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Bill Gates: 'I'm Too Popular For Facebook'

2009-08-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted he was forced to stop using Facebook because he is too popular.

Bill Gates discussed Facebook at an event last month, “NASSCOM CEO’s forum with Mr. Bill Gates on Transforming India Through Technology” at The Taj Hotel, New Delhi.

The billionaire businessman and philanthropist said he was inundated with messages when he used the social networking site.

"It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up," he told an audience in India.

Mr. Gates was in India to receive the prestigious Indira Gandhi award for Peace, Disarmament and Development on behalf Gates and Melinda foundation.

Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates (R) receives the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize from Indias President Pratibha Patil (2nd L) as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) looks on during the conferment ceremony at the presidential palace in New Delhi July 25, 2009.

He said he would find "10,000 people wanting to be my friends" when he logged in, and working out if he "knew this person" was too complicated.

The Microsoft chairman also confessed he was also "not that big at text messaging".

Despite his views, the Bill Gates fan page has nearly 17,000 followers while his charity's page has attracted the support of 34,000 users.

But neither page matches the popularity of Michael Jackson's fan page, which has more than 10 million supporters.

Blogs are circulating screenshots which allegedly reveal his Facebook account.

According to the pictures, his favourite television show is 24, and his interests include "tennis, bridge, reading, movies".

The computer expert is not the only high-profile name to walk away from Facebook.

Aaaah!! Gym

2009-08-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer: I had never done a workout of any kinds before I recently joined this Gym.

There are 2 kinds of people whom I’ve met and spoken to before joining a gym. Infact 3. Some who workout to stay fit, others who workout for muscle building and the rest – who care a damn! Very recently, I could classify myself into the last category.

Having a good physique is a desirable possession by most guys of my age. I was no different. However, working out regularly to shed that extra belly off is a tedious task for many. Frankly speaking, my belly still hurts as I continue to write this post!

But, there is much more to it than just the body pain for the initial week. The daily routine is subjected to immense changes which shall hamper your work, personal life and sleeping habits. However, if you can take it along for the first week, the journey ahead is known to be a drool.

How did I get into it?

After seeing people around me joining gym for good (and a few losing the way in a month’s time!), I went on to grow a desire of doing it for myself. There have been times when others have tried to drag me into it. But it was no earlier than the day I thought I am game!

I knew it would be a painful start and I was darn right! But the days ahead would be glory, I knew. That was the motivating factor behind me stepping into it.

How did I traverse the initial few days?

First 3 days are the toughest to be regular at. The tendency to stop it on day 3 is the maximum. The more you think of leaving it for a day, the closer you shall get to leave it for ever. I just avoided the thought that there is an alternative. Even if I had to take a leave and sleep for the entire day!

The feeling after day 3 is great. You feel far more composed with your muscles beginning to get tightened up. You feel like being more active all day long, plus the pain which continues to bug you along for the first week. More reasons to keep rolling!

The change in diet

Working out for the first time was a great experience in itself. The diet chart had something which was next to German for me! I had never had such eating habits ever. But after toiling hard for 2 hours a day, you feel sticking to fresh juices, protein rich diet and less of fried foods.

One month down the line

It’s been just over a week. I am loving it while waiting for the pain to disappear. However, missing a day at Gym is something I would still want to rule out. The feeling you get working and shedding the sweat is so very great. After graduating to some regular cardio exercises, one would move on to lifting weights and using pulley machines. Working on multiple sets to reduce abs looks easier than it was for the first 3 days.

Life looks to be far more organized with a motive to live, eat and stay healthy. Things were never so before.

Life – loving it ,living it!

Ganpati Baba Morriya!!

2009-08-24T14:08:00.000-07:00

Maharashtra’s most popular and famous Ganesha festival week is goin on. The gullies of Lalbaug, Parel, and Chinchpokli areas of Mumbai are crowded with workshops of Ganesha idols. Most of the small, medium size idols are wrapped in plastic sheets and are ready to be delivered to the customers. The big size idols are being given their finishing touches.

Most of the craftsmen come from the coastal, Konkan area of Maharashtra. It’s their traditional business. Earlier the idols were made of a special quality of soil, which rendered finer results, but it took many days to dry. These days most of the idols are made of Plaster of Paris (POP). It takes only a few days to dry. Making the mould of POP is easy, which can then be used for mass production.

Making idols from a soil is a costly and time consuming affair. The idols are immersed in the Arabian Sea after the festival and idols made of soil slowly melt in the water without polluting. The idols made of soil are finer and rich in colors.

