As for me.. Well, I am so mortified by my sudden disappearance from Froggy Land. It’s not that I fled the country-side in fear of the chickens, but I was rather distracted by their delicious stew that got me somewhat inebriated!! Whatever that means, now that I'm back.. Let me get this thing running once again..

As for my dear pals whom I did not intend to abandon, I’ve got myCAST up and running as a journal for the time being. Hope you become a regular ceneus guest once again.

In Nagasaki, as the bells rang, over 6,000 people gathered at a commemorating ceremony, including hundreds of A-bomb survivors, and silently prayed for the estimated 80,000 who died on that day, and the tens of thousands more who later succumbed to radiation-related diseases. There were mixed feelings of sadness, disappointment, regret and hatred filled among them, with only a few managing to express them openly.

We understand your anger and anxiety over the memories of horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet, is your security actually enhanced by your government's policies of maintaining 10,000 nuclear weapons, of carrying out repeated sub-critical nuclear tests, and of pursuing the development of new miniature nuclear weapons?
- Itchoh Ito, Mayor of Nagasaki

Nagasaki became the target of the second nuclear bomb dropped by Enola Gay, while the first A-bomb struck Hiroshima 3 days ago (Aug 6) creating utter devastation and ultimately totaling up to approximately 214,000 human lives in the two cities.

The A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki was the second and last nuclear bomb used by humans against humans. It ushered in the nuclear age and its consequences extended from ending the war to destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and also generating a long-term life threat to inhabitants. Those who managed to survive that ordeal are now speaking on behalf of the souls of the victims, demanding that Nagasaki be the world's last site of an atomic bombing. And I'm sure that most of us would wish exactly the same.

Having our guys playing the tri-nation and even without the Edgbaston coverage it was a must to follow this game, as England slowly but surely showed signs of coming to their peak. My boy wasn't it rewarding! The last time I had such a great feeling was during the last world cup opener when the Windies closed in a thriller.

At one stage when Warnie and Lee were breaking the English attack an Oz win was inevitable. It never seemed to change even with Kasprowicz in the middle. However, one wicket is just one, not anymore. So I was eagerly staring at my Bro's PDA waiting till the score shows up without the 9, and Bligh me it did!

Having leveled the series the Englishmen should be in thrilling mood to face the rest of the games. Hopefully we could see the entire series twisting like this one and have a new test leader for a change.

We have seen some major developments from the production side that could attract consumers to a certain extent and thereby having a solid platform built in terms of electronic or otherwise virtual mediums. However, it still doesn't appear to be the right period for a peak buyer base. So merchants are forced to use their e-commerce services as just another promotional and widening method rather than a direct sales generation strategy.

It's all about consumer attitude and not reach or affordability. Concerns of indirect sales could span from insecure fund transfer to duplication to privacy violation so on and so forth. Even with the modernization of society and trends many feel trapped in the dark when it comes to be dependent on technology in which trust plays a vital and yet a negative role.

However, beyond borders people have compromised over this uncertainty and are continuing to reap the benefits out of it. So as for the business world it's another opportunity. It's not like they are gonna have a major break through by being innovative in the field, but rather a stepping stone for a future that could be promising even in a country like this.

After all the fact finding and logical engineering, Astronauts Stephen Robinson and Soichi Noguchi wrapped up the first spacewalk today, testing heat-shield repair techniques, hot wiring one of the space station's gyroscopes and mounting an attachment device that later will hold a large external tool kit and spare parts box. Mission Control didn't fail to acknowledge "You did a great job today!"

This one was the 59th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance, pushing the cumulative total to 355 hours and five minutes by 40 NASA astronauts, 10 Russian cosmonauts, one Canadian, one Frenchman and now, one Japanese.

The Discovery crew will continue their space walks until a final decision is made on the repair. It may all sounds like the fun stuff in Jetsons, but they could only wish it was that simple!

The faulty fuel sensor is a backup for another sensor, which in turn is part of a system that should be necessary only in the event of a fuel leak or a similar emergency. This entire backup system was put in place only after the Colombia Disaster when NASA was forced to toughen their standards. However, now that Discovery has been ejected with minus one external fuel tank sensors, it appears that they have passed the logical engineering test.

With Discovery's bursting into space, NASA is now screaming it out loud : "We're back!"

Four suicide bombers coordinated to strike the transport system in central London, with their attacks resulting with explosions in underground trains just outside Liverpool Street and Edgware Road stations, and on another traveling between King's Cross and Russell Square & finally on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square an hour later. The explosions have so far cost 52 lives with over 700 more casualties.

The most highlighting issue of the attacks were that all four bombers (Two students, a teaching assistant and a Jamaican-born convert) were young Britons who had led apparently ordinary lives. The fact that they were home grown have steered great concern into the British public as it was their own people who had turned against them. Even though most of the blame has been put on Islamic nations, there is a part in which Britain itself has to play in the radicalization of these youngsters. However, still not knowing the exact significance of the attacks it might be quite a task to find the motives behind the masterminds.

