tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103196862024-03-06T02:28:28.007+05:30alex nazy's blogThere are some things I need to say...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-43391130632850897762013-11-17T12:54:00.001+05:302013-11-17T19:44:49.966+05:30Thor 2 - The Dark World - Some Thoughts
I watched Thor 2 - The Dark World and thought the movie was a good sequel and was even better than the first movie.
But there were some things that bothered me in the movie.
SPOILER ALERT!!! Do not read beyond this point if you haven't watched the movie and don't want to know the plot in the movie.
In Avengers, all the superheroes (Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawk EyeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-58116352630931667332013-11-05T19:35:00.003+05:302013-11-05T19:39:08.669+05:30Captain Phillips - A Movie Experience
I am going to accept it right away... Captain Phillips is an awesome movie. It is one of the finest movie experiences I have had.
I haven't blogged for a long time. And watching Captain Phillips is changing that status for me.
My cousins work in the shipping industry and travel a lot in ships. I have seen many of their photos and videos and the movie was an extension of it. My entire familyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-18748267396906749582011-08-01T01:01:00.003+05:302011-08-01T01:15:37.329+05:3025 Android Phones Compared
My friends are finally adapting to Android mobile phones and are constantly asking me for suggestions.
As a result of the constant phone calls and emails, and numerous hours I spent on the internet searching for Android options by various phone manufacturers, here is a comparison of 25 Android mobile phones that cost below Rs.25000.
I am happy that I have already helped 5 people using this Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-80940897438372004252011-07-24T11:28:00.001+05:302011-12-13T09:41:29.894+05:30Deiva Thirumagal: Remake - A false accusation
After watching the Tamil movie - "Deiva Thirumagal" I wrote in my social network pages as below...
"Deiva Thirumagal (Tamil: தெய்வத்திருமகள், English: Holy Daughter of God) can be described in one word - "BEAUTIFUL"..."
But then my friends were displeased with my comment and said that I have to see the English movie "I am Sam", as Deiva Thirumagal is a remake of I am Sam and that I am Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1311567681510853242011-03-23T00:32:00.002+05:302011-03-23T00:38:01.004+05:30Airtel 3G Tariff PlansIn a recent conversation with an Airtel customer care executive (a knowledgeable one in a long time), I found these tariff charges for Airtel 3G. Please note that this is for Bangalore, India - though there is no big change in tariff between cities.
To check for balance data usage and validity: *123*11#
Recharge for: Rs.103Free Data usage: 100MBValidity: 30 days
Recharge for: Rs.200
Free Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-69304358711551119312011-03-18T20:10:00.003+05:302011-03-23T00:39:49.675+05:30How to give back to the online community?We always like to be in the receiving end of things. It is easier to take than to give.
But they both go hand in hand. Without someone giving, there will be no taking.
Whatever small thing that you know (no matter how insignificant to you) would be so precious and hard to find for someone else. For example something that you figure out on yourself. So just give out the information to this world Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689806544314989906noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-58862728369913859122011-03-04T01:12:00.008+05:302011-03-11T19:09:12.338+05:30Why I wanted to move my Blog from Blogger to Wordpress and Why I didn't
There is a lot of debate over which online blogging platform is best. This question can be much easily answered if it is slightly altered - "Which blogging platform is best for me?" - Wordpress vs Blogger, Blogger vs Posterous, etc.
Yes. I asked this question to myself and here I am writing a post about it.
To start with, I have not written anything on my blog for so long. So I needed to start Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-66216976812332760482007-06-22T18:31:00.001+05:302011-03-10T12:56:07.107+05:30Happy Happiest Day !!!You read that right...Today is the Happiest day of the year 2007 according to the research conducted by Dr Cliff Arnall, a researcher at the University of Cardiff in the United Kingdom. He arrived at this using a formula.On personal experience today was a Happy Day for me :-), but that may vary for you. Hope it does not.Dr Cliff Arnall had also calculated the most depressing day of the year whichUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-64945340844735185852007-02-04T14:56:00.002+05:302011-03-10T12:57:11.012+05:30Boeing is the best seller for 2006Airbus and Boeing are the largest sellers of aircrafts in the world and their annual order numbers are a comparison worth watching.Boeing has reported that the net orders for the last year is 1044 (1050 gross) making it the top seller of Airplanes for the year 2006.This is the second year that the company is holding the record for. In the year 2005 it had net orders for 1002 (1029 gross).Airbus Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1166948447564684022006-12-24T13:50:00.004+05:302011-03-10T12:58:22.333+05:30Stealth Fighter F-35 Lighting II takes to the skyThe fifth generation fighter F-35 (aka JSF) has successfully finished its first flight on 15th Dec 2006.It houses the most powerful engine (Pratt & Whitney F135) ever used in a jet fighter - producing 40,000 pounds (177.9289 kN) of thrust.The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is the most important fighter plane that the USAF (United States Air Force) plans to implement on its fleet. However its not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1161676193574409072006-10-24T13:18:00.002+05:302011-03-10T13:02:07.319+05:30Supersonic Private JetsThe wired.com portal has an interesting collection of news from the Aerospace Supersonic International...The news is about the Supersonic Private Jets coming up in the near future.Here is an excerpt from the blog for getting you inspired."A new generation of private jets could trigger a boom in luxury supersonic flight - without a sonic boom. Flying at up to Mach 1.8 these luxury private jets Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1156946646507515852006-08-30T19:34:00.002+05:302011-03-10T13:03:23.881+05:30Interesting TheftThis is somewhat interesting but actually we should feel sorry for the person who is affected by this...A person named Ben has lost his cell phone and the person who took that cell phone had taken it to his place and clicked some pictures.Ben has synchronised his phone with flickr through the shozu service, so the photos taken via the cell phone has been delivered to Ben's Photostream in flickr. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1155648294436911882006-08-15T18:48:00.001+05:302011-03-10T13:04:14.954+05:30Proud India in a space journey with ISROHappy Independence Day 2006 to all Indians. This is India's 59th Independence day...Scott Carney of wired.com has written an article about his visit to the Indian Space Research Organisation and his reviews are wonderful and add to the already existing pride - of me being an INDIAN.I have added some excerpts from the portal. Please take some time and read the full article and don't neglect."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1155138187918276402006-08-09T21:11:00.000+05:302006-08-09T21:13:08.673+05:30Happy Birthday WWWThe world wide web celebrated its 15th birthday on the 6th August 2006.On this day in the year 1991, Tim Berners Lee came up with a program to link to, and browse the web. The internet came into existence much earlier but his software aimed to allow links to be made to any information anywhere.At this occasion let us look at some of the milestones of the WWW.6 Aug 1991 - Tim Berners Lee found theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1154271582790378472006-07-30T20:05:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:19:39.364+05:30Is your humour Masculine or FeminineA research test was conducted by the scientists in which cartoons were shown to a group of men and women and their brains were put into scan.
