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Amazon Kindle - Good E-Reader

2011-08-08T22:12:00.006+05:30

Purchased Kindled, directly from Amazon, had few doubts, how it will work here(In India). Finished reading my first book in kindle, in fact my first Asimov book also.

Inline access to dictionary
One click for taking notes or highlight
Access to Wikipedia-in fact to other sites also
Very easy to nav, from pg to pg
Books download pretty fast - few minutes hardly.
Play mp3
Adjustable font size, zoom image
Very light,easy to hold,read and page turn(It fits neatly in my jacket)
Device comes with 3G connection - so no need to worry(Amazon has tied up)
Text-TO speech - helps, for checking pronunciation
Reads PDF directly

Flicker during page turns
Need external light for reading
3g connection is not seamless
Very less choice of Indian mags and newspapers

2009-07-21T15:09:00.002+05:30

The Ghent Visit - 20 July After Brugge yesterday, today planned to visit another beautiful city of Belgium - Ghent. The Station is Gent-Sint-Pieters, though i had visited earlier had a little doubt as it says Gent plus something. Took a Tram to the centre market place Koren Market. Started at the Tourisl Center at the ground floor of Belfry. Belfry - I wanted to climb the Belfry in Brugge but could not, but i climbet the Belfry here. It was very interesting, each floor had some thing. The Secrecy room, the Bell Room, The Roeland Bell and the Mechanical Clock - Bit Startled when suddely the Drum Started rotation for the 2.00 Pm Music. The View from the Tower was great. St Bavo´s Cathedral - The Main work of art here is The adoration of Mystic lAMB DATING FROM 1432. The Church also houses lot of Stained Glass paintings. Castle of Counts - A few minutes walk from the St Bavo´s Square.This is a massive fort in the middle of the city. Looks real solid, houses the old arms, torture instruments, guillotine. The view from the Top is also good. This is a Festive season and so everywhere there is some band playing or giving some performance.

Brugges Walking Tour - 19th July

2009-07-20T00:21:00.003+05:30

Brugges Walk Tour Started at the Tourist Center-The guide explained: Brugges had lot of economic problems ion 18th and 19th century , so the city could not develop, but that is blessing in disguise ,now it has preserved most of the old heritage and the whole city is under the world Heritage site. Also in 2002 Brugges was selected as the cultural capital of Europe. Then she explained that Terracotta, which is a form of clay, was used in the building of of the concert hall, as it is available in plenty in Brugge. The whole city was surrounded by a canal , which is of 9 feet depth, whose height is controlled by sluices. In old tiles there was a river Dijver, but it is no longer there, but the canals are given that name. Then we visited visited the Hospital building, which is now a museum and in old times served as hospital and and to give hospitality for the travelers and needy. Then saw the Brewery Brugges Zot-Half mad man story about MAxmillan , held captive and he did not give permission to build a "Mad house". Maxmillan also ordered the people of Brugges to look after Sans for eternity- now there are around 80 swans. The we visited the "beguinage" which is a shelter for single woman. Then we saw a alms house - which houses a small garden,a room and a chapel. The we saw the Church of our Lady, Where Michelangelo "Madonna and Child" statue is there- it is one of the two statues of him outside Italy. It was made for It was made for the cathedral of Sienna, and since he could not finish in time, the cathedral of Sienna did not accept, so a wealthy merchant bought it and donated to the church. It is placed in between two other statues - one representing Faith and belief(One with goblet) and the other Hope. Thus the three represents, love, faith and hope. We also saw the four horseman statues from apocalypse. Then we vised the Brugges center, where the building style, from Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, neo-Gothic, 19th century, the 2oth century with glass, then the latest by Japanese architect. Then we saw the Belfry, heard the caroline. There are around 52 bells.

Wimbeldon Final 2009- What a Match - Guts, Tenacity and perfection

2009-07-11T17:36:00.002+05:30

The finals of Wimbeldon 2009 between Federer and Roddick, is one of the best match i have ever watched. Glued into the TV - The Excellent display of tennis by both the players; Even though i am a Fed fan, cant hide the appreciation for Roddicks display of fighting spritit, producing the aces and serves through out, even at the highly tensed moment. At the last it seemed not like who is going to win, but who is going to let go. Both of them where testing the other to the limits, and it looked like Roddick sensed Fed will not give up even after some 20 games. His remarks in the award ceremony "you have already won 5" implied why not give this one to me? Great Match.Lot of lessons. Federer also proved that he is here to stay for some more time;

An Amazing technological advance-WOW!

2009-05-10T14:48:00.000+05:30

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

HallerBos - 10 to 12 KM Walk

2009-05-01T13:29:00.002+05:30

After deciding that i will walk for around 10 to 12 Km, in HallerBos forest with my colleague, i started training little, as i don't remember ever walked that much. I started with 2 and 4 Km and then few days before the planned day walked 8 KM. This instilled some confidence that i can walk the 12 Km. So on 30 April evening after Office I and my colleague went to the forest in his car and started the Walk; It was a very good experience.The forest is really beautiful. The main attraction as is the blue bell, it carpets the forest for few weeks in spring. My Colleague gave me lot of information like- in Medieval times the forest used to stretch from Halle to Leuven and now it has shrunk.There are also other Garlic like plant- which smelt like garlic. There were pine trees and beuk trees. He also said there were native squirrels which are red in color, though we could not see one. But all in all it was an wonderful experience- both for walking and for the natural beauty. It took us 2 hrs and 10 minutes to walk.

Half an Hour in front of my Apartment - Car Stats

2009-05-01T12:50:00.005+05:30

Volkswagen	---	43
Peugeot	---	28
Renault	---	27
Opel	---	14
Benz	---	13
Ford	---	11
Ciroen	---	11
Toyota	---	9
Skoda	---	9
audi	---	8
Smart	---	2
Volvo	---	1
Mini Cooper	---	2
Fiat	---	1
Suzuki	---	1
Honda	---	1
Limo	---	1
???	---	17

????- I could not identify.
May be at different time and place this can give different fgures, but it satisfies my curiosity

WYSINWYG a antonym for WYSIWYG - Publishing with Table in Blogger

2009-04-26T13:45:00.003+05:30

This is really a pain creating something in table and publishing in Blogger. 1.First i created in html editor and tried to publish. If there is a break in the tag then it shows them as actual text. The i tried to have the tags in one line.Then it was OK. But for the table it created a big gap at the top. 2.I Changed the setting "Convert line breaks" in formatting tab to "No"- still did not help. 3.So then i have to manually remove all the space and align, so that it is OK. But Still "What you see is not What you got" May be a new acronym WYSINWYG a antonym for WYSIWYG Added to that: "The auto saved "saved when i mistakenly deleted all" Using Keyboard in lap top-switching from number keys to text. OOps..