On the contrary, idols made of POP are not easily disposable. On the next day of immersion ceremony, the ugly remains of the idols not only float in the water creating water pollution, they also disturb the spiritual importance of Lord Ganesha and the festival.

Facebook Chat Emoticons

2009-08-24T13:45:00.001-07:00

While playing with Facebook Chat I wondered if it supported emoticons. Turns out it does. But when I tried the >:-) emoticon (a 'devil') and saw it printed as boring text, I wondered, "what smilies does facebook actually support?"

So with the help of Safari and some javascript hacking I present to you a complete list of facebook emoticons.

smile: :-) :) :] =)
frown: :-( :( :[ =(
tongue: :-P :P :-p :p =P
grin: :-D :D =D
gasp: :-O :O :-o :o
wink: ;-) ;)
glasses: 8-) 8) B-) B)
sunglasses: 8-| 8| B-| B|

grumpy: >:( >:-(
unsure: :/ :-/ :\ :-\
cry: :'(
devil: 3:) 3:-)
angel: O:) O:-)
kiss: :-* :*
heart: <3
kiki: ^_^

squint: -_-
confused: o.O O.o
upset: >:O >:-O >:o >:-o
pacman: :v
curly lips: :3
robot: :|]
Chris Putnam: :putnam:
Shark: (^^^)

Enjoy.

WHAT A WOMEN WANTS?

2009-08-24T11:57:00.000-07:00

After I finished up writing the last post WHAT A MAN WANTS?,I felt an urge within to write up for my fellow brothers too. That previous was darn easy…just give him sex, I had advised. But when I sit down to write on how to manipulate a woman, I know it will be difficult task. I might fail to deliver (expected, isn’t it? On which planet do men deliver?)…please bear with me. After all, the first question ‘what women want’ still remains unanswered.

Women need security. She has two issues to sort before she is even willing to let you get close enough so you can attempt a manipulation.

1) Is she feeling safe with you?

2) Is she feeling safe from the World when she is with you?

Remember, this is why a woman never falls in love at first sight. One doesn’t get to know the bank balance at first sight.

If your answer to the above two questions is ‘Yes’ you are my star and you have every right to continue reading this article. Other men may as well pick up the latest PlayBoy and head to their favorite corner.

What politicians are to the citizens of a democracy, men are to the women. We never vote for the best politician (for there aren’t any) …we always end up voting for the least corrupt. Similarly, women are forced to choose the one who is the least likely to mess up their lives – which is anyway going around and around in cycles. Period.

It is this need for security and the ability to compromise, that makes a woman prefer the guy who offered to pay the bill, though he took her to a cheap restaurant.

Never walk into the restaurant and say magnanimously: “We will go …but I will take care of the tip myself.” This just might tip the scales in favour of the guy she had been keeping aside as Plan B.

But taking her to a restaurant and paying the bill might NOT make her trust you. She might start thinking, “This guy takes me to a restaurant, and pays for my dinner. Something is definitely fishy.”

If she wasn’t already on guard with you, this act of yours will put her on guard. You might not be able to read her mind, but she can read 100s of permutations & combinations into your single smile.

Mind you, women are always on guard …which helps them in their search for ‘security’. It is as if they see these boards (see pics) everywhere they go.

In a way, we men have made the women such experts in sensing the dangers nearby.

Anyway once you have won over her confidence…and made her feel safe with you and from the World, when she is with you…she is ready to be manipulated.

My dear men (women, you still reading?)…there are two things you need to know about a woman:

1) Women have the inherent need to know everything

2) Women love to be flattered

Women have this inner need to know everything about the man they are interested in or have ended up marrying. Talk to her…not just about cricket scores or the latest youtube video you saw on the net. Talk to her about what you did in office, what you ate for lunch, what you spoke of when you met your colleagues in the loo, what you were thinking while driving your car back from office, what her mother in law thinks of her, what her sister in law said about her…just about everything.

On the Flattery front, here are a few stock sentences that you can use to flatter her and once she is flattered, you can manipulate the hell out of her. Remember, you are dealing with a person with a seventh sense for security…so be careful.

1) Are you dieting? Or is it the gym? You are definitely losing weight

2) Where did you get that skirt? Goes really well with those shoes.

3) Did you do something to your hair today? I am seeing something extra.

4) I was walking just behind you…and guess what, when you walked past that bus stop…all the men fainted.

5) You have such nice skin.

There are certain things you should never tell a woman. Even if it sounds ok to you, as a man. Sentences like:

1) If I were only half as good looking as you are…I would be ////

2) You have such nice skin. Wish I had that too….darn these rashes!