These are the results...
In general women were skeptical and didn't expect the cartoons to be funny, when they did laugh they were surprised.
Men on the other hand expected to be amused by the cartoons, when they weren't they experienced disappointment.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1143480815600515182006-03-27T23:03:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:20:31.969+05:30Once astronaut's spacesuit... Now a satelliteThis is peculiar news. The used up spacesuits of the International space station are being used as satellites and they are now in orbit.
The spacesuit is the satellite -- "SuitSat" for short.
The Russians were the ones to get this idea spark in their heads.
"We've equipped a Russian Orlan spacesuit with three batteries, a radio transmitter, and internal sensors to measure temperature and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1143310247671613982006-03-25T23:33:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:21:38.768+05:30How many emails are sent each day?Ever thought about this question?
This is what the experts in yahoo have to say:
Email is second only to the telephone in terms of the number of worldwide users, but it's nearly impossible to figure exactly how many emails are sent each day.
VeriSign (the exclusive registry for .com and .net domains) estimates that there are about 2.25 billion email queries per day. However, because of cachingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1143130776877587022006-03-23T21:49:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:22:40.411+05:30And the Important tools would be...What do you think is the most important tool you use... Cell phone, pen or maybe the watch.
Forbes.com has come up with a list of 20 of the most important tools ever.
The top five in the list are as follows...
1 - The Knife
2 - The Abacus
3 - The Compass
4 - The Pencil
5 - The Harness
See in the link below the rest of the list.
Keep your fingers crossed for the most important tool of your's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1143043763657424082006-03-22T21:39:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:41:26.720+05:30Will Jet Airways and Air Sahara become one?For those of you unfamiliar with the happenings in the Indian aviation sector, here is something.
The two of the major private airways in India, Jet airways and Air Sahara are becoming one and have come to an agreement for a sum of Rs.2300 crore. In this agreement Air Sahara is coming under the Jet airways.
But the news is that the deal maybe under threat due to the pending clearance from the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142700087313028182006-03-18T21:43:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:42:55.519+05:30Airbus A350 + BMW - Airliner interiors redefinedThe Boeing and Airbus are two of the biggest airliner manufacturers and they are each other's competitor. The Aircraft Interiors Expo 2006 exhibition is to be held next month and Airbus has a jaw dropper with the A350. This is the Airbus's answer to the Boeing 787.
Already the A380 interiors are spacious and extravagant, unlike any other airliner and now the Airbus company has another feather toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142523018074008712006-03-16T20:50:00.002+05:302011-03-02T14:44:07.519+05:30Air India and Indian Airlines combineIndia's state owned airlines - Air India and Indian (Recently changed from Indian Airlines) are to become one soon.
The two airlines are big in their own ways and both offer international flights to various destinations around the globe. Though Air India owns the jumbos, Indian is a good source of revenue to the state.
Proposals were made to merge both airlines and it is likely to take place Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142520978961195392006-03-16T20:12:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:45:36.710+05:30Watch TV on the internetTime Warner's America Online (AOL) has launched a internet TV service called In2TV Channel.
Currently it showcases the classic Warner Brothers TV shows.
The good news is that the shows are free online (aol.com). The channel is advertisement supported like the google services and many of the offerings by the biggies in the internet.
At present 30 shows are being showed and soon many are to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142439415037865332006-03-15T21:24:00.002+05:302011-03-02T14:48:13.870+05:30Ravi Varma - The unique Indian artistI did not know much about Raja Ravi Varma except, that he was a artist and that he was famous among artists until I recently read this article in Reader's Digest.
An excerpt from the article:
NO OTHER Indian artist blazed as many trails as Raja Ravi Varma. He was the first Indian to master perspective, the first to use human models to depict Hindu gods and goddesses, the first to make his work Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142182047330201822006-03-12T22:17:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:52:02.082+05:30Calcoolate in the webMathematical Calculations are part of our everyday life.
Calculating in the internet has become easy with the help of the search engines like google and yahoo giving out answers for the numbers and operators input into the search box.
Now a new web portal calcoolate.com has been launched with the AJAX functionality that makes it faster than google or yahoo calculations.
Moreover its got a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10319686.post-1142090819657740502006-03-11T20:25:00.001+05:302011-03-02T14:55:17.170+05:3016 Gigs of data in a pen driveNowadays the floppy drives are out, CD's are soon to follow. The in thing is the external hard disk drives, and the flash drives are the most preferred - making fashion statements and compactable.
Iocell, a Korean company has created a flash drive that can be used to save 16 Giga Bytes of digital data.
The company has been producing its range of USB drives under the name "Celldisk" and the 16GBUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0