So nice it is, innovative and informative. Merger of Space Craft with Windows Live team blog is sure to be more utility oriented for the people, more so for the bloggers.

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The Space Craft is moving!

I'm both excited and a bit nostalgic to be writing this blog entry letting our users know that The Space Craft (the official Spaces Team blog), is merging with the Windows Live team blog.

In some ways, this is a formalization of changes that started years ago as the team that built MSN Spaces expanded and partnered with other teams to help build Windows Live web services including Home, Profile, Photos, Events, Groups, and of course Spaces. ;)

For Spaces fans, here’s a quick history of our service:

• MSN Spaces launched in fall/winter 2004-2005 with support for blogs, photos, and lists. It was also integrated with MSN Messenger so that when a friend posted new content, a green star ("gleam") would show next to that person's name.
• In January 2006, support was added for searching Spaces, people, and blogs with the help of the (then MSN) Search team. (I joined the Spaces team in March of 2006.)
• In summer 2006, we added friend lists, and a host of other modules, redesigned the Spaces home page, and re-branded as Windows Live Spaces. In some ways, this was the launch of Windows Live 1.0.
• A bit over a year later in fall 2007, we launched Windows Live Events and a revised Spaces home page that included What’s New with your network and big improvements in our photo sharing experience. This broad release might be deemed Windows Live 2.0.
• As we embarked on planning for “Windows Live 3.0,” we expanded our team’s mission to include not just Spaces but also the friend/network experience, profiles, “What’s new,” permissions, groups, and Windows Live Writer.
• Most recently, starting with web release in December 2008 we shipped a bunch of new services, including:
  •  Windows Live Groups
  • Network invitations and friend suggestions
  • Web activities
  • New privacy and permissions controls

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Windows Live team blog, it is a fantastic resource for everything that is happening on Windows Live and is available at: http://WindowsLiveWire.spaces.live.com/. There is also an RSS feed and you can use Windows Live Alerts to subscribe via email, IM, or SMS.

• Twitter - You can also “follow” WindowsLive on Twitter at http://twitter.com/WindowsLive or TXT “follow WindowsLive” to 40404 in the USA, 21212 in Canada, or +44 7624 801423 in other locales.
• Facebook - You can become a fan of Windows Live Messenger and also add the Windows Live Messenger Facebook application.

Whether you view the blog on the web, follow Windows Live on Twitter, or any combination, I hope you’ll take a minute to connect with the Windows Live team. In addition, many of our team members including Chris, Eric, Joe, Michelle, and me will be continuing to blog about our work on Spaces and the rest of the Windows Live web services on Windows Live team blog. See you there. ;)

Thanks much—
- Rob Dolin
Program Manager, Windows Live team

It's quite in vogue these days to use some quotation or the other while delivering a speech. An excellent orator like Atal Bihari Bajpai, ex Prime Minister of India, always used to get a thumping applause for it. Manmohan Singh, the present Prime Minister of India, tried to follow him, if not fully atleast partly. He did so even when he was the Finance Minister and made it a note to add famous lines of the revolutionary the great Ram Prasad Bismil on most dry a subject like budget. The lines so quoted were 'Sar faroshi ki tamanna ab hamarey dil mein hai'.There is a thinking that quotes add strength to a speech and naturally why the speakers, particularly politicians, should miss that opportunity which they can't help using relevantly or even otherwise. But the practice may lead the speaker into trouble these days like it happened with Samajwadi leader Amar Singh who picked up a portion from a song sung by Mohd. Rafi in a film with the quote '...patthar ke sanam...' supporting his criticism against Mayawati, U.P. Chief Minister, ridiculing her over enthusiasm for necessary/ unnecessary construction of buildings, parks and monuments. The small quote was not taken lightly and she has threatened an FIR against him.

Romance and sex has all along been most dominant a factor since ages, nay since day one after life started on the earth planet. Chanakya, the great sage and diplomat who was the chief advisor to king Chandragupt Maurya, held a view that women have eight times more anxiety for sex compared to men and this view fully holds good in the case of birds and animals, even creatures. One thing that differs in this context is as to who is a fore runner in the matters of initiatives for the purpose. There it is the male that stands first both in the case of humans and animals. If a man feels proud in offering several temptations like valour, money and wealth to the opposite sex, animals do the same thing and it is the meat that acts as a major incentive in their case as they have nothing like money or wealth to offer. A tiger, besides exhibiting his valour and strength in so many ways to a tigress, no sooner he kills his prey he offers it to her and she easily succumbs to temptation offering her sex to him readily. So does a dog. Blue bulls are known to be vegetarians in strict terms but they drag their female partners to green pastures offering them the leaves of grass, crop and the plants. They are known for keeping three partners at a time. It is a mystery only as to why initiative part is more dominantly played only by males and not that much by females.

I would have driven a rock roller on the chest of Varun Gandhi if I was the Home Minister of India is what Laloo Yadav said in one of his election meetings in Bihar. Funny and absurd too. Vomitting venom like this is not that very uncommon for politicians of this country but there should be some restraint atleast. Criticism is one thing and expressing hatred to appease a few is another. If Varun Gandhi has done really any thing wrong there are laws of the country to take care of it, it is a different matter that the rulers may interpret the law to suit their own whims implementing them accordingly but after all it is there in whatever recognizable shape and style. The constitution of the country amply grants the right to freedom of speech and it is for the talkers to use it in a dignified manner or misuse it in an unbridled order. Many a leaders take it for granted as a licence to apply it in a manner that befits their convenience and fancy. They can talk in a silliest possible manner slinging absurd most remarks against any body or they are even the ones who always feel free to pronounce fatwas to kill any one. People are there who take notice of it with concern but their rights are confined to voting alone beyond which they just can't go. In totality it is only sad for the country. Now that there are two FIRs lodged against Laloo on this count, let the law take its own course in real terms.

