Electricity... W/o Wires...

Who would not look forward to this - Wireless way of transferring electricity?

I have always wanted this to happen, & atlast a news on the same. Hope, this comes reacheable soon for daily use.

Infra...MFs

India has been growing like anything and ofcourse, the growths are visible by the so many infrastructural developments going on in any big & smaller cities you take.

I just don't understand this. With all these developments being compulsorily taken care of, especially the flyovers which are becoming more & more essential as lands are becoming unavailable for widespread expansion, why there are very less Mutual Funds which are concentrating on this area. I just see only 5 of them and they have come up in the past 1 year or so.

Are they being cautious that such developments are temporary? Even any common man can see that such developments are gonna be temporary inside the cities, any new improvements and city planning in the outskirts now a days starts with such infra structural developments first, just like the case with US... Hmmm...

Extradition...

So, it's more than a month for me to scribe things... Well, that really explains how busy I have been. Hope this busyness will ease out in the coming months...

Well. It's been more than a decade that Indian CBI has been trying to extradite Quottrocchi & still they don't have proper evidence to show to any government. This time it is Argentina and few years back like in 2002, it was Malaysia.

So, what have these guys been doing all these years without collecting proper evidence? That too, if we think this to have great political affinity the BJP government should have pushed for getting all the details against Q... When I'm always proud of how the system works at any common man level in India, I too have very low feelings at the other end when it comes to the corruption and how the system fail to work at all these high profile level in India...

Just Simple...

If you are lost, or if you need information on anything, you just need to dial a number. The 'Just Dial' business is as innovative as Google's Web Ad business is.

I just gave it a try and am quite impressed with the promptness of the service & the correctness of the details they have provided me. Ofcourse, they also propose or rather market for the registration of any customer's business with them... the Funders besides the back end investors. Check the article, which the company is proud of to send out to their customers.

Illusion

Hype...

Well, after Tyson & Holyfield, I have got no idea on what has been happening in the Boxing front...

But, today obviously things are different, because for the past 2 days I have been hearing & seeing a lot about the much hyped up fight at MGM grand, Las Vegas on May 5th evening.

A real good hype... I think, by now the fight between Oscar & Floyd would have started and I'm already eagerly looking for the results at ESPN & FoxSports:)

The Link

Till now, though I have photos at Flickr too, I'm more of a Yahoo photos guy. And from the time I read the news that Yahoo Photos is closing, I just am looking for the ways to move the photos to a different site. Well, the details from Yahoo Photos are promising.

Select from among the photo sharing services offered (Flickr, Kodak Gallery,
Shutterfly, Snapfish, and Photobucket) and they will move the photos for you.
You’ll need to verify your Yahoo! account information and either create a new
account or login with an existing account at that other service, but beyond that
they’ll take care of the rest.

But, where is the link inside Yahoo or Flickr to transfer the photos? I have been searching for that one click transfer option... God, why can't these people make things simpler? They want Happy Customers - Word Sake?

Prayers...

I just can't imagine the grief my good friend Chris Coble will currently be undergoing because of his personal loss.

Dear Chris,
My prayers to God for you and your family to give enough strength and be with you during these hard times...

That Bad?

Spiderman 3... With the hype & the trailers, I had a good intention of watching thinking this should be a 'can't be missed' sequel.
With all the reviews coming out as, this is no different from the previous releases, this is with over-dose of characters, villians & the black/dark side of a Spiderman shows just human feelings, I'm not even feeling worth to walk into a theatre for this... What say?

"Responsible"

"Responsible" is the word that has been used by US President Bush for the funds the has urged from the congress for the continued war spending on Iraq & Afghan. I think, everyone of us will get this question - Does that mean, till now all the tax paid money hasn't been spent responsibly?

The past talks for future and how can we reliably say that now by Oct 1, most of US troops will be withdrawn from those sands... which the latest plan boasts for. With the present situation, can we atleast expect all the troops moving out by March 2008? From the time Bush took over Presidency for the second time, the plan is on for pulling out troops... but we are already thinking about the next presidential election.

The most powerful man from the world's influential nation is making plans & plans, provided too much of funds & still asking for more, many have left offices & many new faces have turned in, but ultimately things are not materializing:(

New24.com reports

"At the same time, he warned that if radical Islamists take control of Iraq,
they would have control of a nation with massive oil reserves, which they could
use to fund their ambitions and spread their influence."

I wish & hope, that the oil reserves will be in the hands of Iraq & their government... Not with radicals or with US...

