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I have been spending my last couple of weeks moving from One house to anothe r, err.. make that.. One City to Another ... err better make it.. One Country to Another ... How about .. From One Continent to Another .. Yaa.. that sounds about right.. So after I settled down and finally got a Internet connection going, I was pleasantly surprised to see a comment on a post from  Sowmya Swaminathan informing me that she has awarded me The Versatile Blogger award.. The rules of the Versatile Blogger Award are as Follows: 1. Award 15 Fellow Bloggers 2. Inform the Bloggers of their award 3. Share 7 random things about yourself 4. Thank the Blogger who awarded you 5. Add the Versatile Blog Award picture to your blog post Pffft... Rules.. Who needs them... I don't know if I have 15 Bloggers to be awarded but here goes nothing.. 1. Pooja Sridhar   2. Shasha and Ashu 3. Aakriti Malik 4. Ashish Hablani 5. Aswathy Mohandas 6. Seetha Lakshmi K R ...

I don't always posts about anything related to Technology on my Blog (I keep that for Google+ ) But this time around I am making an exception where I am posting a rant which I made on Google+ here, as this is extremely frustrating for me. I am an Android User Rant Follows: Frustrating new Google Talk in Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 Hoping someone from Google reads this And If I am missing something very obvious here, feel free to bash/corect me I am currently running an Alpha Build of ICS on my HTC Desire. One of my most used apps on Android is Google Talk. It look brilliant in ICS now with all the small tweaks to UI Bravo for that But there is one new Feature which is rendering the whole app useless for me. The versions available till now (Gingerbread) have had a feature where you can View your friend list either by So-called   Most-Popular or All Contacts . Where Most-Popular would show you some contacts who (I am assuming)  Google thinks you ...

Teacher: If there are 10 Giraffes in a class room and each of them shakes hand with the other 9 Monkeys, What will the amount of rainfall on the Moon ? Student: Maam, The correct Answer is Batman shot the Sheriff. Teacher:   Wooww...that’s absolutely correct. How did you know? Student:  Coz I am a Complan Boy !! Moral of the Story:   Please be careful when crossing the street. P.S. - WHAT ?? !!! You thought at some-point this would make some sense ? Did you ? P.P.S. - Aaahh... FISH IT !! ... Yes this does have a hidden meaning. Now go away and come back when you figure out what it is THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

He came into my life, when I was carefree. When I did not worry about what path my future is going to take. What I would do in my life. Where I would be 10 years from then. I met him for the first time on that Winter Night in a small village called Simga , He was so happy on seeing me as if we are long lost friends, even though that was the first time we ever met. I would like to say I knew it then that this was going to be the beginning of a wonderful life long friendship. But that would be a lie. " Hansie " - as he was known back then ( after the cricketer ) was supposed to stay with my dad in Simga, while me and mom lived in Raipur ( owing to my education ). So I was only going to meet Hansie once a month. Over a weekend. And that's how it began. He would never leave my side whenever I was in Simga, always there: Sitting under the bed I was lying on,  Let me see what's under the bed Or sprawled under the chair I was sitting on:  Yup, I am still here ...

WARNING : Rambling Post.. Makes No Sense.. Please be careful of your Sanity A frustrating day in office  and then I get a mail from HR asking who wants to be the part of a Carol Singing Group . My Reply: Lalalalaaaaaaaaaaaa....  Santa Claus sat on a wall.. Santa claus had a great fall.. Up above the world so high.. Like a Santa in the Sky... Santa Santa... yes Raindeer... Did you eat the cookie.. No Raindeer.. Santa Santa..Have you any wool.. Yes Raindeer...Yes Raindeer. 3 bags full.. Is my application approved ? THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

Is the title too scandalous for you ? Well let me tell you the story behind it. When I was doing my Graduation in Mechanical  Engineering , I think in the year 2005, there was an Inter-college festival in one of the other colleges of my state. One event in that festival was arranged by the Management Department of the college ( The dept. which gives out MBA Degrees ). The event was to give a Presentation on " Your Favourite Company ". Me and one of my batch mates ,  Shailesh  decided to enter this competition. ( As we needed something to write in our resumes as extra-curricular activites ) We chose our favourite company as Google. Now around 2005, In small town India, in a Mechanical Branch, people did use Google everyday whenever they went on the internet. But anyone    hardly  knew anything else about Google. We started err... Googling for Google... collected Articles from Business Publications, ...

