Well, Google is definitely setting and paving way for some of biggies in the Internet world today. They are definitely "THE" trendsetters as I have noticed in the recent past.

Google bought over Blogger.com and a plethora of other companies to well BRAND Google on practically every avenue open in the Web today that is in the hands of MSN and Yahoo! - still the major players by sheer number.

This has led to a few changes in the services provided by Y! and MSN. They HAD to shift over to more e-mail space with GMail providing now well over 2GB. They HAD to move in new features to their Instant Messenger services with Google planning to release and now having released Google Talk! Well, not to mention MSN Spaces and Y! 360*!

Well, good to see Google is indeed paving the way to an uhum "free" future. Let's see when this starts to shed and they get money minded over technology minded. [As that happened with Y! and MSN]. The future is indeed worth the wait. ;)! Until then, let's enjoy these goodies :)!

Wanted to ADD!!! Google TALK IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD!! Try it out! And someone post a review on it :)!

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Well, I was reading a book on Visual C++ programming based on the Windows API without using the AppWizards and the rest, and somehow, I was compelled to learn the origin of that little penguin called "Tux". Well, surprise surprise [not really], a simple Google did the job and came across a healthy site.

The history is filled with geeky humor, so typical of anything remotely related to Linux [wink]. Baker has kept a tab on why penguins? How the name came to TUX and so on... It's an interesting read, if you don't have much to do! You can find more about it here - SJ Baker.org/Tux. Also please check out the different logos amongst which our Tux competed and won.. They are all put up here - Linux Logo Competition!!

Found this in my text file collection. Are You a Hacker? by ReDragon Take a little quiz for me today. Tell me if you fit this description. You got your net account several months ago. You have been surfing the net, and you laugh at those media reports of the information superhighway. You have a red box, you don't have to pay for phone calls. You have crackerjack, and you have run it on the password file at a unix you got an account on. Everyone at your school is impressed by your computer knowledge, you are the one the teachers ask for help. Does this sound like you? You are not a hacker. There are thousands of you out there. You buy 2600 and you ask questions. You read phrack and you ask questions. You join #hack and you ask questions. You ask all of these questions, and you ask what is wrong with that? After all, to be a hacker is to question things, is it not? But, you do not want knowledge. You want answers. You do not want to learn how things work. You want answers. You do not want to explore. All you want to know is the answer to your damn questions. You are not a hacker. Hacking is not about answers. Hacking is about the path you take to find the answers. If you want help, don't ask for answers, ask for a pointer to the path you need to take to find out those answers for yourself. Because it is not the people with the answers that are the hackers, it is the people that are travelling along the path.