Shoot-out in Tucson

I watched all those tireless tv ads from Giffords and Kelly in last year election, and Giffords win which could have been so close to trigger re-counting. By look of it, i liked her more centrist approach unlike Grijalva from down-below, who i saw more of left-wing.

Interestingly, first thing i wanted to see what Sarah Palin tweeted, i don't think she had any influence in this, but it was fun to hear that her "cross-hair" map disappeared moments after shooting. For past one year, it was too much from right-wing and tea-party extreme nuts, with all those hatred on-air, i almost immediately scan away from 104.1 truth fm or else i'll end up hearing some right-wing nut screaming that Obama had to do something with rising onion prices in India.

On the same topic, Tucson was in every channel for last few hours, and i got calls from many, just checking if everyone is safe. I missed getting a single call from my company, checking if all employees are safe. I don't know, may be i'm being too left and socialistic, expecting that middle mgmt to give a call and check if their employees are safe, given our office/apts located just one intersection from Giffords office and almost someone drives on oracle rd (close to shooting spot) to get indian groceries on weekends. May be they expect to get the news on Monday morning if someone didn't turn up in office; how are we going to make-up one less in billing sheet, that might be big project concern :(

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ASP.NET "Base Pages" vs. PageAdapter

Interesting option to avoid deriving from base page, which many times i forget

Replacing ASP.NET "Base Pages" with a PageAdapter

System.Web.UI.Adapters.PageAdapter

Learned a lot on ASP.net best practices from Robert by virtue of working in RSG and with his asp.net coding standards/guidelines. Good to see him as MVP and spreading his knowledge.

God and Science

Pope Says God Behind Theories Like Big Bang

So where do we go from here, now Christianity is not anti-science anymore, vatican almost agrees with evolution. Pope is real clever to take it a level above todays science, which can not counter this for another couple of centuries (atleast he hopes so).

I do pray, but i'm still stuck with apatheism, thanks to god by keeping me fortunate enuf to be that way, i do not despise religion, only when it becomes nuisance to progress. Many times i question god, all times i try to refute ridiculous religious conventions & beliefs. Believe in god or not, but never the man in middle!

I kind of agree that Religion is a cult, it kills people from known history, science created computers, internet, and everything else that progresses human civilization, I don't ask people to question god, do whatever you want to make yourself happy, but god sake, don't kill people in his name or make money out of his name.

Click for Religulous and a interesting read “13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time”

About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
- Albert Einstein from an interview with William Hermanns in the summer of 1954

Happy New Year 2011!

2011 is going to be big year with r2i and all the challenges ahead us.

“We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” - JFK