Srikrishnak

komatineni.com

2007-12-14T14:42:00.000+08:00

Just few days back i managed to register the domain www.komatineni.com for the family members of komatineni.
It's really great as I lost it a couple of years back to some unknown domain owner(forgot to renew via yahoo domains) and this time i make it automatically renew itself. In addition thx to google I can create multiple email id's with komatineni domain ID.
If any of you guys are interested to get one (ofcourse if you are from the family) plz point ur browser to www.komatineni.com
Advanced wishes to new year and sankranti.

StarHub Smart TV - Review : Home Entertainment : Video recorders - CNET Asia

2006-04-17T11:14:00.000+08:00

StarHub Smart TV - Review : Home Entertainment : Video recorders - CNET Asia: "StarHub recently announced its plan to roll out a new Smart TV service centered on a TiVo-styled settop box. The latest offering differs from the company's current cable boxes in two key areas: A built-in hard drive and advanced A/V connectivity.

These additions will enable the telco to entice its cable subscribers with a suite of highly-sought after features. Among them, 60 hours of high-quality digital recording and a Live TV function. The latter enables users to rewind, fast-forward, slow-motion and pause live TV programs.

We got up close and personal with this promising service and its multitalented settop box to bring you a report on the ups and downs lest you need to convince yourself on the benefits of Smart TV.

Upside: It didn't took us long to master the simplified user interface employed by the Smart TV functions. Navigation was easily performed via four color-coded buttons and a set of directional keys. Icons of these controls with relevant descriptions were also available onscreen, eliminating guesswork and further enhancing the intuitativeness of the menu.

The marriage of an electronic program guide and a DVR was a godsend for couch potatoes. Recording TV programs was a fuss-free procedure of browsing the program guide and hitting a series of key strokes as opposed to the time-consuming newspaper scuffle. The picture quality of the recordings was top-notch, thanks to the combination of a digitized TV feed and digital recording technology.

Videophiles and enthusiasts will also be delighted to find a set of component-video and optical audio sockets at the flank of the set. These output 576i PAL-encoded video and uncompressed digital stereo sound for enhanced audio-visual playback pe"

Discover Your Soul

2006-04-09T10:06:00.000+08:00

Times Of India ePaper: "Imagine yourself marooned on a vast deserted island. You have been there for years, struggling just to survive, gathering food, using only your hands and makeshift tools to scratch out an existence. Most of your days are fully taken up with satisfying the basic needs of life.
Having proved to yourself that you can survive with just the bare essentials you resign yourself to the fact that you will never be rescued. Anger turns to quiet desperation, then to acceptance as you carry on with your life.
Several years have passed and you have become accustomed to your lifestyle and feel comfortable enough to start exploring your island. You have settled in and your attention lately has been directed towards the mountains and what is beyond.
As you begin to move further inland and away from your comfort zone, you develop a sense of strength for having survived the years on your own. Along the way you are making many discoveries that will enhance your life. You are gathering an abundance of knowledge about the environment that you live in. By this time you have convinced yourself that there is nothing you cannot do, and that there is nothing you really have to do to survive. Everything has been provided for you. You simply reach out and take it as you need it.
After 40 years of wandering the island, you finally reach the top of the mountain and turn away from the direction in which you came. In the distance and time that separates you, you discover a huge modern city with all the amenities that such a place could hold. You discover that your island was not an island and that the city has always been there. As your mind races over the circumstances of the last 40 years, you fall to your knees weeping.

The discovery of your soul is very much the same overwhelming experience. It’s not a religious experience unless you want it to be. It’s natural and simply a discovery of another part of you, that was there all along, that you didn’t know. Think of the possibilities. Where there was one, now there are many. And there is always that one question, “Why?” How could I have not known? How would my life have been different?

The human species is a three part being — mind, body and spirit. The mind is what drives us, the spirit is our personality or ego, and the body is the vehicle that is used to experience the physical world. To experience physicality, one needs to be physical, it’s natural then to be focused on the body and its needs.

Most all of our waking hours are centred on what the body wants to experience. There is nothing wrong with this arrangement, and it works flawlessly and on auto-pilot throughout our lifetimes with or without our awareness of what makes it tick. So why am I bringing this up? If the system works perfectly, then leave it alone. Don’t try to fix that which doesn’t need fixing. Is ignorance not bliss? These notions of being alone and powerless, limit our experience of the physical world and our own personal growth.

