Nostradamus predicts a space shuttle accident

Sometime back, I had talked about the book, 'The Nostradamus Code:World War III 2007 - 2012'.

I had merely glanced through the ebook then. Today,as I was reading over it again, I got to know many more things that are likely to happen during this period. One important thing I read was a likely space shuttle accident, that is likely to release microorganisms into Space.

For a moment, I thought if that was the one that happened with the Columbia vehicle. The cause of the crash too was a breakoff of a piece of foam from the vehicle. I will be happy if Nostradamus had read the foam for a microorganism. Otherwise, if it is going to be true, then, I can't stand to see another space accident, especially with Chandrayaan gearing up.

It has been sometime since the book was released. If you had already gone through the ebook, do put in your comments here...

Which SuperVillain are you?

Ok, I am Mr.Doom

Dr. Doom 62% Mr. Freeze 61% Lex Luthor 59% Green Goblin 53% The Joker 50% Venom 43% Kingpin 42% Apocalypse 40% Magneto 40% Riddler 33% Catwoman 31% Poison Ivy 28% Mystique 25% Juggernaut 25% Two-Face 25% Dark Phoenix 15%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Take the Supervillain Quiz

Which SuperHero are you?

Oh wow! Take this test...I am Superman!

Superman 60% Green Lantern 55% Spider-Man 50% Hulk 50% Supergirl 48% Robin 43% The Flash 40% Iron Man 40% Wonder Woman 38% Batman 35% Catwoman 25%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Take the Superhero Quiz

Happy New Year 2007

2006 is closing out, and all set for the new year. Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year.

On the occassion, enjoy this song, if you havent listened to this earlier..

Pixar artist releases animation book on Hindu deities

Sanjay Patel, an animation artist at Pixar has recently come out with a book on Hindu deities. In Pixar style, this book delivers a cuteness to these images. Looking at the adjoining cover picture of Lord Ganesha, even you would vouch for that.

Sanjay Patel is also out with his website for the same. At something like $12, I think the book makes sense, whether you are a Hindu or not.

Incidentally, the website houses much more than only books. The website infact has a section for apparels, and a section for free wallpapers too.

Do check out!

The Patrolling is back

This holiday season, Chicago was witness to a patrol from the Posties. The PayPerPost patrol, this time with their new found buddies, HP are doing the rounds in the chilly weather of Chicago doing the usual crazy stuffs.

HP guys there must sure be happy to see how the PPP team was making full use of their digital cameras to take snaps of everything from cute puppies to old grandmas.The Digital Photo Printing was sure appreciable!;-)Ted sure must have had a nice time with his Antonio stunt sometime back. That was evident with him still trying the stunt as soon as he got hold of something of a glass!

This video was caught by Robyn Nykaza. And for all your information, the next time PPP is going to come to India, I am going to feature on that!

Enjoy the video.

Brought to you by HP

Improve your iPod's battery life

Echo Mixed Nuts reports an article from CNet on tips to improve the battery life for your iPod. It presents a view different from what I had always thought.

The article says that you must never let the battery die completely, and should recharge it to the fullest every now and then. But that was not what I had known till now. I always thought to maximize battery life, you need to discharge it completely before recharging it every time..

I now need help!!!

Check out this new Search Engine

All the talk of SEO and Search algorithms looks like it is going to fade out very soon. Just came across a search engine called Sproose, which truly looks like the concept moving forward in web 2.0. Here is the link to the Sproose home page.

The Search algorithm is based on what the users think. Say you search a keyword, and the top most link you get is somewhat irrelevant and the most relevant link is somewhere down in the bottom. Then, you can help the search engine reorder its index by rating the listing, which is in a range of 1 to 5.

For example, I searched for "Search Engine", and found Google lagging at around fourth or fifth place. So, I vote 5 for Google, which makes it rank higher now. The next time a user searches for "Search Engine", the listing will be reordered based on what votes people have made for the particular search before this.

Great concept!

Bushisms

Here, found a nice page with fifty odd Bushisms. Just recently I had a forward on a good number of Bushisms. This one is much more comprehensive. I just never stop admiring the Dubyaman!

