Termespheres

Termespheres is the website of an artist who paints from the perspective of watching a scene on a reflective sphere...

Theme Park Maps

This website has Theme Park Maps from different years and different countries. There's one from India as well...

DTH Future

exchange4media has a comment on DTH Future, one thing they seem to have completely forgotten is Digital Cable. Star's Cable venture (albeit through convoluted crossholdings) Hathway, is right now promoting digital cable. The service is being aggressively advertisedon the local cable channels. It uses a set top box and a smart card for access. I have tried to get in touch with the cable operator for this, but he is yet to respond on the timelines.

Sony PlayStation Portable Price Watch

The PSP is actually cheaper in the grey market in India than in America. I walked into Palika Bazaar on Sat. One of the shops was willing to sell the PSP for just 10.5K (unnegotiated) (thats abt 240 US at current rates). He didn’t have any games or else I’d have snapped it up pronto…

From Engadget…

 

You can’t reasonably be expected to wait until March for Sony to release the PlayStation Portable here in the States, can you? You’ll be gouged no matter what you do, but in order to help you out if you really, really need to have one right now, we’ve compiled a list of import stores and their current prices for the PlayStation Portable (though we suggest that you at least wait a few weeks for the hysteria to die down and for Sony to release a few more PSPs into the marketplace). We’ll update this list daily, and if you have know of any particular legitimate vendors not listed here, please let us know so we can include them.

Current list as of December 24, 2004 - 2:00PM EST

This will be our last update to our daily PSP price watch, we may revisit the prices every few weeks or so until the USA launch.

[Engadget]

The Quick and the dead

I had occasion to clash with the author of this blog a few months back... He seems to have had a pet hate for The Times of India and by extension to me. Seems that this gent has now shut shop... I guess i could say I had the last laugh... Ha Ha Ha...

Back to Delhi

I'm heading back to delhi from Dehradun tomorrow after a forced vacation of three weeks.. I had some follow up surgery to be done. Whihc is now through. I only wonder if it was worth it. I guess we will know in a few months time...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Just finished wathcing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It is a completely fab flick. Must watch...

Santa Outsourced

This is priceless... Just give it time. One day not far away...

Blogspot/Blogger webring

The next Blog button you see on top of this blog is clearly a webring. What I figure is that the frequency at which a certain blog appears as part of ring is in someway relate to the number of times you post. i.e. the more you post, the more your chances of turning up in the blogger webring.

 

 

I wonder if this conclusion is correct. Because every time I publish, someone new comes along some minutes later, with a reference of another blogspot site. and this is not a high traffic blog, so it makes u wonder...

 

ipod, HD3 or the PSP

 I missed my chance to import an iPod this week and it seems that it was for the better only... I have two other options...

 

The Sony HD3. It is not only smaller than the iPod, but also with a longer battery life. It plays protected Artrac from the Sony Music Connect stores and mp3's. The Mp3's have a wrapper which prevents you from copying the mp3 files to other computers.

 

The PlayStation Portable. Strictly speaking not a mp3 player, but it looks like such a dream... and at 200 USD it's an absolute steal. I figure I can live with about a 1 gigs worth of music at a time (the memory stick for this is quite expensive though.

 

Will have to wait a bit though... By then Apple would have launched the next slim line of iPods... and that will make things really really difficult. :)

 

But Sony will be launching the HD3 sometime next year, so at least I'll be assured of support in India which is not available for any other player on the market.

 

Decisions, decisions

ha ha ha... I'm clairvoyant

I was going through some old posts I made. About a year ago I commented on the news of Walmart entering the PC business that it was time for IBM to quit the (PC) business. Sure enough a year on, IBM has quit.

I guess the B-school aducation was not all waste.. ha ha

Odd Even returns

It seems that a lot of ppl are wanting to know how odd and even are a pholoshpical illusion they keep dropping in to one of my posts

Who will win... Apple or Napster?

Neither... All this ensures that the open format mp3 will definitely survive for some more time to come... and Maybe MS will be the big winner.