With a certain amount of awareness, our lives can be enhanced a thousand fold and more, with the discovery of our souls. Denial of the soul has far reaching ramifications. Awareness of it, augments the quality of our lives. It’s like discovering that city that was always there, and you are given the key to access any part of it. I am not talking about some hypothetical element of our person, rather of something that actually exists. This soul that we are all part of, is only available to you on a conscious level when you recognise that it is there, when you discover it. Acceptance of the knowledge of your soul brings with it all the benefits, amenities and power that is rightfully yours. The soul is self discovery. You do not have to pay penance or get down on your knees to another to bring it into your awakened life. There is no prayer or affirmation that will bring it to you.

Your soul is yours...it always was. The only thing that will deny you access to your soul is your own thoughts. You can walk on water, turn water into wine, perform all kinds of miracles if you desire. Your thoughts are the key to the soul. As you think, so shall your reap.

That which you would call “God,” or anything else, is who you are. You are an individualised piece of that power. You have the power of the whole at your disposal in any given second through your thoughts. Discover your soul and you discover another natural piece of who you are. You are never lost, you just are not there yet. Open the door to discovery and double or more what you think you are.

Wi-Fi Phone with Skype. Looks Cool

2006-04-05T15:44:00.000+08:00

SMC-Asia Asia Pacific Portal - WSKP100 EZ Connect™ g 802.11b/g Skype Wi-Fi Phone: "WSKP100 EZ Connect™ g 802.11b/g Skype Wi-Fi Phone
802.11b/g Skype Wi-Fi Phone

The SMC WSKP100 Skype Wi-Fi phone extends the convenience of wireless connection and the voice quality of Skype into one portable device. The WSKP100 is intended to help users make Skype calls at home, workplace and campus without the hassle of turning on computers.

The modulation of WSKP100 is based on the IEEE802.11b/g standard so it is compatible with most standard 802.11b/g Access Point (AP) in the market. With the embedded Skype software, users can have access to both PSTN and Skype networks as long as users have a valid Skype account. With the easy startup user will not have to remember the SSID or security keys; the WSKP100 stores these information and will connect to AP automatically when it boots up.

With embedded Skype software, SMC Networks' Skype Wi-Fi phone provides the users of cost savings, mobility with 802.11b/g WLAN, and hassle free installation with easy startup.
Embedded Skype software
Enhanced Power Saving Design for extended standby and talk time
Industrial standard 802.11b/g networks compatibility
Exceptional QoS function
Wireless Network security"

Sony W800i

2006-02-09T21:22:00.000+08:00

After a long time posting something. One of the reason is Tanveer. Its been a while I spoke to this guy. Today happened to see him in skype. While chatting suddently I remembered that I've not visited my own blog for ages. Anyway these days am quite busy with work, my new gadgets, and having sleep ;) yeah true. Now a days I can sleep for hours without any disturbance. Is it something new skill which I developed (Noo. no SDF funded here).
Anyway the latest news is my Sony W800i. The moment I saw it I dont know but I just bough it. I dont say this is the best phone I ever used ( I still feel Nokia 3310 is the best Mobile Phone I so far used) but it really impressed me with its cute looks and amazing sound quality. So what next. Load it to its full capacity. Within the first one hour the internal memory of ~450MB filled up. Then the time to look for MemoryStick. I've the stick which came with my HandyCam. So just replaced and used it as well.

For some feature comparision you can check it here

Thats all for now. Hey if you have some time try watching my buddy blog here . I am sure you gonna like it very much as I do. Its not freq updated (just a lazy bum like me) but the content is really really good.

World Best Business Guru's

2006-01-08T19:34:00.000+08:00

Four Indians figure amongst the world's top 50 management gurus, according to The Thinkers 50 2005 -- a ranking by the European Foundation for Management Development.

The four Indians on the elite list are University of Michigan professor C K Prahalad (ranked 3rd), CEO coach Ram Charan (ranked 24th), Tuck Business School professor Vijay Govindarajan (ranked 30th), and Harvard professor Rakesh Khurana (ranked 33rd).

Michael Porter, who heads Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, has been voted the world's topmost living management guru.
Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest software company Microsoft, is considered the second most influential management guru in the world.

The list names only four women amongst the top 50 business gurus. INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne is ranked 15th, followed by Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter at 19th slot, London Business School's Lynda Gratton at 34th position and the No Logo author Naomi Klein at 46.