My favorite amongst those in the list

"It is white." —George W Bush;after being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 2001

LINK

PayPerPost acquires Performancing

PayPerPost, the paid to blogging service announced today that it has acquired Performancing.com, a website serving as an interface between bloggers and advertisers. This is exciting stuff, because this rings the first signs of consolidation between the erstwhile dispersed networks that bloggers used to make money.

I feel this is just a beginning, and there are many more exciting things waiting to happen. This is because Text Link Ads, another service that high-traffic bloggers make use of is not far from the Radar. Performancing is also financed by Patrick Gavin, who runs TLA.

With this acquisition, PayPerPost has gained access to a number of valuable tools. PPP users will hereon be able to make use of Performancing metrics, a free tool to enable bloggers to analyse traffic statistics, ad visitor clickthroughs, ad effectiveness and so on.

Performancing already had held a base of 28K visitors. Now, the next step for PayPerPost is to strike a balance between the original users of PPP and those of Performancing. With increasing inter-advertisement between the products offered by the till-now-unmerged entities, there shall now be a lot of new users of both the products from either side.

This makes it essential for PPP to make the tool more effective for PPP as well as non-PPP users. I feel a need to segregate the two because, while PPP users might be more focussed on the content, and not give much thought to Google Adsense(that being the secondary stream of revenue), original Performancing users might be more willing to see how their Adsense statistics works. I would then like to see two versions of metrics. One, the original can be for normal bloggers, and the second customized one for PPP users. The latter can be used to analyze the kind of stories that has been getting traffic; say the paid ones or the non-paid ones; the categories that also get more hits, which may help the blogger choose between the different topics to write on amongst those listed at PPP.

"Google News - Recommended" algorithm wanted

I am looking for the algorithm that Google uses to deliver the "Recommended" section of Google News. I simply fail to believe that it is based on my past Google News searches. Most often than not, I do not even seem to know the context of the news articles posted. This one below, for instance. What made Google feel that I might be interested to know that James Brown's widow may not be married to him. For the matter, I do not even know who James Brown is. I swear...

Iraq Study Group book published

After the war in Iraq over the search for weapons of mass destruction, there was a need to study the situation prevailing there through neutral eyes. The Iraq Study Group (ISG) was hence constituted in March 2006 with both the sides of the Congress approving of the same.


This group is now out with its report which advises the government on what is to be done in Iraq. I think I can afford it. The Iraq Study Group Report is just under ten bucks...Shall let you know once I go through the book...

Amazon Link

Virgin group contributes to Wikipedia

A couple of days back, I had blogged pleading web users to contribute to Wikipedia. Today is going to be a big day. The Virgin group, under the flag name of Virgin Unite has agreed to contribute an amount equal to whatever Wikipedia collects today.

That means, whatever is the contribution today, it is going to get doubled, thanks to the Virgin group. This is the time for everyone to give in then. Because you know that if you contribute $100, then it is going to double to become $200 when it reaches Wikipedia.

Pickled foot..Yuck!

Yuck..this picture sucks...


LINK via Norman Roberts

Cigarette - One butt of it

Buzz 42 has a good article on smoking. Accordingly male smokers are 23 times more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. For women, it is 13 times. Don't ask me why this discrepancy; I do not know it. The article further goes to say that there are over 60 carcinogens in cigarettes.

That is huge. More huge is that there are 4000 chemicals inside. One more reason, why I don't smoke.

Time Person of the year

Before everyone start shouting together "YOUUU", let me tell you that this is not a late recognition from my side. My ears are all red having heard the same thing over and again through the past couple of weeks.

But, I was browsing through Digg and came across this page. This was about the World's first ever web page. Cool, and even the Digg junta there recognized it and dugg it over 1088 times at last count.

Hmm..so, when I can be recognized by TIME for simply having watched a couple of YouTube videos, or to an extent even uploaded a good few ones, why has it not been awarded to the very guy who made all of this happen!? Not that the TIME 'person of the year' is the ultimate reason for our existence, but then, it was just a thought.

