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Yahoo Forges Local News Offering with CBS. I am in Yahoo! Media Operations and it is hard for me to tell people exactly what I work on. However, I was a part of the team that made the news possible. Nice work! 
Almost 2 months back, I got myself an ipod shuffle. After using it for
some time, I am totally in love with it. I can now understand why the
Macheads sell out their souls to Apple - the bargain is well worth it
.
I was thinking about why portable devices like ipod and mobile phones are so close to their owners and I came up with this list.
This list is just something to keep in mind when I am designing my Killer App (TM).
I discover wonderful things through webcomics. Today, I was reading this comic, where I saw a mention of Miyamoto Musashi. I checked out his wikipedia entry, where a I found a link to his book The Book of Five Rings and that is what I am reading now.
Hiren wrote this comment on my previous entry
I come across so many blogs which have good posts but the poor guys get unnoticed. They put in so much of effort and no comments. Two recent ones are:-
I think this is best answered by this sentence from Scoble
But, Steve Gillmor has it right: this isn't a game of traffic. It's about sharing what you love.
Most of my blog posts have 0 comments, but that still does not deters
me from writing. Once, I too had despaired of the '0 comments'
phenomenon, but I was motivated to start blogging again when I read
through the Those Cute Kids archives of Aaron. Reading through that,
I thought "Wow! I too would like to have something like that" (where
that means a record of the days of my life ), and you know what -
it is not that hard to write a blog post everyday or at least every
weekend. These days, my motivation for writing blog is to keep a
record of the highlights or the lowlights of a day or sometimes to
record something new that I learnt that day (or in most cases, that
week).
Coming back to Hiren's point of undiscovered bloggers, I guess those bloggers are driven by their own motivations. Or it might be the case that they are writing for their own family and close friends. If their idea is to be an A-list blogger (hehe), there are gazillion of pages dedicated to that too.
Three good tips that have made my life more productive
I got up early at 0500 (to avoid the loo-rush 
).
However, I got another treat (besides an empty loo) - the sight of sun
rising over the Himalayan peaks. This is really a sight to behold.
Luckily, there was only one other guy awake at that time and both of
us enjoyed the sight without saying a word.
Our next camp was Hora Thatch. We left at around 0800 after breakfast. The climb was steep, but the scenery was beautiful. The route was through a jungle. While on our way there, we had to face some rain. It was then that I discovered that my rain sheet was too small. Luckily, one of the guys had an extra rain sheet and he loaned it to me for the entire trek.
We reached the Hora Thatch camp by 1600. I think this was the most beautiful camp - it was situated right in the midst of the jungle. The rain had started pouring just as I reached the camp and I quickly got into my tent.
After the rains subsided, the camp leader welcomed us and told us where we could find water. then he pointed to his left and said "For your nature calls, go at least 200 meters away from the camp. Don't go to the other side, as that is for the girls". So, from that point onwards, we had officially left civilization behind.
There was a canteen at the camp and the guy had a fire going beside it. It was quite cold at that altitude and all of us made a beeline for the fire. Speaking of cold, the water at that camp was freezing. It was the water which came directly from the melting ice. It was only by putting my mind over the pain was I able to wash my hand and face in that water. Most people refrained from touching the water, instead using tissue paper to clean their plates and their faces. We had dinner and I went to sleep in my tent. However, before going to sleep, I took a bottle of water and kept it with me, so that it would be easier to use it in the morning.
The third day was when we started on the actual trek. We were to trek
to the Segli camp,located at an height of 7,100 feet. We had an early
breakfast and were handed packed lunch. A bus was to drop us off to
our starting point. The bus arrived on time and we boarded it. Guess
how I travelled on the bus ? By sitting on its roof . If you ever
feel suicidal, try travelling on a bus top in a hilly region in North
India. It was frightening, but fun.
The bus dropped us off near a village and we started our trek. We had a guide with us to show us the way. However, the good people of YHAI had placed markers to guide us all along the route. THe first part of our trek was through a village, and the village was not different from any other Indian village. The guide advised us not to pluck flowers and fruits from the trees, as a previous group had gotten into some arguments with the villagers over this.
Once we crossed the village, the route became really beautiful. We were surrounded by tall trees. The sounds that we could hear was our own breathing and the sound of the birds. This part of the trek was not too stressful. When we stopped for our first break, I quickly applied sunscreen lotion to my arms and legs. People who had neglected this got a bit sunburnt. Without too much trouble, we reached our first camp of the trek - Segli.
We were given tea and soup. Then we had dinner at 1900 and then a campfire after that. After the campfire, I went to my allocated tent and promptly fell asleep.