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Earth’s Moon

I read in livescience.com that Moon is moving away from us. 4.6 billion years ago , the moon was about 14,000 miles from Earth. It is now 280,000 miles away. Also, Moon steals some of Earth’s rotational energy and uses it to propel itself about 1.6 inches higher in its orbit. After reading some interesting facts about our Moon and Earth formation, (earlier (4 billion years ago, a day was only 18 hours long), I have started to think “ Bhagwad Gita ” is absolutely correct. People or God, whoever wrote or conceptualized “ Gita ” has really thought and considered all these in to effect and written. I was always wondering, when it comes to love, people always compared their lover with Moon. After reading the facts of Moon, no wonder why they do it. Without Moon, seems like we may not be here even. Moon stabilizes Earth’s rotation.. hmm.. interesting facts from biologists is that tides generated mostly by Moon would have been a logical place for life to originate. After readin

Make an action thriller story

Yesterday when I was surfing the net and reading some Indian News paper, I got the following topics.. If you have some nice imagination, you can make a nice action story out of it. The headlines are as follows: Bhaba Atomic Research Center in Mumbai Fire accident - 2 Junior Scientists killed (may be we can think of something like they found out and the higher authorities killed them.. or they are the terrorists and the higher authorities doesnt want to leak them out and hence killed them.. We have to link the other headlines and make a nice story) Lunar and Solar eclipse can be seen in India (You can link some scientific fiction based on the eclipse and associate with the above story) New Year 2010 (bring in some horrific sentiments during new year time) Terrorist activity in Gujarat Indian border and a Human bomb was discovered (This can be nicely associated with the first headline) NT Thiwari Sex incident Telengana problem India's climatic change

Happy New Year 2010

Wish you all a Happy New Year 2010.. May you get all you want in this new year!! God bless all and let terrorism vanish across the globe and peace be with us.. Let Scarcity be Scarce and necessity be abundant !

Taking of Pelham 123

Director: Tony Scott Release date: June 12, 2009 Genre: Crime/Thriller Denzel Washington ... Walter Garber John Travolta ... Ryder Luis Guzmán ... Phil Ramos Victor Gojcaj ... Bashkim John Turturro ... Camonetti Music: Harry Gregson-Williams Cinematography: Tobias A. Schliessler Watched last thursday "Taking of Pelham 123" starring John Travolta (Ryder) and Denzel Washington (Garber).. I didnt like it.. Lot of bad words.. Travolta and co hijacks a New York City subway train for a ransom.. It turns out to be for a sharemarket tumble.. I didnt quite get in the end what Ryder wanted.. waste of time..

Lost my Scooter

I usually park my scooter in my apartment complex parking space. Since it is very cold during November to March, I don’t use my scooter much. So it was parked wherever I left. I usually notice my scooter every time I get out of my car; I park my car next to my scooter parking space. It was Christmas holidays and didn’t go out. Day before Christmas, it snowed for an inch. So, I was curious to see how my scooter was blanketed with snow. To my shock, I found another truck parked over there instead of my scooter and I checked around and couldn’t find my scooter. I called Police and informed them. For formality sake one Cop came to my apartment and gave me a report number and asked me to inform the insurance. Unfortunately, I don’t have theft insurance. So it is gone. I really feel bad for my lost. What to do?? I cannot buy another scooter now for various reasons… It is bad time and loosing lot of money!!!!

Soccer 2010 Group A

South Africa: Star Players: Watch out for talented midfield maestro “ Steven Pienaar ”. Coach: Carlos Alberto Parreira , is from Brazil Stats: South Africa have failed to make it beyond the group stages of their two previous FIFA world cup appearances. Their first appearance was in France 1998, second in 2002. This is their 3rd appearance. Captain: Aaron Makoena (country’s most capped player) ------------------------------------------ Mexico: Star Players: Veteran playmaker Cuauhtemoc Blanco. Younger team mates such as Guillermo Ochoa, Efrain Juarez, Andres Guardado and Giovani dos Santos are also in good form. Coach: Javier Aguirre is Mexico's most successful coach of recent times. Stats: Mexico have qualified for the FIFA world cup finals 14 times in all. Mexico's achieved their best-ever performances in the finals as tournament hosts in 1970 and 1986, reaching the last eight on both occasions. Captain: Rafael Marquez --------------------------

5 Foods that fight Cholesterol

Again, thanks to MSN for giving these tips. Almonds: Eating a quarter cup of almonds (like 10 to 15) can lower your LDL by 4.4 percent. Almonds have good monosaturated fat. They are also high in calories. Oatmeal: They have high levels of soluble fiber. These fiber binds to the bile acids that are the precursor to the development of cholesterol and help flush it out. Fish: Omega-3 fatty acids or good fats are in fish. If you cannot eat fish (like me) you can switch to fish oil supplements. Red Wine: Red wine have anti inflammatory properties that may help lower cholesterol. For men you can have 2 glasses of red wine a day and for women 1 glass. These can also be found in red grape juice and dark cocoa. Soy: Soy can help to reduce the production of new cholesterol.