All this hoo haa about real networks files not being played on the iPod and Apple blocking them, reminds one of the format wars on in a related industry: Consumer Electronics. There too we are debating SACD vs DVD-A and HD-DVD vd BD-DVD. In that market, I'll ultimately buy a device which plays both the competing formats (if they survive the war). So I will buy a Pioneer that plays both DVD-A and SACD not a Sony which plays only SACD. the most compatible, either on the hardware end. if that is not available then I'll look to whichever format has more software (This has parallels in the Betamax story)

And MS will be the big winner. Why? Because every manufacturer (Apple and Sony excepted) that makes Digital Audio Players supports Secure WMA. Soon enough (god only knows when) the numbers will tip in that direction. Moreover this phenomenon will be led from Asia, where there will be a huge market for cheap Digital Audio Players. Now once there is a critical mass of ppl who have such players and they can see that music is available from several stores (MSN, Napster, MusicMatch and what have you...). You can see which way the wind will blow. It is also logical that lots of companies (indirectly) promoting the format (Secure WMA) is better than only one company promoting it's own (Apple AAC).

Don't forget some of these players are giants, MSN, Samsung (via Napster), they have huge distribution muscle across the world. Samsung sells consumer electronics, Apple so far has been catering to an expensive niche in a computer market. Samsung has even more distribution muscle than Sony in India, while Apple has next to no distribution in markets like India and China.

Some business analyst actually said that people will end up switching from the PC to the mac after the iPod. Which is a silly notion, in fact the reverse is equally likely to occur. Why? The installed user base of Windows is really huge, along with this user base comes a huge developer community. This developer community after years of hacking around in Windows is more or less at home with anything to do with Windows. e.g. recently a hack doing the rounds is changing the picture/icons on the iPod screen. WIndows only. All the MacHeads are furious that how is it that a it is available on Windows first and not on the Mac little realising the source of the hack (they assumed it was from Apple, while it was from an independent Windows Programmer). Now repeat this instance over and over again... hundreds of programmers, hudreds of hacks. not all will port to the Mac. So what does a mac iPod user do if he wants to do all the fun things that a windows user can do? The choice is obvious...

I feel that Apple is doing great dis-service to the iPod by not letting other formats get on board and not licensing their proprietary codec to other manufacturers. This venture too risks going the way the other Apple businesses operate, i.e. in expensive niches.

Update: Damn! I should have turned off the comments... All rude, abusive posts have been deleted and will be deleted again if posted again. Be sane people, it is just an OS, it's not worth getting uppity about... regs CP

Keywords and more

someone was doing a search on google for Hero Honda Karizma, and that brought him/her to me. Apparntly someone else was looking for the Karizma Ad agency... (which is JWT)...

other keywords that bring ppl here... marlinspike and av500

GuestBook, turns google seeder

I popped ini to one of of the learning sites I'd done many many years, which I've abandoned since. The GuestBook has become a spam magnet for people promoting their own sites, porn et al. Obviously and attempt to manipulate google rankings...

The Search for Love: A Marketer's Perspective

This is a good topic. Krishna Menon is doigna series of articles titled as The Search for Love: A Marketer's Perspective (Part 1)

He rambles a bit though. Let see how this series evolves...

This is supposed to be fun???

This was my first Diwali in Delhi outside the canttonment area. Normally I head back home to Dehradun, this time I didn't think it worth my while to actually brave the Diwali rush in the trains to head to Dehradun and instead stay in Delhi and visit some friends.

Just as the evening started... I stepped out and immediately retreated into my house in horror at the assault on the senses this celebration is.


Why? My Eyes are burning and my ears are itching and I have a sore throat from the smoke in the air. If I didn't know better, from the sound track I'd have thought that it is a war zone.


Till yesterday afternoon I used to think that all the anti-cracker activists were nuts... Today as Diwali is being celebrated(?) I'm a convert. Ban crackers. and ban them pronto.

I used the video mode in my digital camera to capture some video. The camera can capture video at full DVCam resolution 640x480 at 30fps, but it looks as if it has been captured from a low quality phone cam. All the fuzziness is from the smoke in the air. And the sound track could easily be mistaken to be that from the war news clips. In fact, I captured some 12 mins worth (with low res video). One could strip out the sound and use it as backing for all the war clips that our news channels seem to flick from firang channels.