Anyway, here is a little bit of consolation I got when I checked into Tim Berners Lee's Wikipedia page. He has been included in the '100 Most influential people of the 20th century'.

India's New Year Wishlist

As 2006 draws to a close, it is time for India to sit up and get ready for all that awaits it in the new year.

For one, the most exciting that all Indians are waiting for is the Cricket World cup at West Indies. Man, this is the last world cup for Sachin, Rahul and Saurav(if ever he remains till then, that is..). I definitely would want Sachin to go out as a satisfied man when he retires, and that will not be unless he wins this cup for India. Okay, all this is in March.

This apart, there is something upcoming which all Indians are looking forward to. That's the Chandrayaan, India's first indigenous attempt to launch a SV onto the moon. Considering that things like Nuclear tests, Space launches etc make other countries sit and take notice more than things like poverty reduction. However, there already seems to be a delay. The website for Chandrayaan now says that the launch is going to be either in 2007 or 2008. Anyway, I would want to see the launch successful, no longer how much it is delayed.

The third wishlist is the "Mission 2007" plan to create 25,000 knowledge centers all over India through connecting 25K villages. That seems vague even to me, but anyway, all the best India for this.

PPP Vs. Santa

Recently, there was this contest going on in PayPerPost, the website that helps bloggers get paid for blogging, asking people to compare PPP as it is popularly known with anything else that they want to. There were actually hilarious comparisons. While there were some who compared PPP with Michael Arrington and Google Adsense, there were also others who compared it with 'Toilet'!!!How sick!

Themes for Orkut

After the numerous websites dedicated to blogger, wordpress templates, I guess it is now the turn for web designers to turn to Orkut. I never knew that you could actually change the default template that is available for Orkut. Oh well, how can you forget the light pleasant blue color of the Orkut screen!

Thanks to this post from Deepak, I found this link to find custom templates for Orkut. Remember that you require Firefox and Greasemonkey extension to use this stuff.

Let's reach a deal

One of my friends studying in the US is back home and I spotted him carrying a bright new Dell laptop. At first sight, I thought he had stolen it. He is never the guy who buys such things, if there nothing that he gains out of it. Ah well, then he told me the truth. He had gotten it through one of those websites where you get free coupon codes, and all that you need to do is type in the coupon code to win a cheap deal. That was cool.

I just checked the website for coupon codes called CouponChief. They have this one Dell coupon for a $300 off deal. Hmmm..

How many spaces after a period?

Mike in his blog Savvy Tech Tips makes an interesting observation. He argues that unlike the good old days, the grammatical rule that you put in two spaces after a period no longer holds. He cites references from popular magazines which seem to have taken to the trend.

I myself know that it is just one space after a period. But, I was not shocked to learn that the rest of the world has taken to this by surprise. Actually because, I never knew such a rule existed. I always knew that you start with a capitalized alphabet after a period. I got to know about the space rule only after using the Microsoft Word which used to underline my word in red if I did not give a space after the period.

Probably I was taking my usual nap when I was in first grade ;)

Hanging Saddam? What's Bush doing at the White House?

Saddam is getting death for the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in Iraq. And the Indian government has already made its displeasure known. The Indian government has made it known that the former Iraqi President should not be made to hang, and restoration of peace in Iraq should be the prima foci of the Americans.

Cool. I knew the Indian government would take such a stand. That is why we still have people like Shibu Soren and Babu lal alive and kicking in this world. And they are not going to be hanged, any day..

If such flouters of the law had been hanged the day they used their 'contacts' to get things done their way, we would be seeing very few of such 'leaders'..

And yes, coming to the title, what is George Bush doing by the way? He is no lesser than Saddam. He's been using his men (all of whom are under the national flag rather than under the Dubya) to kill so many Iraqis day in and day out. What do we do with Dubyaman, I wonder.

Merchants of Venice...

You might very well know and might have used Kazaa and Skype. But you would have never heard of their founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. And it is late in the day, if you had not learnt about their new Venice Project. In fact, the project got out of beta testing last week.

For the naive, Venice Project focusses at providing TV shows and other videos for the internet user. In more generic terms, it is going to be a sort of YouTube with more of copyrighted stuff; something YouTube does not want its viewers to post on their network.

