Went to Confident Cascade resort with team today. Played football/soccer for the first couple of hours that exhausted most of us. Also played cricket and spent some time in swimming pool. That completely drained me physically, but have a fresh mind to take forward the work! Thanks team, for joining today. Its a very good day!
Here is the challenge from Open Office.
The game of Cricket is as unpredictable as weather. A good example is the final day’s play of the third test, where WIndies had to go for a rush hour declaration. Delaying the declaration might leave not enough time for WIndies to win. Preempting the declaration would mean that India gets a gettable target.
The day was filled with interesting moments, when the game tilted away and towards India. However, at no point, WIndies looked like it is going to win.
The India team managed a good total, given that its first four batsmen got a 50 each. This is the kind of batting a team would like to see, when it has to come out from the follow-on situation a day ago. Hope they continue this spree in 4th test.
India’s Minstry of Information & Technology has a eGovernance Standards site that documents several governance standards. Also, the site of President Of India is a very good read.
Didn’t get a clue about what the WIndies thinktank’s game plan is, on day 3 of the test 3. Just before lunch, they spent 14 overs scoring a mere 21 runs, where as they did make that many runs in just one over after lunch. Here is the state of the match in the pre-lunch session:
Both batsmen scored 60+, 515 runs on the board, and what would you do? Just play for lunch? Do they think the extra 45 runs they got by wasting all the critical time would matter?
Just one session of time wasted on the second day of the first test made India face the agony of coming so close to win, but not win. After all the good performance they have put in, hope WIndies don’t go thru such agony in this test.
Keeping the result aside, here are a couple of thoughts. First: Lara, undoubtedly a great player, is always criticised for being a fan of records, not results. With this strange strategy today, is he going to give more evidences for such criticism? Second: The test match version of cricket is said to be loosing its charm because of its slow pace. If a team that is in command is going to play so defensive as WIndies, probably that loss of charm is being fasttracked. Let us see how many spectators can be spotted in the stands on day 4 and 5.
Coming back to the match, Laxman, the lone player who couldn’t make his mark yet in the series, looked vulnerable, but stayed put. Building partnerships with Dravid is part of his track record, hope he continues with that record. With a WIndies loss practically out of equation, India should be happy just with a draw.
Well, the day’s matches didn’t disappoint at all! There is continuous action in the middle, in fact, more action in the form of extra time for the second tie, that saw both Genmany and Argentina to quarter finals of FIFA WC 2006. The Swedish goal keeper did an excellent job, otherwise we would have seen a much bigger margin for Germany, which held the ball for a grasping 61% of the total time. The first 10 minutes of the Argentina-Mexico tie saw 2 goals scored, and it took another 90+ minutes for Argentina to score the decider. However, the action in the middle was gripping all the time!
Good start for the second round! Hope the rest of the Cup goes like this!
Well, Ghana made it to the round of 16 in the FIFA WC 2006! Impressrive run by these underdogs! Really enjoyed watching one of their earlier matches in the league. Waiting to watch a replay of their today’s match against USA.
Verbatim pasting an email forwarded to me in an alias. Haven’t verified the truthfullness, but thought worth sharing…
Okhil Babu’s letter to the Railway Department:
“I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too
much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing
the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am
running with ‘lotah’ in one hand and ‘dhoti’ in the next when I am fall
over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I
am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait
train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big
fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report! to
papers.”Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway
office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi.
It was also reproduced under the caption “Travelers’ Tales” in the Far
Eastern Economic Review. Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?
It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains
This is what I call the power of feedback!
Fyodor, the author of popular security auditing tool nmap, has published the Top 100 Security Tools list of 2006.
Nessus and Wireshark (Formerly Ethereal) continue to top the list from 2003.
I liked #13 in the list 
. Not because of the number, but because of my long familiarity with these tools!
Thinking in lines of the fallacies of networking, I could quickly dump my thoughts and experiences of build engineering.
:-).