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Posted by Alan Eustace, VP Engineering & Research We're a little obsessive about digging into hard computing problems, and we love f...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg - 1878-1967, American Poet * Babies are necessary t...

China, Google News and source inclusion

There has been controversy about our new Google News China edition, specifically regarding which news sources we include. For users inside t...

ITS A GIRL Welcome RIANNA, weight 8 lbs, born on September 24, 2004 in Dhaka, Bangladesh Last Friday I have become father of a cute little b...

FIREFOX GETS EVEN BETTER I am using firefox 0.9 version for a couple of months and one thing I can tell you that this browser is very good a...

MADRASSA EDUCATION - AN ANACHRONISM OR A VICTIM OF EXPLOITATION There have been some disturbing and gruesome news in Bangladesh media in the...

Northern exposure

So you live in Canada, eh? Oh, you don't -- but you're nonetheless looking for a coffee joint with Internet access that's open r...

It all adds up

Man, gotta get my act together and get a better night's sleep. It takes me so long to just fall asleep, and then it is such a light slee...

CLEANSE YOUR HEART WITH WATERS Roger Waters, the co-founder and primary songwriter of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd, has written and re...

HOW FRAGILE WE ARE The Sun finally shined yesterday in Bangladesh after 7 days incessant rainfall. The massive rainfall (a 50 years record) ...

LINKS OF THE DAY * Nitin writes about Islam & Democracy in the context of Malaysia. It appears, Malaysia is still far from being a libe...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * There is a country where political parties fight on who would sleep in the master bed room at a time when the whole hous...

EMPLOYING THE BEGGARS Grameen Bank , the award winning initiative by Dr. Md. Yunus has pulled another stunt by offering loan to the beggars...

SLEEP AS A COMMODITY Anyone interested to catch a quick " power nap " to increase your productivity on the way to your next assign...

The journey may be the reward, but so is finding the right hotspot

We may be able to roam the globe online, but what about finding a locksmith - or a Thai place that delivers - when you need it? Meet Google ...

On the alert(s)

You're always welcome at Google, but wouldn't it be nice if Google came to you on occasion? Google Alerts enable you to specify topi...

RAIN RULES HERE It started raining from Friday night almost incessantly. It intensified since Sunday morning riding on a land depression and...

Worth the drive

We like things to be efficient and fast, so it's logical that we'd set up a shuttle service for all the Googlers driving to Mountain...

New PR up Old Farm

I got a new PR climbing up Old Farm trail yesterday. I start timing from the first little creek crossing, and end it at the top of the trail...

I GOT PLUGGED Tanim of "Busy minds in a lazy shell" Blog has published an article in the Daily Financial express titled " W...

LINKS OF THE DAY * BURMA -Grace under pressure: A remarkable photojournal made with Flash about the lives and struggles of the peoples of B...

ISLAM AND TERRORISM If you ever wonder why Muslims are being stereotyped as terrorists all over the world then you should consider the facts...

MORE CRICKET MADNESS There is always a contest of owning the remote control between my wife and me whenever we sit together for watching a c...

LIFE'S TRIVIA I have been pretty busy lately and did not find time to write about myself. Me & S. are waiting for our first baby, wh...

VIOLENCE, TERROR, OPPORTUNISTS AND WAYOUT Bangladesh is caught in a vicious web of bloody violence caused by grenade and bomb explosions, nu...

Mock race Sunday

On Sunday I went to Brush to do sort of a mock race sim. It is hard to motivate when it is just yourself, and I sure didn't have the typ...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try ...

* CINEMA GOERS HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE SOCIETY * PEOPLE OF BANGLADESH NOT COMMUNAL * GRENADE ATTACK WAS AN ANTI-ISLAM PLOT * THE GOVERN...

WORLD BANKS' LEGAL IMMUNITY The global movement against the World Bank is aimed at making the institution accountable to people as well ...

VICTIMS OF ASSYMETRICAL WARFARE I was shocked watching the pictures of the gruesome bloodbath in Beslan in the media. Its true that many of...

Will code for plane ticket?

Do you like programming challenges? Do you like competition? Do you like money? If you can answer yes to at least two of those three questio...

PHOTOBLOG -VISUAL THOUGHTS A photoblog is a type of weblog that is regularly updated with photos. Some photoblogs focus only on photography...

new wheel

Did a trainer ride yesterday. 4min intervals. 2sets 4 reps. 4min on 4off at 250watts. Not too bad, but I bogged down on the last two and ha...

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