Avatar

I am yet to watch this movie. I was watching a video on anti Sai Baba elements, who mainly want to propogate christianity. I am not against any religion. I am not a religionist. (I dont know if there is a term like that but I think you will understand what I mean!!).. I was again started to search about Universe and its formation. When I did a initial search, I came across an interesting article. "Avatar's moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say" It says that, Astronomers have spotted hundreds of Jupiter-sized objects in a range of orbits. Alpha Centauri A is a system featured in Avatar. It is a bright, nearby star very similar to our Sun. Astronomers are also hunting for red dwarf star that is closer and possibly may have life in it. Astronomers are considering tidal locking could be a problem for red dwarfs. Tidal locking is one side of the planet would be baked in constant sunlight, while the other side would freeze in constant darkness. An exo

Basic Spanish

I was updating my IM tools title to "Felis Navidad" which means "Merry Christmas"!! Thought of getting some basic Spanish words and found some. This may be a start up for persons who see this blog. You can dig into the language more in the net if you want. Vivek said: add a "lu" sound to tamil becomes telugu My thinking: add a "o" or "el" or "la" sound to english you get spanish (just kidding) Now just some basic words and spanish translation: 0-cero;1-una;2-dos;3-tres;4-cuatro;5-cinco;6-seis;7-siete;8-ocho;9-nueve;10-diez first-primero;second-segundo;third-tercero;fourth-cuarto;fifth-quinto;sixth-sexto;sevent-septimo;eight-octavo;ninth-noveno;tenth-decimo 100-cien;150-ciento cinquenta;1000-mil;1000000 un millon money-el dinero change - la moneda banknote - el billete de banco coin - la moneda currency - la moneda cheque - el cheque traveller - de viaje to cash - cobrar bank - el banco counter - el co

AirPlane Info

Though, I have travelled a lot in my 15 years of overseas stay, I didn’t care to understand any flight and make and some important terminologies about it. To me so far, it was like a carrier which took me safely from one place to another of my wish with ease and to my budget. This January 2010, I am planning a trip to India and was shopping around for a flight ticket. All ticket costs more than my allocated budget. Finally, my wife got me a ticket after long internet searching hours! It was Etihad airlines. I haven’t heard about this airline much and so initially was panicking a bit to go with this or not. (You see my life is with this airline in that day and I want to play it safe). For that, I don’t want to miss out the deal. So I did a bit of research about the airlines and air carriers. Wow, I felt I had to learn a lot about airlines and I was thinking, why I didn’t do this research before. Anyways, here is some flight information: Major flight manufacturers are Boei

Asteroid belt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt region is also termed the main belt to distinguish it from other concentrations of minor planets within the Solar System, such as the Kuiper belt and scattered disc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt

Hindu Articles

One of my favorite writer in Hindu is Mr. V. Balasubramanian. He writes about music and musicians every friday. I have collected some and will keep adding to it. A few of them: http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/01/01/stories/2010010150860600.htm http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/12/25/stories/2009122551240700.htm http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/12/18/stories/2009121851280300.htm http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/12/28/stories/2007122851370200.htm http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/04/17/stories/2009041751210300.htm http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2009/07/24/stories/2009072451240200.htm http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2008/05/16/stories/2008051651220200.htm http://www.vvsubrahmanyam.com/press/The%20Hindu%20%20Friday%20Review%20Chennai%20%20Symphony%20on%20strings.htm http://pushpaanand.com/inpress.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008070451440500.htm&date=2008/07/04/&prd=fr& http://forums.sulekha.com/forums/family/for-your-children-57644.htm http://

Angels and Demons

Director: Ron Howard Tom Hanks:Robert Langdon Ewan McGregor:Camerlengo Patrick McKenna Ayelet Zurer:Vittoria Vetra Release Date:15 May 2009 (USA) Genre:Mystery | Thriller Music: Hans Zimmer Cinematography: Salvatore Totino On friday last week, I watched this movie (renting from redbox). My wife read the book and she was very excited to watch this move in screen. I am not a reader by nature (might have figured out based on my writings so far). Coming to the movie, though, at the beginning I thought, I am going to get into a nice plot, it was not disappointing. The movie was nice. The only thing was, I was able to visualize what next will happen. Yes, as soon as I understood the way the writer started his plot, I started guessing this is what will happen next and he didnt disappoint me. I was having two persons in my mind as the suspect. I am not going to reveal the names because I wont do justice to persons who havent watched it yet. (Come on for a buck and couple of

