Posts from ‘August, 2009’

The past two weeks, more than that actually, led me through an intense recovery phase. Seemed like I passed through a tunnel of sudden unexpected twists to reach the light of change at the other end.
While reading the incidents that took place, you might feel them to be mere. I agree. What was funny (so [...]

U2 rocker The Edge has accorded the band’s success to the members’ ‘mysterious’ tuning with each other onstage.  
The guitarist said he was able to make the mark in the music industry along with frontman Bono, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. because they can foresee each other’s antics while performing even without making [...]

Another landmark in the book technology area. Leading scanner manufacturer Zeutschel introduces an innovative system which optimally corrects the spine fold during the scanning of books.
“Perfect Book” employs a line scan camera as well as a matrix camera. The image obtained from both image sources is converted into a 3D equivalent. With this, the “Perfect [...]

Talk about gaining popularity and how!! According to some news reports, Rakhi Ka Swayamvar, which had audiences captivated on a week-on-week basis, has crossed yet another milestone in Television history by achieving the highest rating by any non-fiction show in the past 2 years. According to TAM data, Rakhi Ka Swayamvar- Faisle Ki Raat registered [...]

New Yorker contributor Ian Fraizer and best-selling essayist Sloane Crosley are among the finalists for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Prize organizers say Frazier was cited for his book on parenting “Lamentations of the Father,” and Crosley for her popular essay collection about the 20-something life, “I Was Told There’d Be Cake.” The other contenders announced [...]

A husband wakes up at home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table.
He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the [...]

The 2009 International Mystery Writers’ Festival presents four American-premiere radio-theatre productions of Agatha Christie works Aug. 12-15 in Owensboro, KY. The five-day festival (to Aug. 16) includes many other events featuring luminaries from the world of crime and mystery fiction – from stage to screen to publishing to films.
The plays will be recorded live for [...]

The world is aware and is also in concern, even panic, at the outbreak of Swine Flu in various parts of the planet. With it reaching world-wide pandemic level, people are growing increasingly apprehensive about what they should eat and not, where they should go or not and who they should or shouldn’t meet. Its [...]

Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week.  
Tuesday’s outage was brief. The online messaging site said in its status blog Tuesday afternoon that it is analyzing its traffic data to determine the nature of the latest attack. No other details were given.
Last Thursday, Twitter was [...]

SUN Microsystem, the computer hardware and software vendor made an announcement with Emerson, an Electrical product Manufacturing company that they will collaborate each other in terms of business technology for further improvement of energy efficient data centers. Although, none of the companies announced further financial details. SUN’s share went up 8 cents to $9.24 in [...]