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You may remember my last year’s April fool post. Well, that was just one of my crazy April Fool ideas. I have a huge list of them actually.

On this April fool day, however, I am not going to use any of them. Instead, I am going to give them away, so that you can use these ideas to fool others.

Here is the April Fool Ideas document.

PS: You don’t have to be a blogger to use these ideas. Some of them are very trivial and you can easily implement them at home/college/office.

Yesterday, Microsoft and NASA announced a technology agreement under which NASA will make available its huge amount of content comprising of high resolution images and data through Microsoft’s technology. The content will eventually be available for end user’s to explore through Microsoft Research’s  World Wide Telescope.

One more step towards making the universe accessible to the common man!!!

BTW, WWT is fantastic even with it’s current databank. Feel free to explore the universe in high definition!

When I watched a video coverage of a speech delivered by then Senator Barack Obama, I was totally flattered. I was convinced that this is the man who will change the world. His promising and soothing appearance almost made all problems fade away from the mind. It really looked like he had a vision.

But soon after he became the president of the United State, things started going from bad to worse. With the economic recession deepening further and economies across the world trying to dodge total collapse, Obama has some really tough challenges ahead.

He sure talks good. And for a moment, it seems everything is going to be alright. But over a period of time, I have started becoming sceptical. I am now beginning to doubt if with all these challenges thrown at him, Barack Obama can really bring the change he promised – to America and to the world.

I am of course not the only one thinking in this direction. But what made me blog this today is this article in the Times of India-  Obama's star begins to fade - US - World - The Times of India.

It’s a little lengthy, but worth a look.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad that began its operations last year has been ranked 5th amongst airports across the world.

The airport indeed is very nicely constructed with future in mind… India sure is shining! Umm… at least urban India.

Here is the link to the main article-

RGIA, Hyderabad among top ten airports in world!

My IE homepage is set to Windows Live. And today, I was happily surprised to see the colours of India being used as background image of the default search page.

It’s not something new actually. The search page has been using different images to deliver information (and interesting search points) about different cultures/topics.

With that, Happy Holi to everyone!!!

Found this in a forwarded email :)

Yesterday, February 19th, Taatya completed one month in this world. By God’s grace, he has completely recovered from all the problems he had just after birth.

Here are a couple of picture taken yesterday

Pardon me for composing this entry a little too late and keeping all my readers waiting anxiously. But the delay was inevitable. Esha and I, were blessed with a baby boy on January 19th 2009 at precisely 3 PM. We have named him Taatya. It is read as तात्या in Hindi and means “Lord Shiva”.

The doctors had pronounced February 15th as the due date but due to certain peculiar medical complications, we had to get Esha operated 27 days ahead of schedule. The C-section went on well and Taatya cried soon after he was born which was a good news for us. While Esha was recovering from the effect of the anaesthesia, we learnt that since he was premature, Taatya had developed some respiratory distress and was having difficulty in breathing. The doctors put him on ventilator and he responded positively to it. We didn’t know the seriousness of the issue at that time.

By midnight, Taatya’s condition deteriorated and oxygen levels in his body dropped to an alarming level. That’s when we realised it wasn’t as simple as we had initially thought. An emergency decision was made and he was rushed to another hospital immediately. While all this was happening, Esha wasn’t told about any of this. I told her about it (only after drastically hiding the gravity of the situation) the following morning.

Esha was discharged from the hospital on January 22nd. But Taatya was kept under life support systems inside a nursery for 7 days as he gradually recovered and got accustomed to the natural environment. On January 27th, the doctors decided to introduced the baby to Esha and she was also brought to the same hospital as Taatya. They spent two days together in the hospital’s room without any special support system but still under observation. Finally, yesterday, on January 29th, they both were discharged from the hospital.

It was a tough time for us. Specially for Esha since she had not even seen Taatya until she was moved in-to his hospital room. Any mother would understand how difficult it is. But I am grateful to her for the tremendous courage that she exhibited during one of the toughest times of our life.

All is well that ends well. Both Esha and Taatya are doing quite well now and we have just begun enjoying parenting…

Click on the picture below to see some of our memories in form of unforgettable pictures