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Christmas Ola!

For twenty centuries the birth of Christ has been celebrated differently by the different Christian sects. Many have counted the coming of Christmas as a time for exchanging nicely caparisoned, costly gifts. Many children look upon Christmas as the time for Santa Claus to give them new toys. They hang empty stockings around the chimney place. Santa is supposed to slip down the sooty opening of the chimney and fill the stockings with the longed-for articles. Some children remain awake and some dream, waiting for Christmas Morn.

Some hoary gentlemen who have lost interest in life perhaps look upon Christmas as a good time for a special home-cooked hot dinner। Some folks drink themselves into oblivion, expecting thus to celebrate the birth of Christ. American mothers and fathers are very fond of decorating the Christmas tree and loading it with gifts. The churches take Christmas as an occasion for great festivity.

Some religious institutions brace up and decorate their places and invite crowds, expecting big collections to enhance church activities। It is right to use business methods in order to advance the work of Christ in establishing Him in the Souls of men, but it is blasphemous to use Christ merely as a means for increasing business.

Some churches thank God intensely for sending His beloved Child to redeem the sin-laden world. Some serious-minded monks and nuns in the sequestered nooks of their monasteries celebrate Christmas more seriously by meditating on Christ.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

N

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Flowers For My Loving Father!!!!!!!

Today is 19 june 2011 and its Fathers Day once again.
My friends are busy writing letters,making beautiful cards and wrapping gifts but i've no letters to write,no Happy Fathers Day cards to make and no gifts to wrap. How i wish to hold those colorful pencil and write a letter to my father? How i wish to atleast stand in front of my father and see him smile as I hug and wish him, "Happy Fathers Day Dad"?

In fact i've never wished my father on Fathers Day even once in my life. My father left me before i was old enough to understand the meaning of Fathers Day. I was barely 7 years old when daddy suddenly left for his heavenly abode. He didnt even give us a chance to bid goodbye to him. It was all too sudden. One moment.... he was gone... One moment we were all laughing and praying together and the next morning i heard my mom screaming and shouting and calling my fathers name. Perplexed and confused I moved towards my fathers lifeless body.. My father had died in his sleep.
It was very hard to recover from the shock of my fathers dead. As a result I grew up very angry at God for taking my father so early from my life.. Friends and relative tried to comfort by saying God needed my father more than we do but i too needed my daddy in my Life( he is mine )...
But as time passed God has healed my wounds and pains and Im no longer angry at him. I stil miss daddy but Im happy at the thought that even though God took away my dad, He had blessed of with another four more daddy in my life. God has blessed me with a loving step father who loves of more than himself. Then there is may uncle(my fathers elder brother) whom i believe is the best person in this whole wide world. His love, care and protection for us is beyond words for me to describe. I'll always remain indebted to him. Next is my loving Grandfather with whom I've spent the best years of my life. They will always remain very special to me. Last but not the least is God, our loving father himself who has never left even a single moment of my life alone even though I've repeatedly disappointed him.....
As I write this... I've noticed, that my friends..... they have completed making and wrapping their cards and gifts. And They cant wait to see their father....!!! As for me i cant wait for my winter vacation..! I'll not forget to take bunches of flowers for my Loving Dad when i get back to my Hometown.!.! And as soon as i reached my Home I'll go to my fathers grave, and place the flowers on his tomb stone and say "Happy Belated Fathers Day Dad. I'll forever love you...."

missing you
DAD!!!!!!!!!:'(:-(

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Remains of the Day: Google vs. Facebook

The iPhone 4 is the most
accident-prone smartphone,
Google and Facebook fight it
out over data exports, and
search engine Blekko is gaining
popularity fast.