As long as the viewing is going to be for free, I am in. I stay in hostels for most time, and when in there, I never bother to watch TV at all. Maybe the Venice Project will get me back to viewing TV.

One more aspect of this is the scope for such a project, mainly because there are so many TV channels all the world over that the website could forever be expanding. Ok, let me now get prepared to watch Australia Rules!!

Hilarious Math comedy

Never knew that math can be so tough to understand. I am not exactly sure about the movie from where this clip was taken,but this is sure, so crazy. Made me laugh so hard..
LINK

Contribute to Wikipedia

Just made some contribution out of whatever I little I had to Wikipedia. This is one website I love, adore and what not. It has been silently helping all us students, researchers and others by making life simple without expecting a single penny in return.

I guess, it is all our duty to contribute towards their cause. If you want to contribute too, click here.

Any amount is okay. Look at the live list. Some have even contributed amounts like $1!!!

F*** - Count the number in movies

Have you ever counted the number of F***s that are used in movies. Watch the video below from CNN-IBN. Accordingly, the recently released movie, Departed makes use of the F word over 237 times. That is in less than 120 minutes of the movie.

Let me do some math. What is 237 over 120??

Dalai Lama runs out fighting Tibetans

Dalai Lama made an anti-climax statement to the voices of the thousands of Tibetans, who are in exile from their motherland, by opining that Tibet should remain with China for the economic growth of the region.

So, are Tenzin Tsundue and his ilk fools? That was the one question that raised in my head when I listened to the news. China has so well got over with its atrocities inside and outside its country with so much ease and efficacy.

It has annexed lands from Tibet, India and its other neighbours; manipulated its currency to keep it below world's par value, thereby gaining economic advantage against equally developing countries; all this with the cunningness that the country is now known to be.

And it is in nobody's interest that Tibet merges with China. Tibetans now on exile will not be prompted to return. China is not going to give the deserving Tibetans there their due rights there. It will only mean a bigger disaster for the Tibetans.

C'mon Dalai Lama..your people might not have expected this from you...

Dance on the pitch..Hilarious

This happened last week, but I could not immediately post it because of my other commitments..

This was the first test between India and South Africa this season, and if you are anavid cricket follower, you will know that India has never a test match against South Africa in South Africa..

Andre Nel is a fantastic bowler..in the sense, he is a huge entertainment character, and always sledges the batsmen..it looks cool, when your team is not batting. And what happened was he was bowling to the Indian tail-ender Sreesanth. As usual, Sreesanth was sledged upon after a beaten delivery. The next ball was simply awesome from Sreesanth. He, mind you a bowler thwacked the ball to a six. But what was hilarious was the instantaneous tribal dance he broke into. You should watch it to really enjoy.

But then, it is now too old a news for you to have missed it!!

Is this that god of tennis!!?

So, notice who it is out there with a cricket bat!! It is Fed-Ex himself..Roger Federer is now on a visit to the Tsunami affected areas in my home state, Tamil Nadu, and he, on the sidelines, also learnt to play the local game, Cricket.

Haha, it was fun to watch him play on TV though. He got beaten on almost all occassions. But then, the god that he is at tennis, I wouldn't make too much of fun though..

As I am talking this, the local ATP tournament too is getting close. I might not be able to watch the match this time around, like I did last time. Rafael Nadal, Carlos Moya, Srichapan are always out there in the Chennai open.

Hope to see some good action on television though....

Amazing Inkless pen!!!

Got this link from Digg.com

There is this pen, which has its mechanism origins from the times of Leonardo Da Vinci. This pen writes using a metal alloy that it is much like a pencil which never wears down.

So, in reality speaking, this pen does not wear down at all!! Isn't that cool!!?
LINK

Image Spam - the new headache

Sometime back, Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspirations had written about this new way Spammers have been using to intrude Spam filters, including those of Gmail. Yes, indeed, I am a victim of this too.

Such messages have something very 'important' outside the image,and all of the intended SPAM is within an image, text which mail servers cannot read, and hence cannot bypass.