My Grocery Shopping this week - April 25 2009

2009-04-26T00:47:00.007+05:30

Item	Unit	Euro	Ruppes
ONION	1 kg	0.89	59
Spinach	300gm	1.59	106
Cucumber	400 gm	0.45	30
Beans	400 gm	2.58	172
Potato	500 gm	0.63	42
Carrot	1.5 kg	1.77	118
Tomato	600 gm	2.35	157
Brinjal	255 gm	0.43	28
Paprika	1piece	069	46
Lemon	2 piece	0.46	30
Mixed Nuts	350 gm	6.49	434
Water	7.5 L	2.67	178
Milk	2 L	1.66	111
Lays Chips	45 gm	0.39	26
Sugar	1 Kg	0.83	55
Yoghurt	500 gm	1.53	102
Total		25.41	1702

Scaling- Making of "Adai"

2009-03-30T02:30:00.001+05:30

Dosa-Adai and Scaling Today i invited my colleagues and there family to Dinner(Adai). Still now i have maximum prepared for 3 persons and today it will be double; That means i have to scale twice in everything i cook. So i said to myself it is In Project terms simply doubling and more, the risks are time management and the ingredients quantities. So i started preparing the Batter, usually i don for 2 people(One quantity for dinner and the other for lunch), so now made it three times.I soaked in water the Rice and the dal and Started the preparing the Sambar. Making Sambar was not straight forward like Adai, most of the quantities i normally do by trial and error when i prepare, so now it is a bigger challenge as the size is increased. So i took a more slower and cautious approach while adding the ingredients. (When scaling for the first time- need more attention) The the timing problem- it really took more time than i have initially planned( but here also i don't have correct measurement of how much time i normally take). I finished successfully preparing. But then i felt that the quantity may not be sufficient and so i made some more Sambar again. I also at temped Chatni for these many people first time. All of this was a Success as my colleagues enjoyed the dinner. scaling at this level it self shows so many Process improvements areas!

Aalst Carnival- Spectacular and Colorful

2009-02-28T21:27:00.004+05:30

Aalst Carnival- Spectacular and Colorful It was on 22nd of Feb and when i reached the station, I can already hear and see the sound and sight of big wagons with lot of Dolls, Men in different costumes. The whole city is geared up. The organisation of this Carnival is - There are around 70 wagons or groups which will start in one place and as a procession pass through different streets. The crowd will be on the side roads, enjoying and cheering. It was rich and i can see lot of practice has gone into this making. Each wagon or groups were organised around a theme, there were many themes about Fortis bank, there were themes about fire squads, scouts and there were 2 or 3 themes from India- Bollywood, Hare Rama and Kamasutra. There were Interesting themes like restaurants,market. There were themes in which a bar tender will be serving beer. Brilliant, colorful and well organised. Some of the wagons were huge and large mechanisms, with people in swings, this is as if they were moving a small giant wheel or swinging machines. As the day becomes to fade, they came with full of lights in the wagons and also in their dresses. When the last wagon passed me and as I start waking towards the Station, I already saw men and machine started cleaning the place.

Movie - Technocalyps

2009-02-08T14:19:00.002+05:30

Last Week I saw this Movie -Technocalyps. It deals with how technology is going to change our life's, more.. change us as human beings it self's. It talks about the genome project,AI and the space research which is converging and going to bring something dramatically different. And more they predict this to happen by 2030 to 2040. Will the Homo sapiens become extinct? Human beings will evolve into something better than them(why should evolution stop at humans?) If we are half human and Half machine, who are we?

Federer and Nadal

2009-02-01T17:02:00.004+05:30

Australian Open final they meet again.Federer is going for his 14th Grand slam title and he is playing the best opponent in the World. In the first Set after a break it looked like Fed had a upper hand, but as always Nadal comes back breaking again and takes the Set. Federer equals by taking the second one. They are equally poised at 5-5, and dues... two official reviews first favouring Nadal and then Fed. Ad - Nadal and the a cross court, dues.. wow! What a match this , as always , each point is a title point, and they gives thier best. Does the result matters! Both are winners here.

Ada Ada Adai!

2009-01-25T16:41:00.002+05:30

One of the Great learning for me in 2008 is cooking. Before coming to Brussels, i have planned a little bit expecting that i cannot survive without self cooking. I slowly started cooking, rice, sambar , rasam and some curries. After my parents visit, i learned to prepare Adai. Previously my view on Adai was, it is difficult to make - but now i feel it is so simple; I make almost every week. Preparation of Batter. Equla portion of Rice and all other grams; Example for 1 cup of Rice, 1 cup of all other grams combined(i use, urdi dal, door dal,"passi paruppu", "kadalai paruppu". Soak in water for 2 to 4 hrs . Grid with salt, red chilli powder, little hing. The Batter is Ready, we can eat with Jaggery or prepare some chutney.

Appolo 13 - Great Learning

2009-01-11T18:34:00.004+05:30

Appolo 13 - The Successful Failure The perfect oxymoron.What a team effort;I recently saw the movie and i was so inspired, i wanted to find out more on Net, When i searched i come across this article from IEEE.This is white paper which details the account. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr05/2697 The whole episode teaches so much- training, leadership, innovativeness, dedication. It should be part of every engineering curriculam.
Leadership- Though "Flight" did not deliver the phrase "Failure is not an Option", what he said to his team exactly reflected this and inspired the team so much. Innovativeness - How many disconnected items the team came up with a solution to do Co2 filter. So much to learn from this episode.

Snow ,Snow and Winter

2009-01-10T03:47:00.003+05:30

I am experiencing the first coldest winter, the temperature dropped to -15.

That is almost 50 degree difference from my comfortable temperature.

It started to snow the begging of this week and the snow froze and still seens in all parts of Brussels now.