Since the outcry of modern world terrorism as craftily headed by the US Government, Britain has always managed to hold a decent position in the affairs, until they wanted to prove their bravery in Iraq. However, things have changed since and the after effects are slowly coming into play. And it doesn't seem to be as pleasent as they said it would be.

It's such a shame to see this kind of human behavior at this modern and civilized age. There is no real explanation for both sides of the story as to their reasoning or justification, cos whatever they do its eventually gonna end up in the heads of the innocenct As much as I blame the bombers and specially the ones who planned the attacks, there's also a part of it directed towards the world leaders who have erupted this state of disorder and yet failed to bring stability in both a moral and political level. My sincere condolence goes to all those families who have lost their loved ones due to the explosions and pray that we all would be lucky enough to live in peaceful times.

In a couple of hours from now a handful of world leaders will leave their luxury hotel rooms to begin a discussion on how they can bridge the gap of poverty. It's not the first time they have done it, so there is little promise as to their progress in producing a favorable result. However, that little promise is like all the waters of the oceans put together for those humans fighting so hard just to survive another taut agonizing in life.

The African dilemma has opened so many hearts as much as it has shown how hard that organ could get in some humans beings. However, such indifference is not a burden to the compassionate as their will is to pursue good to make it better. So to say an antagonistic view is quite essential to bring results if we are to see a change during our time in this world.

Another side of the summit that is expected to deal with combating global warming is most likely to come undone as we have already seen some interesting resistance to the Kyoto Protocol. If the Industrial giants now fancifully calling themselves with a shorter version could bring this problem upon Mother Nature, then I suppose their so called powerful industrialism could obviously get rid of it too. But then again, they have to 'think' about it so they make sure it doesn't leave any untidy marks. And so we eagerly wait till they burn their fuel and analyze the results of their consumption.

As the humane part of civilization move their attention to Gleneagles, the African nations are yearning for a long waited blessing. It's a decision to those behind close doors, but a matter of life and death for those who are in question. As it has always been, this is just another opportunity. Whether it's gonna be taken or not is left to those who call themselves powerful and wise among our race.

Rock stars who lent their talents to Saturday's "Live 8" concert to fight poverty in Africa reportedly performed for free, but that's only if you don't count the luxurious "goodie bags" that were provided by organizers at one venue.

In Philadelphia, each celebrity performer was treated to a Hugo Boss duffel bag loaded with high-fashion trinkets valued at about $3,000, according to The Associated Press.

And that's not all. The altruistic artists were also feted in a special luxury lounge, where they reportedly chose from an array of expensive parting gifts. Some of the items scarfed up by the compassionate crusaders: Hugo Boss suits, valued between $800 and $1,000 each, XM satellite radios and subscriptions worth $500, Gibson guitars costing $2,000 each, Bertolucci watches, valued between $1,500 and $6,000.

So as a poverty-fighting rock star worth his salt could walk away with as much as $12,000 hunger relief loot, there has been no word yet on whether any of the leftover Hugo Boss suits and Bertolucci watches will be given to starving Africans. Yet another triumph of the modern world!

Not quite long since their acquisition of the digital mapping company, G has come straight out with their latest service plan to introduce Google Earth to their devoted query snappers. It's not another Gmail kinda thing, but a big one, very big one.

Google Earth is a free satellite mapping software which presents high-resolution images of the Earth, which you can spin like a beach ball before zooming in closer to examine streets, parks and anything else on the planet. Start with your very home, move on to your workplace, surprise your boss and then travel across the globe to somewhere else you'd rather be. With G Earth you could choose any destination of your choice then control and view it in three dimensions with colour and a softer landing.

Even though much of the functionality is in the areas of the United States, it still provides mappings across major cities in the world. And what more you could even spot tons of cafés, railways, hotels, roads, cities and even gas stations viewing everything from ridges at the bottom of oceans to the Vatican.

This is a tool that G would most like hope to develop continuously unlike others and its also one of those that will be open to many controversial issues and probably even legal disputes. Google plans to add more high-resolution graphics in coming months with the facility to map crime statistics, schools and other details.

Google has now given the ideal tool to make a free, quick and real visit to your favorite place on earth virtually and I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't want to make it count. Talking about anyone, I'm waiting till someone shouts out "We've got maps too"! Hello, err, M$??

A new build with version 1.0.613 was released for M$ Antispyware Beta in order to enhance its detection and removal capabilities, including improved Winsock LSP removals and support for long descriptions of categorized software. They have also extended the beta expiration date to December 31 which came as quite a surprise.

Their newest addition to the beta series however is a graphic software code-named "Acrylic". It’s is an illustration, painting and graphics tool which provides creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media. Designed particularly for XP-SP2 (a probable downside), Acrylic is expected to compete with some of the industries top-notch digital graphic tool creators like Adobe & Macromedia. But it's quite bit of a challenge cos they have already sketched their course to hop in to the next level while the supposing new comers are most likely to be needing crawling time.