Source: http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/20guru.htm

Flash sucks

2006-01-07T08:17:00.000+08:00

since one hour have been trying to isntall flash8.0 as some fucking site requested so. This bloody Flash8 seems it uninstalled my version 7. The worst thing is i dont know the status of installation. good are the old days when you download the installer and runs it locally, so you can see the status. Now the damn site says installing and no error messages at all. I assume it was success but when i tried to view the flash site it doesnt work. the whole process begins again.
This a**holes at Macromedia didnt even provide any support to say is there any issue with IE. All the say is just look at the browser help function.
If MS did the same thing then by this time there would have been tons of mails flying here n there, law suits in US, & forums are filled with all the complaints. But when MacroMedia does this I dont know why nobody bother to respond. I can see the complaints in forums but I dont see any explanation in Macromedia site.
Wish I can just go back to the plain old HTML with PNG,GiF,&jpeg days. Then I dont require to put somuch of money in this damn Hi-End CPU, or memory.

New Year

2006-01-06T14:32:00.000+08:00

New year this is my first post. Really dont have the time to update freq.
Lets see what happens.

2005-12-26T00:18:00.000+08:00

Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
by D. Hatcher Childressfrom The Anti-Gravity Handbook avaliable from:
Adventures Unlimited Press, Post Office Box 22, Stelle, IL, USA 60919-9989
(815) 253-6390, Write for their FREE catalog.
Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis.
What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic; many are the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit.
The Indian Emperor Ashoka started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle.
The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each. Book number was "The Secrets of Gravitation!" This book, known to historians, but not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with "gravity control." It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly undertand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. if the Nazis had such weapons at their disposal during World War Ii. Ashoka was also aware devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and other "futuristic weapons" that had destoryed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" several thousand years before.
Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships!
Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti-gravitational" and was based upon a system analogous to that of "laghima," the unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull." According to Hindu Yogis, it is this "laghima" which enables a person to levitate.
Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called "Astras" by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. The manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of "antima"; "the cap of invisibility" and "garima"; "how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead."
Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously, but then became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space program! This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be researching anti-gravity.
The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out. However, one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a Vimana (or "Astra"), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an "Asvin" (or Atlantean" airship.
This is but a small bit of recent evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand the technology, we must go much further back in time.
The so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan developed at least fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian sub-continent and was a nation of many large, sophisticated cities, many of which are still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama existed, apparently, parallel to the Atlantean civilization in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, and was ruled by "enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities, The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as "The Seven Rishi Cities."
According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer.
It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have even been translated into English.
The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy source which sounds like "anti-gravity."
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore.
There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvajy the Wise refers to no less than 70 authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity. These sources are now lost.
Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the princible of their propulsion. The "yellowishwhite liquid" sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including combustion engines and even "pulse-jet" engines. It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs." Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific information!
According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forewards as the pilot desired. In another Indian source, the Samar, Vimanas were "iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame." Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered what they call "age-old instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The "devices" are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a drop of mercury inside.
It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South America. Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the "Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire") and still undeciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script. Was Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana route? (At the Mohenjo-Daro Vimana-drome, as the passenger walks down the concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over the loudspeaker,
"Rama Airways flight number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, and Atlantis is now ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to gate number..") in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery chariot" thusly: "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer ... it swept by like a comet... It was as if two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven brightened."
In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of Ayodhya.
The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as night, but picked out by lights with a yellowish glare-"
The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the "ahnihotra-vimana" with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.
Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, "Vailixi," a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperment. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric, "occult" sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar shaped" and had the capability of manuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged.
According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The Ultimate Frontier," in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are "saucershaped of generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside." "They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power."
The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century.
The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor... An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis
And the Andhakas.
... the corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
... After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
... to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment..."
It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war! References like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all the epic Indian books. One even describes a Vimana-Vailix battle on the Moon! The above section very accurately describes what an atomic explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the population. Jumping into water is the only respite.
When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archeologists in the last century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets, some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stone walls have literaly been vitrified, that is-fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast. Futhermore, at Mohenjo-Daro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with a plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today, the streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These globs of glass were discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense heat!
With the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of Rama with atomic weapons, the world collapsed into a "stone age" of sorts, and modern history picks up a few thousand years later. Yet, it would seem that not all the Vimanas and Vailixi of Rama and Atlantis were gone. Built to last for thousands of of years, many of them would still be in use, as evidenced by Ashoka's "Nine Unknown Men" and the Lhasa manuscript.
That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional, "enlightened" human beings would have preserved these inventions and the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not seem surprising. Many well known historical personages including Jesus, Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of course many other people who will probably remain anonomous, were probably members of such a secret organization.
It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one point they were attacked by "flying, fiery shields" that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry. These "flying saucers" did not use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went on to conquer India.
It has been suggested by many writers that these "Brotherhoods" keep some of their Vimanas and Vailixi in secret caverns in Tibet or some other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western China is known to be the center of a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it is here that many of the airships are still kept, in underground bases much as the Americans, British and Soviets have built around the world in the past few decades.
Still, not all UFO activity can be accounted for by old Vimanas making trips to the Moon for some reason. Undoubtedly, some are from the Military Governments of the world, and possibly even from other planets. Of course, many UFO sightings are "swamp, gas, clouds, hoaxes, and hallucinations, while there is considerable evidence that many UFO sightings, especially "kidnappings" and the like, are the result of what is generally called "telepathic hypnosis." One common thread that often runs between "Alien kidnappings," "sex with aliens," and other "close encounters of a third kind" is a buzzing in the ears just before the encounter. According to many well informed people, this is a sure sign of telepathic hypnosis."

