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Neat wallpaper

best_firefox_wallpaper Originally uploaded by prashantvictory Found this neat wallpaper. Wonder whether it is a genuine firefox wallpaper

The legend that it was.... the RD350

An excerpt: “The RD350 by Yamaha was the premier sport lightweight of the early 1970s. Ahead of its time, it featured an air-cooled, two-cylinder, six-speed, 350cc two-stroke engine. The bike made about 32 to 35 rear-wheel horsepower, very fast for when it was made.”   From: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/11/22/stories/2006112200840100.htm   I remember (i.e. I am not going to forget) the one time that I managed to ride it… What an awesome bike!!!!!     Dreaming, Sachin  

Information Overload - A parallel

So many feeds, so many blogs, so many web sites. And what do I face???? … an information overload!!!!   Trying to find out how to clean up the clutter, I came up with many suggested solutions. (Eg. Meme s, follow/track using twitter, Yahoo! Pipes, lifestreams, etc.)… and again I messed up. I realized that the problem I faced is of “missing out something important”. i.e. I keep getting the feeling that if I don’t follow a particular topic/person using one or many of the above technologies, I may miss out something.   Pondering for some time made me realize that there is another similar scenario where information overload has occurred.   Consider journalists. They have been collecting decades, if not centuries of news items, information pieces which may or may not have been published. But kept with the hope that they may be useful at a future point of time. So they have gigabytes (or petabytes?) of information. This information is sometimes back tracked, images previously