3) Where did you get that skirt? Would love to see them crushed on the floor

4) What deo do you use? I was walking just behind you and when you walked past that bus stop…all the men fainted.

5) Did you do something to your hair today? I am an extra dosage on your shirt today

While you try these out on the women in your lives, let me do the same. With some luck, I just might succeed.

WHAT A MAN WANTS?

2009-08-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

If you are a married lady this article will be of great use to you. If you are a girl and grappling with a boy friend, this article can help you to handle your boy friend better. And if you are a guy, be warned…the lady of your life might be reading ROMI-D STORY TELLER.

In this article we will look at how a woman can dominate her man and enslave him. If you are a woman and don’t have the time to read the whole article, here is the gist:

Give your man enough sex and he will be your slave

If you are still reading, it means you are a woman and have time on your hands…so let us continue.

Since I have been a man for the last three decades, let me assure you that I never looked at a girl and said: “Wow, just look at her…she is intelligent!”

Instead, this is how an average discussion goes. The older the men (and longer since their last marriage) the nastier the discussion:

Gentleman A: “Your 6 O’Clock.”

Gentleman B: “Who? Pretty girl?”

Gentleman A: “Yeah man. In a mini.”

Gentleman B: “Worth it? I am already looking at one sitting your at your 5 O’ Clock.

Gentleman A: “Yeah worth it. 36-26-36….I could be off by a few inches on the hips because she is sitting.”

Gentleman B: “OK, I am going to turn…you turn away.”

After letting a few drops of his saliva drop on his shirt

Gentleman A: “I owe you a beer. She has &^&^ *&* *(*(^&%^ ^&^% $%$% $%$% #$#$#$ @#@.”

Gentleman B: “Yep. The guy sitting with her must be a lucky ^&^&^%^%$.”

Like I was saying, men never look at a girl and said “Wow, she is intelligent. I want to go out with her!”…for men never go after intelligence.

Most men look at a woman like a sex object. They might not agree, but most men will have sex with any woman if only they had a place. A place with a good mattress, pillows & air conditioning is even better, because he can sleep off after sex. Don’t trust me? Conduct your own Star Plus Sach Ka Samna at home and find out.

Since I am the writer of this article I can try and salvage my chances for a night out. For me women aren’t sex objects…they are simply human beings that object to sex. Now that’s fair, don’t you think?

Once you have given your man all the sex that he needed, ask him for what you wanted. A man can’t read a woman’s mind and don’t expect him to try…for that’s very difficult. Men struggle even after three years of courtship and four years of marriage. If you don’t ask…you won’t get anything and all your efforts go wasted.

While asking him for what you wanted, please ensure these:

Step 1: Check if your man hasn’t slept off after the sex

Step 2: Give him one stress ball in each hand and ask him relax (this will also keep him from sleeping too)

Step 3: If he still feels sleepy, grab both the balls in your hands and leave him crying. I meant the stress balls.

Step 4: Time yourself and start speaking. A lecture of anything less than 3 hours will not yield results…men start listening only after the first 150 minutes because then they know if its that long it is a cause for concern

Step 5: When you ask him to do anything, don’t be polite. Order. Some strong, powerful men love to be ordered to

Step 6: If you were smarter, you would have skipped Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Step 4 and Step 5 and as he put his cold hands inside your T-shirt, ask him: “Promise me we are going to buy a house soon…and we will be looking at all the brochures of the apartment complexes that I have short listed.”

If you are a man and are still reading this…here is a tip for you. A man gets a high when he feels a woman….but a woman gets a high when somebody makes her feel that she is pretty, sexy and irresistible. If you know she is cutting down, add a line about how she has lost so much weight and looks ravishing now.

If you still have questions on how to manipulate a man, try target practice at ROMIBLOGG@gmail.

Guitar Chords: Tum Ho Toh,,, Movie:Rock On!!

2009-08-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

The song uses basic chords so even if you have just learned chords, you can play this song comfortably.

Cmaj, Amin, Dmin, Gmaj, Fmaj

Tum Ho (C)Toh… Gaata Hai (C)Dil,
Tum Na(Dm)hi… Toh Geet Ka(G)ha…
Tum Ho (C)Toh… Hai Sab Haa(C)sil,
Tum Na(Dm)hi… Toh Kya Hai Ya(G)ha…

(Bb)Tum Ho Toh (Am)Hai,
Sap(Bm)no Ke Jaisa Ha(Em)sin
(F)Ek Sa(C)maa…

Jo (G)Tum Ho Toh, Yeh (E)Lagta Hai,
Ke (Am)Mil Gayi, (F)Har Khushi…
Jo (G)Tum Na Ho, Yeh (E)Lagta Hai,
Ke (Am)Har Khushi, Me (F)Hai Kami…

