Sep 21

high speed internet – wow!

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My first post through the DSL connection at home. Don’t be surprised, i have survived so many years on the internet on dial-up. Okay, i use the office connection too, but all the internet activity from home has been on dial-up.
Finally, after the arrival of Akshara, i had move to high speed internet, as the demand for photos could just not be met through dial-up. I have always been slow for catching up on technology. When the world moved to the iphones, i moved from the Nokia 3310 to the wap-enabled Nokia 3330, not that i needed/used WAP. Sometime early this year, i was forced to change phones, as the usually very resilient Nokia 3330 didn’t survive a 4 floor fall. So, i got myself a Nokia 6610 released just 5 years ago, a very new model for my standards.
Compared to my way with phones, i have been pretty okay with respect to cameras. The Nikon coolpix 2500, a trendy and stylish 2 MP camera was released late february 2002 and i purchased it around mid-march and instantly became the trendsetter. Similarly, when i upgraded to Nikon D70, which was incidentally the camera of the year 2004, i was one of the very few (in my office circle) who had a digital SLR.
Okay, now that i have the DSL, let me put it to good use. Searching for BBC documentaries …

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Jul 16

Naming a wireless network

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Had been to the doctor today. There were many people already queued up. So, i decided to catch up on some pending work and took my laptop inside the doc’s office. I was going to work on some local documents and wasn’t interested in the popup which said that there were some wirless networks in range. Out of curiosity, i decided to check out the available networks and guess what the name of the network was….

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Jul 25

Introducing PollMummy.com – The place to take web polls

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Take Web Polls on PollMummy.com

PollMummy is a new website created just for taking web polls. There is a PollMummy Blog where all the latest polls would be uploaded. There is also a Poll Directory where you can choose to take polls based on the topics you like.

If you have ever wanted to put a poll on your website or blog and didn’t know which tool to use and how to use a particular tool, check out the page on all the tools to create web polls. Last, but never the least, click here to subscribe to PollMummy Polls.

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Jul 14

The Best of the new seven wonders

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Last week, the new 7 wonders of the world were announced to be the following monuments: Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ Redeemer in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, The Colosseum in Italy and the Taj Mahal in India. According to the new 7 wonders website where these were declared:
All the New 7 Wonders are equal and are presented as a group without any ranking.

But, I am sure that everyone would be interested to know as to which the “best” wonder of the world is (from among the list above). This information has not been revealed, so lets try to decide ourselves. So, i have created a poll above with the list of the new seven wonders. Vote for whichever monument you think deserves to be called the “best” wonder of the world.

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Jul 13

Few facts about Friday the 13th

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Today is the Friday the 13th and to “commemorate” this occasion, here are few facts about Friday the 13th and the number 13 in general. Usually, there are only myths surrounding this phenomenon, but i scoured the Internet trying to facts.
  • Fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia. Now that I am in Cyprus where Greek is spoken, i can understand the root of this word. Friday in Greek is paraskevi, Thirteen is Dekathria (Deca = 10, Thria = 3) and phobia, as we all know, is fear. On a related note, fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
  • More than 21 million Americans suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia.
  • The next Friday the 13th will occur in June 2008.
  • Fidel Castro was born on Friday the 13th of August 1926.
  • On Friday the 13th of April 2029, asteroid 2004 MN4 will come extremely close to Earth, but will not collide, at least i hope it doesn’t.
  • The Year 2038 Bug will strike on Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038, when the signed integer used to store time in computers will reach its maximum value and when incremented, it moves to its lowest negative value i.e. -2147483648, which when represeted as time is Friday the 13th of December 1901 8:45 PM!

Some facts/myths related to the number 13.

  • The house number 13 in Florence, Italy is addressed as 12 and a half.
  • A Hangman’s Noose has only 6 or 8 knots and not 13, as the myth goes.
  • The car in which Princess Diana was traveling when she was killed, hit pillar #13 in Pont de l’Alma road tunnel.
  • The American Flag has 13 stripes on it, representing the original 13 colonies which formed the US.

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Jul 12

Surf’s up – It’s Wednesday – Edition 3

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Again, missed the Wednesday. Maybe, i ought to change it to “Surf’s Up – It’s Thursday”!
  • World’s Brainiest – An Interesting site for quizzers and also those who want to soak up a daily dose of General Knowledge. They have loads of quizzes with the quickfire quiz of 5 questions just right for a break from work.
  • Create you own Comic Strip – A very innovative site where you can create your own comic strip customising hundreds of options. If you ever want to insert jokes or punchlines in any of your web pages or newsletters, this site will help you a great deal “visualising” it. Based on an email-forward i received, i created a comic strip. Click on the pic for a better-resolution image.

  • Bethann Frillman Photography: Bethann is a professional black-and-white children’s photographer. She is the wife of a former Bitsian Subodh Karnik. I came across this link from the latest BITSAA (BITS Alumni Association) Summer 2007 edition of Sandpaper Magazine. The photos are amazing and i have saved many of them into my “inspire” folder hoping that, someday, i shall be able to take photographs like hers.

That’s it for this week. Enjoy Surfing.

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