Bill and Melinda Gates are donating millions to India to help fight aids. Sad that other's should see the problem that our own government ignores. Thanks B&M - also i believe the number of Indians who have worked for MS over the years and want to do something for the home country. about time.

Some good developments - presentation to BlueDart / DHL went brilliantly - when a cleint gets up saying

"if only we had groove when this was happening" you know he has seen value immediately.
when he says "this has so many uses that i won't even try to explain to others, we will just put it to use" you know that the ideal technology has found the right user.

i know BD/DHL well - i predict that if groove 2.5 gets in the door (bandwidth control is vital) , this will be the fastest and broadest adoption we will see.

Great news, Andy has "formally" launched POPG along with a groove based forum on the lines of Yahoo Groups.
checkout www.popg.co.uk for more details and to log in to an amazing experience - native groove accessible from a browser.
Groove is now 'available' to anyone on any machine/OS :)

comment is a bit late i know, but, 32 BILLION $ for a woman who CHOSE to smoke herself sick - i am a smoker too - no advert ever held a gun to my head and made me - and i never inflict it on anyone - i smoke but i do not burn. Tragically i know too many people who burn, even when they do not smoke.

truth is - cigarettes do not make everyone sick - it is those already sick / emotionally upset / marginalised people who abuse tobacco or any other substance they can lay their hands on - illness is their nature - their protest - the cigarettes are only one possible excuse - if not there would be others.

i do not defend tobacco companies for their BS - but that does not make an individual a Victim - what happened to the thing we all have - it's called called a brain ? and something else we call FREE will !

no wonder corporate America is declining - the system is destroying itself ! and it don''t even need to smoke anymore !.it can litigate itself into a lose lose situation.

new version of dbconnect up - much sweeter - also matrix with a new face - thanks groove for the prompt help.

which reminds me of this programmer from Bangalore who was going on and on about the lousy state of this world and the injustice and the violence -
and then a voice is heard -
be patient my Son, this is just version 1.

dbconnect gets better and better with a little help from our freinds
http://www.groove.net/support/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=14&threadid=6222&STARTPAGE=1

So, Putin the hero is no more. Bad chess move - or is it that he is more confident of facing the wrath of his own citizens than allowing the Chechens a possible advantage. Did the old Soviet Union ever really go away?

Sad, in the current eco / political situation it is easier to sell a man a gun at 500$ than groove at 50?
and that is despite the attack on the core internet servers last week. when will the world (of business) realize that they are most vulnerable in the area they take most for granted - Email.

Pleased with the response from users to our 3 new tools,
when people are willing to pull out their credit cards it means you have done something useful.
There is some stuff to be improved for the commercial release, we developers are perfectionists at heart,
but we needed the feedback and thank you all for your inputs.

Tehelka.Com is now closed. RIP (2000-2002) (Tehelka loosely mean Investigation)

this was the first (only) journalist / entity in India to take on the government and actually show video tapes of the highest officers in the political / military combine taking bribes.

this week they were forced to close as their moneyline was shutoff and fear of the govt. kept others away. if there is anyone out there who would like to revive this 'institution' we are sorely in need of such people to keep our govt. in check. :)

more techie discussion on performance / dbconnect begun here. we need to fully understand this.

http://www.groove.net/devzone/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=14&threadid=6222&STARTPAGE=1

in the ongoing saga of dbconnect - some of the performance and other issues raised may be of interest

http://www.groove.net/support/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=21&threadid=6164&STARTPAGE=1