There is this new software called MXtreme Mail firewall, which has exclusive security filters for image spam. The website claims that over 35 percent of SPAMs today are images, something that seems very likely given the number of image SPAMs I alone get!!

Wikia to finally start earning??

Wikia is soon launching a search engine. Ok, that is not the only news...Wikia, the group behind Wikipedia was long looking at a search engine product. TechCrunch today released pictures of its to-be launched Search Engine on its blog.

One thing that clearly seemed to stand out was its 'Sponsored lists'. For the first time, Wikia is really planning to monetize from its product. Wikipedia, its affiliated websites, and even OpenServing are free products with no monetization whatsoever. Finally, Jimmy Wales has started earning!!!

Rockstartup is back

Yesterday, I was talking about how Payperpost was hilariously put in as a 25 year old on YouTube. Little did I notice that the associated video that I had put in on the sidelines about the PPP crew moving office was part of their Rockstartup campaign.

RockStartUp is a reality show that was started by PayPerPost, the community service for bloggers who want to review products, and also be paid for that.

You might watch the video from there itself, or if you are on my permalink, let me post the video once more here...Great going PPP....

Feedback wanted

I just completed a revamp of my site colors. One of the blog readers had commented to me that the blog was good, though the template looked quite boring.

The effort you see is a nothing product compared to all the effort I put in the whole of today. I tried putting in my own CSS codes and stuff. Eventually, I simply could not get what I wanted to do..Finally, I just took an extra hour to change the colors of the existing template. Looks decent though, in my eyes. Resembles too much to Hutch campaigns...

Anyway, do post in your comments on how you find the new look, and if you are a web designer yourself, please suggest any alternative colors to the links, etc..I would love to hear from you guys...

Update :

Thanks to Somu, I have found another color to be put in here. I have now put a dark shade of brown for my template. Do keep reaching me back with feedback.

Payperpost is 25 years old!!!

This was hilarious..Though I have been a member of Payperpost for not more than a couple of months, I still consider myself one of the earliest for PPP since I believe there have a many a lot more that have joined the great community ever since.

But today, it was kinda funny to see payperpost logging itself as a 25 year old on their Youtube community page...Lie Lie Lie!!! ;-)

Seriously though, I feel that the guys at Payperpost share a great relationship amongst themselves, and have also made the community members look one among them..great going guys..

And btw, they recently moved to a new office, and here is a video on that...

Religious? Forget it!

Came across this news bit. In UK, where more than 82 percent are reportedly non-religious, a survey showed that an overwhelming majority felt that Religion was more for harm than for good.

I would beg to disagree..I am from a country, where almost all religions exist. And mind you, unlike the UK or the US, it is not the migrant people who bring the diversity, but everyone are natives...And though there have been so many religious tensions in the past, I still feel religion is something that has given life its color.

I am not an orthodox fellow at all.., but I still feel the kind of orthodoxness my parents and grandparents show are for good only...

Why I want a HP

Okay, first things first...Let me tell you that this post is sponsored by HP. And this is because they want me to tell the world, why I want their new sweet looking HP digital photography camera and Photo Printer.

One thing is;whether HP can believe this or not; I am a HP person. I have many things that are HP. Last year, when I joined my higher degree, we needed to buy laptops in bulk for the entire batch. I clinched the deal with HP for that, and now, our whole batch carries a HP Compaq lappy (as we call it :))

Ted and HP - If you are listening, I can get you a picture of my HP Compaq laptop if you give me the prize ;-)

Ok, seriously though, I still don't have one, and it will be a year more before I start earning.

Then...I still don't have my photo up on the dating sites!!!The girls there are dying to see mee...HP can make me meet my girl, if they get me their digital camera..Probably if I had already gotten it, I can take a picture of myself now kneeling over and clasping over my fingers crying out - "I NEED MY CAMERA AND PHOTO PRINTER...GIVE IT!!!!!!!"

I am Back!!!

It looks like such a long time since I made my last posting here on my blog. Had to study a bit for my exams, and so was out from blogging.

