Creative Calendars
Rotating Cup Calendar
Like rotating your coffee cup
Two Block Calendar
huh!
Magnetic Ring Calendar
This one looks good, but too funky
Two Dice Calendar
This is creative, right. so you have two cubes here
English Cube Calendar
saw moon ring effect last night @ banagalore
"This ring around the Moon is caused by the reflection of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is always the same size. "
ref
was in Bandipur this weekend, It was fun. stayed in deep jungle for a night.
was in Bandipur this weekend, It was fun. stayed in deep jungle for a night.
Originally uploaded by jainsarthak
From Mysore its around 3 hours by road. The only access is via the road to this forest. You can take a private cab or drive using your own car
Food, sight-seeing and shopping
There is lots of nature to see. Best time is around Sep to April. You can see lots of elephants, deer, monkeys, bisons, wild boar etc. No shopping outlets here. Its a nature place, come on!!!
Activities & things to do
Elephant rides, Horse rides, wild life safari, drive through the jungle via forest jeep, camping trekking
Travel tips:
No plastics, no heavy change of clothes when you are doing outdoor. Keep your luggage to minimum & you would enjoy the wildlife.
A Day in the Life of a Drop of Water
You are a small drop of water sitting on top of a fresh blade of green grass. It is mid-summer and the sun is shining. You are wondering, "Will I ever become unstuck from this blade of grass?"
A playful summer breeze blows through the meadow, causing your blade of grass to wave back and forth. The sun feels very strong and you feel yourself becoming more and more full of energy. You feel so hot and alive that your insides are rushing around violently. Suddenly the energy is so great that you are lifted right up into the sky! Your body feels a whole new sensation... you are light, dry and flying! Your insides are still moving around furiously. The wind helps to carry you up and over the treetops.
As you rise higher and higher you feel light as a feather. Down below, the meadow that you came from looks like a dot on the Earth. The wind carries you into a dark gray cloud. You hear a loud cry and almost bump into a large, black bird with a white head. Here in the cloud there are millions and millions of other water vapor molecules rushing around and bumping into each other. "Hey, watch it!" you yell, as one of them bumps into you. "Ouch! It's too crowded here!"
You are relieved when you begin to feel that familiar moisture feeling again. As you become wetter, you feel heavier, and you move much more slowly. Soon you become so heavy that you start to fall back to Earth. All around you other raindrops are falling. Lower and lower you sink. In every direction you look, there are raindrops. The whole world seems to be wet.
You look down again and the wet blur is becoming clearer. A long, black highway stretches below you, running beside a large expanse of evergreen forest. You hope to land on the forest! As the end of your fall draws near, you close your eyes, bracing yourself for the impact... SPLAT! OUCH! Was it the highway asphalt? But your movement doesn't stop. You just move much more slowly. As you open your eyes, you are trickling down the crack of a huge boulder on the edge of the forest. A few other raindrops have stuck onto you and you're all flowing together. More and more drops collide and join your blob, running down the rock. Your speed picks up, and then finally.... ttthump! You all have landed on the soft earth. The impact was more gentle this time but it has broken the blob apart.
Once again you are alone and suddenly it is very dark... oops... one droplet friend has attached to you as you find yourself slowly creeping into a strangely-shaped crevice between two fuzzy particles of soil. You feel yourself being pulled down, down, into crevice after crevice.... like little tunnels in the soil. Slowly twisting, turning, percolating, the musty smell of the soft, damp, cool earth comforts you. The softness is disappearing, though, as you go further down and the soil particles are getting harder and bigger with larger crevices that you flow through not quite so slowly now.
More of your droplet friends join you. You all notice that you now seem to be pulled sideways instead of down. A strange force is somewhere off to your right and you're getting sucked toward it, but you all still have to find your way through the twisting cave-like spaces between the grains of sand and gravel... the force becomes so strong that you get pulled... ffffttt! Splash! Into a huge hole filled with thousands... millions... of your water drop friends... You're all swishing and splashing about... but you can still feel the strange force sucking you... it is much stronger now, and upwards. It is still very, very dark... suddenly you hear a strange echoing sound... all your droplet friends splashing against metal... there is a faint smell of rust now. The force is still pulling you up, when suddenly...
