RDX-Real Disgusting Xperience

Hi everyone….I am back to blogsphere.I was lucky enough to get billa ticket through one of my friends within less than a week of its release.Chennai is receiving unexpected showers during this marghazi(tamil month) which may have dampened the spirits of music lovers,but not movie buffs due to Ajith’s comeback movie Billa.There was a lot of hype for it and once again ajith proved everyone that he is the King of Opening.My show was at 7pm and as far as sathyam is concerned the movie is screened with RDX(Real Digital Xperience) and everyone in my show including me felt we are having a Real Disgusting Xperience.I was seated in Q row and I could hardly hear what prabhu was speaking.Imagine the people who were seated at the back.Even the sabhas in my area have a better acoustics than Sathyam.The sound for the background score and songs were good and when it comes to dialogues it sucked big time.I had a horrible time in understanding the dialogues for more than 15 minutes by just observing the lip movement that too in one of the renowned multiplex in Chennai.
Although people were shouting asking to increase the sound, there was hardly any response.Those who were seated the back started to stand in their seats asking for a refund,To everyone’s surprise the the lights were switched on and the screening was stopped when Santhanam was speaking to Ajith after the “seval kodi” song.It was resumed after some ten minutes and they din not bother to resume at the right place.But again the same old defect continued for some ten minutes and it gradually improved.Though the movie was technically good,the place wasn’t.If incidences like this continue in the near future,Sathyam cinemas is sure to lose the movie-buffs to INOX.

GUCCI Comes to India

The Italian Fashion Giant launched its first store in South Mumbai in India that houses the entire range of Gucci products.
These include ready to wear collections for men andwomen,handbags,shoes,watches,sunglasses and many more accesories.Like Gucci many fasion giants have planned to opened their stores in India where the fashion industry has been witnessing a fantastic growth over the past few years.Moreover Gucci has planned to flag off two more stores in Delhi.India can equal China in sheer growth provoking to be the fastest growing market in the fashion industry.Asia-Pacific region had contributed greatly for Gucci's growth and there is no doubt that India will contribute to boost that figure.

Google now in mobiles too

Google,the search giant is now available in mobiles too.You can get the google search results in mobiles that doesn’t have a GPRS connection unless you need to access the link.The web search may not look the same on SMS,but you can send in your query by WEB to 54664,Google will send you the first web result.Apart from this it allows you to search for factoids like ‘Population India’ or ‘Capital Alaska’ and the service allowas to check the weather of any city.Currently the Google services are available on selected cities and your luck is out if you are a TataIndicom,MTNL or Spice Customer.The premium rates for SMS apply as per the operator.

My journey in MTC A/C bus

First I would like to thank the State Transport Department in introducing and experimenting many things to cater the daily commuters.Once I read about the MTC A/C bus in the newspaper,I was determined to travel in it atleast once.I missed the chance more than a couple of times,but on October 19th I was a bit lucky.I reached tambaram around 1:10 and by the time the A/C bus looked like an ordinary bus.Every seat was occupied by juniors belonging to our bus and mandeveli.As it was the time I got a chance to travel in it,I din’t even bother to stand upto my stop.Though the bus had a CD player, the driver played some old song and the juniors at the back were asking for sivaji.The request was graciously accepted by the driver and the journey started off with “Ballelika Song”.There were outlets for AC above every seat and those who got the corner seat felt their money was a bit worthy than others.Each and every bus stop was announced by the driver as he had mic very close to him.

The conductor and driver were neatly dressed and the khaki or blue shirts were absent.Depending upon the commuters,the doors were opened.Both the doors were opened rarely,to maintain the cooling effect.LED lights have replaced the age old painted boards for display is another nice aspect of these buses.The ticket prices were not satisfactory to me because the journey to mylapore(28 kms) is priced at 30Rs and to broadway its just 33(39kms).Anyway the buses will be highly useful for students during the months of April and May,the time when chennai experiences a hot and humid weather.

Go for allinanchor,get to know of Internet Marketing

allinanchor.com,I hope everyone got what it offers by the name itself.There is popular saying that “Knowledge is greatest gift to mankind” and this site strongly stick to it to the core.It offers a wide range of things to cater the needs of every people.The searchengine available makes us to optimize us our search and the user can make the best out of it in allinanchor.This site is definitely a gift for every blogger as it provides valuable information and tips regarding marketing in the internet.Apart from it,one can get a whole lot of information about the latest gadgets and gizmos,get anchored to it and enjoy.

Team India Stressed out?

Australia is still proving themselves that they are the best in business when it comes to ODI.To my surprise since the start of the series my cable operator is providing Neo Sports in my area and I am more happy that I need not the watch the Fourth Umpire(intolerable reviews).India wasn’t able to carry the momentum in the home series and the aussies have outclassed the men in blue in every department.The fielding has been very ordinary so far and they have dropped catches at vital situations and paying a price for it.On the other hand aussies are showing their maximum commitment in everything and they deserve to win the series.Though players like Mcgrath,Martin are irreplaceable in both forms of cricket,they have overcomed to a certain extent as Mitchell Johnson and Haddin are providing the right rapport to all types of situation.Were the Indians aren’t able to handle the pressure or they are stressed out after a whole lot of matches after the 2007 Worldcup.Let’s see how the Indians are going to adapt to the conditions when they are leaving to aus for a big series(I meant a long tour)

Letter from a fan

Thalaivar(Dravid) what happened to you after the Natwest Series?You fought back strongly and at one point of time we were the favourites to lift the trophy at Lords,but we lost the Natwest series to England.That dosent matter as we have won the test series comfortably.Though there were many awesome series wins at home against Srilanka,England and the most important of all a thumping series victory against Pakistan(4-1).You were drawn to a lot of criticism after the early exit in the 2007 World cup youcame back strongly after winning the series against South Africa,which no Indian captain has done so far in the history.Let’s come to the recent series as I don’t want to talk to about your resignation which has really depressed me a lot.Your batting has been really a cause of concern and I hope that things will turn up in the upcoming games as it’s a just a matter of one fine innings from you

Free Calorie Counter

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Some WORTHY Information

After being to lot a quizzes in this semester,i would like to share some of the questions that find its place in every CSE or IT department quiz.It's a tiresome journey for me and my friend sarathy who takes a lot of pain in calling the symposium coordinator asking about the details of quiz whether it's a purely a general quiz or technical quiz and all.Now come to the sharing of knowledge part.Some of the questions seems to be an easier one for most of the quizzers and i ensure you it wil be of good use for those who seems to have attained the interest in the recent times.

1.ADALOVELACE-She is the writer of the world's first computer program which was for Charles Babbage(Father of Computer) analytical engine.

