Triumphs Personified

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 ...

One of the folks on Raptivity Community asked how to load a Raptivity SWF file in Adobe Connect Pro . Following post shows how to do that. I have not attached any files and please don't ask me to attach any file. Just follow the steps and everything should be taken care of. 1. Upload your SWF file to any web server. One of the free servers can be Google Sites. Copy the complete path of your SWF. Lets say the path is http://yourserver/yourswfToLoad.swf. 2. Create a SWF file. (Any blank swf file) 3. Now load your movie inside this new SWF you just created by inserting the following script on Frame 1 of your newly created SWF. //Create an empty MovieClip and use the MovieClipLoader to load your SWFinto it. var container:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("container", getNextHighestDepth()); container._lockroot = true; var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); mcLoader.addListener(this); mcLoader.loadClip("http://yourserver/yourswfToLoad.swf...

He was just brilliant... but I may not admit... coz I don't flatter, coz thats just not me. Did us proud and just added weight to our confidence...but I may not admit... coz I don't want to send wrong signals. I probably am living a part of someone elses dream?... maybe! coz as of now lifes like Eklavya to me but...he's got no clue that he is 'one of' the Drona. Deep inside I wish to wish him luck but I may not... coz he's already got a load. Time has come to try mine.

When the sun shines on the mountain And the night is on the run It's a new day, it's a new way And I fly up to the sun, I can fell the morning sunlight I can smell the new born haze I can hear God's voice calling For my golden sky like gray Una paloma blanca I'm just a bird in the sky Una paloma blanca Over the mountains I fly No one can take my freedom away Once I had my share of losing Once they locked me on a chain Yes, they tried to break my powers Oh, I still can feel the pain Una paloma blanca I'm just a bird in the sky Una paloma blanca Over the mountains I fly No one can take my freedom away Yes, no one can take my freedom away...

Tea - In the morning? - Yeah, Divya makes it and wakes me up...and I forget to drink that. Tea - In between movie interval? - No I am good. Tea - In the mid morning? - No. Have work to do. Can't afford to spend time. Tea - Evening? Still piled up! You guys go ahead. Tea - In the late evening? No. I'd rather go for coffee. Have to put in some extra tonight. Tea - When you are in the US? - Anything for a good cup of tea! You never get to know the importance of a good cup of tea unless you are kept away from that. Janhavi gave me a Tea bag today, its a good subtitute but still... I have one more good reason to miss my country.

... both of you look like Rakesh Roshan... Kudos to you Rakesh!

Have you ever observed the prime time soap operas on any channel!! One thing very evidently visible with each of them is the SHooooooooooooooooMMM effect(for showing trechery, lust, mistrust and happYness) and the other thing is that... they all are in slow motion... Mannn!! They roll a 10 mins recording over a stretch of 30 mins!! Mynnd blaawinnn!!

11 pretty ugly girls These girls probably might be coming from all around India, and Ranvijay made a JATT girl realize that she is JATT and "JAAT HUMESHA JEETATE hai"... another honest effort to divide the country and earn money through SMS. 1 beautiful sexy host with an English accent... more English than the British people… Ranvijay is her boy friend and she’s got looks matching with that of Lisa Ray. Cute and Sexy... but a real compromise on IQ.... NO AND I AM NOT GAME FOR HER. A stupid set of foolish questions For finding the “bottom two females” everyone else in the group asks their favorite "push outside" girl silly questions like "Why do you keep your room unclean?" "Why do you dry your clothes in the bathroom?" "Why do you act like a guy" And then the real booh hooh show starts. A hell lota tears... The tear is the after effect of the silly stupid questions and it gets followed by a even the more stupid kind of a vote out. A to...

Recently these MTV guys have started this awesome show Wassup youngistan... the voice of young India in a very unusual, unmanly and probably unseen time slot...i.e 8:30 A.M to 9 A.M....They have got almost everything, as in a very good concept along with very good VJ's like Ayushmann but honestly what they really dont have is... a good time slot. Come on "Wassup" guys! What you guys offer is "awesome" stuff for the "awesome" public... but I lay bets that not much of this "awsome" public would be awake in your air time. Come to think of it, do you remember getting up anytime before 8 A.M and sitting up in front of the television for your favourite show as soon as you get up? Come on guys, take a break! What are you guys upto hunn?

"Damm you Ashutosh for voting Prabjot out.".... this is what Divya said last Satuday after watching the vote out...err... sorry, usage of the elimination power done by Ashutosh. Well, what I'd say is, Ashu's done the right thing. Ok, there probably might be two reasons for doing that. Firstly, he wanted to break the unity between Sonal and Prabjot. He could have never done that without eliminating Prabjot out. Sonal is really like ymmm, I know and Ashu is real game for her!! and she just tries to show her dimple everywhere with a angel overcoat, but, only Ashu is really sensible enough to know that "Its not about winning the game but its only about winning the game". Nihal on the other side played very safe the other day by saying "Ashu, terko pata hai tujhe kisne vote kiya hai aur kisko vote out karna hai" (I don't know if they are in love or something but certainly Ashutosh loves being Nihals Katputli.)What Nihal said too made a lot of sense,...

Ciny Alex, my college friend, sent me this very sensible article! Go ahead you too will agree with it. Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what's important. David J. Pollay explains his story in this way…. Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here's what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches! The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean…he was friendly. So, I said, "Why di...

Advertising gurus usually try their best to stay away from controversial and social happenings like caste and religion, but innovation seems to have brough a twist in the plan by bringing the new ‘What an idea, Sirji!’ ad of Idea cellular. It draws attention to the equalizing power of mobile technology – how by subscribing to this network everyone can have a unique identity, abandoning traditional jati based identity, that for centuries has divided communities and spread disharmony. Thanks to the hypothetical idea from the Idea network now people may belive that the village will no longer be divided along caste lines and will go for the same series cell numbers, thus stick to the same network also there will be no hierarchy, no domination, no violence. There will be peace everywhere. What an idea sirji!! But as to every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. Airtel has now tried to follow the same suite by modifying one of the famous Hindu punch line as "Garv se kaho, Hell...