OUCH! Your head hits a hard metal wall and you get pulled sideways again, this time to your left. Faster and faster you travel... OUCH! Your left side hits another metal wall and the force pulls you straight up again. Now you are traveling as fast as you were the last time you saw the light of day... rolling down that boulder on the edge of the forest. But it is still dark and so it is pretty scary to be going so fast and not see where you are going...
Suddenly with a violent jerk you get flipped over and you plunge head first into a blinding light... SPLASH! When the turbulence settles, you turn yourself upright and you see that you're surrounded by your droplet friends, splashing, swishing about in a very clear pool. When you look around, you see these strange flesh-like smudges all around you. The sucking force is gone but you feel yourself and your friends being turned upside down, like you're in a swimming pool that a huge giant is flipping over... and whoosh... it goes completely dark once again. In your last glimpse of light, you were able to see that you were heading straight towards an extremely strange, reddish-pink oval creature with bizarre wart-like bumps all over it. After seeing such a sight, you're glad it's dark again. You're also glad to feel that wherever you are, the pace has slowed way down. Are you in the soil again? Gosh, it seems much warmer than the soil. It's sort of a cozy feeling after all the splashing and cold metal walls and weird sucking forces and strange sights... maybe it's time for a rest.
Source: Expanded from "Birth of a Raindrop", from Keepers of the Earth, by Michael Caduto and Joseph Bruchac.
Pegasus Training Videos
2. Deliver The barrel Activity
3. Rappling Activity
4. Planks Activity
http://pegasusinstitute.com/
My Teammate's Cellphone
Have you heard of a company called "Gigabyte". It is actually a computer motherboard manufacturer. My teammate got a cellphone of this Company. It is an awesome phone with some really interesting features. You definitely expect these features if you paid 15 Grands for a device.
Lets see some of salient features of the phone:
• An Awesome 5 Megapixel auto-focus camera with super Bright Flash, But if you try to start the camera, phone restarts.
• A dedicated button to start the screen-saver.
• To snooze the alarm you need to solve an arithmetic question(like 84 x 72) and if you enter wrong answer it throws more difficult question simultaneously increasing the alarm volume.
• It has dual keypad, but exactly identical, like if one is damaged you can use other one.
• Maps with live information or traffic, restaurants and entertainment info, but only of Taiwan.
• lots of interesting stuff, but no English support, only in Chinese.
• Very BIG battery, you can use it continuously for 3 hours ;-).
• A pedometer(count foot steps) but it works only if you are sitting.
• To recharge the phone you need to pull out the battery and push it into the charger.
• You need a belt cover to carry it, not possible to fit in the pocket.
• And last (but not the least) it has a nice stylus, but there is no holder to fit in the phone. you need to carry it separately.
Its really cool, hai naa...
Iphone 3G 199$
Steve Jobs has unveiled Apple's second-generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference.
Jobs claims that 56% of people claim the price of the first device prevented them from buying, so the new 8GB version of the new iPhone 3G will now cost only $199, with the 16GB version priced at $299. The device will go on sale from 11 July 2008.
Apple says the battery life of the device has been improved, now offering up to 300 hours on standby, 10 hours talktime (five hours on a 3G connection) and up to six hours of web browsing.
The device also includes built-in GPS for the first time, allowing Apple to introduce a new range of location-based services to the handset.
The new iPhone platform will offer full Exchange synchronisation, with push email, calendars, contacts, auto-discovery, global address lookup, and the ability to remotely wipe data from the device.
Jobs claims 35% of the Fortune 500 companies have been running a beta of the new enterprise platform. "Everything they told us they wanted, we built in," he claims.