What i experience at an altitude of 3000 meters in Switzerland, i am experiencing daily, near my office, on the way to office.Walking on Ice paltforms(Should be careful)

Some times it to good to see the snow but it also feels very cold..

This is a test for me to adapt and I am doing good.

New Year Eve in Brussels

2009-01-01T15:36:00.002+05:30

I and some NIIT colleagues went and had dinner in Thai Restaurant called "Theva" near Grand Place. I have a White Wine, Vegtable Soup and Vegetarian Spring rolls . White wine was not good. Then we walked to "Sablon" were the Fireworkd will begin.There was huge crowd and people were dancing for the loud music. there was big display of Clock through Laser i believe projected on a big building. The Fire works started at 12.00, it was great , spectacular and brilliant. What a Great event to Begin a New year. Sumit asked everyone about there New Year Resolution, i did not have one, on a later note: atleast i will have a resolution to Post 1 week this year, that amounts to 48 posting for 2009.

Post With Blogger Buddy

2008-12-28T23:38:00.001+05:30

Posted With Blogger Buddy Gadget, in answering one of the comments for more lights to this gadget

Blogger Buddy Gadget

2008-07-13T16:40:00.001+05:30

The Blogger buddy Gadget for window is real cool. A quick way to post/ In single click we can preview and post.

Mahabharata - Film by Peter Brook

2008-07-13T16:17:00.001+05:30

The film tries to tell Mahabharath in 4 to 5 hrs.I would say this is a good attempt,the director has clearly avoided the big efforts for settings , especially in the battle scenes, the palaces etc;But Mahabharath is so vast and the characters are so powerful, it is impossible to pack it.(Is that why important characters like Vidura is not there!)The characters always tries to outwit each other in depth. Every character is as real as in life and have its own pages of stories for its existence itself.For those who know lot of Mahabharath(does anyone knows it completely? or can anyone know?) it is a refresher,the 10 minute revision before an exam.For those who dont know it can be a starter.

And the Change of Guard-Federer vs Nadal Wimbeldon

2008-07-08T01:20:00.003+05:30

What a match, This is the perfect way to snatch the title and wimbledon from Federer; Nadal is everywhere in the court,run run run hit hit hit Nadal made federer play his game, made him defensive, ofcourse the Champion fought equally, it was anyones match, but Nadal has to carry one from here, are Federer is planning a comeback?

MY First Computer

2008-07-05T23:18:00.002+05:30

After years of working in this industry, i never felt necessary to own a computer of my own.Last week decided to buy a computer and i bought the Lenova 3000 N200. And then today took the NET connection also.

Small different things in brussels

2008-06-15T15:10:00.002+05:30

Small different things in brussels Metro stations can be identified with a bid 'M' board - it is visible when you are walking on the streets Trains both( metro and intercity)and buses do not have open doors,they are locked-you canot get down from busses if it is slowing or stopping in signals There is no separate ticket conductor.Driver acts as an issuer and checker-you have to always board inhe front door-sjow your pass or punch your tickets in the ticket machine To stop the bus in your stop-you may need to press a blue button located at convinient points,to signal the conductor You can find other routes inside the buses People take there pets usually with a length adjutable leash You can find three kinds of pedestrian crossings Automatic-in main roads where the signal turns automatically Semi-automatic-where the pedeetrian has to press the button and the signal will change Unmanned - no signals, here the pedestrian have high priority,even trucks stops if we start crossing

Visit to Brugges

2008-03-30T02:10:00.003+05:30

Went TO THE mOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN bELGIUM _ bRUGES tHE DAY WE WENT IT WAS SNOWING ALSO. ITS A GREAT CITY BUT DID NOT SPEND MUCH TIME; NEED TO GO AGAIN sAW MICHALENGELOS WORK , MADONNNA AND CHILD INSIDE A CHURCH. THE CHURCH IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHURCH I HAVE EVR SEEN.WENT FOR A CANL RIDE IN A SMALL BOAT, WELL ORGANISED TRIP WITH GOOD COMMENTARY.VERY SMALL BRIDGES. WHEN WE GO UNDER THEM WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SIT OR ELSE OUR HEAD WILL GO. How to go - From Brussels Central take train which goes to oostende, after midi,gent st.pieters the next stop is brugges- takes 1 hr, from the station walked outside for 10 min to the information center, where they guided us

Life in Brussels

2008-03-23T01:45:00.003+05:30

Snow Fall Yesterday there was heavy snow fall, experienced the first snow of my life, good, the view from my balcony, i ccan see the tiles of all roofs covered with snow-pleasant sight. Auto Museum To day, visited the auto museum in Merode- great place, goo and must visit for auto enthus; Lots of varieties of cars, from rolls royce , ford, chrysler, benz , Belgian Royal familys cars etc. etc, From very old 1850 to latest .

A Good Multi Browser test Site

2008-02-13T12:59:00.000+05:30

http://browsershots.org/

Lead India

2008-02-13T12:53:00.002+05:30

The Lead India Contest ended in good note. R.K.Misra won the contest. The profile of people who particiapted and judged is quite good. Even though my favourite contender Sanjiv Kaura could not make to the finalist nevertheless the contest is excellent. Ofcourse Sanjiv Kaura and Depayen Dey got some awards, it was also good to see all the 8 finalist notably Saumya Misra( who could not take part because of duty). A Good Contest, should Continue. Times Of India should be thanked for bringing this.

Lead India Contest.

2008-01-20T20:28:00.000+05:30

The Lead Inida Contest by Times of India is unique initiative and very good.It provides new platform for leaders to showcase there qualities and move forward.The judges are very good-Kiran Bedi,Javed Aktar,Vikas Singh senior editor,TOI.The program is well conducted and neatly organised.The contestants are very good.It started with 32682 and today it is between 4 of them Sanjiv Kaura(My favourite) , Devang Nanawati, Abha Singh and R K Mishra.I have watched all the episodes so far and find Sanjiv Kaura to be very good and want him to win. After seeing the results of public voting on Sunday in TOI, i saw Sanjiv Kaura is trailing in public votes and i decided to campaign for him. As of now i have spokes to few people and initiated a campaign.All the best all contestants and i hope Sanjiv Kaura to win!.

Google Transliterate sight!