Now, I am not only done with my exams, I have also come home for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Hope to have a great time from here on, both on and offline...

Online calendar

Yesterday was my cousin's birthday, and for the first time in years I managed to wish her. Don't ask me how. The online calendar service from AmericanGreetings.com came in quite handy. Well, as with online calendars, I have now been able to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and stuff.

But, one thing that was spectacular about this was that it also provided to inform you about birthdays not just through emails, but also through cell phone text messages. So, I was here in my class, and suddenly my cell phone beeped, and gosh, good that I remembered to wish my cousin. Good, I will never forget a birthday again!

Free immediate financial tensions

Have you heard of Payday loans?They are small-time loans of the range of $50 to $500 that does not require you to show anything of the sort of credit checks and collaterals to claim the loan. The greatest thing about such a scheme is that it alleviates your immediate financial worry.

So, why do you need it? Say, you suddenly fall short of cash to pay your computer class bill, and you have to pay it at any cost. You could go for a payday loan and arrange the money to pay for the service later. I thought it would be helpful to share info with you on how to aquire a payday loan.

Google Sitemaps

The e-Buletine - All about Internet blog has a quite informative post regarding adding Google sitemaps to your own blog. I don't have to explain much here, as it is given in a step by step basis. It is not a very difficult process if you see how the steps are carried out. I am now onto my next value-add for my blog!

Amazing PPP referral program

Just one more post about Payperpost before I logoff. You might be knowing that Payperpost is looking to the existing Posties to refer newer members to the already huge existing network of bloggers. They used to offer a good incentive to the posties who refer new posties to the network.

Payperpost is now offering $15 per new referral. If you ask me, it is the easiest way for a cool $15 bucks of blog money. I mean, all you need to do is sign up a person who has been blogging for a minimal period of three months, and ask him to join the network. And the moment he makes a post, you make the sum!!

And, with so many blogging networks out there, I know a huge list of people who have been blogging well. Let me start off :))

Kazakhstan to build city under tent

This was in Digg today, and I thought it was really interesting. Kazakhstan is planning to build a city under a giant tent. The tent is going to be 150 meters tall, and the area underneath is going to be the size of ten football stadiums, which shall be a small city with golf courses and shopping malls.

One question: How will manage if Katrina's little sis comes around? ;-)

PPP blog

I have talked quite a lot about Payperpost in my blogs before this, right? If you haven't followed them, nor seen that banner that I have put on my sidebar about this, then, you should know that Payperpost is a service that helps products meet reviewers, and in doing this, they help the product-reviewing bloggers in the community money for doing what they have been doing all the while;blogging.

Payperpost has umpteen products for review. In PPP nomenclature, they are called opportunities, and how do I know the exciting and best among them? It is through the Payperpost blog available on their website at http://blog.payperpost.com

The blog is extremely useful for the news, and hilarious simply because of all the crazy videos that the people at PPP make of themselves and post it up..You should see it to believe it!!!

Radial Dining tables

Look at these dining tables. They can expand, rotate, and that's not it. When you rotate, it splits into kind of pie shaped pieces. A nice kind of work. You must see it to believe.

Link

What is Good Customer Service?

IncParadise, the news blog for small businesses recently had made a news posting about a nice article on the need for having good customer service. As the author rightly puts it, it is simply not enough if you only use a lot of hackneyed polite words like "Thank You", "Please" or "We are sorry".

The more important and critical aspect of customer service is in understanding the customer's needs and wants and adhering your company's products to those needs. It is in fact, a very true fact that anywhere, "customer is the king", so., if you cannot make what your customer wants, you may very well close business.

Most Powerful gun used

Here is a picture of the most powerful gun of all time. It was made during World War II by Hitler. He apparently wanted a big gun that could hit through seven meters of concrete. But, I bet even he would have been amazed at this one!!

Link via Palpatine

Get educational this Christmas

So many exciting and innovative products are out here for gifts this Christmas. Optics Planet, for example has been offering products like telescopes, Riflescopes, monoculars, digital-camera binoculars etc for gifting this festival season.

