tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64907231478171955812024-03-13T07:53:13.312-07:00Magical World<b>Calvin: It's a magical world Hobbes ol' buddy...Let's go exploring!</b> <a title="Calvin And Hobbes Says Goodbye To the World!" href="http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/calvin/">(Calvin And Hobbes - 31,Dec 1995)</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-67812188580661023262009-03-03T21:55:00.000-08:002010-08-21T19:22:36.543-07:00Landing In Minneapolis<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link style="font-family: times new roman;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cankur%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: times new roman;" rel="themeData" 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mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This is a small poem (and almost a childish one) I wrote sometime back. It describes the night view of the city of Minneapolis as I saw from an airplane. Each stanza has two lines and in each stanza the first line describes a scene of flight and the second is about the city of Minneapolis. The words in small braces are mentioned for the sake of grammatical completeness.
<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Landing in Minneapolis</span>
<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">As the plane passed on the black slate,
<br />There she was, the city, the city of lakes.
<br />
<br />Many a cars, through the window I could see
<br />Like the fireflies, dancing blinking and free.
<br />
<br />And gently then she turned her face
<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">(I saw)</span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mississippi, her connections and all her necklace
<br />
<br />Finally she started to pace down
<br />(I saw) A TV tower and a blazing down-town
<br />
<br />A hug, a kiss and she embraced me in her arms
<br />There was I, at a place so tranquil and calm.
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<br /></span></p> Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-67904470789952866682009-01-09T03:43:00.000-08:002009-01-09T04:53:12.340-08:00My Satyam ConnectionSeriously, no one really thought in their ugliest of the nightmares that Satyam Computers would turn out to be a black sheep of the Indian IT industry. And no one knows what lies at the end of this abyss?<br /><br />As such on the facade of things I really have nothing to do with Satyam and their is practically no reason for me to write this blog, but somehow I remembered of an incident, which though fairly insignificant, could have changed a lot of things in my life by now!<br /><br />It was the summer of 2004, when Nishant and I after completing our U-grad managed to get a face saving intership at a government organisation. We thank them for this oppurtunity, but seriously we wanted to be out of that mess. We were still in close touch with our deparment and had a constant vigil on an almost parched on-campus recruitment process. That's when Satyam computers, by some heavenly grace, turned up to our college and we thought, well that's it! This is our golden ticket to the outside world.<br /><br />Almost instantly when we came to know about this news, we contacted our HoD, a real gentlemen by nature and a man with a very level head, for his permission to sit in for the interview process. To our dismay, he quite blatantly asked us not to sit for this, as we were already placed! We tried our best to convince him, but all was seriously in vain. We both eventually ended sitting in the canteen and cursing our fate over a cup of chai. Phew! That was a tough day and I still remember that.<br /><br />The rest, of course, as always said is history that most of you are aware of. But, I am remembered of a the following line, which I saw somewhere:<br />"Life can only be understood looking back, but it can only be lived looking forward".Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-20532269717908815512008-12-01T17:19:00.000-08:002008-12-01T17:22:34.912-08:00Aur karvan phir bhi chalta raha....This is what happened in Mumbai:<br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/mumbai_under_attack.html">http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/mumbai_under_attack.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/mumbai_after_the_smoke_has_cle.html">http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/mumbai_after_the_smoke_has_cle.html</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-20817771524548474012008-10-15T18:20:00.000-07:002008-10-15T18:50:24.841-07:00What is freedom?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vd8rMCCa_2M&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vd8rMCCa_2M&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-37065982651975601082008-09-09T20:13:00.000-07:002008-09-11T07:54:22.818-07:00Has LHC Destroyed Earth?Well now that everyone is talking about the end of world, end of our civilization, end to human existence that too by a machine that has some fictional capability of creating black holes that will engulf the entire planet!