My perfect umbrella

My perfect umbrella:

Gas powered, spring loaded detachable top, with a sharp tip. Should be moderately usable in case I wanna kill a target 50 mt's away.

Should be able to withstand high pressure air, by which I mean, it should double up as a parachute.

Well, if it's not too much to ask, make it waterproof as well.

Pravin's handbag.

I have a colleague of mine who is thorroughly confused about his sexuality. . Gay/Straight .. Male/Female/Others ;)

Anyhow I wanna rant about his bag.

His handbag has Cream and deodorants, and moisturizer , and lip balm, and lip gloss...

Rubber bands etc.

Ask me how it's different from any Girl's handbag, and i would be speechless.

Wondering if it has tampons or Sanitary Pads too !!!!

Stand up urinals are NOT indian.

How the hell is one supposed to pee whilst wearing 'Ethinic' Kurta pajamas ?

My ambitions

My manager Manish once asked me to perform this 'Powerful' excercise, where in i list my ambitions - as in what I wanted to be when i was 0-5 years, 5-10, 10-15 , 15-20 and 20-24 year old.

Well, here i go:

0-5 year old

Scientist, Racecar Driver, Doctor (probably a gynae .. eeew), i also wanted to be a superman.

5-10 year old

Scientist, wanted to be 9 years old for some technical reasons- achieved this one !, a Wrestler, F1 racecar driver, wanted something to do with computers- I loved logo !

10-15 year old

Businessman:with a computer related business , a man manager, a corporate, My own company, a marketing business.

15-20 year old

Businessman, Portfolio Fund Manager, a Venture capitalist, a consultant to a marketing business, A Brand consultant

20-24 year old

-maybe later !

will keep updating the list as i can think of more.

Broke that !

I promise to rant more !`

those sucky things are meant to be broken anyway !

Sucky things

Of all the things that suck , ... does the most .

RHEL sucks !

RHEL Linux sucks !
And now , that's official. have been trying the get the damned thing to obtain an IP for the last 5 hours !
DamnIT !

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

Microsoft announced it will be releasing a new edition of its operating software, called Windows 7, while Apple is working on its new OS X Snow Leopard. How will they stack up against each other?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Thanks XKCD.

This set of pie chart diagrams brought me to my old days of TNMT. Thought it as worth posting !

:)

Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The 342 million dollar-Kizuna will allow super-high speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world, the agency said.
That rate would translate to 150 times that of the average high-speed ADSL connection rate of 8 Mbps, or 12 times the speed of a fibre-optic communication delivery to a person's premises (FTTP).
Here’s the Link: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hX8lBEBzBIjvve9l9INca7yhM0Qw







Holy cow ! 1.2 Gbps. Sure, it's gonna be expensive, but i'm ready to give away a pound of my own flesh for that !

Random Musings

Lost some cash while trading RNRL on the BSE yesterday, only to realize that about 5 minutes of patience would have been sufficient to bring the trade into the green.
Lack of sleep (movies) coupled with a tight delivery schedule at office just crabbed my day.
Saw Notting Hill for the first time, liked it.This is an awkward acceptance since I normally would be tormented at the thought of sitting through a Romantic Flick.
Heard Better: Chinese Democracy (GNR) about half a dozen time during evening.
I've been slacking at work for the last few days. Have to sit till late to cover my rear.
Hope it's a brighter day tomorow.

Here in my car !

I woke up with an old song in my head ... Cars by Gary Numan.
it goes something like this :
here in my car - I feel the safest of all....

I first heard this song during the days of my Celeron 533 mhz monster while playing Test Drive 5. Fell instantly in love with it. And it slipped out of my conscience years ago.

Little did I know that about three quarter of a dozen years later ....
Here in my car, I feel the safest of all.
I can lock all my doors, It's the only way to live
In cars .... :)

Tormented my friend Satish with my version of cars while riding to the office in the morning .. not too sure if he got the lyrics right .
Anyway, I still have the song pulsating in my head.
Goodnight !

