tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47855463047457234312024-02-19T07:34:15.724-08:00The Era of UncertaintyNothing is certain in this era of uncertainty. Here's is a humble effort to change that and provide solace to the blogging community..hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-31941630839864010242012-05-01T00:59:00.001-07:002012-05-01T00:59:54.910-07:00Cobweb blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
just got reminded by google about this long forgotten account of mine :) and this reminds me of the term "cobweb sites" look it up and find out what it is for yourselves</div>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-46411662579526415222011-05-24T04:11:00.001-07:002011-05-24T04:12:34.714-07:00wordpressi have permanently moved to <br /><br />hantan.wordpress.com<br /><br />catch me therehantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-30891314405724055172008-06-22T06:03:00.000-07:002008-06-22T06:05:00.690-07:00Glenn McGrath's wife Jane loses cancer battle<div id="ynmain"> <div id="storybody"> <!-- rem this part--> <!-- <img src="http://beta.news.vip.in.yahoo.com/most_viewed/in/n/sp//137/20080622/375/tsp-glenn-mcgrath-s-wife-jane-loses-canc" width="0" height="0" /> --> <img src="http://in.news.yahoo.com/most_viewed/in/n/sp//137/20080622/375/tsp-glenn-mcgrath-s-wife-jane-loses-canc" width="0" height="0" /> <!--<b>Glenn McGrath's wife Jane loses cancer battle</b>--> <span style="float: left; width: 190px; font-size: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080622/img/psp-glenn-mcgrath-s-wife-ja-97733b3860a80.html" target="ss" onclick="openSS(this.href)"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/t/ng/in/reuters_ids_new/20080622/16/4233154159-glenn-mcgrath-s-wife-jane-loses-cancer-battle.jpg?x=180&y=121&sig=93oxVu5gy0eZOfNEPYI1jw--" alt="Australia's Glenn McGrath bowls at a team training session in La Sagesse during the World..." border="0" width="180" height="121" /></a> <span class="source"><a target="ss" onclick="openSS(this.href)" href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080622/img/psp-glenn-mcgrath-s-wife-ja-97733b3860a80.html">Enlarge Photo</a></span> Australia's Glenn McGrath bowls at a team training session in La Sagesse during the World... </span> <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sun, Jun 22 04:10 PM</p><p class="first">By Julian Linden</p><p>SYDNEY (Reuters) - Jane McGrath, the wife of former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath, died on Sunday aged 42 after a long battle with cancer, Cricket Australia announced.</p><p>Jane died peacefully with her husband and their children by her side after her health had deteriorated in the past week following surgery in March.</p><p>"It is with deep sadness that the family and friends of Jane McGrath, beloved wife of former Australian cricketer Glenn and loving mother of James and Holly, must announce she passed away at her home this morning," said a statement released by Cricket Australia.</p><p>English-born Jane's long battle with cancer has been headline news in Australia for the past decade because of her marriage to McGrath, one of Australia's most successful and popular sportsmen, and their promotion of breast cancer awareness.</p><p>The couple started up their own foundation to raise money for research and training nurses and were recognised for their charity work earlier this year when they were appointed as Members of the Order of Australia.</p><p>COURAGEOUS STRUGGLE</p><p>"Jane's courageous struggle touched all Australians," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said in a statement.</p><p>"Jane was an inspiration whose legacy will continue to benefit so many others."</p><p>Jane was first diagnosed with breast cancer during Australia's Ashes tour of England in 1997 then bone cancer in her hip in 2003 but made a full recovery both times.</p><p>She was then diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in 2006, prompting McGrath to take eight months off cricket to care for her and their two young children while she was undergoing radiotherapy.</p><p>He returned to the team later that year to help Australia regain the Ashes from England and win the World Cup for a third time in succession before announcing he was retiring despite still being at the top of his game.</p><p>The news of Jane's death was greeted with a deep sense of sadness on Sunday.</p><p>Television stations interrupted their normal programmes to announce her passing while thousands of spectators at sporting events across the country observed a minute's silence.</p><p>"All of us who met her were charmed by her dignity and good humour as she tackled her battle with her illness for more than 10 years," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland.</p><p><br /></p><p>courtesy- yahoo news<br /></p></div></div>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-23320310515321603142008-05-29T21:35:00.000-07:002008-05-29T21:47:52.743-07:00Origin of companies- Bed bath and BeyondRemember the film "Click" where adam sandler plays the lead role? then you must remember the store "bed bath and beyond" where he goes to and has a sweet nap(and thats where the entire story takes place, though not literally.. )<br /><br />Being an Indian, i was surprised to find that BB&B is a company that features in the Nasdaq100.<br />lets look at the history of that company now.<br /><br />BB&B was founded by Leonard Feinstein and Warren Eisenberg. Both men possessed over a decade of retail experience in 1971 when they formed Bed 'n Bath, a small chain of specialty linen and bath shops in suburban New York. As employees in management positions at Arlan's, a discount chain that fell on hard times during the early 1970s, the two sensed an essential change in retailing trends. "We had witnessed the department store shakeout, and knew that specialty stores were going to be the next wave of retailing," Feinstein told<i> Chain Store Executive</i> in 1993. "It was the beginning of the designer approach to linens and housewares and we saw a real window of opportunity." Bed 'n Bath's first two 2,000-square-foot stores were located in high-traffic strip malls and carried such brand-names as Cannon, Wamsutta, and Fieldcrest, as well as a line of lower&ndash′iced linens and bath towels. <p>During the 1970s Bed 'n Bath expanded at a healthy but unremarkable pace, and by 1985 the chain had grown to 17 stores located in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and California. During this time, however, a number of similar bath and bed specialty shops had opened. What had begun as a niche market was growing increasingly competitive as retailers sensed a "cocooning trend" among baby boomers. Specialty chains such as Linens 'n Things, Pacific Linens, and Luxury Linens sprang up to tap into this new market. Feinstein and Eisenberg opened their first superstore in 1985 in an effort to set themselves apart from the sudden wave of competition that had appeared. </p> <p>The new superstore was revolutionary in a number of ways. Over ten times the size of Bed 'n Bath's original shop, this 