Casino Royale Review * * * * *

This Bond is cool. Really cool. James Bond on his first mission after upgraded to a license to kill. James Bond becomes Agent 007. In his first mission Bond has to choke the funding channel to world of terrorism by winning poker(!), and defeating a blood-weeping man Schiffr in it. He is accompanied by Eva Green, an acountant in Treasury. Bond plays poker, swallows and digests poison, makes love with Eva Green, endures brutal torture and emerges as One Of The Best Bond ever. Yes he is simply better than metrosexual Pierce Brosnan. Raw, agile, brute & witty. That’s the 007 we want.

Credit here goes to Daniel Craig and the script. Devoid of gadgets, the Bond here relies more on his brute force and agility to break necks (yeah! he really breaks them in the movie), more humane (heroically humane) persona of bond. The original story of Casino Royale is changed here to fit into the terrorised world order of today. This seems more an artificial unfit. But the presentation and daniel Craig sail through it all.

21st Bond movie and 6th Bond are different from predecesors on at least three counts…

1. Bond is blond here. Yes blue eyed sexy blond.
2. The Bond’s female is not so glamourous and polished (remember Ursulla Andress!). She is more feminine 7 doesn’t holds a gun in whole movie. Instead sits below shower – terrified and shocked – after seeing kiilings and death bodies.
3. Here is real comedy which proves my point no. (2) — Ursulla Andress & Halle Berry emerge out of water like godess venus…sexy and seductress…! In Casino Royale, who emerges out of water is not Eve Green, but instead – Daniel Craig!

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Tell me what around us needs Innovations?

There are a lot of things around us which really need innovation and change. Let me list some those:

1. Politics. ‘Democracy’ is very general concept. There is so much variations across societies of different countries. And there is so little difference among the political and administrative systems they use. It surely needs innovations that suits a particular country. What can be the most important innovation that will be required for India?
2. Laptops & Medicines. Why are they so expensive?
3. Business Models in Books, CD’s industry. Otherwise they will not be able to beat piracy. Piracy industry serves needs of consumers in a better way.
4. Newspapers. Times Of India sucks.
5. News Channels. All of them suck.
6. The desktop keyboards. My hands ache.

Tell me where else do we need Innovations. Top 5 of them.

Youtube – Downtime. Wait is still on.

Do we surf the Internet, or just go straight to Websites (apart from Googling)?

India’s Moral Crisis & The Answer

We have a very talented engineer turned social engineer in my hometown, Ambajogai. Prasad Chikshe, who runs a school in my town has become a source of inspiration for many youngsters like me in and around Ambajogai. It’s a Swades (the movie) like story started long before Swades was released. He sent us an email pointing to the intellectual crisis of India and need for intellectual activism.

Here is my comment to his very well thought write-up:

“Hello Prasaddada for a contribution so simulating to the our thinking.

You are absolutely right to point out the intellectual crisis (or rather Intellectuals’ Crisis). All those people who can do something are not doing anything to their full potential. And that is the reason why their is a crisis in our minds. We are actually going up but still feel depressed.
Prasaddada, I feel that the reason is beyond only ‘Intellectual crisis’. I strongly feel that it is a Morality Crisis which has plagued us. We Indians have little self respect left in us. A brave tribal who can kill a tiger single handedly, becomes a cow when he goes to Tehsil office. An enterprising businessman of the caliber of Ford, acts like a slave in front of foreign delegation.
Why this happens? Credit for this must go to the Britishers, who destroyed every Indian symbol of national pride and also destroyed her socio-economic fabric. This is also the reason why even after 59 years of independence, we Indians are still in dilemma about whether we should be proud of Sanskrit and Sanskriti or not.
But the situation is changing. Mittal, TATA, Infosys etc. are the beacons for a new era for India – exactly because they are giving us a reason to be proud of. USA, UK and Japan are far ahead in development and welfare not because they have more people like Medha Patkar and Anna Hajare. This is because they have Ford & GM & Intel & Microsoft & Sony.
People like APJ, Sam Pitroda and TATA-Relience-Mittal believe in exactly this thing. They are giving us vision and also implementing it. We don’t need Medha Patkar and Anna Hajare who prefer to become a part of problem rather than solution.
India and Indians need more people who have a tremendous self respect (Self reaspect = respect about one’s past, present and future). And India also need more people who create something of which we can be proud of.

“Self Respect + Hard Work = Strong Nation”
6 days of quality work at your own company > Rs. 1 lakh to charity

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Webmaster-friendly – Google Sitemaps

Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

We’re undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams, in making the web better for webmasters and users alike. It’s a beta “ecosystem” that may help webmasters with two current challenges: keeping Google informed about all of your new web pages or updates, and increasing the coverage of your web pages in the Google index.

Initially, we plan to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage and freshness of our index. Over time that will lead to our doing an even better job of delivering more search results from more websites. (Danny Sullivan interviewed me about this if you want to read more.)

This project doesn’t just pertain to Google, either: we’re releasing it under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license so that other search engines can do a better job as well. Eventually we hope this will be supported natively in webservers (e.g. Apache, Lotus Notes, IIS). But to get you started, we offer Sitemap Generator, an open source client in Python to compute sitemaps for a few common use cases. Give it a whirl and give us your feedback.

What are Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

Google, MSN and Yahoo! joining their forces?

No, I don’t think so, but finally there is a standard for website submission in our sight. The three biggest search engines will continue the development together of the sitemap format introduced by Google. Finally you need only one sitemap to include all your websites pages into these three search engines!

Read here the original Google Blog post and visit also the new Sitemap project website.

Favorite WordPress Plugins

What follows below are some of my favorite WordPress plugins and why. Many of them I have in common with Cavemonkey’s excellent Top Ten WordPress Plugins list. Here’s my list, in no particular order:

• PodPress – makes it super-simple to post podcasts; includes an inline media player
• Popularity Contest – offer a leaderboard of your Most Popular posts based on views and ratings
• Google Sitemaps Generator – creates a Google Sitemaps XML file. What’s killer about this is that it uses Popularity Contest’s ratings for the priority scoring that Google uses to determine how frequently to spider your pages
• Akismet – you’d be a fool to run a blog with comments turned on and not use this plugin to stop the flood of comment spam. ’nuff said!
• Adhesive – gives you the ability to flag certain posts as “Sticky” so they float to the top of the category page regardless of whether it’s the most recent
• Ultimate Tag Warrior – creates tag pages and a tag cloud. Great for SEO as I’ve said before.
• EmailShroud – an email address obfuscator to thwart those evil email harvesters. Scans for email addresses in posts, but won’t work on email addresses hard-coded into your theme.
• Transpose Email – another email address obfuscator. Doesn’t automatically scan for email addresses, but can be used from within your theme files.
• WP-EMail – “Email this post to a friend” functionality
• WP-Print – Printer-friendly version of posts
• Subscribe2 – let your readers subscribe to your blog updates via email
• In-Series – link posts together into a series, regardless of dates posted or categories selected
• Permalink Redirect – fixes the canonicalization problem where the same page loads whether the slash is there or not. Important for SEO.
• Gravatars – puts the commenter’s “Gravatar” image next to their comment
• Subscribe to Comments – a commenter can check a box on the comment form so that they get notified of further comments to that post
• WP-Notable – places a row of buttons alongside your posts so the reader can easily add your post to their favorite social bookmarks service (del.icio.us, digg, etc.)
• A Different Monthly Archive – a pretty way to display links to archives by month
• Related Posts – link to related posts automatically based on the content of the post
• Related Posts for your 404 – your File Not Found error page can now suggest related posts to the misguided user. Cool!

What are your favorites? Did I miss any important ones?