Gaim – Yahoo problems

Was wondering since morning as to what happened when I came across this

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5245821.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

// Yahoo on Wednesday began blocking Cerulean Studios’ Trillian software from communicating with its instant messaging service in its latest step to fence its popular client from third-party integrators.//

Well, people like me go back to YM official client till gaim recovers.

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Unable to use YM either just upgraded to 1.0.6 – it just does not connect 🙁
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Kanha – I

May 21st, on our way to Kanha National Park, we also saw a rare celestial event, occlusion of Venus by the moon, Aasim was the first to notice and pointed it out to us and we saw the entire phenomenon – moon coming closer and closer to Venus, and nearly eclipsing it, Venus appeared as … Continue reading Kanha – I

Pyaas

I wrote this sometime in 1986 प्यास  मैं ज्योति, तुम उजियारा मैं नभ प्रतीक, तुम सूरज हो मैं सौरभ, तुम हो सुवास मैं हूँ प्रार्थना, तुम बने शिवि मैं प्रकृित निश्चछल, तुम उज्जवल मानव मैं पूर्ण, तुम हो संपूर्ण मैं सरिता कलकल, तुम सागर सम बहती बहती पवन हूँ मैं, तुम मंद हवा का झोंका … Continue reading Pyaas

A song from bollywood film Murder – “Bheegey Hont”

I find blend of many of my favourite songs in this one, including parts of lyrics, and I like it for its very sensual feel. bheege honTH tere, pyaasa dil mera lage abr-sa, mujhe tan tera jam ke barsa de, mujh par ghaTaayein tu hi meri pyaas, tu hi mera jaam kabhi mere saath, koi … Continue reading A song from bollywood film Murder – “Bheegey Hont”

Venus in transit

Earthlings will witness a special kind of eclipse, the transit of venus across sun on 8th June 2004.  The second transit will be on 6th June 2012 Photograph of the Transit of Venus on 1882 Dec 06. Planetary transits are far more rare than eclipses of the Sun by the Moon. On the average, there … Continue reading Venus in transit

She a window flower and he a winter breeze… …

She was a charming girl, always smiling, always had something nice to say, she was my best friend. I love him dad, he has asked me to marry… …. On her brief visit home she spoke to her father about the boy who she was friends with in the town she studied. She was inclined … Continue reading She a window flower and he a winter breeze… …

Aasim’s poem on planets

Aasim’s Summer Holidays started from yesterday and as expected, the first day of staying home he got throughly bored -here’s a creative result of his boredom- he told me to write down (as he can’t write himself) a poem he made on planets Mercury is the hottest planet Venus is molten and very hot too … Continue reading Aasim’s poem on planets