Galaxy

What is a Galaxy? Galaxy is a collection of stars held together by their mutual galaxy. A group of billions of stars and their planets, gas, and dust that extends over many thousands of light-years and forms a unit within the universe. Held together by gravitational forces. Most of the estimated 50 billion galaxies are shaped as spirals and ellipses, with the remainder being asymmetric. We are in Milky way galaxy and it is spiral galaxy. It has a bright central core with high density of stars and then a flattened disk surrounding it – like a spinning record. The Milky Way measures about 100,000 light-years across, and is thought to contain 200-400 billion stars. But the stars we can see are just a tiny fraction of the complete galaxy. It's also surrounded by a vast halo of dark matter. This material is invisible, and doesn't interact with regular matter or give off any kind of radiation that we can detect. But astronomers can measure its effects because it does exert a

Constellations

Constellation is a group of stars, that when seen from Earth, form a pattern. The stars in the sky are divided into 88 constellations. The brightest constellation is crux . The constellation with the greatest number of visible stars in it is Centaurus (101 stars). The largest constellation is Hydra (Water snake) which extends over 3.158% of the sky. There are also asterisms , smaller apparent star patterns within a constellation, like the Big Dipper (in Ursa Major), the Little Dipper (in Ursa Minor), Keystone (in Hercules), and the Pleiades (in Taurus). Constellation family: Zodiac (12 Constellations representing the signs of the Zodiac) The Ursa Major (10 constellations) The Perseus (9 Constellations) The Hercules (19 constellations) The Orion (5 constellations) The Heavenly Waters (9 constellations) The Bayer group (11 constellations) The La Caille (13 constellations) Source + to read more please visit this site http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astron

Health and Food:

Recently I read some important foods that help us prevent cancers. This is not my information and it is a nutshell of what I read from MSN. Blueberries, acai berries, raspberries and cranberries: Lot of berries which are rich in color helps prevents us in cancer. Green tea: prevents breast cancer and other cancers. (2 cups a day) Garlic: can add crushed, fresh garlic to your meals whenever possible. Nice information is waiting for 15 minutes between peeling and chopping the garlic to get full effects of active compounds. (Interesting) Broccoli and cabbage: eating four times a week prevents prostate cancer. Try to eat cabbage, Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables are high in Vitamin C and soluble fiber. They also contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties. Examples of Cruciferous vegetables are horseradish, cauliflower, turnip, mustard seeds, radish Onions and leeks: This belong to the allium vegetables. Allium

Some of the sites I regularly visit these days (other than the usual famous sites):

http://www.s-anand.net (This guy is very cool. I like this site because he has search engine for Tamil songs) I used to do some Radio like program for myself and search the song I want and hear it. My personal radio. My kid really thought, I was doing a radio program. http://www.venkatarangan.com/blog/CategoryView,category,Developer.aspx (Being a developer, I liked his blogs. Also, he gives some news about Chennai and I like that). http://senthilkumaran.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/my-tamil-blog/ http://www.kamakoti.org/newlayout/template/acharyascall.html http://www.buildwealthinindia.blogspot.com/ http://jgsoftwares.wordpress.com/ http://www.jgsoftwares.com/ http://davimcicode.blogspot.com/2009/05/10.html http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/cgi-bin/show_kural_ad.pl?1 My collegue has shot some deep sky photos and has a site and it is very cool.. http://deepsky.biz ---------------------------- http://stithaprajyna.blogspot.com/

Two Recent Robbery Incidents in Chennai:

As I have said before, I am a listener of Hello FM 106.4 radio on the net. In two days, I have heard Suresh (bigil program) telling the following incidences and I thought it is worth to post it in my blog. 1) A 62 year old lady went to temple near Royapuram and when she was sitting inside the temple, another lady (kadie) sat next to her and talked like butter. Later, she offered some Veebudhi. While offering this, she has also sprayed some white powder which made the old lady faint. This kadie lady stole her chain. 2) Another lady has taken Rs. 20K from a bank and she has kept it in her bag and put the bag in the handle bar of the cycle. Then she has noticed that her front cycle has been tied with a thread. In bending to remove this thread, a robber snatched her hand bag from the handle bar and ran away. People please be careful. Do not trust anyone!! Always be aware when you go to the bank, someone is watching you and try to be extra safe with you and your personal belongi

