local vengeance of the global hatred.

None of this however takes into consideration the gravity of the situation. Not of terrorism, anyway. This is a time where all the terrorism rhetoric comes up, become alive in the newspapers for, say, one week and becomes common place only to come back in the next wave of attacks. Let us not be so complacent. Maybe it is time to tell people that hatred isn’t helping. There are peaceful methods of protest. That all of forms of extremisms are criminal. Let not the leaders get lost in their own rhetoric.

Let us make sure that we start thinking for ourselves and not lend our heart and brain to our so-called leaders. let us enjoy the pleasures of thinking for ourselves.

Taking Note

Digital notebooks are always tempting. With a host of exciting features I don’t know why they are not so popular as they should be. And we clearly need a disctinction between the many word processing utilities like the skinny Notepad to the very resourceful Word 2007. Though one can use them to (and many of us do) maintain reasonably well-off notes, they clearly lack the spirit of the online workflow. Think of embedding a audio in the notebook and the Word file won’t even open properely.   Well did I say audio. Maybe I was talking about Powerpoint. The word doesnt even have an option like that. So what does that signify? Well Word was always meant to be text-processing tool not a notebook. But in the current web2.0 era it is obvious that notes are not only about text, but involves all kinds of media. here comes the utility of notebooks. Well OneNote is clearly in your mind with its 2007 version offering a dazzling array of features making it the most useful notebook manager ever. But we are talking about the web 2.0 era right? So the primary criterion is that it have to be online. Forget about the many sharing features of OneNote. The thingy I am talking about is completely online.

The Zoho Notebook. Easy accesibilty anywhere around the world. True web 2.0.

Start a notebook and add anything: text, pictures, audio, video, sheets, files and even feeds to a page! Then share it with anyone you want. Share a page or selected pages or an entire notebook as well as create and share any number of notebooks.

Cool  links:                                                                                                                                            1. Web Worker Daily  An excellent write-up on the various online note-talking tools is available here.   

2.Solutionwatch  presents a collection of  50 note-taking tools suited for various purposes from around the web.                                                                                                                                                            

Posthosting

This could my blog for sometime. My tumblog is dead long ago. But I am happy I brought some one back to blogging. Our very own. James machu. I shall post here. Very irregularly But maybe I shall go back to my bloguru account.