2.Bill Gates and Paul Allen-Wrote the BASIC version for 8080 microprocessor

3.7/7/07 -Microsoft announced the release of their next OS named Windows7

4.In image round they used to show the pictures of Larry Elison(founder of oracle),Steve Jobs(CEO of Apple),Tim Berners Lee(founder of World wide web),Ray Tomlinson(Founder of E-mail).The pictures may not be a recent one and in some cases black&white photo of them will also be shown.

5.Vinton Cerf-Father of Internet and known for TCP(supposed to be an FAQ either in prelims or finals)

6.See company CEO's photos in Google images.Most common are Samuel J.Palmisano(IBM),Steve Ballmer(MS),John T Chamber(CISCO) and if the quiz is of some nice standard throghout they might even show the picture of Patricia Russo(Lucent Technologies)

7.AOL & TimeWarner-Largest merger of two companies

8.Trivia related to Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be asked(in prelims)

Ugly Side of Cricket

Aggression has really let down the spirit of the gentleman's game in recent times.Aussies show their aggression in every match and no matter who their opponent is.We have been witnessing the ugly side of cricket in the future cup series involving India and Australia.Everyone should accept the fact that the seniors in the team shows a lot of respect and remain cool throghout the course of the match.My post will be incomplete,if i dont mention about Sreesanth known as Kochi Fire which should definitely be put off keeping his future in mind.He have been repeatedly warned by the match referee quite a lot of times in the past few months and he really dosent seem to care about it.It's a known fact that he is not a quality bowler in our side and he has been expensive in every match although he takes a couple of wickets at the end.What for he is showing his agreesion to Symonds and Hayden in the recent past.He can stare at the batsman when the ball get pasts him but he can't shout at him when he dismisses him.As per the ICC code of conduct it's the duty of the captain to ensure that the game is played in good spirit.Having players like Sreesanth in our side we can't even imagine that the game will be palyed in good spirit.Let his deliveries do the talking in the field and not his mouth.

Chak De Effect

Chake De film got a tremendous response in India.The film gained more momentum after India won the Asia Cup and most important of all 20-20 Worldcup recently held in SouthAfrica.Sharukh as Kabir Khan acted played the role with niche and the music by Saleem Sulaimaan was mind blowing.The first song “Chak De India” is still ringing in my ears.Sagarika Ghatge,who played Preeti in it has bagged a prestigious ad contract with Reebok.Undoubtly a new lease of life for her.She will make her presence with other brand ambassadors of Reebok such as Yuvi,Dhoni and Pathan.What an great oppurtunity to sagarika.Kudos to Sagarika,let this film bring you more offers and we Indians wish you a great success in your future endeavours.

Advantage Auto Quotes

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I-pod Touch

I happened to see the launch of Apple's touch screen i-pod by none other than Steve Jobs a week ago in BBC.It is named as i-pod touch.I was amazed by the features of it and for a moment I felt,will you get it in future?After the success of nano,shuffle,classic this product is another feather in Apple's hat.With apple's wi-fi store coming soon this product is going to be a definite hit for Apple.Another astonishing feature of it is the availability of Wi-fi browser in it.The above picture shows the patent obtained by Apple for its i-pod's touch.Kudos to Apple for redefining technology by launching products like this.

Blogsvertise:A big boon for BLOGGERS

http://www.blogsvertise.com/. Once i come to know about this site through my friend,i was filled with joy.Its a boon for every blogger in blogsphere and it is left to the bloggers to utilise this wonderful oppurtunity.In blogsvertise,the bloggers are paid for completing a particular task assigned to them.Once your work is approved,you are paid for it.Jus imagine how your life will turn around.So everyone stop searching the cherrys in your garden and enjoy the services of blogsvertise.

HAPPY BLOGGING

Project POSSIBLE?

Project is the the buzzword of this week for everyone in our department.Our project group comprises of me,prabhu and annachi.When they announced the zeroth(0th) review date,everyone took up it very likely except the gals,who have been really sincere in each and every part of their work.We didn’t even decide the topic or language that we going to do.There was a lot of confusion and we decided to leave it free.The day of the zeroth review came and we never expected the day to be worst.I can wholeheartedly call the day as the worst day in my college life.A cyclone,sorry a hurricane swept across our CSE-B section with fierce and fury.Our group really felt bad for not going anywhere regarding the project.Hod herself gave us a project that was very similar to the one done by the seniors.We accepted the project as we had no other go.As our project is Abi mam,we hope that our project will come out well as we desire.

Kalaigal Arupathu Naangu(64)

Every tamilian would have heard about the 6 forms of arts,that was also referred as “Aya Kalaigal Arupathu Nangu”.H is a list of that KALAIGAL
1.Histrionic talents, drama, story telling techniques and mnemonics.
2.Making musical instruments and simple mechanical devices.
3.Playing musical instruments that is instrumental music including jalatarangam- creating music with water, percussion and string instruments.
4.Decorating, dressmaking, costume making, artful dressing and personal grooming.
5.Ornaments and head adornments.
6.Singing, dancing and practicing fine arts.
7.Making beds and bedroom decorations.
8.Garland making, flower arrangement, designs with grains on the floor like rangoli.
9.Playing games like dice.
10.Mastering ******ism as per Vatsyayana.
11.Making honey, liquor, beverages and desserts.
12.Plucking out arrows and healing.
13.Cooking, eating and drinking skills.
14.Horticulture & forestry.
15.Breaking and pulverizing hardrock, mining.
16.Making medicines from herbs.
17.Sorting, mixing, isolating ingredients.
18.Making and using astras and sutras.
19.Wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, physical culture & body building.
20.Making missiles.
21.Parades, army bands and dharmic warfare.
22.Ratha, gaja & turaga wars (chariot, elephantry and cavalry).
23.Asanas, postures & mudras.
24.Training elephants, horses & birds.
25.Making vessels of clay, wood, bronze.
26.Drawing.
27.Making paints & painting.
28.Architecture, sculpture, house and temple construction, mosaic tiling.
29.Mixing air, water (air products and water products).
30.Making boats, ships, chariots.
31.Making threads, ropes.
32.Weaving and spinning.
33.Diamond, precious stones and gems - distinguishing them from ordinary ones.
34.Alchemy, chemistry, preparing ointments, unguents for charm and virility.
35.Jewellery making including artificial jewelry.
36.Gold plating, metallurgy.
37.Skinning and preserving bodies.
38.Leather technology.
39.Dairy farming.
40.Tailoring, sartorial skills and embroidery.
41.Swimming and water sports.
42.Cleaning houses and vessels.
43.Laundering and washing.
44.Hair dressing and shaving.
45.Managing oil resources.
46.Having control over others' minds, spells, charms & omens.
47.Tilling and agriculture.
48.Handicrafts including carpentry, furniture making and furnishing.
49.Making vessels of glass, ceramic and pottery.
50.Drawing water & resources.
51.Gardening and fencing.
52.Caprisoning elephants etc.
53.Child rearing & pediatrics including doll making and toy making for kids.
54.Punishing guilty appropriately by law and order.
55.Learning languages (native & foreign dialects), literary excellence, semantics.
56.Preparing `Tambool' etc.
57.Composing impromptu poetry.
58. Preparing perfumes, cosmetics, playing poetry games, oratory, elocution, prosody, rhetoric.
59.Sorcery, conjuring, sleight of hand, magic, illusions, impersonation.
60.Composing riddles, rhymes, verses, puzzles, tongue twisters and involved recitations.
61.Making swords, staffs & archery.
62.Training fighting partridges and rams, cock fight, bull fight etc.
63.Teaching parrots, mynas to talk and training animals, veterinary science.
64.Writing in cipher codes and languages, secret mantras, coding and decoding.