Once I find some hosting space. I'll plonk the video file online...

On second thoughts, you couldn't pass it of as war sounds. Wars are quieter...

Shame on us for even calling this a celebration. Disgusting. Never ever will I spend Diwali in Delhi again.

blogsnow

blogsnow has a neat feature. If you link to any imdb title it crawls your site as part of the index. Thereby becoming a virtual review site for the title outside the IMDB system...

Agencies warned to get serious about print

News Corp has warned ad agencies to get serious about increasing print share of the advertising pie or risk losing comissions to the tune of $150 million dollars (between the News Corp and the Fairfax group of newspapers) The Australian Story and a related story from Sydney Morning Herald

Dog charged with chasing cat

Of all the absurdities in this world. this has to be the weirdest. In a world where it is accepted that Dogs chase cats. A Dog is charged with chasing a cat. What aloony worl dwe live in...

free iPods

Wired recently ran a story on free iPods being given away. i.e. one of the ads iPod ads actually works. Too bad I'm not eligible... tch tch...

WAN Conference Presentation Summaries

The Summaries of Presentations of the Wan conference: Beyond the Printed Word

It's the End of Classifieds as We Know Them

Interesting Viewpoint...

It's the End of Classifieds as We Know Them

Must check out, how our plan for the future compares with this...

Thoughts on US Circulation Declines

Digital Deliverance has More Thoughts on U.S. Circulation Declines

I left the this comment on the post:
The newsapper in the current form may be a losing proposition as a trend, but while this is true right now in more developed markets like America, in countries like India where TV News is in it's (relative) infancy and the internet is restricted to the urban elite, Newspapers continue to be a powerful medium at least in the near term.

Of course, it goes without saying that we need to reinvent the concept of newspapers. "Minority Report" style newspapers will be something really cool. The technology for them will be available in not more than 5 years.

But for them to happen, newspaper publishers need to move on from the ink on paper mentality to news, especially when technology allows us to break news real time, sometimes even faster than TV.


Right now online divisions are hostage to the print news teams. So we have a long time to go.

Done rightly, this is the next chance for newspaper publishers to take on the dominance of TV in a new medium, especially when TV itself is coming under attack due to the emergence of new devices like TiVo.

Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die"

Wish the story was as cool cool as the title... Apple to iPod owners: "Eat shit and die"

the changing nature of market research...

In a piece here McGee comments on the potential of blogs to do bring about huge changes in the nature of market nature...

Of iPod's black, photo and the plain vanilla...

I was really looking forward to the u2 Ipod, but having a look at it yesterday, made me drop it from the consideration set pronto. matte black woul dhav elooked good. the glossy black and ferrari red click whel, just don't cut it. with my CD collection running into hundreds. iPod mini has too little space to be of practical use... the 60G iPod is obscenely priced at $600 US. this rules that out.

So now the toss up is between the 40 Gig iPod 4G and the 40 Gig iPod Photo.

What does the Photo version have that the 4G doesn't?

Colour Screen
Photo Viewer
Carrying Case
25% more playback time
-8 mins skip protection
TV out
+.2 ounces in weight
AV Cable

The Official case alone retails for 20 USD. If they'd added the remote. the new Photo bundle would dhave been a fabulous deal at 500 USD.. they could have evn dropped the case and kept the remote, even then would have been a good deal... but right now, I just can't justify the extra 100 USD for above features. Now that the new prod hype is done. I guess the 4G is the best bang for the buck iPod.

Of course there are the other players as well.. but with no support in India (free or otherwise), it rules them out very quickly.

 

 

Hayabusa for Three

Cute, I wish I had a Hayabusa alone... never mind the trike

  Yes, a high-speed motorcycle for three, and that's not only three people, but also three wheels ! Nick Dagostino converted his Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle into a trike, but not a conventional trike. The two rear wheels are behind each other (in-line) instead of next to each other. This way he can still use the Hayabusa's aerodynamics to obtain many speeding tickets.

On top of the three wheels, he also fitted an electronic camera in the rear and a 5" TV monitor into the tank.