The new iPhone software will also have full support for iWork and Microsoft Office documents - although whether that includes the new OOXML files from Office 2007 isn't clear.
Jobs says the new iPhone software will be available in July, and will be free to all iPhone owners and $9.95 for iPod Touch owners.
Xobni For Outlook Is Here To Deal With Your Messy Inbox
After two years of development and seven months of invite-only beta testing since September 2007, Xobni is now available for download here. The add-on will be displayed as a sidebar in Outlook and is said to organize emails the same way our brain normally would, by analyzing the way we interact with contacts and the files that have been exchanged, the company unveiled.
Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni, said: “Xobni analyzes mountains of data and shows you what matters – your relationships, your communication habits, context around messages – information trapped in email that is often lost or forgotten.”
Xobni developers have been working hard on their latest creation by relying on users’ feedback over the past months (over 50,000 users have participated in the beta testing). “We will continue to work hard to improve Xobni experience,” Matt Brezina said in a blog. “Xobni has done a lot to improve our users’ email lives, but email and personal information still have a long way to go.”
Although widely available, Xobni will remain beta to better respond to user feedback, its developers unveiled, saying it’s better to wait: “a true beta is an idea rarely visited in what’s become a development culture obsessed with launching as quickly as possible, sometimes without consideration of the product’s future.”
Xnobi will not stop at Microsoft Outlook, as future plans include web mail services, such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. In a world where communication over the Internet has become an everyday habbit (necessity even), Xnobi comes to respond to the challenge and make the e-mail faster, easier, stress-free, by improving user experience.
Delhi's Radiocity 91.1 online..
You can now listen to Delhi's hot fav. radio channel "RadioCity" online
click here to play
open it with any music player
For a long time i was looking for this.
Quality is not so good yet its AWESOME!!!
Adding levels to Labyrinth Demo version (ipod touch / iphone)
If you want to add levels to labyrinth demo version you can use the following procedure :
first of all you have to download the levels, here is the link.
then extract the zip and plist files, and scp them to /private/var/mobile/Media/Labyrinth/levels/ .
next ssh to your device (using root/alpine, or your custom password) and run the following commands:
cd /private/var/mobile/Media/Labyrinth/levels
mv Demo.zip Demo.zip.bak
mv Demo.plist Demo.plist.bak
cp [level_name].zip Demo.zip
cp [level_name].plist Demo.plist
chown mobile *
chmod 666 *
where [level_name] is the name of level file you wanna play
if you wanna change level you have to ssh again and have to do this stuff:
cd /private/var/mobile/Media/Labyrinth/levels
rm Demo.zip
rm Demo.plist
cp [new_level_name].zip Demo.zip
cp [new_level_name].plist Demo.plist
chown mobile *
chmod 666 *
enjoii Labyrinth...
Restore your bricked Ipod touch / Iphone
if you ever face any problems with your Ipod touch / Iphone you can easily restore it via iTunes. while jailbreaking it happens often. here is the standard procedure:
(basicalli you are enabling DFU mode and connecting)
1. Power on your ipod/iphone.
2. Press both power and home button and hold for 10 secs( power button is the small button on the top and home button is the big button below the screen ).
3. It will switch it off gracefully.
4. apple logo will be displayed.
5. now leave the power button, but keep holding the home button.
6. itunes connect logo will be displayed.
7. now you can leave the home button too, ipod/iphone is in DFU mode now.
8. connect the USB cable, iTunes will detect it and you are intelligent enough to restore now.
but sometimes this procedure won't work, happened with me when i was changing root password on my jailbroken ipod touch 1.1.4 . It was looping on the main springboard app. reloading every 10 secs. But I somehow discovered a way to restore it from that situation.
here is the procedure:
1. first of all connect USB cable and open ITunes.
2. switch it off gracefully(holding power and home button)
3. power on , as soon as apple logo is displayed press and hold the home button
4. your computer will detect it as a new DFU hardware, and will install it automatically.