2007-12-25T21:07:00.000+05:30

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil எங்கு செல்கிறது கூகிள் , யார் இவர்கள், எங்கிருந்து குதித்தார்கள். (Where is google heading, Who are these people and from where they have come!) In Die hard 4, a hacker comments about the villians (Computer Geek/Hacker) that he just came out of nowhere! Google people are like dropping from nowhere!

Tare Zameen Par

2007-12-25T20:42:00.000+05:30

What a movie it is emotionally packed. Also reminds us about the responsibility of the individual to treat the kids equally and not to compare one kids with other ("Every children is special"). Aamir also talks about kids should be allowed to follow their dreams and parents should not impose their dreams. Sometimes i think this is difficult though.Do the child really knows-what he/She wants? Aamir also emphasis the confidence that should be given, when they need it or when they are in trouble.This is true not only for kids. and many more...watch it.

Shocked!Photos vapourised! A digital lesson learnt.

2007-10-19T08:33:00.000+05:30

Shocked!I have been an regular user of splashblog,www.splashblog.com,since i am having a windows mobile phone.After transferred to a different place and did not activated my gprs, I did not use splash blog for quite some time.Suddenly today morning i came to upload some photo and shocked to see the blog is not there and after search i found the company and site is closed.Now all my photos are lost!.I have written an appreciation mail to splashblog when i used there service. But now it is horrible to imagine my photos have vapourised.It is a shame for digital companies, since we are using their service for free does not mean , it can be wiped out. This gives a feeling the web is not matured yet and the responsibility of the companies are only ,limited, unlike brick.May be we should create a digital warehouse, to save the data in the web and make the companies responsibility to dump there in case of acquisition or shutting down to safeguard the data, so that the interested parties may pay some amount and retrieve the data. Lessons learnt- Data on web is not safe , Have a back up.

Team Work Works!T20-world cup

2007-09-30T08:36:00.000+05:30

What a match!nail biting, thriller. Sherlock holes, Fredrick Forsyth, jeffery archer and everyone in a single day, in 30 minutes time, Twist and turns, see saw.. and many more words. But in the end of the day, it is not only winning all that counts, but the performance as a team. Pakistan also put up a great fight, but that day and this series is a win for Indian teams TEAM WORK. Look at the charge everyone is on, each infusing that to the next guy and it was spread like fire. Dhoni has right said, he has not seen such a dressing room for years. The ups and down of individual was observed by the team and in totality they won, if in one match Yuvraj scored, then in another Gambir scored, but Pathan ,RP,Srisant, Sharma,Utthapa completed equally. At the end of the day, we were not able to associate the win to one guy, but has to give it to the team. That is team work, we should not be able to single out. we can only say the team works and different people may give the credit to different people, this is an indication of the Teams total strength.

Failures should be in curriculum

2007-09-16T21:20:00.000+05:30

I have been thinking about writing about failures for quite some time. I am wondering why we were not taught or encouraged to fail in school or college. (Or has it been taught to us indirectly)- No body would recommend there children to fail in any subject and even children are afraid to fail. I remember failing in my classes once I think I got 27 marks in social studies when I was in 4th or 5th standard and I remember a long preparation to disclose this to my parents( right time to deliver so that you will not be thrashed, tough nothing like that happened) This is one of the most important learning we all need in our work or domestic life as we all know we cannot succeed all the time. Thinking back may be we should encourage kids to experiment and fail, that way they will try to venture in new domains. And even if they fail in the subjects, we should teach to cope up rather than admonishing. I also think there may be some statistical evidence that people who have failed in their schools and college may have the courage to take risk and do well in their profession. They have better experience in failing and learning than the person who has scored good marks always. List of personalities who have failed..Edison, Lincoln.. I think we can list all the great people in the top, each would have failed many times. I think that’s what experience is all about, it does not mean an experience person will not fail, but he knows it is inevitable and how to cope with that. Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Harry Potter and the Indian Connection

2007-07-29T19:47:00.000+05:30

Like many i was also Harryed. It is a great book especially for kids and those enjoy magic. I feel there is lot of Indian Connection-few.. The Deathky Hallows(The three Brothers-questioned by Death) - In Mahabharath Pandavas were questioned by Yama(The Hindu God of Death). The Silver Doe- Reminds me of Maricha(In Ramayana) though in Ramayana the deeer form-Maricha tricks the Heros. And Nagini(Ofcourse we all know about Nagas ,in many of the Indian Stories). Least of all - people can remember Sridevi's Nagina.

Die Hard - Federer vs Nadal

2007-07-09T20:09:00.000+05:30

"You don hv any idea what i am capable off" - this is the dialogue by the Villain in Die hard 4.0. It seems like that was the message Nadal was conveying to Fed. on the Wimbledon finals. Though Nadal is not the villain, his message was very clear- grass is not my favourite but i will make you "Cry".. thats what exactly he did to Fed. made him cry(Huge relief for Fed, the match is over.). Nadal unnerved Fed., the guy who is so cool, at one point was so unnerved he uttered to the Chair Umpire " How in this World this point is in?" (The Challenge point which Nadal got on his favour). Rest apart - what a match... both of them at their best, except for the last game... the match was evenly poised.. at many times it was like Nadal is Winning. There is no meaning of Unforced errors in this match, the % for both players showed 45 , 46... but what is "unforced"..both of them were forcing the other player... though it looked like a open court... unless the ball is dead, no one is sure.you play a drop the other guy comes from the base line and hots a winner...so you are forced to think extreme and play extreme to win a single point. Great rivalry and we are going to see more... if Roger is not so exhausted.. Nadal is ready. Comaring with Die Hard if Fedex almost got hit by MIG.

Great Banyan Tree- Calcutta

2007-07-03T18:25:00.000+05:30

Visited the botanical garden on 10th June and saw the great banyan tree.Amazing , there are more than 10,000 branches and each one is like a tree in itself, we will never know which is the mail tree(my relative told me the a main tree has been removed).A must for anyone visiting Calcutta.

Calcutta

2007-05-19T18:47:00.000+05:30

After a fortnight in Calcutta- Calcutta is the link to know the evolution of cities in India. Unlike its reputation Calcutta is neat only.Its is like a city which has been planned and shrunk, but in retrospect, this is how city could have been planned 100 years back. I think Calcutta has the wide variety of transports: rickshaw,auto,taxi,buses,metro train and the unique Tram. We find sweet shops at every few yards.The weather is like Chennai.

