Triumphs Personified

Guess what! I got an awesome download speed of 20.35 mbps. Its 13 times better than my previous internet service provider. I remember downloading at a lightning speed of 10-12 mbps from US...  but this speed is like stuu much!

Ganesha Chaturthi also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi is the Hindu festival of Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees in the duration of this festival. It is the birthday of Lord Ganesha who is widely worshiped as the god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. Following is the photo of the richest Ganesh idol by the name Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati in Pune that was taken on Sept 16, 2010 during the Ganesh festival.

When we talk is about desserts, one name that undoubtedly comes into every person's mind is the traditional Tomato halwa prepared on every home in almost all the festivals. On the occasion of most of the festivals/carnivals, Tomato Halwa is an unavoidable part of the menu. When served hot, the Tomato Halwa tastes wonderful. It is simply the prefect sweet dish to be relished post dinner. Not only its delicious, it’s also fulfilling and nutritious with about 8 grams of proteins, 50.3gram carbohydrates and 1.9 grams of fat. Making Tomato Halwa is not a very difficult task in terms of process; it requires a little more time and patience than any other halwa. Even if you are in love with this mouth watering dish, here is the recipe… Tomato Halwa Recipe Ingredients 1 kg Tomatoes 1 litre Milk 1 teaspoon Cardamom seeds 3/4 cup Water 3 tablespoons Ghee 2 tablespoons Raisins 2 tablespoons Almonds 2 tablespoons Pistachios 450 grams Sugar Method Wash and grate the Tomatoes. ...

This is my first blogpost from my iPod. Well what is so diferent about this post? I am going to be an uncle shortly. Hard to imagine that I would officially be an uncle so here I am, sitting in the lobby of the hospital that would be pointed out from google earth some day to point the place she was born. I just know it from the inside that it's going to be a girl and I am going to pamper her to limits.  She is already very lucky enough to be born in the city having the worlds best weather apart from having the world best uncle. Well, Today is just perfectly bright and sunny outside so personally I would prefer calling her 'sunshine'. What a lovely name right? One of my best friends prefers calling one of my good friends by that name. I don't mind telling you guys thats the place from where I have picked up this name. Thanks bimlees.

Today, post the announcement of 'Google Wave Extensions' over  here , something made me realize that probably this may be a good news for the eLearning folks. Well, I know this was bound to happen one day but probably this is just the beginning. Google Wave probably may have more surprises for us.  Integration of Flash SWF OR HTML pages with Wave would have probably been on the Google's agenda but till date Wave was missing all the action without the Flash support. The yes/no gadget was the only known way of easily integrating an activity on Wave but post today's announcement of the iFrame extension, watch out for more surprises. I was able to integrate a Flash movie right inside my Wave. Technically this is probably what the eLearning folks were waiting for. Flash is still not everything, there is more. But since they have support for HTML, this can pretty much be used to embed your whole course right inside your Wave where you can add your audience/s...

Pranav Mistry from MIT, probably a year back at TED announced a device called as the "Sixth Sense" which he described as a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around with digital information and lets one use the natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Quite a mouthful! Well, like every time Microsoft seems to have got inspired from that and has teamed up with brains from the Mellon University for "Skinput". Check out this video. But somewhere earlier there are chances that probably Pranav might have got inspired from Microsoft Surface. Looks like a 'chicken first or the egg' kind of exercise here. Sometimes I feel that had it not been Apple we would have still seen a mouse-less world. Obviously it is not about who did it, its about who brought mouse into production and proclaimed it as an invention. Post Apple's invention of converting a pointing device concept into reality, the popularity/usability/accep...

If branded properly this device/concept can make iPad look outdated.

The era of real gestural input and output is now here. Link http://oblong.com/

The "Sticky Notes" that come with Windows7 happens to be a very good application. With this you can keep a track of your task list by scribbling stuff on it. Its just like the 3M Post-it notes that you usually use in office. Well, since the font formating capabilities of these notes was not very impressive I was just wondering if there is an alternative to strikethrough/strikeout a scribbled line from the note... and guess what! It does have a shortcut... Just like Ctrl+b is for Bold and Ctrl+i is for itallic , Ctrl+t is for S trikethrough/Strikeout .

This survey is hosted for Shanu. He wanted me to create a survey for one of his concepts that he is planning to launch shortly. Please feel free to pass this link to your friends as well. That would help him a lot. Yeah! He is certainly open for all sorts of criticisms and suggestions. Well the story goes as follows: He is doing a survey for finding out the acceptability of a "Phone wishes"/Phonogram system. This system will help people wish each other through meaningful, musical and melodious poems that will be recited by well-deserving artists. This will not only help in seeking employment for talented professionals but it will also encourage people to promote the 'paperless-greener' way of wishing. Click Here to go to the survey page Thanks in advance guys.

Oh! My! God! The year to blog post ratio that I have been having lately certainly shows that there is a drastic drop in the number of blog posts. Back in 2007 it was the highest I guess and 2009 was the lowest. I wonder why! Was it that I kept busy all the time? Probably yes, just stepped into a new role... or maybe my internet connection might have been responsible... Sometimes I get great speed( I am using a well reviewed connection called as BSNL EVDO which is supposedly 3G) that is encouraging to write up a blog post but sometimes it actually pains to pay for a connection that is half alive. Vicinity to the tower makes a difference and you got to do all sorts of weird stuff to get a proper signal. Well, anyway I just want to be as frequent as possible in writing blog posts. (Hopefully I won't get reprimanded for breaching my companies lately designed policy for writing blog posts. I do respect that.) I have been following a lot of people lately and mann... they have some ...