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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Franchise Resurrection
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Which movie series are worth revisiting ... and which should remain in the can?
Which movie series are worth revisiting ... and which should remain in the can?
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Polar Bears resort to cannibalism
The heat is on, and so is the ice on polar regions melting away fast, causing polar bears to each other due to fast dwindling habitat and food sources, we would not realize the danger of global warming unless we become cannibals after eating away each living organism on this planetRead this article here
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75 Books Every Man & Woman should read
Here's something to check for book buff's, Check out the links
75 Books for Women
75 Books for Men
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How to stay Awake at Work & How to improve your sleep pattern
Some useful tips to keep yourself awake if you are at work, Whether you partied all night, stayed up with a newborn, or lost sleep while finishing up a project, now you're at work and you're having a difficult time staying awake. You promise yourself that you'll get more sleep, if you can just make it through the day without being discovered by your boss with your eyes closed. Here's how.Read this article here
Nothing kills your ability to get things done faster than a bad night's sleep.yawning employees can't stay alert, make good decisions, focus on tasks or even manage a friendly mood at the office. There are lots of ways to beat insomnia, increase the quality of your sleep, and master the power nap. Today we've got our top 10 favorite sleep techniques, tips and facts.Read this article here
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Waiting for Fall Season 2008
Developing a superhero game is as critical as the movie itself, since it is hard to stay true to the movie franchise and also blend gaming element into a superhero title, spiderman 3 game was not so successful and the next title Spiderman - friends or foe did not generate much excitement, now the new title coming this fall, Spiderman - web of shadows looks to be great fun to play, with spidey still available in his black suit and this time he has new moves and more air borne fights to play, and inclusion of wolverine is just like icing on the cake, Blade and Web combo could revive the Spiderman gaming series, i had a look at the videos of game play, the vulture villain airborne fight game play seems exciting, i am also awaiting the new dashboard update for Xbox 360, there are few good game titles to be launched like Quantum of Solace(Bond game series,GOW2,COD-World at war, Tomb raider underworld, Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe and more...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
IT companies cry foul over power cuts
Another impact of power poor state, they MSEB would just not realise the cascading effect of losing investments in the state, with IT cos already battling US recession, if domestic costs of operating business skyrocket, obviously they would start looking elsewhere, and then people would loose job during inflationary times, seems Mr Manmohan Singh would have to bring nuclear power generators along with him when he returns from his USA visit scheduled shortly during the later part of the month, because conditions are turning grim by the day.
Read this article from Economic Times here
(Einstein's view about Load Shedding)
Read this article from Economic Times here
(Einstein's view about Load Shedding)
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Philips - (NON)Sense & Simplic(COMPLEX)ity
I am on a terrible ordeal of constant follow ups with Philips customer care from July 2008 for a HTS i brought from Croma Electronics, model 3366/98 which has amazing sound output and i really felt i found a good HTS finally, however my happiness was short lived, i found the DVD unit getting heated up too fast and i started encountering DVD freezing problem after DVD playback of around 1hr or so, however video cd's, music cd's and USB playback works fine, i first got the DVD unit exchanged with Croma, they played a DVD in the store before handing me the new DVD unit, however i was still to realize the actual problem used to start after 50 mins to 1 hr of DVD playback.
Luckily i have my Xbox 360 console to rescue, which plays DVD's but i feel bit weird playing with multiple remotes just to watch a DVD, so Philips definitely did not make my movie viewing experience simple, the service engineers are laidback and you have to call them again and again to remind them that your problem is not solved, now after experimenting all ways with my DVD player, they decided to give me a product replacement.
The service engineer tried changing the product firmware, did not work and now i decided to choose a new model which is yet to arrive in stores i suppose, but they do not know the price of that model and they ask me to pay differential amount in case i go for a HTS model expensive than my current HTS, else they would not refund me differential amount in case i choose less expensive HTS model, clear cheating !
I choose tower speaker model for better rear sound output effect since i can't fix speakers on my wall, due to my sofa and living room furniture arrangement, so what's the point for going in for crappy small HTS models?, i am really pissed off and waiting when my ordeal with them would end, i gradually realised that the model i brought is never being advertised in any media, so maybe these cheapos wanted to sell off this faulty model with whatever units they had sold to stores.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Need of Private Power Company
Maharashtra state electricity board is in a hapless condition, there seems to be some kind of a temporary halt to load shedding from last 2 weeks in Pune the time Ganesh festival began, don't know how long it would continue this way, however i stay under group C area of load shedding for MSEDCL in Pune, so the total load shedding for this area is 7.15 hours, i was wondering when should one do their household chores, since i spend at least 8 hours in sleep, 9 hours in office, so balance 7 hours at home i should spend without power due to low capacity power generating plants of MSEB, and it's inability to curb power theft.
MSEDCL has erratic power cut schedule, so you keep wondering when the power would go and this erratic poer cut schedule also at times causes damage to electrical equipments at home which these government goons are not going to pay up to anyone.
I believe we cannot stay in a world where in name of subsidised power we keep bearing such issues year on year where the state run power corporation is unable to meet power demands of growing cities, unless citizens would not bear the brunt of high cost power made available through private players wasting of power would not stop, also private companies would bring in at least some mode of transparency in it's operation, if power goes off with MSEB you cannot abuse or scream at government officials, it's useless they are least bothered, at least you may find some cushioning to your bursting anger with a contact center of a private operator.
A solution has to be worked out between private and state run power companies to supply power to city areas comprising of consumers with a capacity to pay for uninterrupted power supply and continue supplying power to areas known to have consumers from low income group and poor category which cannnot afford high cost of power through the state run power group, industries malls, shops and establishments should be given an open opportunity to choose their power supplier, since they would choose it from their capacity to pay up for power needs of their business.
Mumbai has seen reliance power take over majority of the power supply apart from suburbs though costly but trouble freel, consumers did repel initially but for now at least they do not have to suffer power cuts.
The frustration within me is growing so badly, however cannot do anything, as the situation is going to grow grim ahead as well, till the time we see some development on the nuclear energy front, lets hope 123 nuclear deal agreement does some good to India.
MSEDCL has erratic power cut schedule, so you keep wondering when the power would go and this erratic poer cut schedule also at times causes damage to electrical equipments at home which these government goons are not going to pay up to anyone.
I believe we cannot stay in a world where in name of subsidised power we keep bearing such issues year on year where the state run power corporation is unable to meet power demands of growing cities, unless citizens would not bear the brunt of high cost power made available through private players wasting of power would not stop, also private companies would bring in at least some mode of transparency in it's operation, if power goes off with MSEB you cannot abuse or scream at government officials, it's useless they are least bothered, at least you may find some cushioning to your bursting anger with a contact center of a private operator.
A solution has to be worked out between private and state run power companies to supply power to city areas comprising of consumers with a capacity to pay for uninterrupted power supply and continue supplying power to areas known to have consumers from low income group and poor category which cannnot afford high cost of power through the state run power group, industries malls, shops and establishments should be given an open opportunity to choose their power supplier, since they would choose it from their capacity to pay up for power needs of their business.
Mumbai has seen reliance power take over majority of the power supply apart from suburbs though costly but trouble freel, consumers did repel initially but for now at least they do not have to suffer power cuts.
The frustration within me is growing so badly, however cannot do anything, as the situation is going to grow grim ahead as well, till the time we see some development on the nuclear energy front, lets hope 123 nuclear deal agreement does some good to India.
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