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This blog has become a sort of personal-cum-public diary. As for its contents, some are meant for me and my friends and relatives; others are for the public. This blog will have only positive, ennobling, elevating, encouraging and uplifting thoughts/ideas/materials. Whoever visits should feel happy and should be able to pick up some good ideas/thoughts/links. In short, "NOTHING NEGATIVE" is my motto.(Grateful thanks to Jon Sullivan and Public-Domain-Photos.com for the background photo)

Friday, November 28, 2008

Eyecatchers-122: "Two Million Books/Articles/Images in Public Domain!"

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A news item in the Newscape section of The Hindu, Madurai edition of November 21. 2008 caught my eye. It was about the Europeana Digital Lib...
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Open Access-6: "Open Access and the New Possibilities Offered by Digitization"

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As open access takes on strength and visibility, new possibilities appear. The capacity to link documents together constantly grows in impor...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Health News-8: "Insulin in Spray Form"

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The Chief Executive Officer of the Generex Biotechnology Corporation of U.S., Anna Gluskin, launched the world's first Recombinant DNA h...
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Letters-56: "Campus Violence"

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1. Students get emboldened and resort to arson and hooliganism because of the support and protection from political parties and caste leade...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Eyecatchers-121: "What is happening in Sri Lanka?"

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I came across an open letter from Mr.Douglas Devananda, Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Eelam, in the Tamil daily, 'Dinamala...

S&T Watch-37: "Tricolor on the Moon!"

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The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) onboard Chandrayaan-1 successfully ejected and landed on the lunar surface. With the Tricolor painted on its si...

Facts & Figures-57: Inflation down to 8.98%

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The Tamil daily Dinamani, Madurai, reports that the country's inflation rate has come down to 8.98% as of November 1, 2008. Grateful th...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Facts & Figures-56: "Bimonthly Electricity Bill, Rs.1,02,468!"

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I came across this news in a Tamil daily. The Minister for Power of the Govt of Tamil Nadu, Arcot Veeraswamy has informed the Tamilnadu Legi...

Osama, Obama and Omama!

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Aravind is my pet and I have written about him and posted his photos in this blog several times. His latest antic is, he has started callin...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Letters-55: "Violence on the Law College Premises"

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1. The TV images of the clash between two groups of students on the Dr.Ambedkar Govt Law College campus, Chennai, were spine-chilling. I ha...

Health News-7: "World Diabetes Day"

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To counter the alarming rise of Diabetes world over, World Health Organization and International Diabetes Federation have started observing ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Letters-54: "Lessons from the US Presidential Election"

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The US and India are the two biggest democracies in the world. The people and political parties in India should, therefore, learn a few impo...

Eyecatchers-120: "Mars Lander dies in Arctic Dust Storm"

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NASA has lost contact with the Mars Lander, bringing an end to the Phoenix mission five months after the spacecraft became the first to land...

S&T Watch-37: "Unique Odourprints"

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I came across a news item in The New Indian Express (Tiruchy edition, November 12, 2008) which says every human being has a unique fragrance...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Eyecatchers-119: "Wedding in the Sky!"

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'Jumping' into Marriage Couple wed in first 'Bungee Ceremony' in the World! A couple married 150 feet in the air before cele...

Letters-53: "A Lesson or Two"

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A more significant aspect of Mr.Obama's landslide victory was Senator John McCain's gracious concession speech. Mr.McCain was full o...

Letters-52: "Dr.Martin Luther King's Dream Realized!"

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A biracial man with an African father, an Indonesian stepfather, with the middle name Hussein and last name Obama, having a family in Kenya ...
Sunday, November 09, 2008

My Photo Album-30: "Suri at the Taj Mahal"

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This photograph makes me feel nostalgic. It was taken by a professional photographer who makes a living by taking photographs of visitors to...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

Random Thoughts-16: "Cluttering, Uncluttering and Decluttering"

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I take pride in calling myself a booklover and book collector. But my family members have different ideas and call me by different names, wh...

Letters-51: "Obama's Historic Win"

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1. The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America is a historic global event for more than one reason. ...
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