<br /><br />I really pity the fate of poor <a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html">LHC</a>...perhaps "The" most advanced system on the planet...is actually doubted to be a "genocide" machine!<br /><br />Call it a machine that will unravel gods mind, but at the end of the day the machine is out there to find what physicist call "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson">Higgs Boson</a>"<br /><br />And yes for all those people who feel that this machine will destroy the planet earth....well here is a web link that tells you the <a href="http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/">status of earth</a><br /><br />And for those souls who actually want to see the original LHC, <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/754636.jpg">Click Here</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-57021293830876203682008-08-09T11:53:00.000-07:002008-08-09T13:15:47.486-07:00The unholy morning<p class="MsoNormal">Beep…Beep…Beeeeeeeeep….[my alarm ]</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He says [to alarm]: “Shut up its Saturday…”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He says [to me]:<span style=""> </span>“You shouldn’t be getting up early today…dude there is absolutely no motivation for you to get up…the earliest you will get some good food in the day is in the evening…go back to sleep!” </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me: Well so I take his advice and go back to sleep.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He [after 30 min of loneliness]: “Get up you idiot, get up you are supposed to be with her… in her room next door….don’t you remember deciding this yesterday evening…you have already stalled the meeting….you were supposed to be with her in her room last night….but you got lazy…I can’t believe how can someone be lazy for such a thing…”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me [to him]: “Shut up…f***off…let me sleep”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He [quite angry this time]: “Dude this is your last chance of doing this thing before the fall semester begins…and you know there are NO weekends in grad school…Listen up buddy tomorrow you are busy all day…and then what you have is one long work drowning week…and you have already blocked your next weekend’s…get up bro…you can do this!”.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me: “Yeah[half asleep]….[lazily getting up]”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He: “Dude you may want to take of your clothes right now…so that you can expedite the process.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me:”Okay…[almost brain dead]”.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He: “Hey stop…stop…not the shorts you idiot…the room is next door…you don’t want to be seen by someone like that…”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me[quite pissed off]: “What the heck!...okay…”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He:”And don’t forget [interrupted]”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me:”the bag…I know…I know it’s the key thing...how can you even think of me going there without this bag?”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He[apologetic]: “I am sorry…I just thought of assisting you!”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me [still pissed off and almost awake]: “Thank you…thanks a lot…”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Me: “Can’t believe I have to even pay her!”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He: “You always paid her…come on dude she is not that expensive….venki pays a lot more than you do…cheer up buddy…she is all yours this morning”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Okay…So here I stand at 8 on this Saturday morning…with bag full of dirty clothes in one hand and few quarters in the other in front of the laundry room next door. </p>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-89982852531043712872008-06-19T06:50:00.000-07:002008-06-19T07:06:00.731-07:00Chocolate DonutWhen you start capturing math in your food (well yeah the food that you are eating), probably it's signal that you should take a break for a while!<br /><br />I am eating a chocolate donut right now and really can't stop myself from visualizing all kind of non-planar graphs that could be easily be represented in almost planar fashion on the surface of the donut. Well as such the concept not at all new, but mathematicians used much more elegant objects or rather names, which in this case is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus">Torus</a>. I guess doing math on poor piece of donut is sinful. And to extend my perverted sinful nature, I am wondering right now are there any special properties that vertically bisected donut will have as compared to a complete donut?<br /><br />Huh! I should rather complete my donut and get back to work.Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-21079683988246140452008-06-17T18:00:00.000-07:002008-06-17T18:03:22.778-07:00Watching A Cloud Die.<div style="text-align: justify;">As I lie on my bed on a listless Sunday mornings in Minneapolis and thinking about absolutely nothing, I see a small piece of cloud on the face of the clear blue sky, a part of which I can see through my glass window. The cloud seems to be moving west perhaps all alone, but quite slowly as if it is in no hurry to reach its destination.<br /><br />As it moves slowly across my view through the window, I start to notice its edges that keep on fading with time and the more I notice, the more I see the dynamic nature of the cloud. Now, no longer to me cloud appears to be a tranquil adult, but appears to be a playful child, who is fascinated with all the space that is out there. The cloud still keeps on moving!<br /><br />I wonder, how qualified my thought process is! Or may be it's a common human tendency to personify things. I guess it's more of human nature, then my idiosyncrasy, we see life in everything. Probably, this is stemmed in the fact or rather our belief that anything that is born should die. We, the bed, the chair, the car, civilization, nations, planets, galaxies and universe, everyone took birth one day, both in realistic and figurative sense, and all will die! All of them should come to an end.<br /><br />And so will this cloud, that I see outside my glass window. Probably, it has already started to disappear in the nothingness of the blue sky, returning to the place from where it originated. I can see edges dithering out and disappearing into the blue background, making the size of the cloud smaller and smaller every second. And as the cloud moves slowly and pass through my view it has shrunk to a smaller size and probably in next some minutes will disappear and will not exist.</div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-21002539406759852972008-06-12T19:40:00.001-07:002008-06-12T19:52:20.239-07:00Dude! Give me a breakI have been thinking a lot about "Art" and it's role in the human civilization and somehow I just get a feel that it's a very foolish attempt to find meanings in things that are inherently contradictory or meaning less. I really at times get so much frustrated, that I feel like saying "Dude! Give me a break".<br />But then as I type this passage and to this extent I realize that I have fairly, tersely and satisfactorily criticized "Art", I really can't stop myself from appreciating the very fact that it's a very good piece of work or to my sudden depressing surprise that this itself is a piece of "Art". And as you can see the criticism actually extends to ad infinitum.Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-27755642474850458442008-06-07T19:43:00.000-07:002008-10-15T18:43:59.881-07:00Random ThoughtsWhat a blind saw<br /> and the deaf heard<br />Is a just a matter of surmise<br /><br />Conjectures lead to discoveries<br /> Undiscovered is what left<br /><br />A sudden flap of the wings<br />And the time changes<br /> the song it sings<br /><br />the buried stay<br /> where they are<br />the imaginative<br /> make the way to far<br /><br />strangled in the thoughts<br /> of the known<br />fighting the quick sand<br /> and possibly die unknown<this></this>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-74086945162318694582008-05-07T13:23:00.000-07:002008-05-07T13:30:00.826-07:00Postiviely Bad, but negatively goodSomething that reminded me of what happened more than two decades back in Bhagalpur:<br /><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Villagers_pour_acid_into_mans_eyes/articleshow/3019795.cms">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Villagers_pour_acid_into_mans_eyes/articleshow/3019795.cms</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-62758740674876196002008-03-11T20:45:00.000-07:002008-03-11T20:46:42.237-07:00Life Goes On..."So long, Jimmy, so long, Jimmy.<br />Though you only stayed a moment,<br />We all know that you're the one. Singing."Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-1471997409237810192008-03-06T12:31:00.000-08:002008-03-06T18:42:35.899-08:00Cross Winds! - The Hamburg FiascoI get fascinated when I see pilots touching down their planes in strong cross winds. It's the most elegant example for the application of vector algebra...but the cross wind landing at Hamburg airport was hard pill to swallow....the pilot almost screwed it up...Take a look all by yourself:<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JCMTVPjKBXI"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JCMTVPjKBXI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br />I would also recommend you to have a look at the following blog, its an interesting read:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/03/03/hamburg-wing-strike-pilot-a-hero-or-lacking-technique/">http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/03/03/hamburg-wing-strike-pilot-a-hero-or-lacking-technique/</a><br /><br />For those who are wondering what happened eventually:<br />It was the co-pilot [the less experienced dude of course], who had messed this up... later on the captain took the command of the landing process and it was an happy ending!Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-16314898569165998812008-02-14T12:58:00.000-08:002008-02-14T13:03:55.346-08:00Daffodils By William WordsworthThis is one of my all time favorite poems! Really like the loneliness described in the poem.<br /><span style="font-family:sans-serif,Helvetia,Arial;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:sans-serif,Helvetia,Arial;"><b>Daffodils</b></span> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1 && parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4) document.write('<span style="font-size:medium;">'); // --> </script><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"> <pre>I wandered lonely as a cloud<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>That floats on high o'er vales and hills,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>When all at once I saw a crowd,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>A host, of golden daffodils;</pre></span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Beside the lake, beneath the trees,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Continuous as the stars that shine<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>And twinkle on the milky way,</pre></span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>They stretched in never-ending line<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Along the margin of a bay:<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Ten thousand saw I at a glance,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.</pre></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>The waves beside them danced; but they<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>A poet could not but be gay,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>In such a jocund company:</pre></span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>I gazed--and gazed--but little thought<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>What wealth the show to me had brought:<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>For oft, when on my couch I lie<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>In vacant or in pensive mood,</pre></span><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>They flash upon that inward eye<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>Which is the bliss of solitude;<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>And then my heart with pleasure fills,<br /></pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>And dances with the daffodils.</pre></span><span style="font-family:Courier,sans-serif;"><pre>-- <span style="text-decoration: underline;">William Wordsworth</span></pre> </span><br /></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-2238725760331870852007-08-21T16:38:00.000-07:002007-09-25T13:33:13.563-07:00Love At First Byte<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/images/features/knuth_don.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/images/features/knuth_don.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html">A Story Of This Old Man</a><br /></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-74566424991044208452007-07-11T20:35:00.000-07:002007-07-11T20:37:27.063-07:00Exploring The Unknown!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 255);font-size:180%;" >"How The Guitar Goes,<br />In A Song That No One Knows"</span><br /></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-38189513324156687592007-06-01T09:22:00.000-07:002007-06-01T23:41:01.352-07:00The River<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtGnBM6jCarDfIni98vbH4jFLbbyF8vdzDt3R6qPCB4gdoQmuo2wFvOtv0-T9tPHrBZb2OvmaMH0-4QH6IYswsoA-3l9lYUMKiyquWtEyQxx5p72cnroNTbWBgepGPlCxvyIHel3rRzU/s1600-h/Ganges.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhtGnBM6jCarDfIni98vbH4jFLbbyF8vdzDt3R6qPCB4gdoQmuo2wFvOtv0-T9tPHrBZb2OvmaMH0-4QH6IYswsoA-3l9lYUMKiyquWtEyQxx5p72cnroNTbWBgepGPlCxvyIHel3rRzU/s320/Ganges.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071132330587384018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">(River Ganges At Twilight)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">The River</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">And then he asked the last question<br />Where are you going?<br />I don’t know...May be nowhere<br />Or may be in the river finally<br />And be its soul.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p><br />And then there was the silence<br />Everywhere,<br />With darkness engulfing life<br />But then there was the light<br />Seeping through<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">And here I was<br />To start it all again<br />May be to embrace the darkness again<br />May be to flow in the river<br />Again.