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Just saw in yahoo.com that they released a new service called yahoo Pulse to, yes you guessed it, share whats important with your friends! From the quick look that I had, I could see sections for contacts, profile, photos, blog, apps and of course the status area to share news with the friends who have "connections" with you. Another attempt by Yahoo to get going. But folks need to come up with something more if they want attention. As it is, there are a lot many more services that are available and its getting really challenging "keeping in touch" with all my friends on different services. The service which was released in Jun, is the  Yahoo profiles that got re-born as pulse . You can find the Yahoo! service at http://pulse.yahoo.com/

I am not an ardent follower of cricket, i.e to the extent of remembering statistics or players from bygone eras. So apologies to all those who reacted to the title question with "Duh! Is this guy from earth?" or an equal response. I did not actually hear about Jack Hobbs until I came across this article on cricinfo. A super article by Gideon Haigh I must add. The article also enlightened me on the apparent class divide between the "professionals" and the "amateurs" of that time. To appreciate Hobbs' full significance, however, we must contemplate the class rigidities of his time. The discrimination that placed amateur and professional in separate dressing rooms and hotels, and had them enter the field by different gates and travel in different railway carriages, now seems as remote from our experience of cricket as sectarianism or McCarthyism. Awesome to know about him! Many of the great players are great not just because of their skill but b...

Recently I came across an article ( Can you justify your job title? ). I am quite sure that you would have had this discussion among your friends or collegues on the various titles that seem to be spawning. The comments in the above mentioned article itself gives some very super listing. For example, Global Troubleshooter , Head of Knowledge Creation , Reputation Manager .. etc are quite colorful. But it would really be interesting to meet the guy with the title Rocket Scientist Many of the organizations, at some point in time, need to streamline the roles and responsibilities that are given to their employees. I am sure with time the number of titles that would have spawned out would become un-manageable for various reasons. I have heard from HR managers themselves that they have no clue as to what a particular title was doing in their organization. I would seriously love to have the title of Global Troubleshooter or Rocket Scientist! It sounds so cool, irrespective of what the ...

I came across this article today Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect Palestinian homes. Her family has been met with hostility while pursuing a civil suit after calling the investigation a 'whitewash.'  source - http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-israel-corrie-lawsuit30-2010mar30,0,3914948.story I remembered getting forwards about this incident and this being on the forefront of the international news for some time. But didn't know that this was still on until I read the article. During a search over the net , I came across various articles on Rachel, including ones that call this case does not tell the truth. Amazing how everything is twisted till anyone trying to follow it later is thrown off track by all sorts of material on the net. Hope there is some outcome from all this for the sake of her family.