I will not ride Tata's Nano as it has come out of people's blood, said Mamta Banerjee in Kolkata. Difficult to know as to whose blood she is talking about. The known blood that was lost is that of people who starved and died after Nano plant in Singrur was not allowed to function by Mamta's men. Many a people committed suicide after sale of their land did not materialise as a result of plant having been withdrawn from there compelled as Tata was for this by political goons. Possibly politicians have no limit to their irrelevant stutters and in a fury of their political whims they forget what to talk and what not. How come the same very Nano was heartily welcome in Gujarat where not only the Chief Minister of the State, Narendra Modi received the proposal whole heartedly but equally the farmers, traders and others bountifully rejoiced the event. If at all there was any blood squeezing involved, how they could have accepted the plant in their State so cheerfully. Or how the people of Pant Nagar (Uttaranchal) could have recognized it as a matter of pride for them.The fact remains that Tata Nano plant generated a large scale avenue for employment, more so for the local people for whom it proved to be a boon. Better it is for the politicians to receive the things in a correct perspective instead of probing the loop holes for the purpose of unnecessary mud slinging.

'Child is the father of man', said Wordsworth and a child in every one is alive the whole life of a person howsoever old he/ she grows. Facultatively it is always prudent to get reminded that the child in me is capable of directing my mind in different positive ways. Even genetically it counts and biologically too. Many in old age suffer from the notion that regeneration in the body system stops at the level of advancing age. It is not that correct. May be the regeneration level is not that very effective at a later stage of life but that it stops completely is not true. It holds good in physical terms, more so mentally. Necessary will coupled with perseverance makes it possible that we are able to secure reproductive element considerably rejuvenating our total body system. Rejuvenation is most powerful a Vedic principle since ages and it holds good equally in modern age. Psychologically, if I am engrossed with a problem causing mounting pressure and tension, I am to think of a child in me asking for a solution and the chances are for a positive reply -my mind will be directed to take up the task in a manner a child in me could have taken it up during the early phase of my life, free of malice, prejudice and chastefully innocently. In most of the cases people are unable to overcome a tension for the reason that their faculties get deeply preoccupied with prejudices on an issue and this blocks the process of sorting out a situation dispassionately. A child is more capable of looking at things in a natural manner without any fixed mind and there lies the key to circumvent a situation.

My Diary:3/4/09

She addressed number of emails to me of which I replied a few. She showed a sublime sort of love not only recognizable but highly adorable. This was a contact covering two most distant parts on the globe with several thousands kilometers between the two destinations, South Africa and India. She wanted my photographs which I failed to transmit. The love of most chaste an order was amply manifest in whatever she communicated. I wrote to her that my age is in the wrong side and that I have nothing much interesting left in my life. Her photographs that she sent to me spoke volumes of her enchanting beauty with a healthful getup posture. Knowing as she did about me that I have been a bank executive, she wanted me to assist her in certain financial matters by the way. There again I was idiotically unresponsive for otherwise normally no validly acceptable a ground except that I couldn't suppress a 'touch me not' image of mine. Only so stupid. Sounds absurd and silly. I have no pertinent an explanation to my own self against hurting her sentiments and remotely some where in my heart there is an excruciating pain tumultuously piercing me minute to minute. Reason or no reason, a feeling of guilt terribly haunts me.

As a blogger I have been writing for Smorty and the experience of working with them was certainly a pleasant one as I always found it smooth and irritation free but there was a break and during a long intervening gap I did miss the opportunities to interact with them. Returning to this very site of mine (one of my two sites I used earlier writing posts for them) which Smorty were good enough to still keep active and alive despite no activity on my part for a long time, I feel like sticking to the task in a rejuvenated order. Hopefully I may get the same support and patronage I received earlier from Smorty.Thanks to them. This post of mine is on a personal note away from the ones otherwise directed commercially which opportunities are ofcourse extendable to me only as the sole prerogative of Smorty.

There are no subjects which are not talked about nor are there individual areas which are not covered as news, story, fiction or other modes of expression but it is the woman that has been given utmost coverage. Long back I read 'Worst women of twentieth century' by Bernard O'donnel containing horrifying stories relating to women. If what he wrote is taken in the spirit it is narrated it looks like it is the women who are most corrupt with a level of criminality. Does it mean that it is the women only who commit sins and menfolk are innocent people behaving as angels. Why angels even as they too are a lot committing numerous crimes. Committing a crime, behaving callously or leading a most corrupt mode of life can not be supposed to be any sort of a solitary area for women, it applies to all human beings, men or women. Those who isolate women for this purpose are themselves obsessed with something highly negative. Divine gestures or satanic conceits both are to be read only in a composite context of all human beings.

 It is an inbuilt anxiety in human mind to feel conscious of where he/ she is situationally placed and with what surroundings. It matters a little apparantly but counts much from psychology point of view. When mapped, different places emerge as dots indicating what they are. Nothing practically, nothing so materially tangible, nothing of any interest to the viewers, the readers but, denotive as they are of a person's belongingness, they are a most significant factor in providing much needed a confidence to the person concerned that there is some spot on earth which he/ she can call her own and that so much counts from one's own entity angle.