2007-05-01T17:41:00.000+05:30

Books To read

The Mythical-Man Month-Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.,

Men are from Mars women are from venus

The top ten words which interest me

2007-05-01T16:25:00.001+05:30

Beautiful
Brilliant
Excellent
Exciting
Fantastic
Fabulous
Great
Magnificent
Superb
Wow

World cup semifinals-2007

2007-04-26T03:21:00.001+05:30

May be Australia is like the character 'vali', when someone plays against them , half of the opponents power goes to them.What a pathetic match for South Africa,then that's cricket, and unpredictable. But how Australia is maintaining this consistency, extraordinary team work,practice.Anyone in discipline can learn from them, its not a game, its a profession and they are doing there job flawlessly. Can the Lankans beat them....even then, what the heck? They have won all the matches in the world cup, the true champions

Swiss army knife

2007-04-19T22:33:00.001+05:30

Today at around 10:00 p.m., the cooler stopped working, analyzing the reason , simple, the wires has come out of the plug(is it the right term, what u call the plastic with two pins , in each we connect one wire).Now I have to open the 'plug' to fix the wire, for that I need a small star screw driver, I had one,but left in chennai two days ago, rightly remembered the all purpose Swiss knife-My cousin,uma, after her trip to from Switzerland gave me one
(doubtfully opened it for the first time).Surprisingly, one knife's side helped me as a screw driver, within minutes the cooler is running!
Swiss knife is handy and great design!

Paruthi veeran- "padaipuu"

2007-04-18T08:20:00.001+05:30

Amir can retire-this is what I hv been telling to people after seeing the movie.
This comment is from the fact that, for a creative person, if he has produced one best piece of art, he feels fulfillment. Amir may differ in this, he may have something better(i am eagerly waiting!).
Perseverance, hardwork, creativity...the director has all.
The director has really lived the character, simple things like:
Scene: when the girl falls into the well, the boys shouts for help first time, then the second time-his reaction and dilemma, 'whether to wait' or jump to save, he half finishes the words and jumps.
The mixing of comedy at the critical and serious places(Editor -kudos!)
The comedian is brilliant and natural,
'his comments to the policeman after loosing the money in cards'
Though the songs are not going to be evergreen, they Are merged in to the movie.
There is a sense of vulgarity in speech and picture, but that is natural and appropriate, removing them will give a big dent.
Of course there are some cinematic scenes, like the fight sequence (could hv been better)
The crew: to each one of them this is great team effort and there is lot to learn from the project, one misstep and the commercial aspect would hv been at risk. A well balanced movie of commercialization and art.
This movie will not get an Oscars: but people like Amir don't need one, they already have something more in them.
Climax not suitable for children and soft minded people.

Blogging from train.

2007-04-02T07:27:00.000+05:30

Train
Around 5:20 senthil<adecco japan> called, reached
Balhrshah around 5:30,signal is ok.
Reached "vijayawada junction" at 0:05 on 2-3-07.
The whole day was good, finished the book 'java virual machine specification", which I wanted to read for the past 4-5 years.
Break fast,lunch and dinner from pantry, and few Teas- costed Rs.125.
Reached chennai at 7:00 a.m.

Airtel signal

2007-04-01T10:12:00.001+05:30

Received this "Airtel welcomes you to MP & CG." at 8:00 am.
But the signal went down , it is 10:00 now, stopped at 'Itarsi', the signal is good.

'Flaming wok' - food rating

2007-03-31T10:16:00.001+05:30

On 30-3-07 , Had lunch at 'Flaming wok'-Restaurant
At kalkaji,Delhi.With Adecco team,Manisha ,Manoj,meenakshi and senthil.While ordering we discussed we usually don't remember the dishes name even if had earlier, so I said we will blog and give a rating.
1-I will definitely order next time
2-Will order only if I am unable to select anything else
3-will never order
Flaming wok-Restaurant
Spring rolls(veg)

Drums of heaven (Non-veg)
Fried rice with pineapple, tomatoes-(veg)
Hakka noodles(veg)
Veg fried rice(veg)
Spicy baby co and mushroom(veg)
Mix veg hot garlic(veg)
Lamb in Szechwan(Non-veg)
Vanilla with chocolate sauce.

My rating -
Drums of heave - did not taste
Fried rice with -pineapple, tomatoes-(veg)-2
Hakka noodles(veg)-2
Veg fried rice(veg)-1
Spicy baby co and mushroom(veg)-3
Mix veg hot garlic(veg)-2
Lamb in Szechwan(Non-veg)- did not taste
Vannila with chocolate sauce.-2

Google gadgets, google reader and my blog!

2007-03-29T12:34:00.001+05:30

Manoj was explaining me the use of google gadgets and adding it to google personalised pages, so we found the 'google reader' as a gadget and added and he subscribed to my blog

Podcasting workshop at Delhi

2007-03-25T21:46:00.001+05:30

Kiruba started of well, but some how it did not go great.He started saying we would hv this like an unConference.I think it would hv been better if it is like a structured program.I strongly doubt, the people who were not sure about podcasting, would still be Wondering what it is. For me , I learnt few sites, the sound editing software name. To sum it up, nothing much take away but podcasting workshop like this shld be conducted to popularise the idea.

Ice Rain in Delhi.

2007-03-24T23:03:00.001+05:30

It was 22nd , I was sitting in canteen and reading! Suddenly heard raining with sound, wow! It was ice rain, and ice cubes were big big.it rained for about 30 min.Kids were collecting them in containers, pleasant and interesting to watch.I think last time I saw ice rain in my native some 20 years back!

This is not the time to mourn, but to motivate; The Slogan is "Bring us the World Cup!"

2007-03-19T10:23:00.001+05:30

20 men are looking at 1 billion for motivatation; they are like kids who have failed in their first test and anxiously looking at their parents.

This is not the time to reprimand, but to absorb and prepare for the next big one.

We have seen them thrashing the best teams, we have seen them on come back!

This is a small test for a big game, that’s why we have league matches for initial rounds, to know the weakness and prepare.

If our state of mind is bad, think about them, they are far away in a different soil and they need all our support.

