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Steve Jobs -iway to heaven

October 7 - This was today's headlines in TOI. A master story teller, I love Steve's love for life. His philosophy of living life to the fullest is something I wish I take to my life. Steve's story telling capabilities were almost second to none. His death probably should make us all take a minute and look at the last years of his life - fighting with pancreatic cancer, he was still releasing ipods, iphones and ipads. Whenever health permitted, he was out, trying to transform every activity that we did - APPLE, NEXT, PIXAR and back to APPLE again. APPLE is the world's most valuable brand today after surpassing Google in May 2011. Jobs has Jobs for sure has led the way for technology brands like Google, Facebook and many others in the Valley to start transforming our daily activities. It is interesting that a recent Forrester report suggests that youngsters in the US today consider being hooked to the internet more important than a car or dating or the other activities

What a cracker of a match

Harsha Bhogle wrote in Cricinfo on October 7 " Twenty20 is cricket too " In his words "I enjoyed the World Cup, loved seeing the intensity with which England played Test cricket, and for many reasons have enjoyed watching the Champions League T20. Unlike in a good marriage, you don't have to love only one" After a series of flops - Indian team in England, CSK in the Champions Trophy..here was my last hope - my adopted city "Bangalore" and my alternate favorite "RCB" making it to the semi-finals. After the 1st session, I guessed this was a continuation of the last 45-60 days where my favorite loses. Callum Fergusson and a name I have not head before, Daniel Harris, had a great time in the middle scoring close to 11 runs/over. Not sure how many times have we seen a side lose after scoring 200+ runs in 20 overs. RCB was very ordinary in the field - Mayank dropped a sitter, there were some misfields and Arvind [can't believe he has got into