Mapping the mind of the terrorist and more

The occurance of bomb blasts in the Indian cities have become common now-a-days, but still shocks us. It shows us that we are vulnerable. The latest in the hit-list being the capital city. The infiltration seems to be very deep. And their networks seem quite impregnable. From the recnt reports they are quite tech savvy as to hack Wi-Fi networks to remain untraceable.

So what exactly happens by these blasts? It kills innocent people, who have nothing to do with whatever is the demands / grievances of the terrorists. It serves as fodder to those politicians not in power to blame those in power, not that they would have done a better job. They are just happy that they are not in power now, but hope to capitalise on this. After all it is the same machinery that is at their disposal.

Why these blasts? In my opinion they don't have the military strength to take India heads on. India would certainly crush them in a matter of hours. They don't seem to have the support of the people either. But still they fight for their ideals, their ideologies. But we are forced to fight a war that is not ours. So it is an effort to terrorise the minds of the people and say that the government is impotent and incapable of protecting them. But the terror merchants should also understand that India is too big a nation to be torn to pieces with their bombs.

Their is an economy angle to the blasts. The blasts are yet to hit ant industrial establishments. As of now they are contained to hiting civilian areas. The foreign counteries may be apprehensive to send their experts to India. But India has no dearth for experts, and more experts can be made here. We have the best of educational institutions here. Investments will not drop drastically. As long as India handles other economic barriers like inflation and marches on its growth path, the investments are likely to sustain.

Tourism may be hit. Already the Autralian cricket team is speculated to drop the tour. But they do it all the time. Remember the cricket world cup 1996.  In the western minds India is still a place where the nail bed trick and the rope trick are being effected. For such a colored mind the blasts could look larger than it really is. It would be difficult to instill confidence in their minds by any preventive / protective measures. The only thing that would convince them would be the reduced frequency of blasts and even better a complete end of these blasts, which is quite a non probility.

Google Chrome

I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it in my laptop. Been giving it a run since yesterday. First impressions are that good. It is very "Google-like", i.e., it follows a very minimalistic design. The first time the homepage opens you virtually see a blank screen. Though later on the home screen provides you with the snapshots of most visited sites. This works very much like Opera's Speed dial where you get to choose the pages. I don't know still if we can chose what pages should be displayed in Chrome. Recent Bookmarks is also a cool utility, as I sometimes bookmark pages I want to see later and then forget. This helps me in finishing that task.

It has imported all the bookmarks, passwords from FireFox. It can do it for IE. No hassles there. But it will not work if you seem to be using any other browser. For example if you are using Opera or Safari (Apple's offer for browsing,) you will be left to help yourself. (been trying that too for a week or so. may review later).

The visual are pleasing and pages load quite fast. Not just that. Even the browser loads really fast. I always had to wait to see FireFox load. But I liked the addins in FireFox, especially Foxmarks. I browse in more than one computer and go on bookmarking in everywhere. Foxmarks was doing a wonderful job. As this is a open source offering I would like to see a ChromeMarks real sson, if I have to really switch over to Chrome. One thing I was able to do which I had trouble with in other browsers is that booking of tickets in www.thecinema.in was better where I was led to "generate ticket" page instead of the browser going dead. It happened in IE, FireFox and Safari.