(G)Tum Ko Hai Maanga(G)ti…
Ye Jinda(C)giiii (Am) iiiii (F) iiii…(C)

(Gm)Woh ho… (A#)Woh ho… (C)Woh ho ho… ho ho…

Tum Ho (C)Toh… Raahein Bhi (C)Hai,
Tum Na(Dm)hi… Toh Raste Ka(G)ha…
Tum Ho (C)Toh… Yahaan Sab Hi (C)Hai,
Tum Na(Dm)hi.. Toh Kaun Ya(G)haa…

(Bb)Tum Ho Toh (Am)Hai,
Har (Bm)Ek Pal Meher(Em)ban
(F)Ye Ja(C)haaa…

Jo (G)Tum Ho Toh, Ha(E)wa Mein Bhi…
Mo(Am)habbato… Ka (F)Rang Hai
Jo (G)Tum Na Ho, Toh (E)Phir Koyi…
Na (Am)Josh Na… U(F)mang Hai…

(G)Tum Mile Toh Mi(G)li
Yeh Jinda(C)giiii (Am) iiiii (F) iiii… (C)

(Gm)Woh ho… (A#)Woh ho… (C)Woh ho ho… ho ho… x2

Jenson Button happy for teammate Rubens Barrichello

2009-08-24T11:33:00.000-07:00

Rubens Barrichello on Sunday ended a 5 year drought by winning the Valencia Grand Prix capitalising on bad McLaren pitstops and the car supremacy that Brawn GP has possessed this season.

Although Barrichello cut his teammate’s lead by a huge margin, Jenson Button who finished seventh in the race was upbeat about his teammate. Rubens was able to cut 8 points in this one race. Jenson Button was quoted as saying :

“It ended up as a bit of struggle for me, but I take more positives than negatives from this one – and it is great to see Rubens winning. The team have asked me to push harder now if I want to win the title”

“Yeah, it is very unusual for your team-mate to take eight points out of you in one race. Rubens did a fantastic job.

“He has been very quick all weekend and I have struggled to be on his pace. But in qualifying I screwed up, which cost me time. I double shifted out of Turn Five and hopefully we can rectify that problem as I did it in the race as well.

“Starting fifth, I thought we could have a good race, but Vettel came across at the start and if I had stayed flat I would have ripped my front wing off. So, being back in the pack – although I know fifth is not back in the pack – it was a bit crazy.

“In a way, I got two points and I was lucky to get those points. I was down in ninth at one point, behind Webber, and with Sebastian up in fifth.

“But in the end neither of them got points and I got two points, so it is a positive day — but it is also a day where our car was strong and, as my team-mate proved, there were a lot more points on offer and it just didn’t go my way.”

Bill Se

2009-08-24T11:18:00.000-07:00

There’s something about him that makes me wish I were him.

I mean, let’s think of these:

* I would have been the most powerful man on earth for eight years straight.

*I would have had sex with a hot chick working in my office, would have been in limelight because of this and at the end of it, my wife would still have had been with me.

*I would have been helping out the AIDS affected Indian junta, making sure that God gets enough happy to book a place for me in heaven

Mind your Language

2009-08-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

When did you last write in your mother tongue (at least 200 words at a stretch)? I never did that after my class X. In fact in my entire life, the only time I have used Hindi (that’s my mother tongue) as a written language has been only for the assignments and tests in school. Something similar cab be said about reading Hindi. I hardly get to do that. The sadder thing is that I hardly feel like doing that. I have heard people cry over preserving your mother tongue, but I am never moved. Are you?

I was reading a few week’s back edition of BW to kill some time. There’s this short review of a book called ‘How languages work’ by David Crystal. The subtitle of the book reads how Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages live or die. This very subtitle made the getting-bored-like-everyone-else-in-train me realize how rapidly Hindi is dying. There’s one interesting incidence that comes to my mind. I think I was in class fifth or sixth then. I was sitting in the examination hall. There was this language paper that day, and as usual it had one question on writing a letter to your friend (telling him may be how you spent your vacations). I started writing the letter. I had written for about half a page when the invigilator suddenly noticed what I was writing and exclaimed, ‘I think it’s a Hindi paper’. Oh my God! It actually was a Hindi Language paper and just because I was so used to writing letters in English, I never realized I was writing in English all this while! I laughed at myself, struck off the words in English, and started writing the letter again, in Hindi this time. I am sure the teacher who later checked the paper would have laughed real hard, seeing half a page of English words in a Hindi paper!