This is the time to support, back them up and push them forward to the final. Let the World know. We know ‘Tigers” always get the target.

Just say, “ Team India we are waiting, Bring us the World Cup!”

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Buddha said :

2007-03-19T01:09:00.001+05:30

I consider the position of kings and rulers as that of
dust motes.I observe treasures of gold and gems as so
many bricks and pebbles look upon the finest silken
robe as tattered rags see myriad world of universe as
small seeds of fruit and the greatest lake in India as
a drop of oil on my foot.I perceive the teaching of
the world to be the illusions of magicians discern the
highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade
in a dream and view the holy path of the illuminated
ones as flowers appearing in ones eyes. I see
meditation as a pillar of mountains, nirvana as a
nightmare in daytime look upon the
Judgement of right and wrong as the serpentine dance
of a dragon and the rise and fall of beliefs as but
traces left by the four seasons.

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Books i noted when reading-My experiments with truth

2007-03-19T00:57:00.001+05:30

Gandi
The ethics of dietics-Howard
Song celestial-Edwin Arnold
Light of asia-Edwin Arnold
Key to Theosophy-Blavatsky
Heros and hero worship -Carlytes
How I became a theosophist-annie besant
Athesim -Bradlaugh
Kingdom of god is within you-tolstoy
Unto this last-Ruskin
India what it can teach-max muller
Light of asia-Arnold
The gospels in brief,what to do-Tolstoy.
The saying of zarathustra
Life of mahomet ard his successors -washington irving

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Special metro traiin ride (Metro Token protocol..Swipe and drop)

2007-03-18T22:31:00.001+05:30

On 14-3-07, as part of the delhi darshan, after the
parliament visit , I ,appa,amma,nana mama,
mami,rupa,aiswarya,setha boarded the Metro train at
Central secratriat upto Rajiv chowk.
Father was speculating how the train token works
(which we have to swipe in the ticket machine while
entering and should drop while coming out.)
He was saying if we use the same token next day,it
will work, etc..
All of us got down at Rajiv chowk
And as we wanted only to visit, only I went out and
bought another set of tokens for all of us.
I preserved the old tokens separately
We boarded at Rajiv chowk and got down at central
secratariat.
When we walked to ticket counter and tried to insert
the token, it beeped-and displyed,invalid token, then
beep ,beep,beep for all others, the security guard,
asked us to move to one side and collected the tokens
and tried.. And I explained, he said we hv to pay
Rs.70/.. Fine and then he asked to talK to his
supervisor. I went and explained to him, then he
scanned the tokens in
The system and told me we have not swiped so it is not
accepting here.
Then he let us out...
So the Metro Token protocol..Swipe and drop

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The mobile market and were it is heading

2007-03-04T23:06:00.001+05:30

The convergence is already happened, with the announcement of Apples, iPhone it has come a full circle.Whether iPhone is going to be a hit or not does not matter, the very point that apple ha entered into the fray ha going to push the mobile market forward in the right direction(considering the fact , they failed with Newton 10-15 years ago and re-entering means they would hv done their research).
Now the UI, features, and market will definitely move faster ad exponentially.
Now the key players are not, the OS or device manufactures like, windows,symbian,HTC,apple,imate but the service providers.
They have a big role to play now taking these converged devices further.
1.The coverage: more area, like rural and semi urban.
2.Seamless connectivity with high speed and low latency.
3.Better services both data and voices - 3g.
4.Ofcource cheaper rates, this will automatically happen as the subscriber base increases.

With web 2.0 already happening, with the help of service providers there is definitely going to be a new mobile revolution.

Holi! Wah- What a Festival!

2007-03-04T11:06:00.001+05:30

>From the inside of my room, I can hear the big shouts,screams, I see from terrace and the corners are manned with guns, people dare to cross.
Yes manned by kids with color guns, and shouts I hear is of "Holi..' with the drum beats making me dance.
Wah! "Holi.." - the festival of color.
Happy holi!

Wow Google map in mobile!

2007-03-02T21:01:00.001+05:30

Accidentally came across google map for windows mobile, downloadedd thru gprs-hardly took 3 min.
Tried it, amazing! What UI!, though
Map is avaialble only for US,canada and australia it is tooooo much of an application for a mobile. How these guys hv done., mappIng , downloading and rendering inimages in such speed and the master touch, ansparent buttons!
Many kudos.

Delhi Darshan

2007-02-18T23:13:00.001+05:30

Reached "Rail bhawan'- (near india gate, rashra bhathi Bhawan) from kalkaji.
Metro ride
Metro station name 'Central secratariat' and to re ch 'chandini chawk' take train to 'Vishwa vidyalaya'
(Rs.9) Metro train is good, as good as any othermetros(singapore,bangkok),Auto door opening and closing,hv announcement for safety, next stations,changing lines- both in english and hindi, inside the train there are diagrams ,of the station routes, lcd displays, we hv clear glass to view outside(but this is an under ground route!, so u can see only the dark tunnel),the train is clean,
In 'rajiv chowk' huge crowd got in, so the 'metro' is running in profit!
No pawn chewing, no smoking,
Gurudwara
Walk outside the station is the 'Sisganj Saheb' gurudwara- place of martyrdom of Guru Teg bhahudur sing
-visited had prasadam.
Haldirams
Near the station and near the gurudwara., good thali meal.
Jamma masjid
Took a cycle rickshaw, only 5 minutes from haldirams,
Inside it is very good.
Especially, the view from the 'minar' which is 150ft, is Wow!wow!
View of red fort from there made me go to red fort nex(was not in my plan), inside the masjid there is a big place where they, spread the corns, for the pigieons , which flocks In to eat.
When we see from the top of the minar, can see the exact planning, of the jamma masjId, the front portions, which were supposed to be the fountains, and the grounds are very well planned.
Red fort(was the seat of Indian power)
Built by Shahjahan, this is huge, and stands sturdy, the view itselfs epitomise strength.
This kind of construction 300 -400 yrs back is amazing. As in many forts, there is a big 'pit' surronding the fort(may they had waters in this, some kind of defence system so that no one can enter).
Swantantra sangama sangrahalaya, the museum on Indian independence is a must see.
There is also the war musuem displaying arms,rifles,swords,shields...
At the middle there is 'Diwan-I-Am' the place the emperor gives the public audience , a huge marble platform, facing the big garden.
AT the back there are 3 - 4 halls, supposed to be very good painted, carved and decorated, but now it has become very old,in one of these halls, is the place where the famous "peacock throne" was there.
There is also the moti masjid, which aurangezeb built .