Ribtickling Bush Comedy

There are many jokes which you would have read and enjoyed.Jokes especially do rounds during some particular season or based on any current events.For examples jokes have doing rounds when ultimate star ajith films flunked big time in kollywood and when DADA’s performance was a cause of concern.In US the jokes were mainly aimed at the great president of all times Mr George W.Bush.The joke which I enjoyed recently is as follows:

One day god decided to sent his agent to India,the duty of the agent is to select the people for heaven.The people who want to go to heaven has to be clear in their SOP(Statement of Purpose) for a place in heaven.The first person is Albert Einstein, god’s agent asked him “How can I believe that you are Einstein?Can u justify?”.Einstein took a piece of paper and derived E = mc^2 equation.God’s agent was very much satisfied with him and gave him the heaven ticket.Then came Pablo Picasso and the agent asked him to prove.Picasso took a chart and drew the famous “The Old Guitarist” painting.On seeing that the agent gave him the ticket.Next came in the great president of all times Mr George W.Bush.He spoke to the agent about the execution of Saddam and a lot about terror.The agent wasn’t satisfied with him and he told to prove something like Einstien and Picasso.Bush asked “who is that Einstein and Picaaso”.The agent was surprised and told him “It is very rare to find a intelligent person like you on Earth and dont worry you will get the ticket for sure"

College Life-Day1

It was September 10th 2004,supposed to be a memorable day in my life but unfortunately not due to lot of reasons.After more than 3 months of holidays,i woke up early and got ready for the first day of my college.The bus journey was full of advices and i thanked god for creating humans with two ears.We reached tambaram by eight and somehow reached roja department stores.There we boarded the college bus and as usual windowseat for me in the bus.There were plenty of boards saying "Way to Sairam engg" but i coudn't find any any big building within my sight.Then i told my mother "enna amma edhu,college eh kannuku padala" and my mother asked me to be patient.When the bus slowed down near kanadapalayam,i told my mother "amma enna edam(place) ma idhu errangi veetuke poidalam ma,venam ma"and she stared at me.An over enthu parent before me turned back and asked "thambi,kishkintha pakuthula irrukunu sonnanga? and i replyed "naanum edhan first time varen" with my noses covered.We somehow reached the college after a big journey.As it was the firt time i am seeing the college,i was quite perplexed to see the huge pillars.I could hardly find some known faces in the college,who belonged to my school.Then started the induction day function.Everyone spoke as if they are politicians for years and chairman's speech was absolutely bullshiting everyone out there.I was virtually sunburnt after the speech was over by these distinguished gentlemen.When the dynamic secretary(now static) told arusuvai virundhu is ready for everyone.Hearing the word arusuvaiI told my mother "paaru ma,college sapaduku arusuvai natrajan than catering pola irruku".Again some advices followed and we had a sumptous lunch and returned home.Day-2 coming soon.....

THE TERROR Incident that happened to me

The incident happened when i was in 6th standard.Myself and sai were very close at that time and decided to play cricket after the school hours.I told him "dei namma mattum vilaydina bore da....Hari,Jaiu,Aravi yum koopdalam".When we both spoke to them about it they told "engalakku friday scouts class da,adha mudichitu naanga vaarom neenga wait pannunga".As playing cricket was the sole aim of myself and sai,we agreed to them.Our school(P.S Senior Secondary school)closes by 2:45 and the scouts classes startsat 3 and usually goes upto 4.We waited in the bigshed(a place where my school functions were held at that time).Very close to that bigshed "merry go round" was newly put up for kindergarden children.On seeing that we both decided to have a try.Before getting into merry go round,we played "sarruku maram".The time was 3:30 by then,i told him "namma shed la poi catches vilayaadalam" and he replied we will play "sarruku maram" for a few more minutes and then go.Then came the terror moment of my life.I told him "sarrku maram lam vendam,namma merry go round polam".

First it was my turn,he revolved it very slow which made me jump from it without hurting.Later he sat and i revolved it.I revolved it very fastly and he shouted "dei bayama irrku da,thala suthuthu",as i enjoyed revolving it i was least bothered about him.Suddenly i tried to stop it by placing my hands in the bar in which he used to rest his hands.The merry go round revolved at the rate of 60revolutions/minute.When i kept my hand in the handle,his nose hit my elbow.The merry go round stopped and to my surprise his white shirt turned red.I was speechless and felt that he is having his last minutes with me.I dont know what to do.I ran and got some water for him,he was even unable to drink that.Blood was gushing from his nose,no one was there in the school except the scouts students.As the time was four,i decided to call them.When i was about to call them they themselves were coming towards the big shed.

I thought of running away from the scene and aravi saw me.He asked me "sai engada?team pottu tingala?".I started crying to him and told what happened.Later the other fellows too joined and helped sai.As he was bleeding,he started to blabber also."Neraya rattham poiduchu,naa setthu poiduvena?" and other guys started looking at me as if i had commited a big crime.But due to god's grace things were fine and he survived from that blow.I was unable to sleep that night and was worried that his parents would make this matter a big issue.Thank God,they left it as it is.

Other tools in blogsphere

I like to continue with the other blogging tools briefly that are used in blogsphere.In somecases additional modules and plug-ins can add functionality to the blogs depending upon the tools.The other blogging tools that are used are:

1.Typepad

Typepad is one of Six Apart's hosted half blogging software services and one that has has proved very popular with journalistic blogging efforts.The Typepad pricing schemeand features are divided into three levels namely Basic,Plus and Pro.Design customization is extremely limited at the Basic level and only fully accessible at the Pro level.For group blogging and other publishing access typepad is the best.It costs$4,.95-$14.95 depending on level of service chosen.