Getting back to the old point of how senti we should be towards our mother tongue, I do not have much of an opinion. Why should some languages be saved from dying? What’s the point? What’s wrong if the whole world eventually starts speaking just one language? Thinking of the whole world speaking a common language actually sounds a great stuff. The way globalization is growing, I actually have reasons to believe this is going to happen sooner or later. And I really don’t mind. I know for sure that there are folks with whom I am always going to talk in my mother tongue, and this is all I really care about.

Main meri patni aur Dadi

2009-08-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

I traveled about four hundred fifty kilometers in seven long hours to meet my grandparents . Daadi and myself were watching TV some time ago. The movie ‘Mai meri patni aur vo’ was playing on the small colored screen. After watching the movie for a while, she decided to put me fundays on what kinda girl should be selected for me! Daadi dear! It was rather sweet of her to do so nevertheless.

So shall I share some of my enriched knowledge? Sure I will.

tip 1: Don’t go for a too ‘bekaar’ nor toooo good looking lass.

I guess the ‘too bekar’ was pretty intuitive. So she explained to me why the ‘not too good looking’ concept was as important. ‘You can look at this movie for example. (you need to have seen the movie MMPAV to appreciate the analogy)’, she said. This was followed by a personal example which I don’t remember very well.

tip 2: Prefer a girl from a big city over one from a smaller town. She will have a broader perspective towards stuff.

tip 3: Look for intelligence. What are you going to do with beauty? Intelligence will pay.

I guess this is the summary of all she told me. I might have missed on the details and what appears above might actually be pretty obvious. But all that coming LIVE from Daadi was kinda new thing for me. I suddenly felt I was growing up, getting old. Marital tips! Oh my God. I was blushing and smiling all the time as the funda-session was on. Very silently, I listened to all that she had to say. She loves me a lot. I love her. And I love my DELLruba!

Holidays are going (not so) great. Will get back with more stuff.

Laptops Information

2009-08-05T03:51:00.000-07:00

Often new laptop buyers get confused on which laptop to buy because india is still behind countries like united states in terms of laptop users and this is the only reason many people in india have no information on which laptop to decide and what are the advantages of buying one.First of all let me introduce you guys with some laptops available in India.

1. Sony Vaio – My favourite laptops since i own 2 Sony vaio CR and they just rock because of the performance, neat designs , light weight and best of all the other laptops in my opinion. The design part of sony laptops are the design which are very neat though apple macbook gets number #1 rank in terms of looks. The pricing part is very important in case of sony vaio laptops because if you are looking for the basic models they start around 1500USD (or) 55000 Indian Rupees and the latest vaio series come with inbuilt webcam and a fingerprint scanner below the cursor keys which are the latest technology.

2. Dell XPS – Dell used to be a market leader in all their products series long back but now its position has been taken by many other laptop manufacturers, and Dell has recently launched a new model – The XPS 1730 which is a powerful notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz) / T7500 (2.2GHz) / T7700 (2.4GHz) / X7800 (2.6GHz) processor and is the first laptop to have intel’s latest Core 2 extreme x 7800 mobile processor.

3. HP Laptops – HP Pavillion laptops were the products HP started manufacturing with the latest models being HP Pavilion dv2600 series Entertainment Notebook PC, HP Pavilion dv2000 series Entertainment Notebook PC, HP Pavilion dv6000 series Entertainment Notebook PC and HP Pavilion tx1000 Entertainment Notebook PC. With the screen size ranging from 12.1″ to 15.4″ HP offers a stylish design, high-definition viewing and wide-screen twist and turn touch-screen. Current offers from HP include a Hauppage TV Tuner with HP Pavilion/Compaq Presario Notebook PCs worth 5000 INR.

4. Acer Laptops – Acer laptops have launched many series some of which include the Aspire 4920 Series, Ferrari 1000 Series, Extensa 5210 Series, Aspire 5573 Series, TravelMate 6292 Series, Aspire 5583 Series, Aspire 3680 Series, TravelMate 4233 Series and TravelMate 3275 Series. This laptop manufacturer company is currently advertising very heavily in the upcoming laptop industry in india because the laptop buyers are increasing in india rather than the desktop computers. Acer laptops pricing comes at a lower end with a starting price of around 30000 Indian rupees which is the normal pricing for a standard desktop computer.