</p> </div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-42532119819879784412007-05-10T05:28:00.000-07:002007-05-10T06:07:08.817-07:00The Invisible Mind<div style="text-align: center;">My Hands...<br />Clean Slate...<br />And Erase Myself.<br />Long to start it all again<br />And faked myself.<br />All words of one song,<br />Which played in my invisible mind.<br /><br />Heard all day long.<br />With tears in the eyes<br />And with dejected beat<br />Repented all night.<br />Will cry all life.<br />As I believe that song<br />That is still there in my invisible mind.<br /><br />With pounding drums;<br />Strumming guitars;<br />I cry out loud.<br />To betray the pain.<br />What I've done,<br />The song goes.<br />And it still plays in my invisible mind.<br /></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-36820563269410173372007-04-19T08:29:00.000-07:002007-04-19T08:49:23.678-07:00Quantum Theory Fails Reality ChecksA very interesting article on Quantum Theory...Following are some of the paragraphs from the article:-<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The big question always was … whether one can go beyond this probabilistic description," says physicist Markus Aspelmeyer of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. Perhaps Einstein was right that "God does not play dice," and a photon has a true state that is somehow hidden from experiments</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">In other words, Aspelmeyer says, nonlocality is not enough to save realism from quantum theory. "You have to pay a price," he says. In effect, quantum naysayers like Einstein would have to swallow the spider to catch the fly. "I'm still amazed [at the experiment's outcome], I have to say."<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=055C1A23-E7F2-99DF-31B2170DBBCA09A9">Read the entire article on the Scientific American >></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-15236228354206936062007-04-16T10:16:00.000-07:002007-04-16T10:18:26.097-07:00Google >> Search >> AdvertisingI know it's quite over-hackneyed, but today Google has engulfed the concept of search...I have heard people say "Have you googled that on Yahoo?" Amusing but true! So it looks like if it is search, then it has to be Google!<br /><br />But many of you, who are net junkies, would agree that Google is also making itself synonymous to more thing... Any guesses??? Well yes Advertising! Of course, Google is a media company and has its business model around that...but the extent to which they are going is just shocking... Was internet advertising not enough, that they have plunged into <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/agreement-with-clear-channel-radio.html">Radio Advertising</a>!<br /><br />The only thing I wonder is, has Google reached a stagnation in case of Search Technology? Well, apart from some "Powder-Lipstick" changes nothing much has changed on main Google Search...May be I am doing the over-kill... But its only Google who knows the truth!Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-14325425305449404362007-04-12T07:53:00.000-07:002007-04-12T08:05:56.984-07:00Life Is A Highway<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPlaKk3iyDXvXzlC3Yrt7HMcqDWoMRhwzf-QHpfdf9in93p85EKHN0jeOwh6c07IZSDI9MkID2I3blcyyXvLLAXdX9Ni6ebWKo8SyrcLgHouBd7jm622A-3j9EhrONvMZpdrfHoBuUqo/s1600-h/highway.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIPlaKk3iyDXvXzlC3Yrt7HMcqDWoMRhwzf-QHpfdf9in93p85EKHN0jeOwh6c07IZSDI9MkID2I3blcyyXvLLAXdX9Ni6ebWKo8SyrcLgHouBd7jm622A-3j9EhrONvMZpdrfHoBuUqo/s320/highway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052556397036618770" border="0" /></a><br />Life is a highway is the OST of the animation movie CARS. Really cool song...with really great lyrics...well here is the modified poetry of the song:-<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Life's like a road that you travel on<br />When there's one day here and the next day gone<br />Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand<br />Sometimes you turn your back to the wind<br />There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door<br />Where blues won't haunt you anymore<br />Where brave are free and lovers soar<br />Come ride with me to the distant shore<br />We won't hesitate<br />To Break down the garden gate<br />There's not much time left today<br /><br />Through all these cities and all these towns<br />It's in my blood and it's all around<br />I love you now like I loved you then<br />This is the road and these are the hands<br />From Mozambique to those Memphis nights<br />The khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights<br /><br />Knock me down get back up again<br />You're in my blood<br />I'm not a lonely man<br />There's no load I can't hold<br />Road so rough this I know<br />I'll be there when the light comes in<br />Just tell 'em we're survivors<br /><br />There was a distance between you and I<br />A misunderstanding once<br />But now we look it in the eye<br /><br />Life