2.Blogware

Tucows is the creator of Blogware blog software package,a robust system with a great selection of top blogging tools.Blogware like Typepad,can be difficult to customize,even for an experienced HTML jockey.However it also provides a fair number of optionswithin the administration interface to let you set up layouts and styles without getting into the templates.It costs varies by reseller,but expect to pay $8-$15 a month.

3.WordPress

WordPress is another famous blogging tools that is preferred next to Blogger.It is solid,powerful blogging system ideal for publishers who are bothered about tge budgetbut who dont want to give up any functoinality.Each WordPress post is formatted with search engine friendly URLs that also good to humans.Comments in Wordpress can be extensively moderated.We can also filter comments containing certain words or morethan a certain number of linkss.Moreever it allows you to categorize blogs,set criteria for the for the display order of links,and turn off and on visibilty.You can import and existing blogroll for some link manager services.

My favourite "Blogger"

The "blogger" dosent mean any persons in the blogsphere.I am just talking about the blogging tool thats been widely used all over the world.Now let me tell about this briefly.

Blogger is a free,hosted blogging tool.Its one of the oldest blogging tools and today has millions of users.It jus promises that the users will star blogging within 10 minutes of coming to the site and it in fact deliver on that.This tool is about the simplest one around,and though frr,nonetheless has an impressive array of features.One unusual feature of Blogger is the integration with the Audioblogger service.Program the Audioblogger number into your phone and you can put audio recordings on your blog quickly by simply calling the number and recording yourself.This offering is unique among blog software packages.Blogger is perfect for the future blogger who's in a hurry and less than intrested in design customization.
If your priority is to start blogging now,you cant do better than Blogger.

Jargons In Blogging

Whichever blog software package you chose,there are few technical options you look for.Let me describe just the terms.I decided not to elaborate it as you people knew about it as soon as u stepped into blogsphere.

1.Post

2.Comments

3.Comment Spam

4.Categories

5.Trackbacks

6.Trackback spam

7.RSS/Atom Feeds

8.Pings

9.Blogroll/lists

10.News aggregation

11.Mobblogging

12.Blacklist

13.Captchas

14.URL Redirection

15.Skins

16.Post scheduling and Bookmarklets

Favourite Matches-2

1.India vs Pakistan(2003 World Cup)
Result:Ind won by 6 wickets chasing 274.
Highlight of the match:Sachin's fireworks(Little master at his best)

2.Aus vs England(2003 World Cup)
Result:Aus won by 2 wickets chasing 205
Highlight of the match:Bichel's 7/20 and Bevans knock

3.Aus vs NZ
Result:Aus won by 96 runs
Higjlight of the match:Bond's 6/23 and Lee's 5/42

4.Aus vs Ind
Result:Aus won by 125 runs defending 360
Highlight of the match:Thalaivar punter's innings of unbeaten 140

My unforgettabale cricket matches-1

Hi everyone,being a hardcore cricket fan i have been waiting long to write this post.There are many cricket matches played out every year.But the craze in one matches are there for ever.Here are some unforgetabble matches of mine.I dont want to rate any of the matches as each have its own signifiacance.

1.India vs Pakistan(1996 World Cup in Bangalore)
Result:Ind won by 39 runs defending 288.
Highlight of match:Jadeja's batting,Aamir Sohail's wicket(Hope everyone gets it)

2.Aus vs WI(1996 World Cup in Mohali)
Result:Aus won by 5 runs defending 207
Highlight of the match:Undoubtly warne's bowling

3.SA vs Pak(1999 World Cup in Nottingham)
Result:SA won by 3 wickets chasing 221.
Highlight of the match:Shoaib's bowling and Zulu's blasting

4.Aus vs SA(1999 World Cup in Headingly)
Result:Aus won by 5 wickets chasing 272
Highlight of the match:Steve Waugh's unbeaten 120)

5.Aus vs SA(Semi final at Edgbaston)
Result:Match Tied
Highlight of the match:Warne on fire(4/29)

Personalities-4

James A.Gosling

James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his doctoral thesis was titled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of emacs (gosmacs), and before joining Sun Microsystems he built a multi-processor version of Unix[1] while at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as several compilers and mail systems.Since 1984, Gosling has been with Sun Microsystems, and is generally known best as the founder of the Java programming language.

He is generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994. He did the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. He has also made major contributions to several other software systems, such as NeWS and Gosling Emacs. He also cowrote the "bundle" program, a utility thoroughly detailed in Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike's book The Unix Programming Environment.

Kenneth Thompson
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding the UNIX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems.Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and Master's degree in 1966, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the University of California, Berkeley, where his Master's thesis advisor was Elwyn Berlekamp.In the 1960s, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics operating system. While writing Multics, Thompson created the Bon programming language. The two left the Multics project as it was becoming too complex, but they took the lessons they learned to Bell Labs, where, in 1969, Thompson and Ritchie were the principal creators of the UNIX operating system. There, Thompson also wrote the B programming language, a precursor to Ritchie's C.
Thompson had developed the CTSS version of the editor QED, which included regular expressions for searching text. QED and Thompson's later editor ed (the default editor on Unix) contributed greatly to the eventual popularity of regular expressions, previously regarded mostly as a tool (or toy) for logicians. Regular expressions became pervasive in Unix text processing programs (such as grep). Almost all programs that work with regular expressions today use some variant of Thompson's notation for them.Along with Joseph Condon, he created the hardware and software for Belle, a chess computer. He also wrote programs for generating the complete enumeration of chess endings, for all 4, 5, and 6-piece endings, allowing chess-playing computer programs to make "perfect" moves once a position stored in them is reached. Later, with the help of chess endgame expert John Roycroft, Thompson distributed his first results on CD-ROM.

Personalities-3

Ray Tomlinson

Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941) is a programmer who implemented an email system in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet (previously, mail could only be sent to others who used the same computer). To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since.
The first email sent by him is not preserved and had content he describes as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP". This is commonly misquoted as "The first e-mail was QWERTYUIOP"
At first, his email messaging system wasn't thought to be a big deal. When Tomlinson showed it to a colleague he said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on." [3]

He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a long-time employee of BBN.

Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York, but his family soon moved to the small, unincorporated village of Vail Mills, New York. He attended the Broadalbin Central School in nearby Broadalbin, New York. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York where he participated in the co-op program with IBM. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer in 1963.

