Most of the people who’ve read Lord of the Rings swear by the writing skills of J.R.R. Tolkien. And so they should! LoTR is one hell of a story!!

But… what would have happened if LoTR had been written by some other author?! Do you want to know??

Well then just go to this discussion and satisfy your curiousity!!

It makes for hilarious reading!! ;-)

Ghatkopar blast accused escapes. According to Mid-day, Sayyed Khwaja Yunus Sayyed Khwaja Ayub, one of the accused in the Ghatkopar bomb blast case escaped from police custody. It seems that the police car, ferrying Ayub to Aurangabad for interrogation, overturned on the way. In true filmi style, Ayub, grabbing this chance, ran away handcuffed!

Art imitates life imitates art!! … go figure! ;-)

This is what, Bruce Bartlett, a syndicated columnist says in his column in The Washington Times,

I think blogging is one of the most interesting ways in which the Internet empowers people. They cost almost nothing to put up and they allow anyone with an opinion the ability reach millions of people instantly and simultaneously. Blogs have become a kind of early warning system for me, alerting me about things like Trent Lott’s political problems days before it appeared in the conventional press.
Blogs are here to stay and their power will only grow. I think they are going to revolutionize politics and newsgathering permanently.

A life in bits and bytes. In the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, tech visionary Vannevar Bush had written of a future personal device in which an individual could store all his books, records, communications, etc. and which could be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. Bush envisaged it to be an enlarged intimate supplement to an individual’s memory.

Now, fifty-seven years later, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, working in a Microsoft project at the Bay Area Research Centre in San Francisco, has sort of realized Vannevar Bush’s vision.

He has developed a prototype of the device envisaged by Bush and since 1998, he’s been recording his life in bits and bytes. Read Gordon Bell’s interview that recently appeared on CNet News.com.