is a highway<br />I wanna ride it all night long<br />If you're going my way<br />I wanna drive it all night long<br /><br /></div>Check out the video at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1JpkR6PbRE">YouTube</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-14520610220781261342007-04-10T03:26:00.000-07:002007-04-10T03:42:43.341-07:00Two Seconds For PeaceLife's strangled in labyrinths of self<br />And every pebble has a story to tell<br /><br />In veins flows the pain<br />"Blood" a writing on the wall<br /><br />A desire to live, is a hope<br />Lost in the conflagrations of inferno<br /><br />What we just need are<br />Two Seconds For PeaceAnkurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-19177985650854843242007-04-08T03:27:00.000-07:002007-04-08T03:32:02.875-07:00The Twenty20 Cricket World CupHere it is guys...the abridged version of the game...The twenty20 Cricket World Cup.<br />The grouping and schedule goes as follows: -<br /><br />Group A: South Africa, West Indies, Bangladesh.<br />Group B: Australia, England, Zimbabwe.<br />Group C: New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Kenya.<br />Group D: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pakistan, India,</span> Scotland. <span style="font-style: italic;">(The Group Of Death)</span><br /><br />Fixtures:<br /><br />September 11: South Africa vs West Indies (Johannesburg)<br />September 12: New Zealand vs Kenya (Durban); Pakistan vs Scotland (Durban); Australia vs Zimbabwe (Cape Town)<br />September 13: West Indies vs Bangladesh (Johannesburg); Zimbabwe vs England (Cape Town); India vs Scotland (Durban)<br />September 14: Sri Lanka vs Kenya (Johannesburg); Australia vs England (Cape Town); India vs Pakistan (Durban)<br />September 15: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand (Johannesburg); South Africa vs Bangladesh (Cape Town)<br /><br />September 16: C1 vs D2 (Johannesburg); B1 vs A2 (Cape Town); A1 vs B2 (Cape Town)<br />September 17: D1 vs C2 (Johannesburg)<br />September 18: C1 vs B2 (Durban); B1 vs D1 (Johannesburg); A2 vs C2 (Johannesburg)<br />September 19: A1 vs C1 (Durban); B2 vs D2 (Durban)<br />September 20: B1 vs C2 (Cape Town); A2 vs D1 (Cape Town); A1 vs D2 (Durban)<br /><br />September 22: Semi-final E2 vs F1 (Cape Town); Semi-final E1 vs F2 (Durban).<br /><br />September 24: Final (Johannesburg).<br /><br /><br />You can have a go at the entire article at <a href="http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Sections/News/India_to_face_Pak_in_Twenty20_WC/articleshow/1835546.cms">Cricket.Indiatimes.com</a>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-54207317597511746612007-04-02T23:37:00.000-07:002007-04-03T00:00:42.612-07:00Stupid Is As Stupid Does!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump">Forrest Gump</a> ...now I remember...thats the movie where I first heard this phrase...well if this happens to be a most common phrase of your vocab...then please pardon my English... It's not my mother tongue!<br />More interestingly this phrase got stuck into my head and over years I kept on wondering about its meaning, until I googled for it today! Some Mr. Tony Lee explains its meaning as:<br /><br />"It means that and intelligent person who does stupid things is still stupid. You are what you do.<br />Another variation is beauty is as beauty does or ugly is as ugly does."<br /><br />So there you go some interesting gyan (hindi word for knowledge) for the day!<br /><br />There are some very interesting reads on this topic over the web. I have shortlisted some of them below... rest you can always google.<br /><br />1) <a href="http://www.forbes.com/careers/2006/02/14/careers-work-employment-cx_sr_0214fire.html">Stupid Is As Stupid Does</a> By Scott Reeves at Forbes.com<br />2) <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese110.html">Stupid Is As Stupid Does</a> By Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com<br />3) <a href="http://newmexiken.com/archives/2007/03/0010689.php">http://newmexiken.com/archives/2007/03/0010689.php</a></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6490723147817195581.post-927073347240857812007-03-25T21:33:00.000-07:002007-03-25T21:41:25.245-07:00Dark Energy<div style="text-align: justify;">Dark Energy, definitely a word that ought to be a part of any sci-fi that deals with cosmos, but I guess that's not enough, a bunch of really great scientists have found it in our universe and believe that it comprises of 70% of the entire universe! Phew! Seventy Percent! Thats way to much of this stuff...but then why can't I see it or feel...Well here are few articles that may answer some these questions:-<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/features/2007/energy/">http://www.utexas.edu/features/2007/energy/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/5/7">http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/5/7</a><br /></div>Ankurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377719127280822592noreply@blogger.com0