After graduating from RPI, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to continue his electrical engineering education. At MIT, Tomlinson worked in the Speech Communication Group and developed an analog-digital hybrid speech synthesizer as the subject of his Master's thesis. He received a S.M. in Electrical Engineering degree in 1965.

In 1967 he joined the technology company of Bolt Beranek and Newman where he helped develop the TENEX operating system including ARPANET Network Control Protocol and TELNET implementations. He wrote a file-transfer program called CPYNET to transfer files through the ARPANET. Tomlinson was asked to change a program called SNDMSG, which sent messages to other users of a time-sharing computer, to run on TENEX. He added code he took from CPYNET to SNDMSG so messages could be sent to users on other computers — the first email.

Leonard Kleinrock:

Leonard Kleinrock, Ph.D. (born 1934) is a computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at UCLA, who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET at UCLA.

His most well-known and significant work is his early work on queueing theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key mathematical background to packet switching, the basic technology behind the Internet. His initial contribution to this field was his doctoral thesis in 1962, published in book form in 1964; he later published several of the standard works on the subject.

He has described this work as:

"Basically, what I did for my PhD research in 1961–1962 was to establish a mathematical theory of packet networks ..."
His theoretical work on hierarchical routing, done in the late 1970s with his then-student Farouk Kamoun, is now critical to the operation of today's world-wide Internet.

Personalities-Part 2

Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is:
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface. The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it.
The Xanadu project itself failed to flourish, for a variety of reasons which are disputed. Journalist Gary Wolf published an unflattering history, The Curse of Xanadu[1], on Nelson and his project in the June, 1995 issue of Wired magazine. Nelson expressed his disgust on his website[2], referring to Wolf as a "Gory Jackal", and threatened to sue him.

Nelson claims some aspects of his vision are in the process of being fulfilled by Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web. However, Nelson says he dislikes the World Wide Web, XML and all embedded markup, and regards Berners-Lee's work as a gross over-simplification of his own work:

Ray Tomlinson
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941) is a programmer who implemented an email system in 1971. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to the ARPAnet (previously, mail could only be sent to others who used the same computer). To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the user from their machine, which has been used in email addresses ever since.
The first email sent by him is not preserved and had content he describes as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP". This is commonly misquoted as "The first e-mail was QWERTYUIOP"

At first, his email messaging system wasn't thought to be a big deal. When Tomlinson showed it to a colleague he said "Don't tell anyone! This isn't what we're supposed to be working on." [3]

He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a long-time employee of BBN.

Tomlinson was born in Amsterdam, New York, but his family soon moved to the small, unincorporated village of Vail Mills, New York. He attended the Broadalbin Central School in nearby Broadalbin, New York. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York where he participated in the co-op program with IBM. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer in 1963.

After graduating from RPI, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to continue his electrical engineering education. At MIT, Tomlinson worked in the Speech Communication Group and developed an analog-digital hybrid speech synthesizer as the subject of his Master's thesis. He received a S.M. in Electrical Engineering degree in 1965.

Hacking in Mobiles

Mobile hacking has undergone many changes and one such hacking is known asBluesnarfing.Bluesnarfing is the unauthorised access of information from a wireless device through a bluetooth connection often between phones,desktops and laptops.It allows access to the calendar,contact list,emails and text messages,and on some phones users can steal pictures and private videos.It was first identified by Marcel Holtmann who is the maintainer and the core developer of the official Linux Bluetooth stack which is called BlueZ.So everyone using bluetooth mobiles be careful.Any device with the bluetooth connection can be attacked.By turning off this feature,the potential victim can be safer from the possibility of being bluesnarfed.

Virtualization slowly catching up

People are really confused about the concept of virtualization.It is nothing but a fundamental technological innovation that allows skilled IT managers to deploy creative solutions to such business challenges.The term virtualization broadly describes the separation of a resource or request for a service from the underlying physical delivery of that service.Wit virtual memory,computer software gains access to more memory than is physically installed,the underground swapping of data to disk storage.Similarly,virtualization techniques can be applied to other IT infrastructure layers.

Substandard commentaries

Commentaries have been part of of cricket since the early days,here are some commentators who make a mess of it.Lets start with our Jimmy....

1) Mohinder Amarnath:

Starts singing whenever he gets an opportunity. And can never talk more than 2 minutes in the same language. “I think ke use wahan pe fieler place nahi… “ “what you say is right but mere khayal se… “. He is one of the stars of ‘fair and lovely’ fourth umpire. And always gives his views in the end. Hears what Srikkanth says and says something which is exactly the opposite.

2) Charu Sharma:

Poor man’s Harsha Bhogle but gets all the big tournaments – World Cup, ICC Knockout and most of the Home series shown in DD. He is also the host of a crap DD show ‘Fair and Lovely Fourth Umpire’ where he calls himself the fourth umpire. And also gets lovely lady ‘commentators’ like Mandira Bedi and Roshni Chopra to sit next to him. He, like Sanjay Manjrekar very much.He tries to be too ‘neutral’ but unlike Sanjay, ends up being more irritating than boring. And listening to him, you always feel your team will lose no matter what the position is. His favourite lines are “Lets not underestimate the opposition. What if we lose 3-4 early wickets?” “what if India won the toss, bowl first and there is no dew later?”

3) Arun Lal:

A long time partner of Maninder Singh. The pair of Maninder and Arun Lal is responsible for lots of damaged mute buttons on remote controls. Maninder Singh has only one fan in the world and it is Arun Lal. Whatever Maninder has to say will be followed by “Ji Maninder ekdum sahi kaha aapne”. Recently he got an idea that he should do commentary in english too and the DD guys were just too willing to let him do that. His first experience : India were playing West Indies and Ganguly hit a hook shot for a four. Arun Lal “Bahut ach… Very good shot!! Ganguly is a great hooker”. His co-commentator Michael Holding was shocked and after few seconds repeated “hooker?”
One of his most famous lines “Great shot between point and square leg”!!! and what that??? A shot over the keeper?? And “His balls have been hit badly”

4) Kris Srikkanth:

A very heavy south Indian accent and highly biased towards India. Debuted along with Venkatesh Prasad during the 2003 World Cup but unlike him, hasn’t quit commentary and is now an ‘expert’ in ‘fair and lovely fourth umpire’ – A crap show hosted by Charu Sharma during match breaks.
Some Srikkanth Classics :
* If Zaheer can bowl a little extra pace, it will make the ball come to the bat more faster
* Rameez, if Zimbabwe shock Australia by scoring 275 runs, Australia will shock Zimbabwe by scoring 276 runs
* One needs to understand that Test cricket is Test cricket and One-day cricket is One-day cricket
* England players have a typical English like attitude, which is different than Pakistani attitude
* England players traditionally have been playing very traditional cricket
* Venkatesh Prasad, don't get upset because I upset you, take it cool
* The Zimbabwe-England tie is very important from India's point of view because irrespective of the outcome there, India have to beat England.
During WC 2003, Srikkanth was out there to give pitch report :Kapil Dev - from the studio: "Sri, how the wicket looks like? Is there any moisture?"Kris Srikkanth - from the stadium: "Kapil Paaji! Kaise hai tu?".

