Posts from ‘November, 2009’

This picture is given the title – “Master Plan”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Whatsay??

Fantod
Meaning – A state of nervous irritability; Nervous movements caused by tension.
Example – “Of course, when we cranked the 70-horse Evinrude into life to go ripping to another part of the lake, Mr. (Izaak) Walton might have the fantods.” — Ned Crabb, Bugs, Bass and Loons in Moonlight, The Wall Street Journal (New York), Aug [...]

The other day I saw a debate on a talk show on TV which I found quite interesting. The topic was “One year post 26/11: Is India a safer place?” I know.. thought provoking. Thats exactly what encouraged me to watch people’s thoughts and opinions on it. I won’t go into the details of the [...]

a guy WAS chatting with a female – Online chat.
(Background both are s/w engineers by the way and both work for real big MNC’s)
Hero : Hey…GM (Good Morning)… How’s u doing today?
Female: VGM…Day is going good and it got better having found u on chat
Hero : wow…am honoured, u know what, my day starts only [...]

“The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable interconnection environment that enables people and machines to effectively capture, publish, share and manage knowledge resources. It also provides appropriate on-demand services to support scientific research, technological innovation, cooperative teamwork, problem solving, and decision making.”
The above definition of Knowledge Grid is given by Professor Hai Zhuge, China’s [...]

As the focus of USB devices slowly starts turning towards USB 3.0 it hasn’t stopped some companies continuing to push on with new, smaller, rugged USB 2.0 storage solutions. Active Media Products is one of those companies and has just announced what it believes to be the smallest 16GB USB flash drive available.
The Wink USB Drive [...]

Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++. There has been a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such [...]

Obscurity
Meaning – not clear, the condition of being unknown; opposite to transparent; hidden motives.
Example – “The obscurity of purpose behind his visit was what confused me”.

Cast: Ranbeer Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel
Directed By: Rajkumar Santoshi
Though the promos indicated that there would be a lot of fun and energy in the movie, its name made me think that the romantic link between Katrina and Ranbeer’s characters would have a very strong base and would be beautifully picturised. Turned out, the former [...]

Was the secret to Stairway to Heaven’s success the fact that it gave DJs the chance to nip out for a cigarette? That’s the theory of Led Zeppelin biographer Charles R Cross, who claims that 100 radio presenters “literally … swore” that they aired the now classic tune because it was the “perfect length” for [...]