5. Apple Macbook – Macbook Pro – Apple has started selling laptops in india with a very limited number of stores all over india, and i own a Apple Mac book which i bought from a apple store in banglore and overall i had a bad experiance because i bought the laptop for my brother and he wanted to use it at his college on a wireless data card usb connection and the macbook is not able to connect to the reliance data card USB connection because of some driver problems, and this is the problem with any wireless internet connection. This macbook can only be used on a broadband connection with the inbuilt wifi port. The macbook series are one of the best if you can sort out this wireless internet connection problems because of the superb quality inbuilt camera, mac os operating system which can be upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard though i have a dual boot system of Mac OS with windows xp professional. The pricing of Macbook’s start at 65000Rs in india and include a 1 year warranty.

Something has happened and something is yet to happen.

2009-08-04T22:42:00.000-07:00

Today evening, me, my dad and our neighbours were chatting. Dad started telling a story. The title of the story was "Something has happened and something is yet to happen." I enjoyed the story very much so I would like to share it with you all.

This is how it goes.

Some guy found a skelton head, on it the words "Something has happened and something is yet to happen" was inscribed. The guy was a little confused. He thought that this is a skelton head, what is left to happen to it? Because its a dead person's skelton head. He was confused and wanted to find what is left to happen. So he carried it home and hid it in the store room.

At least once everyday he used to go to the store room and check the skelton, whether something more has happened to it or not. This continued for many days. The guy's wife got suspicious and wanted to find out what is going on. Why her husband goes to the store room everyday and comes out without doing anything. So one fine day, she searched the store room, when the husband was not at home, and found the skelton head.

She thought that this skelton head must be of the guys lover or previous wife or girl friend. So got furious. She took the skelton head and made it powder by beating it again and again. Then she carried it and went to a far away river and through the powdered skelton head into the river.

In the evening the guy came back home and as usual went to the store room to check the skelton head. After not finding the head in to the store room, he enquired his wife about it. She told him with anger that she found it and made it into powder and through it into the river.

The guy laughed and laughed. So this is what was left to happen.

Moral of the story: There is no end to life. Something has happened and somethings are yet to happen.

Some Old Historic Photographs from Indian History

2009-08-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

The Imperial Airways 'Hanno' Hadley Page passenger airplane carries the England to India air mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel.

Imagine the aeroplanes of today and compare it to this airplane.

An aerial view of Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi , built between 1650 and 1658.

Women gather at a party in Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910.

A rare view of the President's palace and the Parliament building in New Delhi.

Delhi was so empty then. Wow.

A group of Dancing or nautch girls began performing with their elaborate costumes and jewelry.

The Grand Trunk Road , built by Sher Shah Suri, was the main trade route from Calcutta to Kabul .

The Grand Trunk Road or the GT Road is very long. Currently it goes from Calcutta (actually Howrah) to Amritsar (Punjab) till somewhere in Pakistan.

A British man gets a pedicure from an Indian servant.

I vaguely remember seeing this photo in my Indian History book in school.

The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s.

Innocent (daughter) and sad (dead panther).

Stylish laptop -HP Vivienne Tam Special Edition Noteboo

2009-08-04T22:37:00.000-07:00

Vivienne Tam

Palm Island Atlantis,Dubai

2009-08-04T22:34:00.000-07:00

The whole world is suffering from crisis, while New hotel Atlantis in dubai spends $20 million on opening ceremony. It was attended by 2000 celebrities and special guests around the world.

The whole project is $1.5Billion hotel named “Atlantis – the palm” on Palm Jumeirah, one of three palm-shaped islands. It is joint venture of Kerzner International and the Dubai government
There are two towers of hotel building connected with sky bridge includes about 1500 rooms in it. There were $7millions of fireworks fired on whole resort. There were Hollywood stars Robert de Niro, Charlize Theron, Mischa Barton and Wesley Snipes and singer Kylie Minogue for the entertainment of the guests.

Atlantis The palm - Overview

Grand Opening of Atlantis

Donkey>Dog>Monkey>Man?

2009-08-04T22:26:00.000-07:00

God created the donkey

And said to him.
"You will be a donkey. You will work un-tiringly from sunrise to sunset
carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass,
you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years."

The donkey answered:
"I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is much. Give me only 20 years"
God granted his wish.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God created the dog

and said to him:
"You will guard the house of man. You will be his best Friend.
You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 30 years.
You will be a dog. "

The dog answered:
"Sir, to live 30 years is too much,give me only 15 years.
" God granted his wish.
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God created the monkey

and said to him:
"You will be a monkey. You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks.
You will be amusing and you will live

20 years. "

The monkey answered:
"To live 20 years is too much, give me only 10 years."
God granted his wish.
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Finally God created man ...

and said to him:
"You will be man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth.
You will use your intelligence to become master over all the animals..
You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years."