5) Ranjit Fernando:

India have Sanjay Manjrekar. Pakistan have Rameez Raza and Srilanka have Ranjit Fernando. Probably Sri Lanka’s greatest commentator ever. He believes in few things and never changes his view on them. They are :
* Sri Lanka is the greatest team ever. If they lose, its because they played badly that day.
* Muttiah Murlitharan is the greatest bowler ever. If he bowls a wide, its because he has some plans.. and If a batsman hits him for four, its often a ‘mishit’ and was aimed somewhere else.
* And he believes in reciting the full names of Sri Lankan players no matter how loooooooooong they are.
And his accent!!! “Eye’ve cott et too”

*Another famous line of him is "the crowd is chanting his name dhoni!dhoni!dhoni!

6) Maninder Singh:

A hindi commentator who thinks a line isn’t complete unless he uses 3-4 english words in it.
“khoobsoorat ball aur batsman ne loft kar diya over mid off. Isse mein good shot kahoonga”
Once Ganguly was bowled and Maninder was jumping in the commentary box shouting how good a ball it was. Some time later, he screamed “aur doosra wicket!! Zabardast slower ball” (when they were showing slow action replay)
His problem is he gets excited even on singles. “Aur ye zabardast shot. Superb timing ke saath khela hua khoobsoorat shot… par seedha fielder ke paas. Sirf ek run milega”
When a batsman scores a fifty, “achi innings thi. Abhi inko century banana chahiye” and when a batsman scores a century “bahut achi innings abhi inko carry on karma chahiye”
And Maninder Singh has this habit of reading out loud anything written on the screen like required run rate, wickets in hand, etc.. and once he even read out an advertisement.11) Sanjay ManjrekarJust recently (couple of years ago) Sanjay started commentary. His English is quite good but its because of what he says, he comes at #11 in this list. His main problem is that he tries too hard to be unbiased and that usually makes him give negative comments about India. His commentary is mostly lifeless without enthusiasm (except when India lose wickets. The only time he seemed happy behind the mike was when Rahul Dravid declared when Sachin Tendulkar [he pronounces him as Ten-dool-kur was on 194) and has this very bad habit of talking and talking and talking during presentation ceremonies.
This happened once :Manjrekar to a captain : That was a great victory. What did you think of the wicket this morning? we could see some moisture and felt it could give some help to the bowlers and your bowlers bowled an excellent opening spell which really took away the game from the opposition. And your opening batsmen gave the team just the start you wanted, but I think that opening spell is what took away the game?Captain : “yea”

7) Rameez Raza:

Pakistani version of Sanjay Manjrekar. Extremely boring like #11 but has an ability to be biased and can be unbelievably optimistic. During the Ind-Pak match in WC2003, even when Sachin and Kaif were batting well after laying a solid foundation for a win, Rameez believed Shoaib can take all the remaining wickets.
During WC2003,Ravi Shastri: Now, Sachin is struggling with cramps out there, he might do well to ask for a runner.Rameez Raza: The way Sachin is batting, Waqar might not think of allowing a runner so that Sachin will struggle and can be dismissed.Ravi Shastri: Rameez, Spoken like a true Pakistani!!Rameez Raza: Thank you Ravi.

8) Venkatesh Prasad:

Maybe its unfair to put his name in the list as he has done commentary in only one series. But it was the world cup and I will remember his ‘performance’ for a long time.
He tried to talk sense, he tried to talk properly, he tried not to be over awed by the people around, tried not to be spotted by the camera when he was looking at mandira bedi but failed in everything.
He couldn’t speak a line properly “I t-t-t-t-t-think it was a good p-p-p-p-itch to b-bat”. Reminded me of that joke where a kid comes home disappointed at not being selected at the speech team. Father : “Son, why you didn’t get selected?” Son : “T-t-t-t-they t-t-t-t-told me I was t-t-t-t-t-t-too t-t-t-t-tall”
Try to make sense out of this (It was when Brett Lee hit Tikolo on the head)"Definitely, Tikolo is coming in line. Of course, you need to come in line! But definitely Brett Lee is also very much bowling in line and hit Tikolo on the head."
Also got very excited when one thing he said out of thousand happened.He wanted Sachin to open and Tony Greig thought Sachin was better at #4. When Sachin became a super success in world cup as an opener,..Venkatesh Prasad: "You wanted Sachin to bat at #4 and I said that was a bad idea. I was right. What do you have to say?"Tony Greig: "I'm allowed to be wrong once in a year and you're allowed to be right once in a year."

Thats it frnds,i like to thank my friend balaji for compiling this post.

Some famous Sidduisms

Famous Siddhuisms.......Enjoy reading it

In the midst of a verbal duel with Martin Crowe: "Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn! "

Commenting on Ganguly after he was out for a low score in the 2nd Test against Zimbabwe: "..Looks like a brooding hen over a china egg"

In the midst of a verbal duel with Tony Greig: "If ifs and buts were pots and pans, there would be no tinkers!"

When Ganguly took a catch that had gone very high in the air: "That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it !!"

"Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide."

In India's last match against New Zealand: "New Zealanders are like bicycles in a cycle stand - one falls down and the complete row will be down!

"Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taxi meter."

"Taking the cake with a red cherry on top. "

For Sri Lankan batsman Kaluwitharna, when he was wasting many balls: "He is like Indian three-wheeler which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30! "

To Martin Crowe: "The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend, that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world which does not have wings!"

Muralitharan bowling to the last Indian pair: "The wily fox is back. Its an ill omen when a fox licks its lambs."

Applauding Reetinder Singh Sodhi's fighting spirit: "Young Ricky will fight a rattlesnake and give him the first two bites! "

"The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !! "

A girl born beautiful is half married (also A good lather is half
the shave)

.. The Indians need to behave as if they are in a boat with a hole.
There is no team co-operation

.. His slower ball was so slow that my mama can run faster than that

.. The world is all about mind and matter, i don't mind and u don't
matter...

e.. In London they drive on the left, in India we drive on what is
left!