*Report: iPhone 4 Is
Most Fragile
Smartphone
Maybe it's the
glass, or maybe
it's just the users
but iPhones are
reported as having
the highest
accident rate when
compared to other
smartphones.
[Wired]

*Livestream For
Facebook Lets You
DIY Live Stream
Video On Fan
Pages
Livestream has
partnered up with
Facebook to allow
users to embed
live streaming
video on their
Facebook Fan
Pages.
[TechCrunch]


*Trap my contacts
now
Google, feeling
Facebook should
allow users the
ability to export
their contacts
data, has, in
response, stopped
allowing Facebook
users to directly
link their Gmail
contacts with
Facebook. With this
recent message
targeting their
users, Google is
now taking every
possible measure
to raise user
awareness.
[Google]

*Aiming for Bronze,
Blekko Gets a
Million Searches a
Day
New slash-tag
search engine
Blekko is already
approaching one
million queries a
day. And just in
case you missed it,
here's our take on
how to better
search with Blekko.
[Wired]

*Voice Search in
underrepresented
languages
Google Voice
Search is quickly
becoming the
global translation
tool as it continues
to expand support
for other
languages. Today
it gains Zulu and
Afrikaans speech
recognition.
[Google Mobile
Blog]

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Twitter diplomacy:Who Follows WhomAmong theWorld Leader's

Twitter is the
preferred channel for
quick banter for over
175 million users
around the world
including our political
leaders. Over half of
the heads of states
and governments of
the G20 meeting in
Seoul on November 11
and 12 have an
official Twitter
account ( http://
twitter.com/Davos/
G20).

Some like
@BarackObama have
5.5 million followers,
while others such as
the French Presidency
only have 6,600. All
other G20 leaders
are somewhere in
between and yes,
you
guessed it, none of
them tweet
personally.

What
interesting though is
not who has the most
followers, but rather
who follows who.

Grand master in the
art of political tweets
@BarackObama
ranks fifth in the
world and mutually
follows his Russian
counterpart Dmitry
Medvedev
@KremlinRussia_E who
sent his first tweet in
late June. The Russian
president is very
active, especially
Twitpicing, and now
has over 160,000
followers on his English
and Russian accounts
combined.

The @KremlinRussia_E
and the @WhiteHouse
both follow UK Prime
Minister David
Cameron
@Number10gov. These
three could actually
conduct a direct and
secret Twitter
diplomacy in 140
characters literally
spelling
end of those red
phones that have
been sitting around
for so
long
as Barack Obama
recently joked.

However, only London
and Moscow follow
Canada
@PMHarper who
@BarackObama and
the @WhiteHouse seem
to ignore. But it gets
worse! None of the
big four follow the
other G20 members
on Twitter. Neither is
following @DilmaBR,
the new president of
Brazil, nor
@JuliaGillard, the
Prime Minister of
Australia or the
presidents of Korea
@BluehouseKorea,
France @Elysée,
Mexico
@FelipeCalderon, South
Africa
@PresidencyZA or
Turkey
@cbAbdullahGul.

At the Franco-British
summit last Tuesday
@Number10gov started
to follow the @Elysée
Palace which had not
immediately
reciprocated. In fact
the French Presidency
is following no one
and therefore Nicolas
Sarkozy cannot have
a private
conversation with his
peers on Twitter.

And finally, for the
record: while the
Russian and Mexican
presidents tweeted
public
congratulations to the
new Brazilian
president on her
recent election win,
neither had the
foresight to actually
follow her. Only
exception:
Venezuela
President Hugo
Chavez
@ChavezCandanga
who talked to Dilma
Rousseff on the phone
and immediately
started following her.

During the G20
summit in Seoul
follow the official
Twitter channel http://
twitter.com/
g20seoulsummit or read
the 140 character
diplomacy on the
World Economic
Forum
G20 Twitter list:
http://twitter.com/
Davos/G20.
Matthias Lüfkens
( @Luefkens) is Head of
Social Networks at
the World Economic
Forum, He is an
occasional
contributor to the
Swiss-French
magazine Bilan
( www.bilan.ch) and
blogs in French at
http://
lufkens.wordpress.co

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Cloud ComputingStartup NomadeskRaises $7 Million ToSupportUS Expansion

Nomadesk, formerly
known as Aventiv, offers
one of the most elegant
cloud-based data
sharing, synchronization
and storage solutions on
the market, and
you
probably never even
heard of it.

Perhaps this will change
in the near future, as the
Belgian company has just
raised $7 million in Series
B financing to support its
plans for expansion in
North America.

The capital injection
comes from previous
backer GIMV and a new
investor, BAMS Angel
Fund.