20,000-square-foot outlet offered a comprehensive line of home furnishings in addition to Bed 'n Bath's traditional linens and bath products. While most department stores and specialty shops offered only a few select brands, Bed 'n Bath's superstore offered seemingly every possible color, style, and size of each product. Until this time, most independent home textile retailers either copied department store merchandising techniques or followed the mundane merchandising style used by discount retailers. Eisenberg and Feinstein did neither. Bed 'n Bath, along with chains such as Toys "R" Us and Blockbuster Video, became pioneering "category killers": large specialty retail outlets that beat their competition by offering virtually every possible product in their specific category at everyday low prices. Other than semi-annual clearances to reduce inventory, the company never held sales. They claimed that their prices were already lower than other stores' sale prices. </p> <p>In 1987 Eisenberg and Feinstein changed the name of their organization to Bed Bath & Beyond in order to more accurately reflect their superstore format. By 1991 Bed Bath & Beyond had opened seven new superstores in New Jersey, California, Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, and Florida, and expanded two existing stores into the superstore format. Sales reached $134 million that year, generating earnings of $10.4 million. Eisenberg and Feinstein funneled the revenue back into the company. </p> <p>The company's success was considered unusual for the home products industry. As one analyst said, Bed Bath & Beyond "took a less than strong category and made it important." It did so by making ordinary household products seem exciting, even romantic. Customer service was an essential part of this marketing strategy. The company strove to build word-of-mouth advertising through a unique combination of family atmosphere and attentive customer service. Both management and sales personnel worked the floor, arranging merchandise displays, helping shoppers carry products, and otherwise making themselves useful. According to<i> Fortune,</i> even Feinstein and Eisenberg would gather on the floor on Saturday, to "tidy merchandise and ... pick up bits of litter." Check-out waiting time was reduced by increasing the number of cash registers, and the company developed a policy wherein, if the store was out of a desired product, Bed Bath & Beyond would deliver it to the customer's home, free of charge. Due to this strategy, Bed Bath & Beyond was able to keep paid advertising to a minimum. The company often saturated the market with advertising when a new store opened, then successfully relied on word-of-mouth to keep customers coming in. </p>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-6553587575916209802008-05-26T03:21:00.000-07:002008-05-26T04:01:58.626-07:00Origin of companies- BaiduBaidu.com, is the first chinese company that has made it to the Nasdaq 100. here's the origin of their name<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVEjm4-KbSilSLS5BP1VgmClGpjXBeFPR82m0FPtZNlOyaIdV0Js4Lmx0RgmR5HHTD9uR0LedRrIwimmEWFfZQS4k-zFSQ2lqeq-_7h4oCoG4qFHy19Ql6etbb5SN8BRkTDow-Qj8GWJ9E/s1600-h/231px-Baidu.svg.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVEjm4-KbSilSLS5BP1VgmClGpjXBeFPR82m0FPtZNlOyaIdV0Js4Lmx0RgmR5HHTD9uR0LedRrIwimmEWFfZQS4k-zFSQ2lqeq-_7h4oCoG4qFHy19Ql6etbb5SN8BRkTDow-Qj8GWJ9E/s320/231px-Baidu.svg.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204640061280688290" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal."hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-22512336828805939962008-05-25T02:12:00.000-07:002008-05-25T02:42:08.797-07:00Origin Of Companies - AmazonWhen you are in doubt and you dunno how to decide, then use "Regret Minimization Framework".<br />How does it work? think that you are 80. now ask yourself, if you , at 80 would regret not having chosen to undertake a venture? if the answer is yes , then minimize the regret and go ahead. this was exactly how JeFf bezos decided to start Amazon.com..<br />Named after the largest river(not longest), it was previously called Cadabra.com but it was soon dropped cos it sounded close to cadaver(meaning corpse). A company folklore says that the founder(jeff) wrote the business plan while he and his wife drove from Fort Worth, Texas to Bellevue, Washington, but this is largely denied by early employees<br />The first book Amazon.com sold was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought<br /><br />The Business plan funda<br />Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was effective. Amazon grew steadily in the late 1990s while other Internet companies grew blindingly fast. Amazon's "slow" growth provoked stockholder complaints: that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough. When the dot-com bubble burst, and many e-companies went out of business, Amazon persevered, and, finally, turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2002: U.S. $5 million, just 1¢ a share, on revenues of more than U.S. $1 billion, but the profit was symbolically important.<br /><br />The amazon umbrella.<br />lots of companies come under the amazon umbrella, namely,<br />IMDb<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eGnxtoTfTrqLILo6DwtlIlomBhctEkoOjjPUCIS7k01Ts3lX3KtY0lFHcdBFKYFW21NP0iwBtiOaBBfFhcSWO33GK_ytzZRUYJFwhh_R-0CJMSr4xys1A_u-4LSwXhcjn1Aj3uPavx6T/s1600-h/IMDb_logo.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eGnxtoTfTrqLILo6DwtlIlomBhctEkoOjjPUCIS7k01Ts3lX3KtY0lFHcdBFKYFW21NP0iwBtiOaBBfFhcSWO33GK_ytzZRUYJFwhh_R-0CJMSr4xys1A_u-4LSwXhcjn1Aj3uPavx6T/s320/IMDb_logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204245723153373298" border="0" /></a><br />PlanetAll<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxZfYO4yZio8IdqXna0bX7zZz8e8BvTiKFEIhx0Bc0moAmjEX1aSzoHpyBQWZ6Enps0OmqUtc_w3218W8_IgGiY0bRQPwlNIQ_eJVuF5rsZOeSSEU3amMdPm8JkEBd36-cL1EDZtEQRTI/s1600-h/PlanetAll.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxZfYO4yZio8IdqXna0bX7zZz8e8BvTiKFEIhx0Bc0moAmjEX1aSzoHpyBQWZ6Enps0OmqUtc_w3218W8_IgGiY0bRQPwlNIQ_eJVuF5rsZOeSSEU3amMdPm8JkEBd36-cL1EDZtEQRTI/s320/PlanetAll.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204245929311803522" border="0" /></a><br />Alexa Internet<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBtfXEbspA4Hacy1HxCCBin_fEz2B9ME0WYGWMpOtDGPJ2D8k0BWjcHs9Tk7YEVfAOrlYs-kcfc8PgklVDXqAH_SXtbJek4dn3RAojpDrgCyADg21t3EMbYLTZ1oH9l92wSDwq3pVQBpq/s1600-h/Alexa_logo.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfBtfXEbspA4Hacy1HxCCBin_fEz2B9ME0WYGWMpOtDGPJ2D8k0BWjcHs9Tk7YEVfAOrlYs-kcfc8PgklVDXqAH_SXtbJek4dn3RAojpDrgCyADg21t3EMbYLTZ1oH9l92wSDwq3pVQBpq/s320/Alexa_logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204246509132388498" border="0" /></a><br />mobipocket.com,<br />junglee,<br />joyo.com<br /> and few other companieshantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-14102674823415745732008-05-24T21:03:00.000-07:002008-05-24T21:39:55.928-07:00origin of companies - adobeThis is in keeping with my promise of writing about the origin of companies along with a few other trivia.. here's the second of the series. the first u'd remember was the post about RIM research in motion..