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Nandhu and I are less than 2 weeks away from an event that would be the most eventful moment in our lives, the arrival of our little one. Parenting a new Baby is a feeling that evades any description to me, a mixture of elation, joy, fear, excitement …

How sweet would it be to feel the tender fingers and skin of a new born baby, so helpless and innocent, unaware of the world and completely dependent on us. To hold it close to your body and give it your warmth. Waiting for it to conjure a magical smile on its lips, looking at you eye to eye, responding to your call, being comforted in your presence

This is all such a magical thing, my wife always wonders how wonderful is nature’s way to make conception that interesting journey that it is, whoever it was up above, who conjured this up, certainly knew that great things do not come i a hurry !

Awaiting the Darling of our Lives

Oh little one … the pearl in our hearts
as your prepare to embark on this journey called life
with a skin so tender and a heart so sweet
our comforting arms await you

As Mother & Father, we hope to fulfill
every desire of your yours, dreams & more
endow you with wisdom and care
wipe every tear and cheer every smile

You shall make our lives more complete
make us smile when we are tired
give us joy and then some more
enrich this moment with so much more to do

You will be the the pearl in our hearts
growing ever finer with age and time
we cannot wait to welcome you
for you are, the darling of our lives

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A friend & I happened to land up at Matheran (which is approx 2 odd hours from Mumbai). This is a sweet little place where automobiles are not allowed and thus gives the air about a rather fresh feel. Walking around may get a lil tiring, but then if you prefer, you can choose to ride around in a horse there

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God bless any company / blogger that wants to get some big news out today … blogosphere is consumed by the big news about Google & YouTube. Checkout Techmeme, posts about this occpuy most of the techmeme page !!!

Techmeme @ 3:05 AM ET, October 10, 2006

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So you have anyways perhaps read the rumour, re-read and read it again across multiple blogs. This supposed scoop by Mike Arrington at TecCrunch could perhaps take the record for the most related posts at TechMeme

While various people have various points of view on how real this rumour could be and what the probabilities are (quoting from TechCruch “Based on experience with these sort of rumors, I’d put this at 40% likely to be at least partially true”, that is a pathetic statement to make. What does he mean by 40 % likely to be at least partially true. sic !), the fundamental issue as I see it is not whether YouTube is worth a buy or not or whether it is indeed worth 1.6 bn $ or not or whether Google should be buying ir or not

The core issue is that bloggers in today’s world are so traffic-crazed and even fully / partially unsubstantiated news like this can gather so much steam (because everyone wants to link to TechCrunch, don’t they), that for a lay observer, this all probably seems true. Who knows, as a result of all the buzz that this generates, maybe the folks at Google would make themselves believe that this is indeed a great idea and go ahead and execute the buyout

The Web 2.0 space today is getting to be too much of an echo chamber. Lots of rumours, too much being written by Google & MySpace and every joe on the street wanting to startup something using AJAX, Tagging, Networking and no revenue model

Wake up guys … Bubble 2.0 is just around the corner. The last time around, the investment bankers and the journalists / media folks in some measure were perhaps part of the reason why the Bubble got inflated to the extent it did, this time around maybe it is these Bloggers would be the prime bubble inflaters

To give credit where it is due, I have drawn inspiration to this post from this one by Kevin Maney in USA Today

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