Now, he has place to put two pillion passengers behind him on the motorcycle.



Unconventional ? Yes ! Pretty ? Yes

Click here to read more about it.  (Bikernet.com via Jalopnik & Bikes in the Fast Lane)

iPod

I've finally settled on the iPod as the the mp3 player I'm going to buy. There is a special edition co-brnaded along with U2. That is the one I'm going to pick up.

Right now I'm wondering what to put on the two personalisation tags behind the iPod

The brothel creeper

The brothel creeper is worth a few laughs.. most enjoyed by single males, than anyone else... :)

Of all the sexual perversions, monogamy is the most unnatural.

Television Sends Out Distress Signal

Haw Haw Haw...

An Oregon man found a group of U.S. Air Force men at his door, warning him to keep his television turned off or face a $10,000 fine. It seems Chris van Rossman's Toshiba—something like this MW24FM1 model with the built-in DVD and VCR—had been broadcasting on an international distress frequency, which was picked up by a satellite and noticed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center in Virginia. Toshiba claims to have never heard of the problem before, but is going to get van Rossman a new TV.

Something like this happened to me when I was 19 and passed out, knocking my bong into the stereo, accidentally sending out the international distress signal for "fire." (Thanks, Alan!)

Television signal prompts Air Force search [Canada]

Related...

[Gizmodo]

Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark

This has potential... I wonder what the range of th ese things are...

Tired of blaring TV sets at shops, bars and waiting rooms? A new universal remote called the TV-B-Gone lets users turn off virtually any set. A trial run in the streets of San Francisco shows the device to be quite effective. By Steven Bodzin.

Related...

[Wired News]

Olympus m:robe

Today is a good day...

[Gizmodo]

DVX-POD 7010

Another one for the Wish List...

Even though I am of the persuasion that portable video players should be as small as possible, even I can't deny that the DVX-POD 7010 is a nice looking beast—and I'd not just saying that because it looks like a distended iPod. A native 720 by 486 widescreen resolution is seriously hard to hate on, especially if the unit has the horsepower to decode video with that resolution (or higher). There had been talk about the manufacturer MobiNote bringing over the DVX-POD when it was announced earlier this year but something hit a snag, obviously. Now another company called Ama (ah-ma) will be bringing the DVX-POD to the US for $599 for the 20GB unit (I can only expect a larger model at some point in the future).

Since size is one of the main things I dislike about most of the current PVP and PMCs, I figure if you're going to have to carry around a bag to hold your player in, you might as well get the biggest, nicest screen possible.

[Gizmodo]

Flying Motorcycle

Woo Hoo.. Another thing on my that should be on my Wish List

The first flying motorcycle. Well, not really a motorcycle, it's more like a trike (or the Carver {link}). It's called the PALV, which stands for Personal Air and Land Vehicle.

The "motorcycle" is a slim, aerodynamic, 3 wheel unit, with the agility of a motorcycle. The rotor and propeller are folded away and can be unfolded to fly under 4,000 feet (1,500 meter).

The unit runs on conventional petrol and has the amazing speed of 200 kph, both on land and in the air. It does not take off vertically, since unlike a helicopter, this vehicle is a gyrocopter. This means it can take off and land on very short strips of land.

And if the engine fails, you can still 'glide' it using the auto-gyroscopic effect to safety. The engine itself generates 70 decibels of "noise", which is much more quieter than any other flying vehicle.

The vehicle is still in concept stage, but Spark Design are hopeful.... I for one am very interested in seeing something like this. But is it feasible ?? You will need to have a pilot's license, and those are not as easy to get as a motorcycle license.
[Bikes in the Fast Lane - Motorcycle News]

Buzzword alert - Podcasting

New Buzzword doing the round. Podcasting... damn I must really get that HDD music player soon...

You've just learned about blogs and wikis. Now you need to know the latest buzzword - podcasting, the process of sending audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player. Googling "podcasting" got 15-20 hits a month ago. On October 8 it gave you 13,000 hits. Today, one week later you get 66,000 hits. Now that's what I call a buzzword. Steve Rubel has a good roundup for PR people. Wired

Related...

