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How secure are our defence installations ?

Employing a Spy may be a thing of passe now thanks to tools like Google Map and Wikimapia.org . I can have a birds eye view of a airbase from my desktop, worse it also gives me longitude and latitude in equivalent decimal coordinates. Longitude and Latitude are coordinates on basis of these values one can locate exact geographical location on earth. Check those y=22471528&x=70010011&z=17&l=0&m=a in address bar of your Internet explorer browser by clicking here . In a country like ours fighting with terrorism , this would add fuel to fire. Imagine these terrorist with those sophisticated rocket launcher where in they can attack from a safer distance by keying the longitude, latitude into the launcher (do I sound like Americans) . Further to add one can have military information for most of the countries from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/index.html I am a bit jittery after discovering all this on internet.

Google talk has come a long way.

I installed the latest version of google talk and could notice change in terms of features and download size. File size has inflated to 1.5 MB as compared to 800 Kb. One of the many new features that I could notice is that one can display the current music track as your status message. To use this feature simply follow the following steps (assuming latest version of google talk is installed) In your Google Talk client, click Settings. Click Audio in the left navigation bar. Click the Share music listening history with Google Music Trends check box. Click OK to apply your change. This will share you music listening history. This feature is available with most of the popular music players like Winamp , iTunes etc. Now to show off the latest sound track you own, play the music and set the status on google talk as "Show current music track".

Gurupurab

Sikh community is celebrating Gurupurab today. I have always been amazed by the sense of seva (service) these people have. You could see a sikh step out of his Mercedes and offering seva in different ways. The richest and the poor all offer seva with the same commitment. Today during the celebrations, I could see the same commitment with a strong attachment to religion and community service. Their is lot to learn from them , seva (service) eliminates ego and blesses one with love and compassion to fellow beings. Happy Gurupurub to you all