<br />Adobe- origins<br /><br />the company was founded when charles geschke and john warnock left Xerox Parc to develop and sell Postscript page description language. the name of the company Adobe was named after the creek that ran behind the house of one of the company's founders..<br />a picture of the creek (useful for quiz purposes)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/AdobeCreekEdit2794.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 376px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/AdobeCreekEdit2794.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-46656175143557160322008-05-23T21:42:00.000-07:002008-05-24T21:56:50.010-07:00origin of companies - Akamaiwhen u log into ur mail, if u check the status bar of ur browser, u can find this word appearing and disappearing.. akamai.. Akamai is basically a hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The origin of Akamai</span>..<br /><br />Akamai's beginnings lie in a challenge posed by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in early 1995. The father of the Web foresaw the congestion that is now very familiar to Internet users, and he challenged colleagues at MIT to invent a fundamentally new and better way to deliver Internet content. What he probably didn't expect was that posing such an academic problem would ultimately result in a service that is revolutionizing the Internet. <p>MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics Tom Leighton, who had an office down the hall from Dr. Berners-Lee, was intrigued by the challenge. Dr. Leighton, a renowned expert on parallel algorithms and architecture, has served as head of the Algorithms Group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science since its inception in 1996. Dr. Leighton recognized that a solution to Web congestion could be found in applied mathematics and algorithms. He solicited the help of graduate student Danny Lewin, and several other top researchers, to tackle the problem.</p> <p>Dr. Leighton and Mr. Lewin were joined by other scientists with expertise in computer science and data networking to develop the mathematical algorithms necessary to handle the dynamic routing of content and solve what was, by then, a frustrating problem for Internet users. </p> <p><strong>Building a Business</strong><br />These world-class scientists developed a set of breakthrough algorithms for intelligently routing and replicating content over a large network of distributed servers — without relying on centralized servers typically used by Web site owners today. Jonathan Seelig, then enrolled in the MIT Sloan M.B.A. program, joined the founding team, and they began building the business plan that would lead to Akamai's inception. </p> <p>In 1998, the group entered the esteemed annual MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, where the company's business proposition was selected as one of six finalists among 100 entries. The distinction signaled that Internet content delivery had serious market potential. Akamai obtained an exclusive license to certain intellectual property from MIT, and development efforts began in the fall of 1998. </p> <p>In late 1998 and early 1999, a group of experienced Internet business professionals began to join this founding team. Most notably, Paul Sagan who was a former President of Time Inc. New Media, a founder of Road Runner cable modem service and who helped launch NY 1 News, became chief operating officer and eventually president of Akamai Technologies. George Conrades, former chairman and chief executive officer of BBN Corp. and senior vice president of U.S. Operations for IBM, assumed the helm as chief executive officer a few months later. </p> <strong>Launching Commercial Service</strong><br />Together, these computer scientists and experienced Internet professionals founded Akamai, a company dedicated to ending the "World Wide Wait" through intelligent Internet content delivery. The company launched commercial service in April 1999 and announced that one of the world's most trafficked Web properties, Yahoo!, was a charter customer<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuRIqaKQxI7jCrVkOYTR6Ds-gY27BR0yNRhnaXCWs7XPtm4Q9C7rt8p1nkmd2fbwyKDNRFyXo0mgU7pd81kBR-c5vZ98sih7L7in4QK3R3df-DaaD_Juzw4PtrNNdX-MQglR8Lw6KC0SO/s1600-h/danny.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuRIqaKQxI7jCrVkOYTR6Ds-gY27BR0yNRhnaXCWs7XPtm4Q9C7rt8p1nkmd2fbwyKDNRFyXo0mgU7pd81kBR-c5vZ98sih7L7in4QK3R3df-DaaD_Juzw4PtrNNdX-MQglR8Lw6KC0SO/s320/danny.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204174057329072226" border="0" /></a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Hantan/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-15658115651987617942008-05-16T01:28:00.000-07:002008-05-16T01:43:35.033-07:00Chilling stories of the chinese earthquake<p>Nearly every building in the tiny rural town of Wufu withstood the forceful earthquake that shook China on Monday. One major structure - the New Number Two Primary School - collapsed, killing some 300 children.Now grieving parents, many of whom dug through rubble with their hands in a frantic effort to save their children, are venting their anger at local officials who they claim knew the building was substandard.Jumbled mounds of concrete and brick are all that remain of the three-storey schoolhouse that caved in just moments before afternoon classes were to begin. Notebooks, backpacks, clothes and a tin lunch box litter the picked-over rubble.The scene is repeated in towns and cities across the quake-damaged section of Sichuan, where more than 50,000 people may have died, including hundreds of students crushed when their schools collapsed.</p><br />Millions of survivors left homeless or too terrified to go indoors faced their fourth night under tarpaulins, tents or nothing at all as workers patched roads and cleared debris to reach more outlying towns in the disaster zone.<br /><br />"There are still bodies in the hills, and pits are being dug to bury them," said Zhao Xiaoli, a nurse in the ruined town of Hanwang. "There's no way to bring them down. It's too dangerous."<br /><br />One couple with a baby told <b>Hatton</b> that at their house they had no food, no water and so they walked for two days to get to a refugee center. After watching the interview, bystanders gave precious milk to the couple's granddaughter before the family waded into the crowd hoping to find shelter.<br /><br />At the crematorium, some grieving relatives were rushed through funeral rites by harried workers. Scores of bodies lay on concrete in a waiting area - outnumbering the handful of chapels usually used in funerals.<br /><br />Thick black smoke streamed from the crematorium's pair of chimneys as families cleaned and dressed the dead in funeral clothes, including fresh socks and sneakers for children.