Kabhi Alivada Na kehna

2005-12-17T21:31:00.000+08:00

The day,I saw you in my dreams,
You whispered into my ear,
the words I had always longed to hear ...
We were amidst the clouds and a million stars were shining bright ...
As if the whole universe was ecstatic in love ...
The sparkle in your eyes spoke a million words ...
I felt I had won the planet ...
Then, something strange happened ...
In a flash you were gone ...
The sun was shining bright welcoming a new morn ...
Alas, my dream was out of sight ...
And, I wonder where you are ...
I didnt knew that I've to wait for such a long time...
More than a month. Finally met you.
The place which I hate the most.But overnight it turned out to be the best
Still the words sound in my ears. The looks that had me forever...
In less than a day you left...Craving for you.
Finally you are here...Within my heart..
Kabhi Alvida na kehana...
... My dream lover ...

Something.

2005-12-17T21:25:00.000+08:00

I wish it'd lasted forever,
but I know better
first love is first love it ends, life goes on.

The first time of everything
the first 'hug',
the first 'kiss',
the late night 'talks',
O yea! and the late night 'walks
but it ends

oh well life goes on!
It may be hard,
but it ain't impossible,
so get over it!
and yea....move on!

Built to last

2005-12-13T19:33:00.000+08:00

Finally I've finished reading this book "Built to Last" by Jim Collins and Jerri Porras. (Built to last: Succesful habits of visionary companies).
It was really a great experience reading the peoples visions and how the big companies evolved over the time. I dont completely agree with the authors about the Boeing and HP. One more thing is most of the research is done on US based companies. Now we are not US centric. The world became so small that even now we are seeing the takeovers of US companies by Indian companies( I still remember at my prev work place how the people of TYCO used to deal with us. We're their customers but still they used to treat us as we are doing some favour by buying the bandwidth from them). Am very happy when VSNL buy this company.

Anyway coming back to the book, have to thank my superior . Because of him only I got to remember it and finally finished it.
Now time to take a look at Rita.

Deva re Deva

2005-12-06T22:49:00.000+08:00

Thx Tanveer... Yeah yeah I know you are angry to see the copyright material
posted by me.. What to do.this idiot make me to post me.Cant wait.
And agree this is the best photo taken by you. My friend is a pro but this one is much better than his work.
PK, kuch change nahi hai ye admi me. teen saal ke pehle aise hai abhi bhi wohi PK.
Miss you guys..n Miss the place..

No electronic devices. Rely on Birds

2005-12-04T11:25:00.000+08:00

Singareni Mines. One of the largest Coal fields in the world. The workes were given electronic devices which can detect Carbon Monaxide levels in the deep mines .
However they dont rely on the meters. They do trust small birds which they grew in captive solely for these purposes. While electronic meters can detect CO levels from 1% on wards this small bird ( In local slang these birds are called Canery or Lal Muniya) responds when CO level hits 0.15%. When the CO level reaches 2% it will go unconcious. The workers immed leave the place.
The workers feel its better to rely on birds rather than electronic devices for the accuracy levels and at the same time they feel they have a companion while working.

Complimentary Gifts

2005-11-27T16:28:00.000+08:00

Few days back I rcvd a complementary gift from this organization for being a member for one year. I was happy to receive this piece A three in one Alarm, Radio cum Torch light. However with in two days it spoiled. I looked for any warranty card, but to my surprise I even dont see any sort of brand name even. I was so disappointed with the club now I am seriously thinking how soon can I cancel the membership. Not because I'vent received a good complimentary gift,(to be frank I least expected n I dont care) but the value they are giving to the customer. If they cant give it I dont mind but when you are giving it should be something coming from the prestigioug club. This piece is representing the club and its a token of appreciation. Now after looking at the quality of the gift which seems to be given just for name sake or for their "records" purposes I lost my confidance that they can deliver quality services to me in the future.
Monday most importantly I have to call these guys to check how can I cancel my subscription.

