Firefox 1.5 released

I have been using firefox for the last 1 year and really love it. Firefox has released another version 1.5. I checked it out today it looks like the surfing speed is faster when compared to the previous versions. Other features include automatic updates, drag and drop the tabs and ctrl+shift+del to clear history info. That is really cool. Need to wait and see what the security reviews say about the new version. But, Firefox is centainly bringing the heat on Microsoft.

Pawar elected BCCI president

Sharad Pawar has been elected as the president of BCCI ending a 25 year strange hold of Dalmiya on the Indian cricket. The first thing the new president promised is professionalism and to bring the money out of the bank accounts to improve the infrastructure in India and sort out the legal issues in terms of the telecast rights being faced by BCCI. It would be really interesting to see how BCCI would now handle the Ganguly issue. As soon as the new president has taken over the richest cricketing body in the world, the first thing done was to fire three members from the selection panel who were supposedly backers of Ganguly and were instrumental in including him in the upcoming test series against Sri Lanka (this was done just before the promise of professinalism :-)). This I feel has put a big question mark on Ganguly's future. Will he be included in the first test ?? especially after the recent series where Yuvraj has shown his true potential....

Manjunath and Maniyappan

Manjunath and Maniyappan both from India have no relation whatsoever. Unfortunately, the only thing common between them is that both were killed for doing their jobs. Manjunath an IIM, Lucknow graduate was killed for closing down an IOC petrol pump for selling adulterated petrol. Maniyappan on the other hand was killed by Taliban in Afghanistan while he was working on a road construction project for BRO. It is sad that people are getting killed for doing their jobs.

Colts rout Steelers

Colts continued their winning streak making them the 11th ever team to reach 11-0 and first since 1998 Broncos. It certainly looks like they have the potential particularly after defeating the patriots, bengals and steelers in a span of 4 weeks to go all the way and take the place of 72 Dolphins.

Booby-Trapped ATM

Thieves have found a way to booby trap ATM's to get card information including the pin. According to PCMAG, the card slot in the ATM machine is fixed with an extra card reader. This combined with a hidden camera in the brochure holder will give them all the information they need.

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Development tools for Java Platform

Sun is offering full licences of the Java Studio Creator 2004 and Java Studion Enterprise 8 for free. For all java lovers here is the link

http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/free/

Reflections

This is my first attempt at blogging. After due thought I named it "Reflections" - thoughts and opinions resulting from careful consideration. As a principle, I will try not to be opinionated while posting my "Reflections" :-). My college forum/group, a private one in which I am an active member has inspired me to take up blogging and post my thoughts.