<br /><br />Fireworks were set off every few minutes and families burned incense, candles and spirit money. Such traditions meant to send the dead peacefully into the afterlife were once banned by the communist authorities but have revived in recent years with free-market reforms and rising prosperity. Burial, which likewise the government once tried to stamp out, has become common in the countryside, although still difficult for people in crowded cities.<br /><br />In a sign of nervousness, 50 troops lined the road outside Luoshui. Five farmers watched them dig the burial pit, after performing brief funerary rites. Local police detained an Associated Press reporter and photographer who took photos of the scene, holding them in a government compound for 3½ hours before releasing them without explanation.<br /><br /><p class="article"> Today in Dujiangyan an eight months pregnant woman was pulled to safety after spending 50 hours trapped in rubble.<i>In Yinxiu – one of the worst-hit towns – soldiers said only 2,300 people may have survived among the population of 9,000.</i></p><p class="article"> Chinese officials now plan a minute’s silence before each leg of the Olympic torch’s journey through the country ahead of this summer’s Beijing games.</p><p><br /></p>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-7672272612420736552008-05-16T00:10:00.000-07:002008-05-16T00:28:43.492-07:00I signed up for PPPyippeee. i've atlast got my blog approved by PPP. For those who dont know what i am writing about, PPP is <a href="http://www.payperpost.com/">PayPerPost</a>. doesnt it sound interesting? you get paid for posting ppl, believe that?<br />Well let me tell you why i signed up for payperpost. payperpost is one easy way to <a href="http://www.payperpost.com/">make money.</a><br />i heard about PPP from one of my school mates, called ramanujam. we named him blogger boy, and his antiques online are now spreading like wildfire<br /><br />How does it work?<br />it works like this. an advertiser asks u to write about them, and you can air your views about them. If what you write is approved by them then, Voila, you get paid..<br /><img src="http://tinyurl.com/3tlnza" /><br /><br />Do you really get paid?<br />yes you really get paid. they pay you thro your <a href="http://www.paypalcom/">paypal</a> account. dont have a paypal account? sign up right away, its very easy and simple.<br /><br />Why PPP?<br />PPP is one of the most famous websites to <a href="http://www.payperpost.com/">make money.</a> online. I have a lot of spare time for the next few months and so i decided to sign up for it.<br /><br />What to do with the money?<br />good question. if you earn money, then its your hard earned money and u have all the rights to use it. AFAIK, i'm going to buy a bike for myself and decided to earn as much possible and as fast as possible.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.payperpost.com/?utm_source=opportunity&utm_medium=disclosure%2Bbadge"><img src="http://tinyurl.com/2b9cuq" border="0" /></a>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-38126009033278484572008-05-09T10:04:00.000-07:002008-05-09T10:48:15.157-07:00The Italian job<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Italian_job_imp.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Italian_job_imp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I saw this movie The Italian Job. starring Mark Wahlberg and Charlize theron. Mark you must be remembering from the Departed as the last man standing in the movie. in this film he plays Charlie the master mind behind a heist. The way they brought down (literally) the safe was seriously amazing. but it was just a precursor to the things to come. after pulling it off beautifully, one of their gang betrays them and takes the gold all for himself. the rest of the story is how they track him and get the gold back from him. a repeat of the safe bringing down incident takes place but this time they bring an entire armoured vehicle down. (to know what i am speaking of grab a packet of chips and watch the movie;)<br /><br /><br />though the techniques used were good, it was a sort of deja vu. a few things were predictable.<br /><br />charlize theron was hot property wasted in the movie. jus to add to the glamour quotient. she plays an important part in the film as the one who cracks the safe.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Charlize_Theron_at_Meteor_Ireland_Music_Awards_2008.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Charlize_Theron_at_Meteor_Ireland_Music_Awards_2008.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />edward norton, of Fight Club fame was a bit too crass here. a villain, i expect, need to be strong person. meaning a seemingly invincible fellow and not like a stupid crook who has money with him.<br />the rest of the crew deserve no special mention. a rating of 7 would do for the filmhantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-91029596690677453082008-05-06T07:53:00.000-07:002008-05-06T08:11:17.267-07:00The Importance PradarshanamPradarshanam<br /><br />First this must be a new word to all my overseas readers. So let me first explain what it is. Pradarshanam is the act of going around a Deity a specific number of times. I go to my neighbourhood Anjaneya temple almost everyday and come around the presiding deity 12 times. all these days, i did it without thinking why. I tend to become introspective, when i am really troubled or when i feel i am contended. i am currently feeling both these expressions while i write this.<br />today when i was doing this pradarshanam i decided to think y i was doing all this. firstly going to a temple makes one happy. it gives me a peace of mind and lets me relax a bit. secondly i do this pradarshanam thing as a routine. but y did i do so? parents asked me to ? yes. what was the reason behind it? i didnt know.<br />let me find out. firstly when u go in circles in a clockwise direction, it stimulates your chakras, which also spin in a clockwise direction, thus reinforcing their speed. this looked like one possible explanation to me. but what about those who dont believe in this chakra theory? there must be a possible explanation or a hidden meaning. here's one i found out - no matter what you do, even if u come back to the starting point, just keep doing it. sounds to me as a living example of the Gita.<br />it can also mean this - You start and end at the same point ( the alpha is the omega, the beginning and the end are the same) this sounds like too good to be true, and is one of the simplest truths man can comprehend. one can only experience it, not understand it. and this act of pradarshanam is the closest way one can realize this.