a thought

if i took a saturday / to see her again
would i be toying with her gentle heart?
if i stay by her side / when she is in pain
would i have rather stayed well apart?
when the gale has blown over /
and the storm run its course,
would a breeze be a balm /
for the weary, or worse ?
i knew not the beginning /
and the end's all too clear
but hope springs eternal /
scars disappear.

your computer is a P2P server

From what Wikipedia has to say about Akamai Technologies. An excerpt:

However, this software is not just a download manager, delivering content from the Internet to the user's computer, but it also a peer-to-peer server, delivering content cached on the user's computer to other users' computers. The user agreement describes this vaguely as

"You agree that the Software may send and receive commands and data related to participating publishers’ digital information ("Published Content") to and from the Akamai network and other Akamai NetSession Interfaces to facilitate the downloading of Published Content."

Apparently this thing comes along with Flash, and is used by luminaries such as Apple, Microsoft and the White House.

Meanwhile, this post might be taken down if the people who wrote the upcoming Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 have their way. Though it's not blasphemous it could be taken to be disparaging to certain parties, or something. There's a nice, if a bit tabloid-ish, article online.

Here's a list of eleven (only eleven?) websites blocked by the GOI. Some of them seem to be genuine grassroots news outlets blocked by nefarious (how I love that word) corporate interests.

It's worth noting that the clarifications put up by the govt. are not the same as amendments to the law, and the original law still stands.