Catch me if you can

Just an update to the previous entry:

- Proof collection for taxes ( Initiated)
.- Get a study table. (maybe next week)
- Use the study table for obvious purposes. (next to next week)
- Enrol for a certification. (next to next week)
- Get a haircut..cuz i terribly need one (maybe next week)
- Get my demat and finances straightened out... Tomorrow . !!
- Start posting on my blog, which apparently I just did! -And Continuing.

I finished watching “Catch me if you can”. An amazing movie, where one can just hope for a happy ending!! I wikied some info on the real life Frank Abagnale (The . Was amazed at the man , This guy is a One Man Thriller ! Try reading that.

I might start posting again

For all the avid followers of my posts , which makes 1 if you count me in; Cheers, I might start posting again. Since I'm too sick of my lazy attitude. Here'e the first thing that comes to my mind right now.

Reminder to me :

- Proof collection for taxes.
- Get a study table.
- Use the study table for obvious purposes.
- Enrol for a certification.
- Get a haircut..cuz i terribly need one .. Today is another weekend gone by.
- Get my demat and finances straightened out... Like all cheap things in life, Reliance Money Demat stinks. !! Don't bug me for too many reasons... for starter: Slow service, Unauthorised transactions .
- Start posting on my blog, which apparently I just did!

N80 first review - Audio !

Like I said, I’ll be back with a first hand review of the N80.

It’s got a great mp3 quality. A pretty good interface, great on mid-tones. No screechy treble. The bass is just right and the default headphones that come packed with the N80 are pretty good too. This is how I rate it to the other mp3 players in the market

Creative Zen V – 95/100

N80 – 85/100

iPod Nano – 85/100

N73 – 80/100

N91- 70/100 (the treble is screechy)

N72/70 – 60/100

The only downside I would say is the lack of a standard 3.5mm jack on the phone. That's sad.

You can always buy an adapter for fitting in your standard audio headphones though, but those too don't come with the standard box package.

mp3 quality on the phone (as in Loud mode) is averagely loud, but i'm not a fan of playing Music out on loud mode. N80 comes with a 128 MB Mini SD memory card, but anything under 1GB is too less if you ever plan to listening music on this one.

Quote of the Day !

N80 :) Finally !!

After three long years, I have changed my phone.  Here are the specifications for both the phones.
I’ll post a first hand review, as soon as I develop an opinion on the N80.

 

 

Manufacture	Nokia	Nokia
Model	7650	N80
Website	Website	Website
Form factor	Block	Slider
Networks	900/1800	850/900/1800/1900
HSCSD	Yes	No
GPRS	Yes	Yes
EDGE	No	Yes
UMTS	No	Yes
WLAN	No	Yes  Wi-Fi 802.11g
Weight	154	133
Height	114	95
Width	56	50
Depth	26	23
Battery	Li-Ion 750 mAh	Li-Ion 820 mAh
Standbytime (h)	230	200
Talktime (m)	240	190
IrDA	Yes	Yes
SMS	Yes	Yes
Email	Yes	Yes
MMS	Yes	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes	Yes
Java	Yes	Yes
FM Radio	No	Yes
Camera	Yes	Yes
Camera resolution	VGA	3 Megapixels (2048x1536) 20x digital zoom
Camera Flash/Light	No	Yes
Video recording	No	Yes
Colour display	Yes	Yes
Number of colours	4096	262144
Display width	176	352
Display height	208	416
Memory	NA	40 MB
Ringtones	Polyphonic	Polyphonic truetones
MP3	No	Yes
Games	NA	NA
Calendar	Yes	Yes
Voicedialing	Yes	NA
Predictive text	Yes	Yes
WAP version	1.2.1	2.0 XHTML
Voicememo	Yes	NA
Synchronization	Yes	Yes
SyncML	No	NA
Touchscreen	No	No

 

Machine & Machine

Machine and Machine .. This is where I spend the better part of my day. Office Cabin.
Ahh life !! .. now only if they let me install NFS !

The nizam visits Golconda

These are some of the photographs of Golconda Fort, Hyderabad.
well, not clearly visible are the details of the ruins of the fort... the world isn't any different now.
Anyway, i hate historical buildings, especially the ones in ruins ,and would continue to do so.
So, that's all for now .
more , later.