I just came across almost instant Citizen Journalism from Flickr Bangalore Weekend Shoot group. This accident scene was taken in the morning and shared in the afternoon. Accident spot: Malleswarma 11th Cross I believe. The images are pretty graphic but I urge you to be brave and look at them. the motorcyclist LOST his BRAINs (in the literal sense) though he had his helmet on!
This comes to point – are all the helmets sold quality assured? Are ISI
quality standards good enough. I pay Rs 1000 ($25) for wearing a helmet
almost daily for that one solitary fall its supposed to save me from.
If this happens to anyone of the people I know. I will drop everything
and take the government to court – for allowing sale of sub quality
stuff. (photo credits: Prabhu.) There is a photo of the driver’s brain thrown on to the footpath. Brave ones kindly feel free to click here to see the brains!
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Oct revisited
Just reflecting on Life. Whenever I do – I go to flickr and look in the archives. Taking snaps from there. Somehow, every October becomes a soul searching time for me and I wonder why! Blogging this as I am listening to ‘Hum To Aishe Hi Bhaiya’ {translated from Hindi as: We are like this only Brother!} from Laga Chunari Mein Daag.
Last Week of Oct 2005, I had almost decided to return back to India and was looking forward for November. (I am getting a Dejavu feeling I have blogged this already!). I called friends over for a poker night, went to Tag camp and met folks at Stanford.
In October 2006, it was Diwali time and it was nice to see rockets flying left right and centre on Marine Drive. Loved being at Home with folks.
gFuture!?
technology@timesonline talks:
Google’s techno-dream comes in three bytes. The first is loosely referred to as “universal search”. Scribbling frantically on a whiteboard, Mayer, Google’s head of search products and user experience, says the web is currently “very limited and primitive”. It consists mainly of words, images and some music, mostly created in the last few years. There is much, much more that could – and should – be online. At its simplest level, this includes every film, TV show, video or radio broadcast ever made; every book, academic paper, pamphlet, government document, map, chart and blog ever published in any language anywhere; and any piece of music ever recorded. Google is currently developing new software that will scan millions of new sources of information to give richer search results.
The second part of Google’s techno-dream is “personalised search”. Google has just launched iGoogle, a new turbocharged version of its regular search service. It allows Google to monitor our search and web-surfing history, so that it can find out who we are, how old we are, what job we do, whether we are married and have children, where we go on holiday, what we do in our spare time – anything, in fact, that it can glean from our web-surfing, which, since we do so much online these days, means pretty much everything. Google wants us to sign up for iGoogle on our PC, and also to install it, along with Gmail, Google Maps and Google Earth software, on our mobile phone, so that it knows not just who we are but where we are in the world, 24 hours a day, thanks to the satellite-positioning chips starting to be included in mobile phones.
The final piece of the Google future is called “cloud computing”. Instead of using the internet to search for information that we then copy and use to work on documents stored on the hard drives of our computers, using the software on those computers, Google wants us to create all our documents online, to work on them online using Google’s web-based software, and to store them online on Google’s vast global network of servers. Google has recently launched its own web-based software programs – called Google Apps – that enable us to create password-protected word files and spreadsheets, edit them and store them online. These applications – along with Gmail, Calendar, Google’s online diary, Picasa, its picture-management and storage system, and Presentations, its online version of PowerPoint – mean Google will provide all our computing and storage needs, not on our PCs but, as Mayer puts it, “in the computational cloud”.
It all begs one key question: why? What makes a bunch of California geeks who are relaxed enough to spend their lives creating extraordinary products – and then give them away for nothing – suddenly want to take over the world, or at least its information?
My Thoughts will be voiced soon on google. But I think this article is there to be highlighted for being crisp and clear! And yeah the fundamental reasons why competition is finding it harder to catch up – their core strength algorithms (thats open strategy), ability to scale and yeah extra loads of cash in case things go wrong 
.
Note: I am not putting UI and hardware as their core strength. I think I will give Apple a thumbs up for that. And I am not putting opportunistic behavior (understanding mass market and branding etc…) also, I give Microsoft credit for that ;P!
I have …
I have 272 friends! (in facebook). To make your own follow these steps and then copy the html code!)
D-P-S
Having dipped my DSLR in the seas of pondicherry, I was in a quagmire. I realized I needed another DSLR (want a 40D Canon), a iMac and badly have to do tax savings. After all that I want to end the year with some decent savings. This meant a bit of financial restructuring in life.
The last shot before mother nature decided to taste the camera sniff sniff! 
First time, I briefly felt I should have been in the US, so that I wouldn’t have to deal with finances in this way. In a one man startup, struggling to get a project, lack of clarity in what I want from my open relationship (a long distance one). So many things in my mind. More $$ in hand would really diffuse the tension
As I am living all by myself, I thought it would be better to share a two bedroom apartment with someone else so that cost of living would come down and it would also help to have someone to talk to when i come back home. Note: This is my first time living alone and I kind of like the silence mostly. But sometimes being alone translate to be lonely!
At this juncture came across another good friend who was also looking for a roommate. I met her in Bangalore as a blind crib-date {don’t ask me what that is!} some months back. BTW, I now have great bunch of 5 to 6 people in Bangalore now … in the so called circle of trust and its neat. Surprisingly most of them are from the Bong Land and have a good virtual presence!
Putting one and one together – we decided in the so called liberal attitudes in life to room together! Me being the so called Tam Bram – told her will just check with my Mom and girl friend before I confirm. I ask my girlfriend and surprisingly she says okay. Mom is not in with the idea but feels if I am confident then she is 50% there with the concept.