<br />may be i am reading too much into too little or trying to justify a baseless superstition, but one thing i learnt from this effort was that every act of stupidity makes sense at one level or the other. What say ? :)hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-37687976810301154402008-05-05T23:25:00.000-07:002008-05-07T00:32:18.932-07:00E Commerce - Shopping CartE commerce<br /><br />Electronic Commerce is nothing but the buying and selling of goods online, over the internet. it gives you the freedom of sitting at your home and buying and selling stuff like groceries, books, gadgets, you-name-it. there are many ways in which you can use e-commerce, that is there are many models involved. the prime ones being shopping cart model, storefront model, auction model, name your price model and reverse auction model. lets see about the shopping cart model<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ashopcommerce.com">online store software</a><br /><br />One of the ways in which online shopping can be done is through the Shopping Cart Software. Shopping cart software is used to assist people in making purchases online. This application typically provides a means of capturing the clients payment information or they may make use of credit cards.<br /><br />Shopping cart software typically consists of two components namely the store front and the admin. store front is where you get to see the user end of the software and how users interact while the admin part is where the administrator has ful control over the software.<br /><br />An Example of a Shopping Cart software : <a href="http://www.ashopcommerce.com">Ashop Commerce's shopping cart software.</a><a href="http://www.ashopcommerce.com">online store software<br /></a><br />Ashop Commerce has created a cutting a <a href="http://www.ashopcommerce.com">cutting edge shopping cart software</a>. Before we go about the software, let me first tell you readers about what a typical online software cart should contain<br />1. easy to access<br />2. user friendly<br />3. customizable<br />4. contain intuitive features<br /><br />Ashop commerce's <a href="http://www.ashopcommerce.com">award winning software</a> contains it all. this has been built to provide services to small and medium business. Companies which need their current internet presence to turn into a profitable venture must use this software. the software is fully customizable and users have full control over its functionality. if you wanna test this software click here.<br /><br />My Experience<br />i tested the shop front demo of the software, and i was impressed. It provides a 128 bit SSL security which is really secure. there is also a live sales chat plug in which one can use. It also gives a free news letter option, which can help retain users. it even provides for multi currency support. and helps in choosing our payment option. overall its a great software to use, and i would surely recommend this to companies who want to use ithantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-49620164392730045622008-05-03T22:53:00.001-07:002008-05-03T23:43:33.545-07:00Cafe Coffee dayMy Favorite coffee hangout? yeah thats Cafe coffee day..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/CoffeeDayLogo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 156px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/CoffeeDayLogo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The tasty Devils Own, the sizziling brownie, the chocolate fudge, yummmm.. i just cant help control myself. befor i go into detail, lets get to know more of the company<br /><br />A division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), it is commonly known as Coffee Day or CCD. It opened its first cafe in 1996 on Brigade Road Bangalore and today has the largest cafe retail chain in India - with 436 cafes in 69 cities. The cafe chain has had much success riding, and to some extent creating, the cafe culture wave that swept across metropolitan India following strong economic growth resulting in an increase in youth spending power.<br />Cafe Coffee Day sources coffee from 10000 acres (40 km²) of coffee estates, the 2nd largest in Asia, that is owned by a sister concern and from 11,000 small growers. It is one of India’s leading coffee exporters, with clients across the USA,Middle East Europe and Japan.<br />The strategy CCD has adapted is to place a cafe in every possible location where some business can be generated. So in Bangalore, in the main shopping district, there are 6 outlets in a 2 km radius. Another model which CCD has adapted is to be present in educational institutions and Corporate campuses either in the form of detailed Cafes or its economical model of CCD express. These innovative strategies have ensured that the competition is at bay and ensured CCD's dominance in the Indian market though many of its outlets are incurring losses.<br /><br />they even opened India 's first ever cyber cafe. Its first Wi-Fi cafe was opened on Lavelle Road,Bangalore<br /><br />its not just the coffee thats great there. they dont just sell coffee. they sell an experience.. an experience thats worth the money. trulyhantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-15825850244207152402008-04-26T07:43:00.000-07:002008-04-26T07:44:32.342-07:00elevator 22, 22 things to do on an elevator<span class="quote">1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag, peer Inside and ask "Got enough air in there?"<br />2) STAND silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off.<br />3) WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open themselves.<br />4) GREET everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral.<br />5) MEOW occasionally.<br />6) STARE At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: "You're one of THEM" - and back away slowly<br />7) SAY -DING at each floor.<br />8) SAY "I wonder what all these do?" And push all the red buttons.<br />9) MAKE explosion noises when anyone presses a button.<br />10) STARE, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce: "I have new socks on."<br />11) WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: "Is that your beeper?"<br />12) TRY to make personal calls on the emergency phone.<br />13) DRAW a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers: "This is my personal space."<br />14) WHEN there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn't you.<br />15) PUSH the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.<br />16) ASK if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones.<br />17) HOLD the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say "Hi Greg, How's your day been?"<br />18) DROP a pen and wail until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream: "That's mine!"<br />19) BRING a camera and take pictures of everyone in the lift.<br />20) PRETEND you're a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers.<br />21) SWAT at flies that don't exist.<br />22) CALL out "Group hug" then enforce it.</span>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-49367670502587015062008-04-18T08:43:00.000-07:002008-04-18T08:52:21.228-07:00The Indian Quizzing League<p>The Indian Quizzing League, Chennai (or IQL) is a non-profit organization aimed at spreading the concept of knowledge sharing in the country and also provide a forum for quiz enthusiasts to present their skills and quiz regularly.