Man responded:
"Sir, I will be a man but to live only

20 years is very little,
give me the 30 years that the donkey refused,
the 15 years that the dog did not want and
the 10 years the monkey refused.
" God granted man's wish
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And since then, man lives

20 years as a man ,

marries and spends

30 years like a donkey,
working and carrying all the burdens on his back.

Then when his children are grown,
he lives 15 years like a dog taking care of the house
and eating whatever is given to him,

so that when he is old,
he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey,
going from house to house and from one son or
daughter to another doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.

That's Life.

Is'nt it ??????????

Happy Rakhi Dear Sis!!

2009-08-03T08:42:00.001-07:00

When you look around I may not be there, but I assure you that I am there.

I shall always be there. When you are looking for your glasses or when you need an extra blanket.

I shall do my best to make sure you have the most of the best, and the best of the most.

I would brighten up anything, even the darkest of nights just to see you smile.

I want to make your every wish come true.

If it takes the light out of my life, I’d make sure you will have the radiance of a thousand dawning suns.

The twinkle of a zillion stars when you smile, I wish to never see it out of place.

I have been gifted by luck with you, and pray you get lucky with luck.

Of things divine, may you have only the best.

You filled the emptiness in my life, may your world be forevermore brimming with wonderful moments;

Nothing but the best for the world’s Best Sister!

I am leaving You!!

2009-08-03T08:41:00.001-07:00

As I lie here cold, frigid from the lack of breath,

My people around stay, wondering upon me.

What was it that made me live?

What was it that kept me alive?

What was it that I lived for?

What was it that I lie dead for now?

Dear loved one,

I lived for the sake of living. But you made it worthwhile.

You have taught me a lesson or two in life.

You were a part of what made me want to live.

It was You who kept me alive.

Through happiness and sorrow, through highs and lows.

One moment it shattered. And God bless that moment-

The moment that made me realise that my life does nothing

But instil pain and sorrow.

Adieu my Love!

Shed not a tear, for its still aches me so.

Going away, bidding farewell,

I take with me all Your difficulties and sorrow

And leave You with all happiness and joy.

Too angry to make a long, serious post...

2009-08-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

..so here's a chatlog with an online friend from the US

me: a nurse in a hospital was raped two years ago by a ward boy. he gouged one of her eyes out.
me:it takes two years to convict the man.
me:yesterday, during the trial, he offered to MARRY her if she'd drop charges. his rationale? now that she's been raped, it's not like any other man would want to marry her, so this is a good deal for her
me: the court say they will allow this if she agrees.
me: luckily, she did not agree. he's been given a life sentence
him: that's fucking insane
me: I know
me: I feel sick
him: and certainly a first for me
him: i've never heard of a motion of "marry to dismiss all charges"
me: only in India..our judicial system is unique
him: clearly
him: has this happened in a case before?
me: no,.
me: normally the rapist gets off because of inconclusive evidence
him: inconclusive evidence due to incompetency or just not enough for a conviction?
me: incompetency, plus social pressure. because a)it's obviously the girl's fault, b)having someone in your family get raped is a matter of shame! drop charges!
him: ouch
me: it gets better...
me: recently a policeman raped someone.
him: of course it must
me: a well known conservative political group have come out in support of the policeman
me: young girls today wear revealing, 'western' clothes, which are designed to titillate men and leave them with no choice but to rape them.
mellification: (poor men)
him: oh geez, how do these poor souls survive in such a culture!
me: it's a mess.:-(
him: certainly you cannt expect decency, law, morals to have a strong enough hold on "but, did you see that shirt she was wearing!"
me: ohmygod you can see my shoulder!
me: I'm such a whore
me: in fact..since I'm the one forcing sex on the men, does that make me the rapist?

later in the conversation...

him: c'mon, at least he had a good reason... really who'd want her now? (aside from maybe guys who aren't rapists)
me: actually..that's true.:-(
me: everyone expects a virgin, and a rape victims even worse than someone who lost her virginity in a normal way
him: oh...
him: i didn't realize
him: that blows... and is stupid
me: it's awful.
him: are men still expected to be the ones with the "know-how"?
me: oh yes. men are suppsed to have lots of sex. I'm not sure who with, since women aren't allowed to.:-him: um... each other?
him: is india a really fabulous country in any way? is there a queer eye for the hindu guy?
me: no. that is "against our culture". it's something that was brought into india by the decadent west.

me: they sneaked the kamasutra in here you know..and pretended we wrote it!
him: those jerkophiles
him: i mean... you needed it
him: we were only trying to help

So..um. Yes. Hurrah for being able to tell people all these wonderful things about our country. It's fucking embarrassing is what it is..