Having a Problem with a Particular piece of Code ? Follow these simple steps to get the Solution: 1. Go to a Coding Forum. 2. Create a new account with a very Girly sounding name like: SweetPinky23 3. Create a post asking for help Hey Guys, I am fairly new to ( insert programming language   ) , and I was wondering if I can get a hand with something. I am trying to write a programme which rounds infinite and predicts the future and I am stuck at the beginning :( . Do you have any Tips ? Thanks Guys !! Pinky XOXOXOXOX 4. Check back after a Short while 18 New Comments Hi I went ahead and wrote the Program for you, It was very interesting SomeGuy44 I wrote it too but mine is a bit different. JavaHunk Hey Check out mine. IndianBillGates  Do you work in Infosys? DespoDancingDude  THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

This is the Second Post in the Series of Shit IRIS Says. The first can be found here . Although IRIS might not be able to make me a Burger, She is none the less very keen to help. Now that leads me to doubt if, IRIS is just plane stupid, But as you can see, she clearly knows better. Now that intrigues me and also freaks me out a bit, that IRIS looks like.. err.. me .. O_O I finally had enough and thought that I would tell IRIS exactly what I think of her. But I guess she didn't like it much and now tempers rose Ohh Oohh... Now I am royally Screwed.. And that Ladies and GentleMen, is How Terminator Began Many more such gems coming soon.. Keep watching this space. Phone Used:  HTC Desire Rom:  MIUI-AU You can download IRIS from  here  or scan the QR Code below The Screen shots contain black spaces where I have edited out the Oh Soo.. Un-Interesting Questions and Responses. The Label Career Reads Googl...

So I am sure, you would have heard of SIRI on the new iPhone 4S. Well we Android guys had have voice recognition for a long time now. But then came along SIRI and the world thought, Ohh Woww.. Apple innovates again. So one fine day, Narayan Babu sat down, and in 8 Hours made IRIS. (Read more about it here ) And the rest as they say is History. I have been playing with IRIS for a long time now on my phone and thought I would share some of the funniest answers that my dear IRIS has provided me with so far. Many more such gems coming soon.. Keep watching this space. Phone Used: HTC Desire Rom: MIUI-AU You can download IRIS from here  or scan the QR Code below The Screen shots contain black spaces where I have edited out the Oh Soo.. Un-Interesting Questions and Responses. The Label Career Reads Google as it has been modified using some Root only tools. THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

As we all know Data never lies. And in today's modern day and age I guess the one giant repository of data which we all believe in, have access to and can  look up in case we need; is what else but Google . Now the number of results a Search Query returns in Google should be a fare indication of the mind set of people in the world, as to what they think and search for. Yesterday I wrote a post about Job Satisfaction and that got me thinking, if there was anyway that can I collect data and may be find out some rough numbers as to what percentage of people are satisfied with their jobs. That thought led to a little experiment which hardly took all of 0.37 Seconds and I had the data at my fingertips. Today morning I ran two queries in Google and got the below results. Now what do you think that denotes ? I would leave the interpretation of the data up to you. THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

I am currently reading a Book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy.  When I started the book I had a preconception that this book would be about the two finders, how the company came along and blah blah.. Just like the many other books/articles I have read about Google till now. So far I am only in the Second Chapter of the Book ( so this is in no ways a book review ), but the book has thrown up some surprises already. For a large part it is not only about the founders of Google, but also about the people behind the scenes, who we ( the normal junta ) never hear of. Who helped make what the company is today. A group of people who are enthusiastic about what they do. They love their work and want to change the world with that they can accomplish.  It’s this passion, this zeal, this fervor, this excitement that most of us lack.  Yesterday I was in a Google Developer Day Summit at Sydney, where I heard Tarjei Vassbotn give ...

Thanks to +Lockey McGrath ,    +Giuseppe Basile  , +Michael Sutton & +Gretchen Chappelle and the Google Australia Team at Sydney for the Wonderful time and experience. The below video was captured by Lockey on his Canon 5D markll For more details see here See if you can spot me in the video. Hint: THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

No, Its not plagiarized. You can create your own comic strips here:  Rage Comics Builder THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

Some of you might know, that I mostly work on Microsoft Technologies. ( No, and I don't mean Microsoft Office ) Even though Microsoft is my Bread-and-Butter ( so to speak ) I am not a Big Fan of M$ . A long time ago when I was a Mechanical Student in college, I was surrounded by friends who were almost all Computer Science students. They were all hardcore Java or Microsoft Fans, and I don't know why or from where the Linux bug bit me. I started playing around/messing in Linux and after 3 Months or so when I had my feet set in, I removed Windows from my Laptop completely. I was an alien amongst my Computer Science friends, for them it was a Sacrilege that a Mechanical guy who should be running around with Engine Parts and Grease on his hands was dipping his nose in Linux while all of the So-Called-Computer Students were mortally afraid of it.  But time passed, I got a job in an IT firm and left my Turbine and Engine Days far behind me. And my company wanted me to w...