</p> <p><br />About</p> <p>The Indian Quizzing League, or IQL, is a quizzing league based in Chennai. India. A group of four quizzing enthusiasts - Karthik Narayan, Ananthakrishnan Ganapathy, Ananthashankar and Vijay Govindarajan from Chennai, being members of the Quiz Foundation of India, took the first step in creating a new quizzing group in late 2007. The idea was to form a quiz group to change the face of quizzing beyond the normal winners. The idea became reality when the group met for its first public quiz meet on January 12, 2008</p> <p>So far the group has grown to around 10 regular members who meet every Saturday at 17.30 P.M. for a quiz conducted by one or two of its members at the Cafe Coffee Day outlet in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras campus.</p> <p>Events</p> <p>Members of the IQL organise and conduct quizzes for a number of schools, colleges and companies based in and around the city.</p> <p><br />Membership</p> <p>There is no membership fee required to attend the meetings. Membership online is available here <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizakn/" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group<wbr>/quizakn/</a></p> <p>IQL goes on the concept of knowledge sharing, whereby in each meeting, aspects other than quizzing are presented and shared with each other.</p> The IQL group has its own blog here <a href="http://quizakn.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://quizakn.blogspot.com</a>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-40334659718859048672008-04-13T23:25:00.000-07:002008-05-04T23:28:02.672-07:00C# the new wavei learnt C# int my final semester. Every 10 years or so a new approach to programming hits like a tsunami. In the early 1980s, the new technologies were Unix, which could be run on a desktop, and a powerful new language called C, developed by AT&T. The early 90s brought Windows and C++. Each of these developments represented a sea change in the way you approached programming. Now, .NET and C# are the next wave. Microsoft has 'bet the company' on .NET. When a company of their size and influence spends billions of dollars and reorganizes its entire corporate structure to support a new platform, it is reasonable for programmers to take notice. It turns out that .NET represents a major change in<br />the way you'll think about programming. It is, in short, a new development platform designed to facilitate object-oriented Internet development. The programming language of choice for this object-oriented Internet-centric platform is C#, which builds on the lessons learned from C (high performance), C++ (object-oriented structure), Java (garbage collected, high security), and Visual Basic (rapid development) to create a new language ideally suited for developing component-based n-tier distributed web applications.hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-89921979326030302042008-04-11T23:21:00.000-07:002008-05-04T23:22:46.950-07:00Witty quotesNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."<br />- Bill Blake (ok, William Blake)<br /><br />When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine."<br />- Arthur C. Clarke<br /><br />All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost."<br />- JRR Tolkien<br /><br />There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."<br />- Morpheus (matrix)<br /><br />Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."<br />- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)<br /><br />"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."<br />- Galileo Galilei<br /><br />In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."<br />- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)<br /><br />"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."<br />- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')<br /><br />Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)<br /><br />If you are going through hell, keep going."<br />- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-52914019488850330522008-04-09T23:17:00.000-07:002008-05-04T23:19:22.097-07:00The story of king ChitraBhanu<span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" > In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, Bhishma, whilst resting on the bed of arrows and discoursing on Dharma, refers to the observance of Maha Shivaratri by King Chitrabhanu. The story goes as follows -</span> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >Once upon a time King Chitrabhanu of the Ikshvaku dynasty, who ruled over the whole of Jambudvipa, was observing a fast with his wife, it being the day of Maha Shivaratri. The sage Ashtavakra came on a visit to the court of the king.</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >The sage asked the king the purpose of his observing the fast. King Chitrabhanu explained that he had a gift of remembering the incidents of his previous birth.</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >The king said to the sage that in his previous he was a hunter in Varanasi and his name was Suswara. His only livelihood was to kill and sell birds and animals. One day while roaming through forests in search of animals he was overtaken by the darkness of night. Unable to return home, he climbed a tree for shelter. It happened to be a Bael tree. He had seen a deer that day but let it live, after seeing the deer's sad family. As hunger and thirst tormented him, he was kept awake throughout the night. His canteen leaked water as he thought of his poor wife and children who were starving and anxiously waiting for his return. To pass away the time that night he engaged himself in plucking the Bael leaves and dropping them down onto the ground.</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >The next day he returned home and bought some food for himself and his family. The moment he was about to break his fast a stranger came to him, begging for food. He served the food first to stranger and then had his own.</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >At the time of his death, he saw two messengers of Lord Shiva. They were sent down to conduct his soul to the abode of Lord Shiva. He learnt then for the first time of the great merit he had earned by the unconscious worship of Lord Shiva during the night of Shivaratri. The messengers told him that there was a Lingam at the bottom of the tree. The leaves he dropped fell on the Lingam. His canteen, which leaked water, washed the Lingam and he had fasted all day and all night. Thus, he unconsciously worshiped the Lord.</span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" >As the conclusion of the tale the King said that he lived in the abode of the Lord and enjoyed divine bliss for long ages and now he has reborn as Chitrabhanu.</span></p>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-27814801453183753512008-04-06T23:08:00.000-07:002008-05-04T23:13:26.622-07:00My Favorite Bad Quotes - Part 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYcH1EMVj8GYRxCjlL7D2vz3O77HgwwrIc97QgX_T0fMYm4WEnxAtzVYkub9jVlEmO4c67mTKts-wG-0nmpHQJD7TKKGDadQZx8IoS_b8VewCDmSyejrYtTGHGo3VQ6RUOMafJOSzVd4Z/s1600-h/ATT7532964.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" 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/></a>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-36213190887683894152008-04-01T20:30:00.000-07:002008-04-01T20:32:02.424-07:00A word of Gratitude, to all my friends<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "the King & Queen font";">A <span style=""> </span>Word <span style=""> </span>Of<span style=""> </span>Gratitude...