The best part of their marketing strategy, apart from discounts that I felt was that they are offering free UPS to orders over $30. That is a pretty nice deal since most of the gifting purchases are anyway going to exceed that amount, and also, since some of these can be educational as well as fun, it is going to be relished by the children who receive them too.

Nice P2P tool

I came across this Peer-to-Peer software called CrossLoop that lets you connect to any internet-connected PC anywhere in the world to transfer files and folders. All you need to do is download this free piece of software available on the website. The remote computer also needs to do the same. You can then use the interface to virtually see through the files and folders of the remote computer and share files and folders. I also feel security is good, and both of you need to know tha access code to enter the P2P mode.

Fun with friends

While I was in college, there was this friend of mine, who used to sometimes astonish me with information on others so much that I thought he was some fortune-teller or something. He used to tell things like which guy was hooked with which girl, sometimes things that nobody else in college knew of.

But it was only when he revealed something about me that I realized that he was hacking into my account or something. Ok, he was not huge a geek to be able to hack passwords. He was using the software called keylogger which can record anything and everything that you type on the keyboard. That way, he knew my password, all that I type on from his computer, etc..

Though that was pretty friendly trick, I guess this is a software that can help parents to have a good knowledge of what their children are doing and stuff. That way, it is pretty useful.

Awesome slam dunk

I picked it up from Digg. The guy requires some work on proper landing, but the slam dunk is simply too good. View the video below.

Online vehicle marketplace

Online vehicle marketplace is a growing trend. This is profitable and exciting too to the millions of those who want to buy their dream automobiles. UrbanScooters.com, for example, is America's leading web portal for Electric scooters, Gas scooters and electric bikes.

Looking at the list of recreational vehicles available, I am simply amazed at how easy purchasing of such vehicles has become. For example, at UrbanScooters, you can purchase Razor Electric Scooters,
Motor Scooters,
Go Karts, Electric Scooters etc.

I defintitely would want to buy one of them myself!

Make your own Google logo

Blogosquare has a nice post on making your own Google logo. Visit the website Charlie's Stuff, where you get the tool to type in the text to see both it written in both Google and Yahoo kind fonts. I have print-screened my logo below. Cool, ain't it?

What are you buying for Christmas?

Christmas is fast approaching. Though I am not a Christian, it is fun to take part in the celebrations. And the purchasing season for Christmas-New Year has already begun. It is fantastic that after so many years of being a student, and being hopeful of my dad shelling out a few bucks for me to spend with friends and making purchases during this time, this time, I have quite a lot that I can spend so care-free on. Thanks to PayPerPost(you still don't know???? - the service that pays bloggers for product and website reviews from those who want to advertise on blogs!!), that I have been blogging for the past one month;yes, just one month, I have made money that is as much as what my software-engineer friends are earning right now...

Time to spend for some cool stuff, eh?

World's Smallest Helicopter

I am not exactly sure if this IS the smallest, but has to be one of the smallest. Gadget Junction has a write-up on Picoo Z's new lightest and smallest Infra-red controlled helicopter in the world.

If you were wondering how big or rather small it is; it is only 17 centimeters long and weighs a cute 10 grams. Now you can use your palm for a heli-pad!

James Bond

After the release of Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, and brand James Bond seem to have started getting popular in discussion circles again. Advertisers are also looking to make use of this trend to bring in a Bond in their promotions. The following video is from the website I had talked of earlier as well, www.Koolanoo.net, a Jewish Dating site, and which made this James Bond video.

Exam Time

Starting now, I might not be able to post in regularly here for the next couple of weeks as my exams are nearing. It is still sometime off, but still, I pretty much guess that I should start preparing for the tests atleast.So, see you now and then from here..

Funny Video

Came across this funny video from www.koolanoo.net.This is basically a Jewish Dating site. This video is pretty well produced, where a girl goes into a pool, and loses her top, but rescued by a fine gentleman. Not everyone's cup of tea to watch, but go ahead if you want to..

How is PageRank calculated

If you own a blog, then you would know how well you are respected in the cyberworld based on how much your blog PR (PageRank) is. It is a rank of 1-10 that Google assigns to websites based on the perceived importance. Here is a nice link to see how PageRank is calculated.