Ever since Google launched the Google Instant feature , Our search times have been reduced drastically, as Google starts predicting what we are trying to search depending upon what people have searched in the past. This leads to some deep insights on the collective psyche of the Human Race, by revealing How and What people think about and want to know the answers to. I guess with this post. I am going to start a new series of posts ( which may or may-not continue in the future) about what I see when I use Google Instant. The first in this Series: A look into how lazy we have become and we do so that we do not need to read a book or even watch a movie. THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

How can you stay mad at this guy ? This is the second post in the Series of Kitty Cuteness and what Humans can do as a result. The first can be found here: How can you stay Mad - 1 P.S . I know this sort of humour is not for everyone. Buttt.. Mehh... The Honey Badger doesn't care THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

Email, A very simple mode of communication. One which I use everyday, and once when I start typing something, without any thoughts or plan , Such Emails can go Haywire. This post is dedicated to my friend , who after getting the below email first thing in the morning, Did not murder me ( Yet ) I am copying the mail as such without any edits Good Morning < Name Hidden for confidentiality > Welcome to another new day in your life.  Please fasten your seat belt, Tray table band kar le, and khidki khuli rakhey... Seat Belt: Us se kya hoga ? Seat belt baandhney se aap ek hi jagah pe rahengey.. and life mein kisi bhi goal ke baare mein focussed rehna bahut zaroori hai.... Tray table: Us se kya hoga ? Tray table band karne se aap apney life ki choti choti luxuries ka tyaag kar rahe hai..But agar aapko life mein kahin pahuchna hai ( in this case your flight destination ) aapko tyaag karna bahut zaroori hai .. Khidki Khuli: Us se kya hoga ? Khidki khuli rakhney ...

Mediocre  Ordinary  Unexceptional  Typical Some of the classifications which we all want to break free of. Everyone wants to make their mark in this world. To stand out from the crowd. To Boldly go where No Man/Woman has gone before. I have a friend who inspires me to think differently.  Her daily struggle is to be Ordinary, not to stand out from the crowd. She craves to be one of the millions of faces who you forget as soon as you see them. She desires no special attention. She wants to be just one of the Gang. Honouring her wishes, I will not share her profile or her blog link here, as I would be then doing the exact opposite of what she wants. She is an Autistic and an ORDINARY human being. You know who you are. P.S. : Just a humble request to all. Treat everyone as your equal and as Bill and Ted said: Be Excellent to each other . THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF !!!!!!!!

As usual , his SPAM Folder was full of offers where people from Africa and Oil Rich Countries were ready to transfer all their fortune to him. He had again won about 2346 different lotteries. And he also had many lucrative job offers from companies in different countries and all he had to do was transfer 100$ to them for paper processing. But then one such SPAM mail caught his attention, It wasn’t so different from the others in the folder. Nor did it have the single shred of authencity about it. But the name of the Company in the Subject line caught his fancy.  ( The Spammer of-course had no connection to the company what-so-ever ) It was the same Company which he had admired since his days in the University.  The same company which he aspired to work with since the day he had touched the wonderful and magical machine. But then, he knew that he won’t do anything about it. He had always been taking the easy way out. Instead of chasing behind his dr...

Well today is the big day for all of us here in Sydney Australia we have our first ever Google+ photo walk hosted by Michael Sutton  , Gretchen Chappelle and Giuseppe Basile and supported by Lockey McGrath from Google and many more Google employees. As of the time of creating this post we have 144 people registered for the walk. We will be walking from the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park http://goo.gl/XvOj2 making our way down to Circular Quay then up to Observatory Hill where Google will be putting on drinks for everyone. During the walk today we will be visiting a few of the Art and About exhibits more can be found about them at http://www.artandabout.com.au/ and for the iPhone users coming yes there is an App for that at http://goo.gl/Q5D3m . The QR Code attached is the route we plan on taking today. Scan the code --> Click View when the page opens --> Open the file in Google Earth/Maps RSVP RSVP by filling out this form here ---> http://goo.gl...