</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Four years passed by<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And now I look back with joy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Of the memories passed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And love depart<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">I was busy so were you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">But neither forgot to share a few<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Love and hatred abound<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">From defeat we rebound<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Those crazily long bus rides<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Over bumpy Chennai roads<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And equally crazy staff<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">I’ll never forget those<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Culturals and symposia <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">We enjoyed attending<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Sports and frolics<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">We freaked never ending<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">I did many a mistake<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">I summon the guts to say sorry<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To the hearts I caused to ache<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">In our life’s safari<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To every one who read this<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">For their never ending love<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">That filled my life with bliss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To the pretty soul there<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">For guiding me out of a slump<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And showering me with unbridled care<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To my decent little gang<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">For helping me script my past<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And enjoy life with a bang<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To my former friends<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">You made for a good ally<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">But every good thing comes to an end<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To the passer by<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">I learnt a lot from all of you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Thanks for sparing the pain of goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">To all those who shared my secrets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And kept them<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">And let them die with memory and time<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">A word of gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">You mean a lot to me<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">My mind’s content with gratefulness<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">For every moment I spent with you all<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";">Thank you, my friend, keep in touch</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">- Anantha shankar<br /><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "French Script MT";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "the King & Queen font";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "the King & Queen font";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-90925136917946198132008-03-28T21:30:00.000-07:002008-04-01T20:30:52.647-07:00Sachin - a masterpiece par excellenceA lot has been said about Sachin. Need I add more? Lets see a few great words from ppl, who have carved a niche for themselves.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/09/15/images/2006091507752101.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/09/15/images/2006091507752101.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In terms of technique and compactness, Tendulkar is the best<br />Desmond Haynes.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r156065_563964.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r156065_563964.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best<br />Sir Garfield Sobers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.ecb.co.uk/images/width150/sachin-tendulkar1-26995.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 280px;" src="http://static.ecb.co.uk/images/width150/sachin-tendulkar1-26995.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I'd pay to see him<br />Viv Richards.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/79200/79214.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/79200/79214.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel<br />Sir Donald Bradman.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wittysparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/sachin11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.wittysparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/sachin11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Technically he stands out as the best because of his ability to increase the pace at will<br />David Boon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44226000/jpg/_44226214_sachin.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44226000/jpg/_44226214_sachin.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don Steve Waugh.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.cricketnext.com/pix/sitepix/11_2007/1511tendulkar_313.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.cricketnext.com/pix/sitepix/11_2007/1511tendulkar_313.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him<br />Jeff Thompson.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.indiavarta.com/gallery/images/2005/oct/28a/ind6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.indiavarta.com/gallery/images/2005/oct/28a/ind6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard<br />Dennis Lillee.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040115/sp4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040115/sp4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player<br />Shane Warne.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tssonnet.com/tss2849/images/20051203001202302.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tssonnet.com/tss2849/images/20051203001202302.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />When it comes to judging the best among these fabulous band of batsmen, my vote goes to Tendulkar. He has an uncanny ability to come out on top under different circumstances and under different conditions, whether it is Test cricket or one-day internationals. And more importantly, he has done this so young<br />Shane Warne.