And here is something more to the concerns...

The 'Wal' Rocks

The lines in a BW article read

The fallout is evident: After closing 70 stores in February, Circuit City Stores (CC) on Mar. 28 laid off 3,400 employees and put its 800 Canadian stores on the block. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group (TWTR), the high-end home entertainment store, is shuttering 49 of its 153 stores and dismissed 650 workers. Dallas-based CompUSA is closing 126 of its 229 stores, and regional retailer Rex Stores (RSC) is boarding up dozens of outlets, as well as selling 94 of its 211 stores.

And all these are attributed to "WalMart Effect". We all know, they strive for the lowest prices but... WalMart is making disastrous differences. They are not only stopping the producers & manufacturers from deciding the prices and reaching out the customers, but now even the other retailers are not finding ways to stop WalMart.
Well, the above fall is attributed to the slashing of prices by WalMart in the Plasma & LCD TV segments.
Can 'Warehouse' based stores make some difference in this so that the 'Wal' can be made weak?

Banned?

Not sure why this got banned...!

Bad Use of Gun...

What an end to an employee's year end review...

If you have performed bad for one full year & if the manager makes a point about the same at the year end appraisal, it is not right to take weapons to end the life of the manager... I really didn't expect at the least, that to happen at NASA in Houston.

BTW, when is US policies going to change with respect to usage of Guns at domestic levels. We have already heard lots of times of school children using gun at school & now, within a span of 10 days we have heard of 2 more bad examples.

Peace... at a common man's community is more than sufficient. Ain't it?

Red @ Pole...Once again

So, after the Australian GP ending up with Raikkonen, now its time for Massa to be in the pole position at Malaysia. So, it is going to be a Red Ferrari once again today or is Alonso going to take over from 2nd pole?

I wish I can follow these a bit more closer.

Bangla Rocks

I guess after shocking India in the Cricket World Cup, now its the time for the Proteas to get the shock from the same Bangladesh Cricket team in the Super 8.

I guess, the one thing to which I should attribute this success of Bangladesh is to the present coach Dav Whatmore - Guess I spelt him correctly... He is striving to bring success to whichever team he is coaching and if he continues his coaching for the Bangladesh team for some more time, that team will get its own competitive identity...

Debate on Master...

Atlast a debate all over India on the retirement of senior players and especially on Sachin Tendulkar's form, his performances lately, his way of playing only matches & not match winning innings... Thanks to Ian Chappell.

But Sachin will take his own time to retire & sure, there are wide & better oppurtunities awaiting him - What else, a coach for a big team which will pay him more than his current cricket salary...

The Hour of darkness

The line that attracted me in the article from Sydney Morning Herald is
"...the Coca Cola sign at Kings Cross was switched off for the first time since it was illuminated in 1974."

It is called 'Earth Hour' - A campaign of its own kind to switch off all the lights and other unused electrical appliances for an hour from 7.30PM to 8.30PM on 31st March 2007 in the whole of Sydney, Australia.

Not sure if it is a political stunt or if this really stands for reducing the Sydney's carbon emission, but sure it'll aid in some consumption of electrical power:)

Ad Campaign

Here is one of those Blue Billion Ad campaigns from Pepsi co.

And the great Indian huddle failed miserably in the World Cup, and with that goes all those ad campaigns from Pepsi based on Indian cricketers... Nothing Official about it, Ooh Aah India, Blue Billion, Ladega Toh Jeetega... A campaign worth INR 350 crore.

So, what next? What else for Indians & that too from Pepsi... Back to movie stars - Shahrukhs, Priyankas, Suryas & Maddys - Looking forward to...

Peanut Butter?

Do you remember - There was one news around 8 months back saying that a girl died after kissing her boy friend because she is allergic to peanut & the boy friend happened to have peanut butter before he kissed her?

Well, who knows! It may be because of the new name making rounds starting from World Health Organization to Korean & Chinese markets called Salmonella - Bacteria that can cause food poisoning & typhoid fever. The news is peanut butter brands Peter Pan & Great Value are contaminated with the said bacteria...

Rats...

So, what's up with these bunches of Rats marching into Fast Food Centers at New York? That is just a small view of what things have been hiding from normal public eyes. "Disgusting..." is the comments from most of the people.

More than disgusting, it is much more serious. For sure, food at most of the food establishments are "rat healthy" - Better to take actions than to wait, because its people's lives & health...:(