Dilli Haat

2007-02-18T12:21:00.001+05:30

Dilli Haat has handicraft stalls from different states of India, the first thing that came to my mindis tge similarity of "Night Bazar" in Bangkok.
There are stalls for "Hyderabad pearls","Paschima shawls", "pondichery Handicrafts".... I am not sure if you want some thing from some state, you can find here, meaning if some one asks me where can I get "Tanjore Dolls", I can't say go to Dilli hat you will find...
Its attempt to bring many states handicrafts, but I won't give it 100%, I can say 50%
I had tea and dosa at "tamilnadu tourism" restaurant<you can find restaurantsrom many states>
And also excellent "organic Masala tea"(wow I am sipping it..very very good) from "Navdanya" organic shop.
I saw 'bioscope' , read tarrot cards.

Stupid Questions

2007-02-14T14:54:00.000+05:30

My Cousin sent me this mail, Very Interesting! Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up everytwo hours? If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing? Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat? Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there isnot enough? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, butcheck when you say the paint is wet? Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection? Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw arevolver at him? Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"? What is the speed of darkness? Are there specially reserved parking spaces for "normal" people at theSpecial Olympics? If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as coldtomorrow, how cold will it be? If it's true that we are here to help others, what are the others doinghere? Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer? Do you cry under water? How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be agood idea to put wheels on luggage? Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binocularsto look at things on the ground? Did you ever stop and wonder...... Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeezethese pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?" Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there... I'm gonna eatthe next thing that comes outta its bum." Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to ahorrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't pointto their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?Why does your Obstetrician, Gynaecologist leave the room when you getundressed if they are going to look up there anyway? Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're bothdogs! Can blind people see their dreams? Do they dream?? If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? (This one kills me!!!!!) If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,then what is baby oil made from? If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the sametune? Stop singing and read on . . . . . . . .Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup? Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you,but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window? Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive any faster?

saravana bhavan ,Cp,New delhi.

2007-02-10T18:33:00.001+05:30

I am sitting at \"saravana bhavan\" ,Cp,New delhi. One interesting observations, is I see lot of foreigners, one of them trying to understand , what \"parota\" is? This is the second time , I am observing lot of foreigners here and I think it\'s regular, as this hotel is at a place, where lot of foreign tourist, come as it is in a center of Delhi. What do they think of this food?

ChaCha!

2007-02-07T16:08:00.001+05:30

This revenue model puzzle
Me, first we had free mail account, then we had free web hosting,free search engine, free blog space, now at http://www.chacha.com Some specialized person helps me searching.
Where is the return of investment, ad..revenue,customer base<what u will sell them?>....I am scratching my head!

Blog Alive!

2007-02-07T09:20:00.001+05:30

Bla!bla!bla!
I was reading a book on blog, where the author says if u don't blog periodically, then the blog is considered almost dead.
So I am bloggg, bla!bla!bla!

Book Reading Policy

2007-02-04T16:11:00.001+05:30

Since the amount of time required to read a book is some times too much and also I don't want to stop half way, I hv decided to follow a Book selection policy based on some key points.
1.Why do I want to read?(20%)
Answer may be:
A.Curiosity
b.Professional necessity
C.Just chance
D.Some one recommended
2.How/Where it will fit my long term goal?(20%)
A.social goal
B.Technical goal
C.Health Goal
3.Have I read a review?(15%)
A.Yes
B.No
4.How much time per day, and how long will it take?(15%)
E.g; 30 minutes a day and one month
5.How important and urgent it is?(25%)
Scale 1(very)to 5(less).
6.what category it falls?(5%)
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Technical

Based on the above, the total % is calculated:
>75%-start now
40-75%-review again after a week or so
<40%-Drop it

Global Book Mark!

2007-02-03T17:03:00.000+05:30

I usually use the IE's Export Favourite Feature to carry my Favourites, but http://del.icio.us/ may be the answer, but to tag , we may need to install the delicious in our local machine, this may be an hindarnce. The formation of the name is quiet interesting.

Public Toliets in Delhi

2007-02-03T16:57:00.000+05:30

Read in Hindu, today that , High Court has ordered Municipal Corporation to keep the toilets Clean. Surprisingly, as i walking to the Internet cafe, found a new look for a Public Toilet on the way. Swift Action! if they can maintain this spirit, it will be great.

Email as Access point!

2007-02-03T16:56:00.001+05:30

After a quite long time trying to use my mobile phone to blog, this addresses to some extent my , accesS point concept

Access point For Blogging

2007-02-03T16:39:00.000+05:30

A PC cannot be access point for a blog,as this may delay the blogging, as we dont carry them always and also depends upon your connectivity to NET. So the ideal access point can be a mobile phone, as more and moremobile phones comes more features, we can see realtime blogging happening, immdlty when an event happens or a thought appears.

50000 chunk of information

2006-12-31T18:35:00.000+05:30

In "After the gold rush" -Steve McConell written an interesting thing, "In a mature field, an expert should remember 50000 chunk of information", this can be a basis for learning about a subject, if not 50000,we can start with 100 chunks, like 100 things about PDA, may be this I will try to practice from New year.

Lotus Temple Visit(30-12-2006)

2006-12-31T12:06:00.001+05:30

BAHÁ'Í House of worship
This is also know as lotus temple
, because the concept of design is lotus as lotus is is associated with worship in India. (BAHÁ'Í House of worship is also in many otger countries).
BAHÁ'Í is an independent religion.
The common characteristic of the edifuce is it is all nibe sided.
The edifice or central hall, is a big hall with many seats for people to sit and worship(it us basically a huge mediDation hall, no idols or statues).In tge roof we can see 9 sided stars which made of glass(may be) through which we can see the sky.Even inside tge whole buikding, we saw nine sided stars from one wall to another(criss crossing).The e
Edifice is surrounded by 9 large pools of water, which acts as natural cooling.
The whole area is lush green with plants and tree, and calm and quiet.

2006-12-30T20:15:00.001+05:30

An unique Charity organisation set up by an IIM Graduate (Mr. Venkat Krishnan N) http://www.giveindia.org/, it rates NGO so that if you do charity check them before giving.