All future Jaguars and Land Rovers to feature aluminum construction

2009-08-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

Jaguar has been touting the aluminum-intensive construction of the XJ sedan since the previous-generation model was introduced back in 2003. According to the automaker, the use of aluminum in lieu of steel can lead to an impressive 40 percent reduction in weight. That's bound to have positive effects on driving dynamics, performance and efficiency.

With its latest redesign, Jaguar claims to have improved its aluminum architecture even further, so it's not surprising that the company plans to extend the technology to the rest of its line. According to Ratan Tata, chairman of the company that now owns Jaguar Land Rover, "JLR is planning to have all its future cars constructed with light weight aluminum bodies resulting in considerable savings in weight, and reduction in CO₂ emissions."

NICKEY HILTON @ & ABOUT IN Los Angeles

2009-08-03T07:51:00.000-07:00

Moovida – the free open source media player for Windows and Linux

2009-08-03T07:49:00.000-07:00

TV shows, tunes and photos in one simple innovative interface.
More than that, Moovida brings you the best of internet video, music and images to play on your HDTV, laptop or PC.

Moovida is much more than a simple media player… it is a cutting edge media center bringing the best of the internet to your TV screen. Automatically creating your own digital library you can browse from your sofa with a remote control. The elegant and easy to use interface automatically displays artwork and fan art throughtout and gives you access to movie synopsis and artist info.

Download Link

bASIC cONCEPTS OF WEB dESIGNING

2009-08-03T07:40:00.000-07:00

Designing a good website calls for adequate preparation. Before you begin to create a website, you need to understand what constitutes a website, and the underlying principles the govern its design. In this post, you will examine the basic concepts of website designing.

Creating well-designing websites is as important as displaying accurate content on it. Understanding the basic concepts of website designing will help you create a website that is easily navigable and, contains information under relevant groupings.

Web Pages

Definition: A web page is a document using the HTML code. It is used to provide information to the user. It can be accessed using a browser. A web page can contain objects such as text or images. It can also contain links to these objects or other web pages.

Example :

HTML document

WebSites

A Website is a collection of web pages. typically, it consists of a home page that is linked to other pages through text or images. Each website is identified by a unique Uniform Resources Locator (URL).

The Uniform Resources Locator (URL)

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is an address that uniquely identifies a website on the Internet. The first part (in blue) of the address indicates the protocol used to access the website, and the second part (in gray) specifies the IP address or the domain name of the website’s location.

http://harshitagarwal-romi.blogspot.com/

The Protocol

A protocol refers to the set of rules that govern the exchange of information on the Internet. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the standard protocol used to transfer tand retrieve data from a web server.

The IP Address

Each computer that is connected to the Internet, whether part of a large network on a university campus or in someone’s office, uses a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. This is a numeric address that help identify the computer on the Internet.

The Domain Name

A domain name is the unique textual name that corresponds to the numeric IP address of a compute. It is the name used commonly to access the website on the Internet.

HTML

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a scripting language that is used to create web pages. It not only allows you to add the text that appears on the web page but also provides you with parameters that control the appearance of the web page. It also adds functionality to the web page.

The HTML Tags : HTML is made up of tags that act as code for creating the various elements, such as titles, tables, ordered lists, of a web page. These HTML tags provide instructions to the web browser to display the elements on the page according to the values and attributes given to the tags.

The Website Access Process

A web server makes web pages acessible to users based on their request. This process consists of the following stages:

The user enters the URL of the website in the web browser.
The browser sends a request for the file to the web server through HTTP.
The web server sends the HTML text of the web page to the browser.
The browser reads the HTML text,formats the pages according to the instructions provided in the HTML code, and displays it.

What will you prefer “Google it” or “Bing it” ?

2009-08-03T07:37:00.001-07:00

Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Search is about advertisers as much as users. Advertisers are where the money comes from. Combining these market shares makes Bing a much more viable alternative to Google … from the perspective of a business person looking to advertise, but advertisers are going to go where the users are. If more users still use Google then advertisers will still prefer to advertise with Google. Unless Bing/Yahoo can attract more users then they’ll still have a hard time attracting advertisers.

Considering Yahoo has been struggling behind Google for years, this is good news for them. And regardless as to whether or not you like Microsoft, Bing is actually pretty decent. As fast as the internet moves now days its hard to mark your calendar about things, but Yahoo bowing out of search for Bing definitely deserves a notch in the inter-trons time line…

Key Fact: everyone on the planet will still “Google it”

Well what can be said more , its just that i don’t want Yahoo to be known as Ya-who?