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More reasons to vote

Lok paritran, the party started by ex-IITians, filed 7 candidates in Tamil Nadu assembly elections.

1. Santhanagopalan Vasudev(age 28) Mylapore, (Masters in Economics at New York University)
2. Elanthirumaran P.(age 38) Chepauk (systems programmer at L&T)
3. Ishrayel Maheshwar(age 31)Thousand Lights
4. Aravind Seshagiri(age 32)Theagaraya Nagar (Research Consultant at a Global Growth Consulting company)
5. Rajamany(age 56)Anna Nagar (33 years of experience specializing in Maintenance and Planning in Fertilizer)
6. Prema Kannan(age 56) Villivakkam (an experienced social worker)
7. Vanchinarayanan(age 27) Mudukulathur (runs an organization called Success Oriented Right Revolution of Youth and Public)

Wishing the best
.shiva.

Young guns lifting India

I read an interesting and exciting statistics about our cricket team[ source courtesy: Johnson]. Its really fantastic that in the absence of the Biggie players(Sachin, Saurav and out of form Sehwag) our young guns have done a wonderful job to put us on the top of the world cricket. Our team did a great all-round performance.
These statistics are for the current cricket season.

• We have Yuvraj Singh, Rahul dravid and Dhoni in 1st, 3rd and 4th spot of the highest run getters.
• Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar and Harbhajan Sigh at 1st, 3rd and 5th position in the list of highest wicket takers.
• India is on the first place in win percentage, with the staggering 67.65%. Australians are at the second place with 62.5%.
  

Great going for India.
Cheers!!!
.shiva.

Gettogether

We celebrated our gettogether on 15th of April, 2 years after finishing the college. Its really a great occassion. Even though we've been in touch, meeting all of the friends in one place was a very special one. It's really an unforgettable day. Full credits goes to our Deepa ma'am who initiated this event. Hope we'll celebrate the next gettogether with more friends.
The photos are uploaded in flickr.
.shiva.

SACHIN.... Sachin!!!

Happy birthday!!!
Many more happy centuries Sachin....

luv
.shiva.

Google Earth, crossing boundaries...?

It's really shocking to hear that Google just rejected India's concerns over publishing high quality satellite images of sensitive areas, like Rashtrapati bhavan.

The high-resolution satellite images include those of airfields in Chandigarh, Ambala, Amritsar, Avantipura (J&K), Srinagar and Leh. In several of the images, various types of aircraft can be clearly seen parked in the airfields.What could probably be more alarming to the defence forces - particularly the Indian Air Force - is the fact that while the website carries images of Pakistani air bases in Sargodha and Lahore too, these are grainy in comparison to the crystal clarity of the Indian images.

Last week the Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar expressed concern about the pictures.

In October 2005, our president A. P. J. Abdul kalam expressed concerns over the security threat posed by the Google Earth.

"You will realise that some of the developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen to provide such high resolutions", Mr. Kalam told a meeting of top police officials.

But Google responds with exposing more and more sensitive areas in its latest releases. We have to wait for our Governments reaction on Google Earth.

Related news:

• India army boss slams Google Earth - CNN
• Google rejects India’s concerns - NDTV
• 'Google Earth a threat for India' - India Times
• India slams Google Earth - News24

.shiva.

Fingerprints Can Reveal Your Addictions

Fingerprints could give clues about the lifestyle of a person, and that may help forensic investigations.

"Researchers in the UK are uncovering the ways fingerprints are changed by age, smoking, drug use and even some personal grooming products.

There are a lot of lipids in fingerprints and there are a lot of possibilities for that.Drug users typically excrete the metabolised products of the chemical they use. For instance, smokers are known to secrete cotinine, a chemical produced when the human body breaks down nicotine."

Fingerprint-based systems are likely to be extensively used in the future for authentication. Can you imagine a Google site where you can logon with your fingerprint? Google will know not just who you are, what you've searched, what do you like, but also what's your medical condition, if you smoke or take drugs. Google could personalize the results and promote the sites that offer medical advice relevant to your condition.
Source: BBC News.

Google's new results interface

Heard news about Google is testing it's new result pages, here and there. And here it is, the new Google results page, with a side panel on the left. This panel, shows the strength of your search query in different categories, and also it allows Google to get more space to add its services list. An interesting layout, though not mindblowing .

Tidbit:
If you want to view this result page, do this

• Goto Google.com page or whatever google servers, like google.co.in
• paste the following string in the address bar in a single line and press enter, and ignore the meaningless messagebox.

javascript:alert (document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:
S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com")

Note: the sting must be a continuous, single-line entry. Additionally, the portion "domain=.google.com" should be modified to whatever Google search server you are using (e.g., google.co.in).

• Here you go, try your search and you are viewing the new results page.

luvingly,

.shiva.

On a BIGGER Stage, A. R. Rahman in LOTR

The man who has been mesmerising each and every music lover starting from his his very first film music "Roja", is now on the world's most expensive(more than US$23 million) musical stage show, Stage adaptation of Lord of The Rings. It started with positive reviews on 23rd of this month. Its advance bookings already having generated staggering $16m.

The show will run only in Toronto until at least 2007; the next production would be in London.



With superb hits recently in bollywood(Rang de basanti) and kollywood(Godfather) the year 2006 looks very promissing from A. R. Rahman, with long list of upcoming albums,

• Jil endru Oru kadhal, Sivaji, Dhasavadharam -Tamil
• Guru(Mani ratnam), Jodha-Akbar(Ashuthosh Gowarikar)- Hindi
• Provoked(Aishwarya rai), Film on Mozart - International

tidbit:
The current Hollywood Blockbuster "INSIDE MAN" starring Denzel Washington, is the #1 movie currently. The opening and closing moments of this movie have the unforgettable ARR hit "Chaiyya chaiyya" and also in the credits!!
and its worth mentioning that the recent hollywood flick "Lord of Wars" also had the Rahman's Bombay theme music.

Great going for ARR and very good news for all music lovers.

rahmanically,
.shiva.

Rajni in Sivaji latest ... stunning photos

I just taken aback to see these photos this morning...
photos courtesy by our Natraj.... thank you nat.





Hats off to shankar...