.. Still waters run deep. The Indians were so still in the 3rd test
that they ran into deep oceans

.. Ganguly moves so slowly on the field like jack of jack n jill who
goes to fetch pail of runs for the opposition..
.
.. Umpires are like traffic police -the techniques they use to give a
decision are outdated

.. Flip the coin and there is no head or tail. (India plays the
cricket without any aim)

.. Harbhajan could be a windmill with a single blade during a
hurricane, when batting

.. Strutting around wicket as proud as peacock

.. A barking dog better than a sleeping Lion So go on Indians Bark
aloud and let everyone hear you louder!!!

.. The dog that barks last, barks best

.. S.Ramesh's running between the wickets is like a snail going slow!

.. He is like an Indian transistor, which does not work until you give
It two slaps.

.. If u r trying to beat india in their home you are you trying to
get milk out of an ox.

.. Indian team is just like indian monsoon.you just cant predict when
there will be flood & when drought.

.. The ball went soo high up in the air that it kissed an air-hostess
on its way back.

.. Rahul is like the hall of fire !!!!

.. Ganguly has taken the cake with plum on top (ha ha ha)

.. The ball slipped from his hands like butter from hot paratha

.. Women are worse than wine - They intoxicate both the holder and the
beholder (when a female was shown on TV screen)

. For Geoffrey Boycott - a hair on head is worth two in the brush (In
response to Shastri's comment "a bird in hand is worth 2 in bush" When
Yohannan was carrying the bird hit by Tendulkar)

Good "Drawers"

Hi friends,its been a really long time since i blogged.........Some of the words used in these posts were from doomil kuppam dictionary and madisar maami aathu dictionary.Seri veetuku vandhu edhavathu urupadiya pannalam nu yosichu tv ya partha,paruthiveeran paatu than sarva kaalamum illai na anga mazhai,inga mazhai........Payirgal naasam,nadhi nirambi vazhikirathunu headlines.Atleast set top box irrundha wimbledon paakalam na,veetlayo pencil box kuda vazhi illai

Seri topic ku varuvom enna title drawers nu vechu adha double quotes vera koduthurkane nu paakaringala.Adhu thanga topic ke.Drawer na table oda varumeadhu illai, uncles ellamkaalai velai la pottu kitu suthu vaangale adhu than.Adhoda chinna varalaaru,first drawer,apparam bermudas,apparam konjam dissent ah shorts konjam local ah arai trouser.
Edho jogging poga, illa walking poga,illa shuttle vilayaada, idhukkellam shorts pottukka vendiyadhu dhaan.... thappu illa..... adhukku-nu oru idam porul eval illama... supermarket,kovil,bank,theatre, -nu ippadi enga paathalum ivanunga shorts pottukittu adikira kottam irukke.... yappa solli maalathu.Adhuvum sani kizhamai na varum paaru oru kootam,namma jadhagathu la irrukira sani bhaghvane neechathuku poiduvaaru
Seri vidunga,adhu than mukka pant(3/4th) nu onnu vandhurchala adha poda vendiayathuthane,adhuvum kidayathu........Sudarmani 105cm trunk maadhiri poda vendiyathu.Neega lam enna Ramba Fan Club oda uripanargala?.... kekka thonum.
En sir endha maadhiri ellam varinga nu yaravathu thappi thavari kaeta "Neenga thappa purinjindu irrukel.... madras weather-la full trouser poda mudiyala.... nekku kaal ellam verthu kottaradhu" arguement vera.Appadinna vaetti-ya katta vendiyadhu dhaane.... adha vida comfortable dress vera enna venum.... Adhu sari... Naanaga tharpanam(rites performed at beginning of the tamil month or no moon day)dhavasathkum vaetti thana kattarom nu vera oru sila specimen ga argue pannum.Adapaavi gala shastrigal mama vita edhukum shorts poduvingala.........?Naan annaikku theatre-la oruthara paathen.....Ocean 13 madhiri oru class movie-ku, wife, 8 vayasu payyan ellarayum koottittu vandhu irukkaan.... Idhula visesham enna-na avanum, avan payyanum orey size shorts dhaan pottu irundhaanga..... Indha azhagula theatre-a vittu veliya pogum bodhu, pondatti thol mela kayya vera pottukkittu perumaya nadandhu poga vendiyadhu.... college pasangale moodittu decent-a vandhu irundhaanga....
Evangala neenga eppadi ellam kandu pidikalamkarthuku oru example,edhavadhu oru podhu edathula... konjam kooda tally aagama... oru Lacoste T shirt... oru shorts(sorry adha 'jatti'-nu dhaan sollanum) pottukittu, oru french beard(optional) vechikkittu.... pakkathula irukka wife kitta... "endha bag-a konjam pidi"-nu thamizh-la pesittu..... "abhi enough, come here"-nu payyan kitta peter-um yaaravadhu vandhangana avanga than endha topic koda thalainga.

Evangalaku naalu vaarthai narukku nu kekkanum illai na anniyan style ah thakundha thandanai
koduvanum.....Oru example,evanga thodaila veyil la vadam kaaya podarathu,illa thel(scorpion)vitu kotrathu,eppadi neraiya irruku.Adha neenga than comment ah kodukanum........

Einstein teaser

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.


There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.

Message of Millenium

Hi friends this is my first POST and I decided to start off with a beautiful message.I titled it as 'Message of Millenium'.

With a pile of 300 résumés on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly,
my boss told me to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.

"Throw away 250 résumés?" I asked, shocked.
"What if the best candidates are in there?"
"You have a point," he said.

"But then again, I don't need people with bad luck here."

- Becky Horowitz(Reader's digest)

'Sledgers' and Movers

The sledging post in my frnd Vijay's blog has been a inspiration to do this post....But the sledges I have posted here is not there in his blog and I dont now how he missed it out.....

First let me start off with "Wht is sledging"?

Wiki refers to sledging as 'exchanging words with opposition player(s) which can put him(them) off their usual game; it is an attempt to "psych out" an opponent'. Cricket is a very interesting game, and sledging adds to it the extra spice that make it much more than just game.

Here is a compilation of the best sledging related incidents, witnessed in the history of cricket…

The Prasad Vs Sohail Incident:

Hero to Zero in 3 easy steps:

No avid cricket fan forget the quarter final match between India and Pakistan at Bangalore,chasing India's score of 287-8, Pakistan got off to a flyer of a start, Aamir Sohail and Saeed Anwar went about tearing the Indian bowling attack. Pakistan looked all set to win as they reached 110 odd for the loss of just 1 wicket within the 15 overs.

Take that: Amir Sohail was completely bent on demolishing the Indian bowling to pieces, charging down the track to the faster bowlers (if u can call Prasad that) in this particular case he came down the ground (a good 4-5 steps, anymore and he would have hit Prasad too) and slashed the bowl over vacant off side area… the ball disappeared into the fence in a flash … what followed has since been etched in the memories of every cricket fan in the subcontinent.

