Connectivity -- it is important

The following news shows how important the connectivity is.

LSE suspends trade on technical glitch
26 Nov 2009, 1731 hrs IST, AGENCIES

SOURCE: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5272009.cms?prtpage=1

LONDON: The London Stock Exchange PLC has halted electronic trading because of technical issues.

The LSE says the break to trading on Thursday is due to connectivity issues, but it hasn't yet determined the root cause of the problem.

The exchange has placed all order-driven securities in to an auction call period, which allows customers to continue to place orders into the exchange's order book. The exchange says it will give customers 30 minutes notice before ending the auction period, once it sorts out the technical issue.
Trading went offline at 10.33 GMT, freezing the FTSE 100 at 5,264.97.
The auction call period is usually used to set prices at the start and end of the daily trading session.

Solar Centric

We are under utilizing solar power. It is high time our Governments encourage solar powered products and services. VCs should reach out to the startups that are inclined towards the solar based products. That is one way of giving back to society. It would help cleaning the guilty feeling that everyone is carrying :-).

Japan is doing the right thing in a big way. They are planning to position a solar station in space and bring the solar power to earth using laser beams. That would be about 6 times cheaper than the current cost. We wish them good luck on the project which will contribute to the good climate and will help every living thing.

More details of Japan's initiative: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/sc_afp/japanspaceenergysolartechnology

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Gri Vidi
http://blogofgri.blogspot.com/
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