[Media Culpa]

Mitsubishi's $400 Heads Up Display

This is something I want.. Way cool

Wearable Display [MitsubishiElectric]

[Gizmodo]

AV500

Move over iRiver, Apple, Creative... AV500 is the media device I want to buy...

Google Desktop Search

Google Desktop Search is absolutely cool... light and fast. I've usd indexing services in the past liek Sleuth Hound Pro and others. but nothign beats this... and this is still in beta. Wow!

Happy Birthday Star Trek

Star Trek debuted 38 years ago this day... and till date remains one of my favourite Sci Fi series along with Stargate.

Stargate SG-1 recently entered it's 8th season... I managed to get hold of some of the episodes, though I haven't seenany yet. Stargate also had a spinoff series called Stargate Atlantis. which also started a couple of months back. Yours truly has all the episodes of that as well... :) Again yet to see all of them.

So much Stargate, so little time...

Outsourcing Idea

Here's n outsourcing idea to beat all ideas... Get all the American & Eurpoean planes here... Paint them and send them back. I'm sure the savings will be worth the trip and back. Infact they could even rotate the planes in such a manner thatthe to and fro pre and post painting can carry passengers, thereby saving even more cost.

Woohoo! What a movie

Just finished watching The Butterfly Effect. Totally cool... Inspite of the lead review on IMDB, I quite liked it. Somewhat like Paycheck. Only it doesn't pretend to use technology, and this one is working backwards.

If Only I could Change the World

The mystery of the Gmail Invites

it seems that gmail is now handing out a lot more invites than before.
I got six of them, I invited 3 people and the number jumped back to six invites again. hmmm I wonder how the invite thingy works...

Chocolate Lovers Unite

If you ever needed an excuse to eat chocolate... this is it...

Gmail Invite

I finally got some Gmail invites in my inbox. One wonders how to get rid of them... Hmmm!

Odd and even: philosophical illusion

I heard an ad on Launchcast, which i've been listening quite often... and in one ad, there is this ad where a girl poses a question that odd and even are a philospohical illusion... So a google search later I end up at
Odd and even: philosophical illusion.

It seems there were some other people who had the same thought as me... :)

Resignation Day

Monster has this piece on Resignation Day...

Olympics

Olympics ha ha

Toyota or Toy Yoda

Waitress says Hooters restaurant promised her a Toyota%2C gave her a toy Yoda

hee hee

Windows XP Service Pack 2

I just got the XP service pack on my system... and messnger stops working... :(

-----
Update

It is working now... I gues it had nothing to do with the service pack.

More Blogger Nav Bar

It seems that the Next blog is some sort of a webring for blogspot hosted pages. I guess more traffic should be more than welcome...

Blogger Nav Bar

Blogger Blogspot pages now have a nav bar. This replaces the advertising that was there on blogspot pages.

all I can say is ick.

is there a way out of this? nope and that's that.

TV Tuner

For better or for worse, I've launched another blog called TV Tuner. It is looking mainly at some prime time TV, attempting to spot some worthwhile TV viewing in the mess of channels that we currently recieve on our TV sets.

Right now I'm restricting myself to the English Movies and general entertainment Channels. i.e. HBO, AXN, Star Movies, Star World, Zee English and Zee MGM. and no others. There may be more people who may join in to contribute to this blog a little later.

Log on and enjoy the ride while hoping that the ride lasts long... really long ;)

Dark Throne

You can see that I'm totally vella... I found another online game in pre beta... It's called Dark Throne and I like it teensy weensy bit more than The Game Never Ending.

And if any of you need an invite into the beta of GNE. leave a comment...

More Google

As Hima pointed out there is Google in Bihari, a little bit of research shows Google in Bengali, Hindi, Oriya

MSN Web Messenger

MSN Web Messenger is neat. A frien of mine pointed this out coz the company firewall wouldn't let him access the MSN messenger from his mac machine...

iPod vs. The Cassette

iPod vs. The Cassette even mor ha ha ha ha

Google Punjabi

Google Punjabi

Ha Ha Ha

Google Messenger

I think the only thing Google has left to do is create a messenger service. how owuld it be supported is another question altogether though...

