459 Bombs were blasted throughout Bangladesh within a span of only 20 minutes killing at least 2 people. For years Bangladesh has quietly nurtured Islamist extremists trained by Pakistan's ISI and Taliban-minded clerics. Khaleda Zia's overnment even made them coalition partners. Yesterday the policy backfired. 459 bombs were blasted in a span of only 20 minutes from 11 am to 11:20 am in an extraordinary show of terror in 63 out of 64 districts of Bangladesh. The blasts killed at least 2 people and injured over 300.

I am happy to announce that The Simple Thoughts Blog is ranked 97 in Feedster's Top 500 List. A big round of applause for my readers and fellow bloggers who helped us achieve this distinction. Update: We have been selected again (ranked 33) in Feedster Top 500 Blogs. This time we significantly improved our rankings. According to Feedster: Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you on a regular basis, and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere. I started this as a Java and Web Technology Blog in October 2003. Later on I included health topics with focus on diabetes cure related information. Two of my special interests: stem cell research and eye treatment and care information were forked into their own blogs to do justice to the subjects and to make the blogs more focussed. Please take a look at The Stem Cell Blog and The Eye Treatment Blog and let me know your thoughts. Soon I will fork The Diabetes Blog into a separate blog of its own. I am looking forward to your ideas and sugestions to make these blogs even better and more useful to you.

C# was a much hyped language not so long back. These days we don't hear about it anymore anywhere. Can it be shelved as a failure, a has-been technology? Calvin Austin from Sun makes compelling argument to show that the party is indeed over. Lets take a hard look at the facts and issues.