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thegoogly.com/images/2007/03/19/sachin_tendulkar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.thegoogly.com/images/2007/03/19/sachin_tendulkar.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours<br />Michael Kasprowicz.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://india-srilanka.cricket.deepthi.com/images/sachin.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://india-srilanka.cricket.deepthi.com/images/sachin.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Hell, if he had stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it<br />Allan Border (after India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/10/images/2006091012631601.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 380px;" src="http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/10/images/2006091012631601.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease<br />Greg Chappell.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=2549731"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=2549731" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway. Kasprowicz has a superior story. During the Bangalore Test, frustrated, he went to Dennis Lillee and asked, "Mate, do you see any weaknesses?" Lillee replied, "No Michael, as long as you walk off with your pride that's all you can do"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://in.sports.yahoo.com/sportz/images/wclegends/india1999_1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://in.sports.yahoo.com/sportz/images/wclegends/india1999_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling<br />Richie Benaud.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jMp-6f-TOGYkFjuCK9D5d67YQXwA?size=s"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 397px;" src="http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jMp-6f-TOGYkFjuCK9D5d67YQXwA?size=s" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />West Indian great Brian Lara said Sachin Tendulkar was a peerless batsman with a lot more to offer. Lara, Test cricket's leading scorer with 11,294 runs, regarded Tendulkar the best batsman he ever watched despite the prolific success of Australian captain Ricky Ponting and South African Jacques Kallis. Lara said: "For me, the best batsman in the world is Sachin Tendulkar. I admire Jacques Kallis' consistency and Ricky Ponting, with the purple patch he's going though. Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired over a 15-year period, it's definitely Sachin."<br /><br />to conclude, it is a matter of fact that India still need Sachin in a big way. All this talk of the youngsters taking can be termed as foolish. The reason why Tendulkar is so important for the team is because of his ability to inspire others and make them perform under pressure.hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-11654543404882059332008-03-25T08:29:00.000-07:002008-03-25T09:07:58.282-07:00Bus Day - Memories I shall cherishToday we had our final bus day, the last time one can freak uninhibitedly in college. And what a way to enjoy it. I didnt attend the proceedings in the morning as i had to show my project demo (which incidentally got an A+ from the project coord). Had to be fully tension free for it to go the way i wanted. but from what I heard, it was an all out powder, jigina (the sparkling powder which sticks to skin), foam, and pepsi abishekam.. apar had the honor of being drenched in pepsi, lol. and when ppl got down, they messed up <a href="http://blissinyourheart.blogspot.com/">sriram</a>, who hadn't come to the morning proceedings.<br /><br />evening it started with me starting the proceedings, getting bulbs, and in turn giving them back. perfect kalaai. then started the group midhi (what i call kick-backs) it rained hands on my back.. what a way to kill a person's resistance and drown his strength..<br /><br />I'm a bit dazed bout what happened next, but i'll go on with the things i remember. i(the terror of 17, as they affectionately call me) was paired up with an mca girl named sai prathicha or whatever. and she gave me some gift the juniors had bought for me..<br /><br />the highlight, as usual was <a href="http://getalluwant.blogspot.com/">gbps</a> who was paired with his tuition mate cum schoolmate cum collegemate cum classmate cum bus mate cum are mate - vasantha.. yes no one could believe the divine co incidence that existed between them. and if anything was boring in bus, prasanna(gbps) would come to the rescue.<br /><br />then we went to the beach - the first bus to do so for a bus day. after guys had fun mimicking the<a href="http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/spanish-festivals/la-tomatina-tomato-battle-bunyol.htm"> tomato festival of spain</a> the whole bus went to the beach and enjoyed the fresh salty sea air for a while. there a policeman started advising us. one thing among his comments i couldnt forget was the comment he made seeing our colored selves "Are you ppl North Indians??" i dunno how the hell he could ask such questions, as most of our skins have had the pleasure of sustainin the darkening effect of the sun. <br /><br />then the juniors ragged on their own, and we did our age old ragging - proposals.. i, as usual, failed to provide the entertainment it shud do, thanks to the deteriorating quality of juniors every year. then we had some good natured fun with DUmb charades..<br /><br />All in al it was one of the four bus days i wouldn't forget.. thanks juniors for the wonderful time..hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785546304745723431.post-71912705152946757502008-03-22T09:49:00.000-07:002008-03-22T09:51:20.983-07:00Funny quotes about religion<div><br /> <h3>Funny Quotes About Religion</h3><br /> From: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/doina/">doina</a>, 2 months ago<br /><br /><br /> <div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_225137"><a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-09318849657870797 visible ontop" href="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=funny-quotes-about-religion-1200085300551325-4"></a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=funny-quotes-about-religion-1200085300551325-4"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=funny-quotes-about-religion-1200085300551325-4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border: 0px none ; margin-bottom: -5px;" alt="SlideShare" /></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/doina/funny-quotes-about-religion?src=embed" title="View 'Funny Quotes About Religion' on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/doina/funny-quotes-about-religion">SlideShare Link</a><br /> </div><br /> <img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/JnB*PTEyMDg4NzQyNjY3ODEmcD*xMDE5MSZkPSZuPWJsb2dnZXI=.jpg" border="0" height="0" width="0" />hantanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04130104831405189982noreply@blogger.com0