Act Oversmart: Aamir Sohail is no Miandad. But he tries to be,and fails miserably. Sohail after hitting the shot pointed his bat the area where the bowl had disappeared and then towards Prasad apparently gesturing where he will send the next one . Its not everyday that you see a batsman sledging the bowler, and Sohail was about to learn just why.

Get what you called for: Sohail attempting to repeat the shot (albeit with his feet stuck to the ground this time) made room and exposed his stumps, and his weakness, and in return lost his wicket and his face.As the wicket lay uprooted, Prasad returned the favour to Sohail, pointing to the pavilion this time.This what we call in tamil as "AAPU"

The comeback was truly remarkable, almost a miracle …. Prasad has bowled thousands of deliveries and taken hundereds of wickets in his career but, it was this one granted him a place in the History of Indian Cricket for ever, the ghost of Miandad's last ball six too deserve a second place when compared to this.The video of it will be posted very soon....

Dropped the Cup?:

This is my most unforgettable incident and I like dis a lot.I was studying 8th standard at tht time fanaticsm scaled new heights in me,especially in every Aus match.Perhaps the most famous sledge in a World Cup match took place the epic Super Six clash between: Australia and South Africa (in 2003). South Africa looked on course to a routine victory with Australian captain Steve Waugh at the crease and on 56. At that stage, Waugh clipped the ball in the air straight to South African fielder Herschelle Gibbs. In his haste, Gibbs dropped the ball when attempting to throw it in the air in celebration as he had not fully controlled it.

As he passed him, Waugh is said to have asked Gibbs: " How does it feel to have dropped the World Cup?". Waugh carried on to make an unbeaten 120 and Australia posted an unlikely win and won the World Cup a few days later.

Waugh has however denied that quote, instead claiming that he said " looks like you've dropped the match".

Sachin Tendulkar Vs Abdul Qadir

The year was 1989, the little master had recently made his debut in Pakistan.

Sachin not even old enough to get a driving licence. Sachin Tendulkar was facing the best bowlers in the business. As the Pakistani crowds jeered and mocked Sachin holding out the placards saying "Dudh Pita Bhachcha ..ghar jaake dhoodh pee", (hey kid, go home and drink milk), Sachin sent the then young leg spinner Mustaq Ahmed hiding for cover (he had hit two sixes in one over. The frustaded mentor of Mustaq Ahmed the legendary Abdul Qadir challenges Sachin saying "Bachchon ko kyon mar rahe ho? Hamein bhi maar dikhao" ("Why are you hitting kids? Try and hit me."). Sachin was silent, since then we all have come to know that he lets his bat do the talking. Abdul Quadir had made a simple request and Sachin obliged, and how. Sachin hit 4 sixes in the over, making the spinner look the kid in the contest. The over read 6, 0, 4, 6 6 6, …and a legend was born.

Steve Waugh and Amul Baby Parthiv:

Amidst all the hype surrounding his farewell match, Steve Waugh had to contend with an unexpected dose of his own medicine from a player half his age. As Waugh fought a grim battle to stave off defeat in the series-deciding fourth Test in Sydney, 19 year-old Indian wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel tried to unsettle the veteran batsman through some banter.

The baby-faced Patel egged on the 38 year-old stalwart to play one of his sweep shots one last time.
The India 'keeper was saying, 'Come on, just one more of the famous slog-sweeps before you finish'

Waugh replied: 'Look, show a bit of respect. You were in nappies when I debuted 18 years ago'.

Mother (in law) of all sledges:

In the 1980's Ian Botham returned early from a tour of Pakistan, and on radio joked "Pakistan is the sort of country to send your mother in-law to." Needless to say the Pakistanis did not find this amusing, and when Pakistan defeated England in the 1992 World Cup Final, Aamer Sohail told Ian Botham " Why don't you send your mother-in-law out to play, she cannot do much worse."

Special Mention:

Inzamam-ul-Haq once told Brett Lee to " stop bowling off spinners".

On the recent Karachi Test when Irfan Pathan came to bat in 2nd Innings Afridi shouted two times "O mera Shehzada aaya ! " (Oh! my prince has come)

These jeans are too heavy in your 'wallet' only

They wanted to be “the Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach of the denim industry”. And APO jeans have done just that with a pair costing as much as $ 4,000 or more. They offer mens and ladies jeans with Silver Buttons and Rivets at $1,000, 14k White or Yellow Gold Button and Rivets at $1,500, Platinum Button and Rivets at $3,250, and the Diamond Button and Rivets start at $4,000. All Jeans will come with Authenticity Number as well as an Appraisal Sheet from a top Jeweler in the NY diamond district. Of course, you could buy the economy version: they run only $1,000 a pair. APO jeans are constructed from denim woven in India that costs $40 a yard, compared with the $2- to $3-per-yard cost of materials for most designer denim. Buttons and rivets are made with precious metals or, if a customer is willing to shell out $4,000 or more, up to a dozen white diamonds on the main button.

Yaarana vaangunga please........

Plz hit this ball out of the grounds

This ball is made up of 2704 diamonds covered with 18 carat gold !!Ball vaangaliya ball.......

Delicious Pen Drives

Who knows they can be available in India very soon.................

Experience at INOX

Gags,I really felt for the time delay in writing this post even though I have been to INOX a couple of time before writing this post.When CitiCenter was opened little than a year ago,I was desperately waiting for INOX as it had gained more poularity n many cities.Finnaly INOX was opened on Jan 15th and ‘thimiru’ was the first movie to be screened at INOX.The tickets were priced at Rs 120 and Rs 10 and I was sure that no movie deserves to be watched at such a price.My friend Yashie(Yashwant) was the first among my circle to go their that too in 10Rs ticket.I decided to there after my placements and ‘Ghost Rider’ is the first movie I saw in INOX.I went to the citicenter by 7:30 I the morning and got the tickets for myself and Anandham(Raghav).I thought there would be a huge difference between 10 and 120,but there wasn’t any difference at all because the first row were priced at 10Rs and frm the second it was 120Rs.The ambience was superb,though the film wasnt and I was quite lucky to get the ticket for 1st screen which is relatively larger than the remaining three.The snack prices were definitely heavy on my wallet.Imagine popcorn is being priced at 40Rs and you itself can calculate the rate of items like donut,black forest and all….Going to INOX was definitely a good exercise for me as I go there by walk itself.Hope INOX can make a good arrangement for people in getting the 10Rs tickets as slu crowd is uncontrollable