Happy New Year

Here is wishing everyone a happy, purposeful and prosperous New Year 2011.

As you might already know, Google is working on a laptop called Chrome Notebook.

Here is a video about the some features of the Chrome notebook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo&feature=player_embedded

But this post is about the marketing of the notebook !!! Check out what happens at 2:23 in the video.

You can see a few equations in the video.

One guy took an interest to really solve those equations and win the google laptop.

The puzzle is a mensa level puzzle and when you see the answer by this guy, you will realize the heights of human curiousity and the craze for google products.

See the solution to the puzzle here :-

http://www.sylvainzimmer.com/2010/12/10/first-to-decode-the-chrome-os-video-equation-won-a-cr-48/

weekend was memorable ... Met our good old zeedy and even richie is in town...let us all sync up and meet somewhere!

the other day (sunday), was a non happening pensive mood day....But still relaxing. I have to catch the "Super" movie. Wanted to check out Tees Maar Khan but was discouraged by the reviews ....

Let us see how the work load is ;-)

Feel much more comfortable in my little blog than any other part of the web.

Work is supposed to start : There are 4 or 5 people sitting on the top of my head regarding CQI 0 (I am supposed to reply to that guy) and the other chinese over enthusiastic guy whose email always has a hehe or haha...dunno wtf to do with that guy.

What rains yday. Came home drenched after almost riding the activa into ditch for getting that invaluable piece of road to move forward in the crowd.

Life goes On - Mid December is here : General LUL. Nothing is more boring than starting a workday with a lackadaisical groan.

My Outlook reminder box pops up to remind me that I am forgetful and there is a team meeting in the canteen.

Ok off to the canteen with a cup of coffee

Bang and Boom

What would happen if a Mills and Boon lady meets a Cowboy ?

It would sound like this song : Bang Bang the song which was played in the movie Kill Bill 's opening credits. The way she says "Bang" has no Bang at all ....

One more song like this is Boom Boom song : the lady singer says Boom with no Boom.

I remembered this song after seeing the name of a Chinese guy here :- Bang Wang . Seriously the names are the exact stereotype you have ...There is a Jing Jing Tong as well

This is really bad. The US Airport Security check procedure is so tedious and the I personally feel that the officials tend to misuse their power.

India needs to do the same .... Strip search the bloody US diplomats at Airports. Let them howl or cry.

When Obama came down to India, it seems that Indian Ministers had to show their Pan cards and ID Cards to get an entry, at the Taj Hotel for some Bangquet party!

Indian ministers in India and in Mumbai - to show their full credentials and be quizzed by US security officers.

And most of them did show their ID cards to the US security officers. Some of the ministers at least boycotted in a dignified way... It may seem perfectly logical to some people on the msg boards , but somehow we should retaliate/ react in a strong way for this.

wikileaks

Consider this problem :-

Alice has documents D1, D2, D3,...., Dn which are leaked to the web and now Alice faces a major problem. Now how can she mitigate the effect of leak ?

Here is a "Confusing" answer

Read this article about Wikileaks at Godel's lost letter blog.

milking the cow

it doesn't matter who you are in politicis.. BSY, HDK, DG, AK, SMK, Reddy bro etc etc.. there is just one motive.. Milk the cow as much as possible.. the others oppose the loot as they fall behind.. and then one gets overthrown by the other.. and enters a new person with better milking technique.. by this time the herd would have expanded.. in the past two decades Karnataka politics hasnt seen much change and there is no hope for change ...

its freaking depressing reading a national newspaper.. on one side you have A.Raja and the PM and the other side you have BSY...

Ad free Wiki world

Wikipedia needs around $20 million to continue without Ads. If you believe that this is the right way then read this and contribute accordingly.

If you believe Economic theory should prevail then ignore this Post

tech..

following on Sudeep's comment.. if you visit NY times, technology section.. its all about apps and gadgets.. meaning US is no more into other technologies..

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

Weekend Chennai tales

Had been to Chennai on the Diwali weekend. Train travel after a long time and this time with my daughter...She gets hyper on train : Initially she is hyper active , then after some time hyper bored and hyper crying. But interesting train journey.

Chennai has some typical things : The men wear the sparkling white Dhotis and lungies and ride on two wheelers: Something not seen much in Bangalore; The white shirts have a blue tinge because of Robin blue drops added to the detergent soap water....and then the moustaches and the distinct chennai way of saying "saar" ... Enjoyed all this and more. What sambaar in the hotels, yaar! They use tamarind and the right amount of huli pudi...Never get that in Bangalore.

I used to like one Illayaraja song when I was in Chennai the last time when I was in Chennai way back in 1996-1997 timeframe and my uncle was doing his mtech. Was remembering that song and humming it all the while....

I am no web expert, but now it looks really obvious :

If you have the web site traffic, you are literally the superman. Content can gradually evolve.

Bring in the people :Then applications can evolve

"If people do search within Facebook, if they do email within Facebook, if they do instant messaging within Facebook, all of these will chip away at Google's properties."

Google bars Facebook from accessing contacts and other data. Good move, from a rivalry point of view. But Social Network comes with an expiry tag unless you try to bring in some really useful applications apart from sharing photos, videos.

Social Networking websites are a necessary evil. Anyway let us see what happens. Seriously, people can invest time on something more valuable - I know it sounds cliched , but that truly is the case.

Playbook..

Looks like Blackberry has got it finally...
check this out
It looks awesome.. probably time to get into RIM stock (up 6% after the demo) and short AAPL ??
BB is FLASHing too much about Adobe .. thats the downside.. (a dig at Mr.Jobs who seems to be proud of his non-FLASHY 10" Pad compared to a FLASHY 7" tablet)

Cloudy Morning

I just could not stomach the fact of going to office today. Felt groggy and couch potatoey. Ate some roasted peas and I started to blog. Yesterday I listened to a famous song which I had heard of. Apt song for the moment.

Ain't no Sunshine by Bill Withers.

The drummer looks drugged and that's called true style. He is stoned and he is enjoying himself.

I happened to get a copy of the 100 day movie "Krishna'n Love Story". The promos look very peppy and happy. The movie promos these days focus on color and pretty faces and this 100 day curiosity made me watch this movie.

Pretty heavy and depressing Love story : That's what it is. The love story moves beyond this dating, coffee day scenes and the heroine has put up an impressive performance; Reminded me of a piece of Kalpana's histrionics in Sharapanjara....

These south indian directors have an unofficial PhD when it comes to Love Stories.

Italian Song

I found this remix of a song called Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano. The video is hilarious...The singers seem to be so happy and enthu. Uplifting :-)

The original is on a different level, much better and even more entertaining ! Highly recommended

Renato Carosone - Tu Vuò Fa' L'Americano

Seems that this is NOT italian but some language spoken Naples, Italy. I imagine Don Corleone dancing for this song.

CWG and Cricket

Was it right to have a cricket series amidst the CWG ??

Cant the cricketers stay away from a little limelight and give other sports some chance ??

The sports markets aren't perfect yet.. so it needs some support someway..

Political Drama

whats happening in namma naadu.. karu naadu ??

another drama??

every year there is some dissidence, some coup, some no-confidence motion..etc etc ..

the only thing that is stable and growing is the corruption level.... and the business in the resorts of the neighboring states

idu copy !!!!

Identify the copy .... from the original ...

Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

Finally I finished reading this magnificient book.

Here is a review of the book - Freedom at Midnight - Review