World Cup Soccer 2010

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This year (2010), I wanted to watch/follow as much games as possible.  I remember last World Cup.  I was able to follow-up lot of games last World cup because I was working on the Set Top Box application. This year, I am not sure.  I am saving the group and countries that belong to each group.  I want to try and collect the updates as it is happening and posts the links here. Group A  South Africa       Mexico         Uruguay         France Date               Teams                               Location Jun. 11    South Africa vs. Mexico           Johannesburg Jun. 11    Uruguay vs. France                  Cape Town Jun. 16    South Africa vs. Uruguay          Pretoria Jun. 17    France vs. Mexico                    Polokwane Jun. 22    Mexico vs. Uruguay                  Rustenburg Jun. 22    France vs. South Africa            Bloemfontein Group B   Argentina       Nigeria       South Korea      Greece Date                    Teams                            Loca

Girls Smoking in India:

As I said in my previous post, I am listening to Diary program in 106.4 Hello FM radio. In the past 10 days, I have heard from 2 persons telling their friends (girl) started smoking. One guy said he knew this girl during school days and when she went to B’lore for college studies and when she came back, she had picked up smoking and drinking. Another guy said when he was sightseeing a girl in the terrace, he saw this girl smoking and that is why she comes to terrace for reading. Man… I cannot accept girls smoking. For some reasons, it bothers me a lot. What to do? We have to teach starting from the young age itself not to smoke. I was thinking girls won’t smoke in India but this generation has changed. Parents need to know what their kids are doing and also who their friends are and their behavior.

SharePoint Discussion List Threading view Rating System:

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I wanted to do a Rating system for the email threads we have in our SharePoint system. I have written an email thread synchronizer for SharePoint. Of course, SharePoint synchronizes the email but doesn’t thread it properly. I will write a separate blog for it. This rating system is like this: Figure 1: So a user who needs to rate the email message just clicks a star and the average rating will be shown. So how did I achieve it? I haven’t used any c# code (except a web service). What I did was kind of changed the schema.xml file that SharePoint creates for each List. This Schema.xml file is in the appropriate folder in the 12 hive. (12\template\features\customdiscussionboard\schema.xml). So how and where to change the Schema.xml file? Since, I know, I need to display my star rating images before View Properties, I was curious to know where and how this is displayed. That is why, I went to Schema.xml file and fiddling it with. I saw a Status Bar field. There I saw this

When time is bad..

Last Friday, one of my friend (I know this guy and I cant believe he will go cheap as like stealing..) was in deep trouble.. He was arrested for a petty theft case for which he was not responsible (atleast to my knowledge, I am not aware of what actually happened).. Friday afternoon he was arrested.. No one knew till late evening. Police didn’t let him go. Next day he was taken to a court and the Judge bailed him for 500$ bond. However, still Police didnt want to let him go as they need to do immigration background check. He is a GC holder and still they don’t want to let him go and he spent the whole Saturday and Sunday in jail. Here, when you give your SSN, you get the history of a person and still they dont wanted to do immigration check immediately.  He had to wait till Monday. I feel bad for him as it is not worth it to spend 3 days of jail (don’t know yet he is still released or not ) for a small petty theft case (again not sure he is 100% responsible and what the case is abou

Adding an Image to a SharePoint discussion List:

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My intention is to bring a Rating image in SharePoint threaded view before the “view properties”. I have some other functionality, I am trying to bring but I will discuss it once I am done with that. What I am talking is please refer the below fig: In the read box, I need my image. This screen is in the Threaded View of SharePoint discussion. This is a status bar and it will appear for each message. I googled and binged but couldn’t find much help. Later I thought, how they are doing this and was viewing the source and found out the javascript being used in View Properties. I have seen something like that in Schema.xml and hence I went to that file and bingo… the javascript was there. So I went and played with the schema.xml and I got it working. Under the Statusbar Field reference, display pattern, you need to add your stuff and it will display accordingly. <1html><1![CDATA[ ]]> <1html><1![CDATA[ <1img alt="star_1" src="/

Aval thantha Uravu

When you read the title, you may feel I am going to talk about "Adults only" stuff..   Sorry.. It is pure G stuff.. My house in Trichy (I love that house still now), is in the end of street.  After the small street, the next house continues.  That house was owned by a film distributor company at that time.  I think they owned this "Title" movie.. I dont know .. However, they had this Titled banner displayed in the front of the house.  You know how, it was like 2 feet height x 10 feet wide printed in Tamil alphabets with "jigna" (very colorful).  The reason I describe this banner is because that is the highlight of this blog.  A person walking down that road, cannot miss this banner's visibility.  Ok I think I have enough described about this banner. When I was studying like 9th standard (Padichayanu kekaatheenga :) ), I have seen this maths teacher daily passing this street.  It so happened he taught me Maths during 10th standard.  In the first