To bring its solutions to
market, Nomadesk
partners with operators
and OEMs, and
it
precisely that indirect
business that it aims to
accelerate using the new
funds. The company
already boasts
agreements with leading
ISPs and hosting
companies in Belgium,
namely Telenet and
Hostbasket, but has also
struck partnerships with
US-based Novatel
Wireless and
Canada
Bell .

With the new funds,
Nomadesk intends to
expand its international
presence as its pipeline
for new partners in
North America and other
parts of the world is
filling up nicely, according
to the company.

Nomadesk, for the first
time to my knowledge,
also publicly disclosed
who sits on its board of
directors. Apart from
management and
investor representatives,
the board includes
people like Yves Michali
(formerly at Novell,
Microsoft, Mobiclick and
Groove Networks) and
Yvan Morel de
Westgaver (previously
an executive at EDS and
now an active private
equity investor).


Nomadesk has now
raised more than $10
million in venture capital...

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Paul, world-famous'psychic' octopus, dies inGermany

Paul the octopus, who shot to
fame during this year's football
World Cup for his flawless
record in predicting game
results, has died peacefully in
his sleep, his German aquarium
said Tuesday.
A football jersey of the
Spanish national team is held in
front of the aquarium of the
'psychic' octopus Paul at the
Sea Life in Oberhausen,
western Germany, in July. Paul,
who shot to fame during this
year's football World Cup in
South Africa for correctly
predicting the outcome of
games, has died peacefully in
his sleep, according to his
aquarium in Germany.
"Management and staff at the
Oberhausen Sea Life Centre
were devastated to discover
that oracle octopus Paul, who
achieved global renown during
the recent World Cup, had
passed away overnight," the
aquarium said in a statement.
"He appears to have passed
away peacefully during the
night, of natural causes," said
Sea Life manager Stefan
Porwoll.
"His success made him almost a
bigger story than the World
Cup itself... We had all naturally
grown very fond of him and he
will be sorely missed."
Paul beat the odds during the
World Cup by correctly
forecasting all eight games he
was asked to predict, including
Spain's 1-0 win over the
Netherlands in the final.
For the prediction, two boxes
were lowered into the salty
soothsayer's tank, each
containing a mussel and the
flags of the two opposing
teams.
Watched by a crowd of
reporters, Paul would head to
one box, wrench open the lid
and gobble the tasty morsel,
with the box he plumped for
being deemed the likely winner.
His astonishing ability made him
a global media phenomenon. His
later predictions were carried
live on rolling news channels in
Germany.
Within an hour of his death,
more than 150 messages of
condolence were posted on
Paul's "official" Facebook page.
"Paul, we will never forget you.
We love you," wrote one. "There
will never be an octopus as
cool as you again," wrote
another.
Paul himself "wrote" from
beyond the grave: "It seems,
my time has come, finally. Take
care everybody. Hugs and
don't forget me."
The eight-legged oracle
became a media superstar for
his skills, but he naturally fell
out with fans whose teams he
failed to tip.
He was slammed in the British
press for treason after tipping
Germany to beat his "home
country" which they duly did,
4-1.
He then fell offside with bitter
German fans who threatened
to turn him into sushi after he
correctly predicted a semi-
final defeat for the
Mannschaft against Spain.
Stung by Paul's "treachery",
some sections of the
350,000-strong crowd
watching the game on giant
screens in Berlin sang anti-
octopus songs.
The honour of Paul's mother
was also called into question in
the stands, and Paul's home
aquarium received death-
threat emails saying "we want
Paul for the pan."
No less an authority than
Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero called
for octopus bodyguards.
And Spanish Industry Minister
Miguel Sebastian called for the
creature to be given an
"immediate" free transfer to
Spain to "ensure his protection."
But Paul's fans need not
despair too much at his death.
The aquarium has already been
grooming a successor, to be
named Paul like his mentor.
Paul's body is now in cold
storage while the aquarium
decides "how best to mark his
passing."
"We may decide to give Paul his
own small burial plot within our
grounds and erect a modest
permanent shrine," said Porwoll.
"While this may seem a curious
thing to do for a sea creature,
Paul achieved such popularity
during his short life that it may
be deemed the most
appropriate course of action."

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