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During routine observations of the cosmos, Italian astronomers have recently spotted and tracked on video an Unidentified Flying Object or UFO.

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Music is like alcohol.

Ranges from very sweet Port, to Rose, to sherry, to the dry white, to highly over-rated champagne, to fine single malt scotch, to the most delicious +100 proof cognac, to the extremely fragnant cashew Feni of Goa, and the brilliant, (and in my opinion), the finest wine in the world, Mahua, made of the small white Mahua flowers found in West Bengal, drunk freshly distilled, warm from the distillery, sitting in the open mud courtyard in the Adivasi forest at midnight.And then there are the exotic local flavours such as Tequila, Vodka and of course the Britney Spears and the Paris Hilton of alcohol, for the current generation, Bacardi. Not to speak of the fabulous medical wines of India, like Drakasav ("Drak"=grapes, "asav"=wine), the famous fermented rice beer of West Bengal, of which I have partaken so often, sitting in the warm afternoon, with my friend, a matka-full (matka= a large clay water storage vessel, about 10 litres in volume), 3/4 full of freshly extracted rice beer, a couple of snacks, partaken by the very poor santhals (tribal folks). We sit in the cool shade of a tree, on a charpoy, and spend a leisurely 3 hours sipping away 7 litres of rice beer from mud cups, occasionally decanting from the matka. Time passes slowly. Very slowly, and as the sun sets, it's time to head back home on our bicycles. Night arrives, with her purple legion, heh. We roll back to civilisation, with the bright lights, and the constant clamour which surrounds occupied areas. Oh yes. Where was I? Yes. Alcohol is like music. hic. See and hear the equivalent of Indian country liquor. A brash, harsh, 100 proof stomach lining remover. The Pioneers of Punk.
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Looks like the pressure of Micro$oft Open xml format, which has been recently put up to International vote and opposed by Brazil, is being pipped by IBM, by releasing it's suite in ODF format.

Lotus has always been a compact and efficient office suite, and I've been using Lotus 123 since, let's see, 1988!

Download the free components here.

Equally important, is the breaking news that Google has added a presentation software to its online suite.

Google Presentations launched as part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets... or now just “Google Docs,” as some of the logos already read. If you have a Google Account you can go start a presentation by clicking New -> Presentation, or by switching to the Upload tab to convert an existing PPT file.

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Leafletter (Beta)

It does not get richer and more web 2.0 than this. I mean you can literally create a "mini website" just in your browser (something akin to tiddlywiki, a wiki which can be edited in a browser), and you can then "post" the flash-based content anywhere! In blogs, on social networks, wherever. It has 36 standard layout, and its wigitiness allows you to change the layout anytime merely by dragging and dropping.

Yes, that's what it is. A flash-based tiddlywiki, heh.



Photographic and graphic portfolios, and advertisements seem to have the greatest potential, but the possibilities are really limitless.

"Leafletter is the "revolutionary" way for anyone to create a portable, interactive "little web site" ("Leaflet") using nothing but a web browser. You can easily distribute Leaflets to social networks, blogs, and other web sites.Use Leaflets for everything from portfolios to marketing materials. It's simple and it's free."

Check out these samples;

http://www.leafletter.com/Showcase.php

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See the finished result in the left column. Neat!

Why not mash a few blogger feeds, and then make a "description only" Twitterfeed, which would show up on a "Twitter" account? . That would be a neat way to access all the blogs that you read from one Twitter account. the Twitter feed itself could be posted on your blog.