Dictionary

I used to find words that I feel are new to me and save it in word document. Since, I do this at work, home, laptop etc., I miss all the words I have saved so far. So I thought, I will blog it so that I keep updating this post with words. Nimble:  lively, quick, agile, lissome Progeny:  offspring, young, descendants Comprehensible: understandable, clear, logical, intelligible, lucid, graspable Austerity: severity, strictness, sternness, graveness, soberness Rein: bridle, restraint, harness, leash, lead, strap, restriction Obfuscate: confuse, disguise, conceal, complicate Scruple: misgiving, doubt, qualm, compunction, hesitation, regret Obscurity: darkness, dimness, shadows, gloom, murkiness Dearth: lack, shortage, drought Rudimentary: basic, elementary, simple Encumbrance: burden, load, hindrance, nuisance, impediment Vendettas: feud, blood feud, quarrel, dispute, grudge, revenge Dexterity: deftness, adroitness, agility, nimblenes

Wow... What a difference in Sound Quality...

I used to listen to songs in external speakers. Now headphones. I am finding a heck of a difference hearing in headphones. Even, minute sounds can be heard nicely. Also, I am able to differentiate each track being played. Left and right ear hears music separately. I am not a sound engineer but can differentiate and appreciate this music much more in headphone. Needless to say the sound quality will be much nicer if we hear in Bose headphone speaker or equivalent. One pitfall is it pains the ears a lot. Don’t want to wear it for long time. Ofcourse, not here to argue the disadvantages of wearing a headphone to ears.

Uma Ramanan and K.J. Yesudas

My Brother-in-law used to sing in A.V.Ramanan’s music troop till 2000 (I think I remember the period right), I used to listen to Uma Ramanan’s voice. After that I liked her voice with the combination of K.J. Yesudas. I felt the two voices blended nicely. I thought I will collect her songs sung with K.J. Yesudas and here it is: Song : Ennuyir Neethane Movie : பிரியா Music : Illayaraja Singers : K.J.Yesudas , Uma Ramanan Song : Kanmani Nee Vara Movie : Thendrale Ennai தோடு Music : Illayaraja Singers : K.J.Yesudas , Uma Ramanan ----------------- Song : Aagaya Vennilave Movie : Arangetra Velai Music : Illayaraja Singers : S. Janaki, Uma Ramanan, K.J.Yesudas ---------------- Song : Nee Pathi Nan Pathi Movie : Keladi Kanmani Music : Illayaraja Singers : K.J.Yesudas, Uma Ramanan --------------- Song : Vaaname Mazhaimegame Movie : Madhu Malar Music : Gangai Amaran Singers : K.J.Yesudas, Uma Ramanan ---------------- Song : Athadi Adhisayam Movie : Manaivi Solle Manthiram

Belief in God got strengthened

I should say I am a kind of selfish guy. Yes, when I was in trouble (deep), I usually pray to my favorite God “Perumaal”. 99% of the time, he has answered my prayers. Only one big prayer wish is pending and still!! Anyways, coming to the point of my selfishness, in this couple of years (2007-2009), I should say, I was in a comfortable state, meaning, I didn’t have any prayers. So I started questioning about God’s presence or whatever... My friend told, since I am currently undergoing 7.5 naatan (Sani), my period of 07-09 was good as I am undergoing “Pongu Sani”. May be that also added and I was arguing to myself God’s presence. What selfishness?? Humans (at least me) when they undergo some pain only they think of God... Otherwise, they think they are smart enough to question God’s presence... When my Dad had a massive heart attack on October 31, 09, after 4 days, still didn’t pray much, yesterday night, when I called my sister and she was telling the variation about his ECG and press

Why I like “Diary” Program in Hello FM 106.4

I like to listen to internet radio all the time. It is not only you listen to music, but also, you can get the news and listen to various people’s talk. I was a fan of Singapore radio till February 2009 (till now). After that I couldn’t listen to that station as they stopped broadcasting over the internet for various copyright issues. I really miss that station. However, one of my friend who is now in Australia, gave me the link to 106.4 Hello FM this September (09) and am listening to this radio. I like to listen to “Bigil” program by Suresh. He talks casually and he tries to figure out lot of different games. I couldn’t listen to much of it due to timing issue. I don’t miss Diary program by Girish. Girish your voice is, I think very suitable for that type of program and you did capitalize on it. Good job. I like this program for 3 reasons: 1) As I said before, it is because of Girish’s voice. I think this guy should be in his 25s. I can understand his feeling towards love