One of the things that always bothers me is waste. The collosol amount of wastage that we do is not funny. Resources, money, effort, time - everything is wasted all around us. We see companies/shops coming up and disappearing. We see so much of effort that people all around us do. And sometimes - at least philosophically - it makes sense to ask ourselves - why are we doing all this.

Mostly we dont do things that ought to be done or that we think should be done. We do things that we can. Funny isn't it - the reason someone sets up a company is because they can. The reason someone pays for better infrastructure is because they can.The reason someone wages a war is 'coz they can. The only thing that over-rides this is when someone dreams - and WANTS to do something real bad.

So explaining to people that this is the right thing and ought to be done is quite useless. We have to either make them capable of doing it - or make them want to do it REAL BAD.

 The Windows Live mail is nice. It provides a good place to integrate all modes of communication - e-mail, chat, blogs, contacts etc. Sorely needed, I think its gonna make a big difference. If it has a programmable model, I would guess that there will be multiple vendors targeting their applications on this platform (using this as the front end).