Bonzai automobiles

If you are have studied structural designing in your graduation, you will be aware of the things that go into developing a structure, be it automobile, or an aircraft. A prototype of proportionally lesser size than the original is made and is tested for failure. This is how, the actual design is tested for effectiveness. For example, model ships are tested in self-made turbulent sea conditions to check how well they navigate. Now, there are also companies that make such designs on order, since the actual manufacturing company can save the trouble of making a one-piece model to just test the effectiveness.

How good are your logistics

Here is a game made on Dachser, that tests your logistics skills. Not really logistics skills, but mainly your mouse-moving, pointing and clicking skills. But it is really addictive. I believe there are ten levels to it. But I have not made it beyond the fifth level till now. Check out Dachser

Making of a web2.0

You have seen the adventures of trekking, racing, and even silly reality-dare shows. But here is an entirely new theme which is pretty much enticing even when you hear about it the first time. Every one out there using the internet knows how exciting the journey that the world wide web is taking is shaping up to be. Should you not then be capturing the excitement and adventures that surround the creation and evolution of one of those start-ups in this industry through a web reality show?

RockStartup is doing entirely that. It intends to capture the pain and pleasures of starting a web 2.0 company. Their work is exciting; they intend to capture the great moments of building up a web 2.0 company. Your job is pretty much more. You get to watch such a company grow right in front of your eyes.

So, who is the cast? This show is run by the very members of the exciting web 2.0 company that is being launched. I wonder if I can spill the beans out in announcing the name of the company. Ok, here is a clue. I have talked about the company already somewhere out here on this very blog, though I have not mentioned the name there as well.

Okay, well..let me give the answer. This is run by PayPerPost, the all new, Paid for blogging website that pays bloggers for their reviews and opinions of websites, softwares and other products.

Share your album slideshows online

Unlike Flickr and the other photo sharing websites, I found this website called Rock You, which allows you to share your albums online on slideshows. Came this across from papel..gunting..bato, a South East Asian blog, but the photos are universal ;-)

Get yours done too at Rock You

Debt advice

Today's newspaper carried a rather sad story of a family that committed mass-suicide. The person was a great going entrepreneur who liked to invest in great projects. And it was just that he made a couple of wrong decisions. And he lost a lot of money in that, which eventually led to bad debts all over. And the family had no option than suicide.

While these are not everyday happenings, debts surely are. Everyone of us have always feared falling into debt atleast sometime in your life. It is hence very important that you get a sound debt advice from an expert at every step of your business.

123debtsolutions.co.uk(Debt Management Solutions UK) is a great website for debt management. They have of late won good fame in providing expert advice and friendly care to people during times of bad debt. The website has a free online assessment of your individual eligibility. Do check it out.

Superhero/Villain name generator

Saw this on Digg, and so thought might be worthy to mention it here. Just imagine a hero or villain for yourself and put in his key characteristics here. Then click on the button to generate a name. I got "Galactic Master". A rather mundane name :(

How to value your house

I have always had this doubt : How will I know I am selling my house at the right time at the right price. This is because,unlike a car or other property, you do not own something that is universally common. Like, a 1990 Honda is the same anywhere. But it is not the case with your house, since every house is different. So, it is simply not easy to value it.

Here is a new website to now help you in your property appraisal. This website eppraisal.com gathers data from over 70 million homes all over US, along with valuable local real estate information which can help you value your real estate property. A great boon for those looking to quote the right selling price for your homes.

Preview outgoing link

Snap is a website that provides a quite interesting service. With this, your blog visitors shall no longer need to visit each of your links to check out what is out there. Installing the Snap script on your blog or webpage provides a small preview screen each time you hover your mouse pointer over an outgoing link. This provides a screenshot of what you can expect on the link so that it helps you to remain on the same page.

A good benefit of such a preview is when you suspect a malicious or 'Made for Adsense' link which you would not want to waste time on. So, forums and message boards are a great place to install such scripts. I however feel that the script does take quite a bit of time to load, which could be a hinderance.

You can see a demo of how it works on this blog on Nicargua.