Ask and ye shall recieve...

I worte to support to remove the ad on my other blog and voila. they agreed. No Ad

Game Never Ending

I have yet another invite for The Game never Ending... Hmmm Now to get rid of it...

5 day week inspires shopping

My company has declared a 5 day week from today. So now I get two days to kill on on the weekend... hmmm. I think I should plan to buy the DVD player as soon as possible. I have one on my laptop, but the screen size is no fun.

I'll maybe pick up a cheap sony two speaker DVD/Tuner combo. but Sony stuff in India is damned expensive...

You are Blogging my view...

What the... You are Blogging my view...

The first time i heard the term “Blogging”, the first thing that came to mind was two men in Kerela on a Gogonet tree and one saying to the other, “You are blogging my view”. However, now this means something totally different to me. Blogging my view, now means that after reading your blog, my views are changing. How many of us are actually willing to let go of our opinions and accept new ones as we just read or heard something different from the views we so strongly believed in all this while. This is like writing a personal diary for everyone to read. I always thought about those who write a diary. I thought those were the people so desperate that someone picks up their diary and reads it and saves them. It was a cry for help for those poor recluses and introverts. And then they made this rule, thou shall not read a personal diary. This obviously attracted more people to their diaries. So am i turning into a hopeless recluse?? I hope not. I do tend to drift away, but i think it gives you a chance to increase the scope of your discussion. Anyways...

Back in Dilli

I'm back in Delhi. Yay!
and I brought the rains... double yay!

Game Never Ending

I got an invite for Game Never Ending. I'd signed up for this months ago. Now to see what it can do...

To blog or not to blog

I was thinking of starting a blog with a theme. TV Program reviews perhaps, English Channels. I can't bear to watch the Star Plus crap anyway...

Kabhi na... Kabhi Haan...

Google Ad Sense wrote back to my crib, saying we apologise blah blah and here is your account to make billions and billions of dollars, oops rupees. Mua hahaha.

Anyway the ads are not running as of now. maybe in 48 hours as claimed by the faq

No ads on Blogspot Part II

The reason I commented on the lack of ads on Blogspot, was because Google denied an adsense account, reason given was that this URL was duplicate submisssion. Considering that I only created the url a few days back, it is somewhat absurd...

No ads on Blogspot

As you can see, when you look at the top of Marlinspike - Knot Untangler There are no ads on this blogspot page. I know some people who registered only a couple of months ago, who do have ads on the blogspot pages...

Blogging from Boston

I've been telling my guys at office for months now, but they didn't think it was a big thing. This Blogging from Boston article explores legitimacy accorded to bloggers at the Democratic nation Convention happeing in the US currently...

Yahoo Groups is not working...

:((( We were to have a class reunion. and yahoo groups was the preferred communication medium... oh welll I guess it is back to cell phones :)
 

Photoshop Foibles...

Self Pic, was trying to play around with the picin Photo Studio... Still some time to go before I master this 

Ego Surfing...

A Google Search on chirag reveals that my blog is the fourth on the list. the only problem is that I've changed the URL to blogspot. So one wonders as to how the google algorithm will place me now.

A Shopping we will go...

Now that the camera is out of the way, I was thinking of getting myself a new hard disk mp3 player. This is a dream device

iRiver PMP 120

 


Or this

iRiver H 320




They have the advantage of being able to interface with my camera and download pics directly. Can Play MP3 (duh!), Ogg, WMA, Show pictures stored and the first one also plays video.

Ghar ka photo...

Some More pictures here. This time of the house 

Now is that a view or what?

This is a stitched panorama of the view outside my dad's house in dehradoon. it spans a full 270 degrees...  

New Feed URL

I have a new Feed URL at http://chiragpatnaik.blospot.com/atom.xml

Hosting problem

Have been trying to migrate from my previous host to Blogspot... A lot of bother... :(

Changing url

The url of my Blog has changed to

http://chiragpatnaik.blogspot.com/

See you there...

Yours Truly

Not very flattering I agree...

The lighting was bad. I haven't shaved in a few days. The mushtache has to go. I was in hospital for a month.

u get the idea ... ;)

More pictures...