Dell India

2005-11-26T20:23:00.000+08:00

Today I logged in to Dell indian site to order one PC. But to my amagement I realized that Dell wont do direct selling from its website. : Quite puzzled I called the cust care and I was wished by a cute (ofcourse voice) executive. I was told that due to security reasons and credit card issue they dont sell online. What an absurd reason. I can say credit card theft or crime in India is possibly amongs the lowest in the world. We have such a great pool of IT professionals who does wonders. Still we dont have the online sales by Dell.
Really couldnt understand Dell's stand here. Anyway I endup to visit IBM website and I could see their price and product online. Finally I decided to go for IBM.
One thing I realized after buyin the PC was all these companies just overshoot the customer. I dont need a computer with all the crap mentioned in the spec. I just need a computer for my browsing and occational video chat. Still I end up going for a P4. The price is indeed high but no options.
Letz see how the performance like.

Budget Budget

2005-11-26T10:39:00.000+08:00

Guess most of the people around the world are busy doing budgeting for the next FY. Still I wonder how this managers come up to say please forecast for your expected and unexpected projects. How to cater for the unexpected. Do I need to go for Dogberts school or bring him down here as a Consultant. ;) Anyway the better part is end of the day boss can always say thats why you are getting paidup.
And we have to continue. Aaarghhh..time to stick my head to the excel sheet again.

FM Watch

2005-11-25T21:01:00.000+08:00

This classic analog wristwatch has a built-in high-quality FM radio that provides clear audio when you plug in your headphones, allowing you to get up-to-date radio broadcasts without having to carry a separate device

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3G Phone

2005-11-25T20:57:00.000+08:00

Waiting for the models to hit the market. Really this is what I dont understood. When 3G wasnt launched everybody was talking about it and lot of plans n promo. Now when people started talking about 3G not many models available in the market.
Dont really understand the vendors business plans. Anyway I am considering two models as my 3G phone. Nokia N70 & SE P910.
Personally I am a bit inclined to Nokia but I have to think about the features as well. I guess I've to spend more than 1K. So I am going to wait till the best(atleast better than my first 3G Handset Motorola A1000).

Rationalizing Mobile-WiMAX

2005-11-25T20:10:00.000+08:00

A good article on WiMAX & 3G. Many people say that WiMAX is a disruptive technology which can lead to doom the 3G operators. But IMHO as well as it seems that both will complement each other. Each one have their own pros and cons.

Link:http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/Nov2005/2259.htm

IDEA

2005-11-24T09:58:00.000+08:00

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Albert Einstein

WEB 2.0

2005-11-21T20:36:00.000+08:00

Ever heard of web ?. I know the answer is YES (Unless you are reading this on a peace of paper which was printed by a Indian IT pro at office during office hours.)
Then how about WEB2.0 ?. Some interesting facts about it.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation--> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management systems --> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication

Source: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Today

2005-11-21T20:30:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I really go mad just thinking over why this happened like this or how could this happen. This thoughts will cause such a headache and pain even if I stay at work I couldnt concentrate. My biggest forte is concentration. At the same time its my weakness. I should concentrate how can I get rid of this weakness. I dont want to think constantly over something which annoys me.
I want to focus on my own self. Today is another day where my productivity was almost dropped by 50%. Only till noon I workred. Then I went downstairs to have my lunch where I saw the worst food ever in my life. I came back with a Coke and started work. But couldnt . Still I am lost why it happens. How can I answer

Did you find out the root kit at your office ?

2005-11-21T20:28:00.000+08:00

The "rootkit" piece of XCP software, developed by British applications maker First4Internet and used by Sony BMG to restrict copying and sharing of music CDs, is already highly controversial because it acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer where it leaves the backdoor open for malicious hackers

Sony BMG earlier this week said it would recall some 4.7 million CDs with the software, after the discovery of the first computer viruses last week that took advantage of the weakness.
The XCP program will installs itself on Windows-operated personal computers when consumers play one of 49 CDs from Sony BMG. The program forces consumers to use a music player that comes with the program.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5960222.html

2005-11-16T17:41:00.000+08:00

I heard one person saying about Singapore government and the way they do things. This guy was pointing that BKE (Bukit Timah Expressway) was named wrongly. At first it gave me the same impression but later I realized that even for this also Singapore government/LTA has got a standard.
The standard says that

Singapore's highways are all identified by TLAs (three letter acronyms): ECP, AYE, CTE, PIE, KPE, BKE, SLE, TPE, KJE.
the first letter ----> first letter of the name
Second letter ----> second stressed letter

So East Coast Park came as ECP, the way we pronounce