2006-12-30T20:15:00.000+05:30

An unique Charity organisation set up an IIM Graduate (Mr. Venkat Krishnan N) http://www.giveindia.org/, it rates NGO so that if you do charity check them before giving.

Akshardam Visit

2006-12-30T19:45:00.000+05:30

Akshardam Visit ( 28-12-2006) Akshardam Temple in New Delhi is same as that in Gujarat. It is in a huge area (100 acres). In the Main Shrine lies a huge statue of Bhagwan Swaminarayan with his disciples , born in 1800.. believed to be a reincarnation of God, and also statues of other Gods (Shiva Parvati, Sita –Ram ). The inside is neat and beautiful, lush gardens, beautiful structure. Some Interesting things: 1.At the base of the main shrine, there are hundreds of elephant’s statues, the concept is animals (particularly elephant and humans), and it is also have some stories from Panchatantra, which are interesting. 2.There is Very big “Yagna Kundalam”, which is unique and I have not seen one, this is also the place where they have the musical fountain. 3.There are some shows, one movie, the life of NeelanKanth, child hood of Swaminarayan, well taken (shown in IMAX big screens), and there is another show using series of robotic toys.

Amritsar Visit

2006-12-29T16:58:00.001+05:30

Amritsar Visit I, balan, Radhika, shruthi and shravan started by Chattisgarh Express. On 26-12-2006.The train supposed to start at 8.40Pm is delayed by a 1.5 hrs and we were shivering in the platform.We reached only by 11:00 am on 27th.We checked into Grand hotel and hired a car and left to Golden temple. We ate at Bhawagan Daba (The parrathas, Kulchas an subjis were very good) we reached Golden temple around 1.30Golden TempleWe are not allowed to wear chappals or shows, so we desisted them in the boot stalls (no charges), also we were supposed to cover our heads inside the Temple, we bought 5 orange color cloth and covered our heads.At the entry there is a small pit with water, were we hv to wash our feet.Standing at the gates were two Persons with spears.Unlike Taj Mahal there is no securityChecks.When entered we can see the Majestic Golden temple at the middle of a big pond. The place is serene.We walked around the corridor, they have mats, walking on the floor is chilling. Taking pictures here and there and enjoying the beautiful, big fishes in the pond.At the two sides of the Golden temple, at the top of towers in the gates there are two big clocks, one in regular numbers(what do we call them!) and other in Punjabi(I supposeNumeral.Then we stood in a queue, which is on a small bridge or path to reach the temple in the center of the pond, the queue took around 45 minutesInside also it was good, surprisingly the priest gave a "Prasadham" packet to my brother, it is wrapped inna orange cloth, inside we also climbed one storey, and able to watch the surroundings from the windows.When we come out they gave sweet prasadham to all.>From there we rushed to Jallin walah bagh at 3:30 pm. Jallianwala Bagh From golden temple we rushed to Jallianwala Bagh, it is a 2 minute walk. The place has been now preserved, with gardens and a big monument built in memory of all those innocent people lost their lives. The building with bullet marks and the well in which people jumped to escape the bullets is also preserved. The scene brought back my visit to war cemetery at Kanchanapuri(Thailand) Wagha Border From there we rushed to Wagha Border, by the time we reached (4.45 PM) the parade has already started, it is about 45minutes drive from Golden temple. We saw a huge crowd there, we saw the Retreat ceremony, of both Pakistan and Indian flags are unhoisted and brought to the BSF control room, there was huge slogans and shout like "Bharath Mata Ki Jai" and we saw huge boards like "Welcome to India". Shuthi clicked a Photo with the BSF jawan. We saw the electric fence at the border. There were shouts, from both sides. (Pakistan and India), this is unique experience. From there we reached hotel and Caught Golden Temple Mail at 9.40 PM and reached Delhi on 28th Morning.

After seeing Taj!

2006-12-26T00:06:00.001+05:30

As they usuaLly say, now I belong to the category of people who hv seen the Taj Mahal.As most of us went felt there is some peacefullness to that place.Taj is absolutely magneficient.Somewhere the aesthetic,engineering has blended you can say.Few places and things are beyond expression and Taj Mahal is one of them.
Engineering-the symmetry of the monument,the doom!the look alike fur pillars,the drains at the top,the inscriptions...
Aesthetic-you hv to see to feel and enjoy, no photograph can capture.
The calm yamuna at the back, add to the beauty of the Taj.
No wonder it took so many years(22) to complete...how much planning would have been done, co-ordination, teams, execution...study of the Taj can make many people claim their Doctorate, then how will we honour , Shahjahan and his team?

FW: Before seeing Taj!

2006-12-25T13:09:00.001+05:30

Before seeing TAj!

They say there are two kinds of People,those who have not seen and those who have seen,now I am of the first kind, in few minutes will join the next kind!

What I have been Doing this Week!

2006-12-23T18:30:00.000+05:30

As anticipated, i was not able to blog during the week days, the question here is one of principle(whether i can blog from office) and i am feeling comfortable todo so, so i can do only from brosing center, but since i have found one intersting way fo blooging thru mail, may be i can use my Pocket PC to blog hereafter. That said, I have gone thru few amazing Sites this week, one which impressed me is, http://www.chacha.com/ - This Site offers an interactive search , meaning a person sits and do the filtering of your search, an excellent idea, I tried for a sequence diagram of UML and got pretty good results, but still not very sure, how much it can offer value in other kind of search, we are so much used to Googlke now, that now it has become an habit and we have to break the habit to try some other search engines. What this place will be i can forsee

Repository of important article
Link to my Genealogy
A platform to post my exploration of new technology

First Blog Thru mail

2006-12-23T18:28:00.001+05:30

This is Amazing , the integration of different
technology, blog thru mail, from mobile and we have
owait and watch what else going to come!

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2006-12-16T19:26:00.000+05:30

Official Start

So I Started Blogging, after much thought about the usefulness and the time I can spent, i decided to give it a try, atleast it will be a central repository for my ideas, area of interest, things to remind, and some funny things i experiment time to time.

Like these Two mind maps,

To decide whether to Blog and the next one (Planning to defend Tendulakar of acquisattion by some (who may not know what a game is all about!) that he is not a Match Winner.)