I Put up some more pictures here... they aren't labeled yet.

First Uploaded Pic

This is the first pic that I'm uploading from my brand new Canon S1. Many more on the way once I get to Delhi. Bandwidth in Doon is so darned expensive...

Gmail Apps

Gmail may still be in beta, but Hacks for it are already up and running...

Viva Gmail. The best thing since email itself... :)

Hotmail to upgrade storage

Neowin forums has a story that hotmail is to upgrade space. 250 MB for free users and 2 GB for paid users. Of course I would still not use it because of the tons of spam that pours into hotmail accounts

Speaking of alternatives

Fujifilm FinePix S7000 is yet another alternative. Only this is 150 dollars more.. thought there is a 100 dollar rebate going with this. picture quality is said to be supect.. so I'm wary of this one...

Digital Camera Alternative

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10S is another alternative camera that can be considered... only problem is the 100 dollar plus on the price tag...

definitely not affordable

Shopping Spree...

I'm going to be buying a digital camera soon... I've finally settled on the Canon Powershot S1 IS. Mainly selected because of the huge Zoom (10X) and the image stabilisation system on the camera...
Am Also buying a Sandisk 256 Mb Compact flash Card.

and a couple of sets of 2200 NiMH PowerEx batteries and a Maha Charger to power the entire rig...

air conditioner

I hired an air conditioner for the season... that leaves the tv, cable gas connection and a fridge

Moved

I Moved houses today. Happiness! My own place finally...

Now all I need is an air conditioner, tv, cable and a fridge...

Moving

I'm moving Homes yet again... From South Delhi, I'm back to East Delhi. In Karkardooma to be precise.

This will be the 5th place in 8 months... Not bad if you ask me.

Hopefully I'll stick around this place for at least six months or so.

House Hunting...

I'm House hunting yet again... East Delhi or NOIDA perhaps

test

test

Out of sight...

I dropped out of sight again...

With Nothing at all

Moving using nothing at all.

H - Bomb

Harvard is starting a student porn magazine called H - Bomb. India has a long long way to go... it'd seem...

Patent Number Two was invented by Patent Number One!

Patent Number Two was invented by Patent Number One! Whatever will they think of next...

Smart Cell phone Antennas

New Scientist reports on Smart Cell phone Antennas, which have Autonomous software agents which can talk to neighbouring antennas and do load balancing... This is goign into to testing during the Athens Olympics

Pickled dragon mystery

Missile Art

Headbanging Blind Rat

Talk about the unbelievable...

Headbanging Blind Mole Rat uses sonar to find its way

The World In 2004 | The smart-dust revolution

In an Economist feature The World In 2004 A story on the Smart Dust revolution.

Alun Andersen, the Editor in Chief comments that for decades we have considered progress to be packing of more and more transistors on less and less silicon... Progress he argues is, things like the coming smart dust revolution. Smart dust or more accurately networked intelligenece to do hazaar things like do remote surveliiance for the military. or the use of RFID in supermarkets... enabling tracking of merchandise and a fully automated staff less supermakret...

For almost 40 years we have all been subscribing to a simple dogma about the growth of the information age: progress means making more and more computing power available at lower and lower prices. Back in 1965 Gordon Moore laid out his famous law that the number of components that could be squeezed on to a silicon chip would double every year or two. Now everybody can buy a laptop computer with the computing power that entire nations were aspiring to in the 1970s.

Moore’s law still has a long future. But in 2004 the belief that progress means packing in ever more computing power will be seen as far too narrow. Just arriving is another kind of information revolution, driven by the ability to manufacture billions of tiny, intelligent communicating sensors. Capable of organising themselves into networks, intelligent sensors will make up for their small brains by their immense numbers.

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Intelligent screwdriver

Talk about crazy inventions... Matsushita has developed an Intelligent screwdriver. It can be pre-programmed. As one readerd somments on the quoted post. it is more a luxury item than a practical tool...

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My Sears el-cheapo 14V screwdriver is a fair bit damn more intelligent than that one, I'd bet...

... It's powered by my finger, which has a pretty straight pipe to my brain.

Beat that, Matsushita.

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