One of my major concerns was about Bale's portrayal of the dual role as compared to their ancestors like Keaton, Clooney & Kilmer. However, it appeared to be no big question as the story evolved way brighter in a way he could prove himself convincing with the support of some great actors like Caine, Oldman, Wilkinson and of course Freeman.

Honestly, I would have rather watched it without having too much of Holmes stuff with all the hype and blype around Hollywood these days. However, I could take comfort in the fact that it didn't steal the show or make a considerable impact on the production itself. But as far as I know, her Cruise bite will most likely cost her a place in the sequel and thanks to that we have a open slot now.

The last three installments of the Batman franchise were extremely successful and to the positive appraisal of the fans. However Nolan's excellence has definitely made him inject the virtues of his effort into the viewers that could make them completely forget they ever saw the rest. As for me, yes this is yet the best! Now can't wait for announcement of the sequel.

Hod Lipson along with his Corny team developed a group of robots that can complete the self-cloning process at a simplistic level without human assistance. This is the beginning of a larger scale development that could provide Ro's with the ability to build others robots, even more complex ones, to repair themselves or others, to run rescue and human inaccessible missions and basically maintain the chain of processes without any breakouts.

Interestingly, the outcome of this project has a major significance given that at this very moment NASA is having quite a lot of trouble getting the Mars Rover out of a sand dune in the Red Planet. It's apparently the biggest challenge they have faced since the robot's landing last year. So in a case where the robot fails to find a way out, with all the human instructions and programs fed into it, it would most likely be a reason for the failure of the entire mission.

However, not if the kind of projected modular robots are available which can probably run a rescue operation or assist another in completing a taks and prevent aborting missions. Just like a human helping another to get out of a trap. Skills like that needs intelligence, and injecting them into machines could also mean sampling a substitutional working group. A group that would need no guidance after being created.

So as Ro's develop their line of intelligence, or to say, as we feed them with our intelligence, their abilities continue to grow each day just like a typical human. But they too would always have to depend on a source of energy just like we do and thereby give us control over them. But at a time when they make uninterrupted decisions, have the ability to reproduce with no time restriction like those that apply to humans, and are capable of maintaining their chain of processes, imagine when and where the progression would come to a stop. No I didn't take I Robot seriously, but It's quite clear what we are looking at next: A brotherhood of Robots!

As Britons are heading to polls, New Yorkers had a near fright for the first time since their worst nightmare came into existence four years ago. Regardless of its significance, the prominent state of high alert had been finally penetrated. So as the hunt begins from one side to find 'How', the tallying continues in the other side to find 'Who'. I dare not choose either of them, but I guess we'll have at least one out quite soon.

While the West is busy probing into the How's and Who's, the entire world got its own high-alert with the breakout of Sober-N which, even as we speak, slithers around networks across over 40 countries. It's ability to differentiate between languages (ENG n GER) and to auto disable antivirus protection (i.e. Norton) and firewalls (at least M$'s) has already shaped its way through the super-highway. As claimed by Sophos, Sober-N's reappearance with social engineering has given itself a place for one in every 22 emails in the current circulation. As impressive it could get from a developer's POV, the perilous it could be for a delighted NuB with a jammed inbox.

A brutal past has also led this day for Jews across the globe to observe Yom Hashoah marking the Holocaust Memorial Day for the 6 million Jewish deaths during WWII. Following it will be the opening of the Berlin Holocaust memorial situated between the Brandenburg Gate and the buried remains of Adolf Hitler's bunker. A memorial that honors the memory of Holocaust and exhibits a courageous symbol of modern Germany.

Space too had its own orbital story, as the The Cartosat and the Hamsat left their birthplace to join the trajectory of their kind. It is the proud and maiden effort of the Indians to aid mapmakers and Ham operators, who are clearly among those who actually do a realistic job at times in need like during the recent tsunami disaster.

So as events unfold and fold again while the day gives in to the night, this dejected theory is about to rest for the next 397 days when it will be ready to rise again. Well, may be daylight saving could make some minor changes at its own will.

Getting back to the normal routine, everything appears to be dislocated. Even the fingers that once used to carry a low-level record for its undetected swiftness has now adopted different means to function. However, our evil friend doesn't fail to make it seem all normal, and so the day begins as it always did with the possibility of it being the last.

Even with all the misinterpretations, ceneus has still survived. And according to the unseen horoscopes it should continue to do so with the power of Zeus. While I clear my doubts starring at the screen in front, I can see hIm beneath smiling and waiting for his next chance, a chance he'll have to work harder to get it right the next time.

Anyway, not sure how reality has been lately, but it sure ain't interesting as the rich soils down there. But in case you meet our evil friend you would know exactly the reasons of being so paranoid, regardless of the subject. So Welcome back to the unknown world.