5. It will appear in iTunes then, Bingo you are done!!!
contact me if you are unable to unbrick your ipod via this procedure.
Airline Reviews (India)
There are a dozen of airlines operating in India, so before booking you always want to know which are good in which regard, and it is not always true that if you are paying more you will get more. Broadly any one look for the following things:
• Comfort
• No-Delays
• In Flight Entertainment
• Cheap(everybody likes his pocket)
• Good Food
• Nice Eye Candies, I mean Air hostesses ;-)
• Blah blah!!
So lets start with high-Cost Airlines,
1) Jet Airways: Good Airlines in almost every aspect, Best in in-flight entertainment, Nice Food , of-course free because you've already paid alot :) . ya one thing bad eye-candies are fully covered. Although you can go for it if you are not paying by your own pocket.
2) Kingfisher: Nice Competitor of Jet Airways in almost every aspect. I can personally give one point less in in-flight entertainment but 10 more for eye-candies. Food is also too good. Definitely go for it if money is not a factor for you.
3) Indian Airlines: I'd highly recommend this airlines if you profusely hate comfort, in-flight entertainment, food, and love delays and wanna fuk your pocket. I hope you get my point So NEVER travel by this airline. I don't want to say anything more for this shit.
And now some low cost ones(No In flight entertainment and No free food)
4) Air Deccan: It is now owned by Kingfisher. A good Low cost airline, Almost No-Delays, Kingfisher kinda eye candies ;-) .yuppe Seats are not reclining so cut out some points from comfort, Yet a good Low cost airline
5) Spice Jet: Travel by this Airline if you really want spices in your asshole. Their time management is worst. They don't care about flight delays. yet it is comfortable. Travel if you don't bother about delays. My experience was mind-blowing, during whole flight I was feeling like somebody is flying plane for the first time.. horrible!!
6) Indigo: Nice low cost airline, I can rate it number one. No delays, most comfortable seats, nice eye candies, yes one thing here too their prices fluctuate with season.
7) Go Air Air Sahara foo bar ..:Coming soon
Couple of International Ones:
KLM(Royal Dutch): Crazy Holland people, one of my flight landed in two different phases first left and after a few secs right one. I don't recommend this airline. Food is also not good. Comfort level is also poor.
British-Airways: Nice Comfortable flight, but they don't care about baggage. baggage delays and breakage is very common. They are more or less never "on time". So This is also not preferred.
Some others too:
Alaska Airlines(North America): Nice Airline in every aspect, very caring air hostesses, nice management, go for it.
Air Lingus(Ireland): Huh! Save me from this airline, I felt like I got hanged for an hour.and Lots of noise. not again!!
Nelly Furtado-Powerless
Paint my face in your magazines
Make it look whiter than it seems
Paint me over with your dreams
Shove away my ethnicity
Burn every notion that I may have a flame inside to fight
And say just what is on my mind
Without offending your might
Cuz this life is too short to live it just for you
But when you feel so powerless what are you gonna do
So say what you want
Say what you want
I saw her face outside today
Weatherworn, looking all the rage
They took her passion and her gaze and made a poster
Now it¡¦s moccasins we sport
We take the culture and contort
Perhaps only to distort what we are hiding
Cuz this life is too short to live it just for you
But when you feel so powerless what are you gonna do
But say what you want
Say what you want
Hey you, the one outside, are you ever gonna get in, get in
Hey you, the one that don¡¦t fit in, how ya, how ya gonna get in
Hey you, the one outside, are you ever gonna get in with your
Broken teeth, broken jaw, broken mojo
Yeah, this life is too short to live it just for you
But when you feel so powerless, what are you gonna do
Cuz this life is too short to live it just for you
But when you feel so powerless, what are you gonna do
Types of US VISA
A - Official Visa
B - Business/Visitor Visa
C & D Visa (For Aliens in transit)
E - Visa (For Traders/Investors)
F Visa (Students)
Want to study or research at a U.S. college? Then F is the visa for you -
H (Temporary Worker) Visa
I Visa (Mediapersons)
Are you a reporter, film person, Editor? Then you require an I-visa -
Essential documents: Your press ID, a letter from the editor.