I get back to her and say yup ‘Its a Thumbs up’. All clearances obtained! She is like okay even I will confirm with my family. She has a conversation with her mom and shares it with people in the circle of trust via email. You can read the entire stuff on her blog – This is my Truth. I am just sharing the excerpt!! pheww 
{Note: Me refers to her here}
Mom – Flat? have you seen already? how much would be the rent…
Me – would be around 8-9K have not yet seen but will start looking
Mom – 8-9k that’s costly how would u afford?
Me – will share it with a friend
Mom – who friend
Me – one amongst the close circle that I hang out with here, Ted, I told you about him, now don’t freak out at him being a guy…
Mom – of course I would freak out..
Me – why, what’s with him being a guy, and if it was a girl all was good? Can’t 2 girls be lesbians? Please mom, is there only one relationship possible between a man and a woman?
Mom – Thank god your dad is not reading all these lines, he would have died of shame reading all these, although I have always been walking ahead with changing times.
Me – Yes, there is no other option, you’d have to change with me and with changing times…your daughter is no ordinary daughter I can’t lead the plain and simple life that most people lead, I am not causing any pain or trauma to you people, am I? but I have certain principles in life, like you know the Marxist principle that maamu follows, whether it’s marriage or death you don’t do extravaganza, that way I have some feminist principles in my life which I cannot discard… mom please don’t get annoyed…[Now pay attention, this is the climax
]
Mom – Ok, we won’t do extravaganza, if you don’t want a pomp and show…at least you could have done a registry…
The End
Lol… Mom thought I am planning to live in with a guy instead of marrying him. The conversation went for another half an hour with me trying to tell her that’s its ridiculous to get worked up just because my flat mate is a guy. Tried to tell her it means nothing. Nothing.
So, this is our culture, tradition, which reduces human beings to a dick and a pussy, that’s all we stand for, my pussy and your dick cannot be kept in the same box because they would start fucking each other for no rhyme or reason. Two pussy however can happily stay in the same box cause they can only brush against each other and not fuck, two dicks can also stay together cause they can only hold hands and sing songs but not fuck at the apparent side. Oh, some buggers do fuck from the not so apparent side but we shall nail them down soon, those criminals committing ‘un natural offences.’
Then one of the friends from the circle of trust takes it to the next level!! Constant Motion replies:
lololololololololololol……………………………..
all I could think of while reading this e mail was of Vinu and Vinu’s face.
Yes its all about it, a “D” and a “P”. Dip the “D” and make “P” pregnant.
The whole world revolves around these 2 alphabets. What other better use can a D and a P have in English language?
A for ass, B for boobs, C for cunt, D for u know it already, E for Erotica, F for (yes you know that as well) G for G Spot, H for Horny, I for Intestine where all the sperms travel after an anal sex thinking they are travelling “up above the world so high”, J for Jobs, (hand, blow etc) K for kinky, L for lust, M for masochism, N for narcissist, O for orgasm, P for (yeah u got it right too) Q for Queenie, R for ruptured vulva, S for SEX, T for the T of Copper, U for your ass, V for virgin, W for women, a lot of women, and some “wow” effect, X for the X factor and xtacy, Y for You fuck yourself (which basically means you have been dumped after a good fuck) and finally Z for those x and y chromosomes which failed to make a baby BOY or a baby Girl but made something else instead.
so you realise now, the whole world is about Sex which makes it D.P.S and no that’s is not Delhi Public School, that is Dick Pussy and Sex.
Well, Now thats D-P-S!! I take guts to reply and say I N Z Y are not sounding great and pat comes the reply:
I for Incest or Intercourse
N for Nuts or Nymphomaniac
Z for the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz that one can catch after a good SEX
Y for Yaar bina chan kaha re
I don’t know if we are going to get the apartment, whether my mom and girl friend are going to be okay. But the circle of trust is going great guns. Two of them are getting married and I have been given credit to play the role of Cupid and talks are of adopting me! Whatever happens ;P I am glad I met Samy, Vinayak and Snigs.
BTW, there are more mails that followup from Samy’s sister etc…. but I think this post is getting too long and hot to handle ;P Hope you didn’t bored reading it! a big post after long time from my side …
google india launches premium SMS service
Well Well – finally here it is! Google India has launched SMS services and here are the details.
Shortcode:
54664 (5GOOG)
Types of services:
Local , Weather, Glossary, Movies, Q&A, Translation, Web Snippets, Calculator, Currency Conversion
I have loved the concept esp with relevance to India, this was something I tried and did succeed when I was in Mytoday. We didn’t take it to the next level as the management didn’t want to go that route. I like that I can query for:
- movies and theatre phone numbers!
- Find Thai restaurant
- Rs to US convertor
Coming to some improvements / cribs I have:
- Its taking more than 2 mins to get the sms back. common this is google I expect things to work quicker! I think they will have serious scaling issues!
- Relevant text ads? or Deals?
- Now that they have sms act to together … google calendars and reminders ??
- A look into their mobile privacy policy
- Sometimes, we record your phone number. We record your phone number when you send it to us; ask us to remember it; or make a call or send a text message or SMS to or from Google. {how clear are they going to be with this? I have my reservations!}
- If you use location-based products and services, such as Google Maps for mobile, you may be sending us location information.
- Certain of our products and services allow you to interact and share
your information with others. Please consider carefully before disclosing any personal information or data that might be accessible to others. - The Nail on the Coffin - Google adheres to the US Safe Harbour privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbour framework or our registration, see
the Department of Commerce’s Web site.
My advice – use at your own discretion … Anyway, I am going to go ahead and use it! Remember its on an average 2 bucks a pop!