J & Q Exchange Visitor Visa
K Fiance(e) of US Citizen
L Visa (Intracompany Transferees)
M Visa - Vocational and Language Students
O Visa - For Prodigies
P Visa - Athletes and Entertainers
R Visa - Religious Workers
Drive in USA with Indian Driving License
One of the most asked question I get to hear is, “Can I drive in USA with my Indian Driving License?”
Well, the answer is, “It depends on the state that you would drive in”. All most all states in US allow you to drive with your Indian License for a period of one year. After that, you need to get a US drivers license. However, if you become a resident of the state, then you need to get a US license within a months time.
One more thing that I get asked is about “International Drivers Permit”. Well, to be frank, its quite useless if your Indian Driving License is written in English. The permit basically tells that you have the license to drive back in India in English. So, its the License thats important and not the Permit. In fact, in some states, International Drivers Permit is not even recognized. So, don’t bother getting it. In any case, your Indian Driving License must be valid and active.
A very good way to confirm what the specific state laws are is to search the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) website for the state in question. This site has the links to DMV sites of various states. Or, you can search google for pharse like “Texas DMV” and see if you can get to the official site of DMV. Once you are on the site, you would normally find a “Drivers Handbook” (or equivalent), which has all the official rules and regulations for that specific state.
Even if you don’t plan to buy a car in the US, I would suggest getting a US drivers license for the reasons given below:
- Your Driving license works as your Identity card too in most of the US states. This helps because, you don’t need to carry your passport and other important documents around all the time. If you dont want to drive or dont know to drive, then most states issue a State ID card - so make sure you get it. Trust me, its very helpful!
- If you plan to drive in the US (say car rental etc), a valid US driving license helps. It will save you a lot of money on car insurance too.
- If you do buy a car, then almost all states in the US make it mandatory to have Auto/Car insurance. If you don’t have a valid US drivers license and drive on an Indian license, then your insurance premium will shoot up! (by at-least $400 to $500 or more for 6 months!)
In some states & cities (like in Texas) there is one thing that might force you to drive with an Indian Driving License… and that is the validity of your Work Permit (H1B or equivalent). In Texas, if your work permit expires within in the next six months, the DMV won’t allow you to apply for a US Driving License. So, keep this in mind, and apply six months before your Work Permit expires if possible! However, this is true for Texas (confirmed in Houston), but may not be true at other states.
Oh - Last but not the least, if you are driving in the USA, make sure that you have auto insurance. Its a must and will save you lot of money and headaches in case of any eventualities!
If you are already in the US, I request you to comment below on your states policy on Indian Driving License!
The secret of happiness
"A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from
the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for forty days,
and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there
that the wise man lived.
"Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room
of the castle, saw a hive of activity
tradesmen came and went, people were
conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there
was a table covered with platters of the most delicious food in that part of the
world. The wise man conversed with everyone, and the boy had to wait for two
hours before it was his turn to be given the man's attention.
"The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he had come,
but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret of
happiness. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return in two
hours.
" 'Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,' said the wise man, handing the
boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. 'As you wander around, carry this
spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill.'
"The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping
his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned to the room where the
wise man was
Well,' asked the wise man, 'did you see the Persian tapestries that are
hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master
gardener ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my
library?'
"The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only
concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.
" 'Then go back and observe the marvels of my world,' said the wise man. 'You
cannot trust a man if you don't know his house.'
"Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the
palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the
walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of the
flowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. Upon returning
to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.
" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' asked the wise man.
"Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone.
" 'Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,' said the wisest of
wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and
never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.' "
----taken from "The Alchemist" by P. Coelho