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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57336202011-04-22T03:44:02.896ZWelcome to Sonu's BLogoSphere The beginning of an era! A sphere of fun,knowledge and happeningsJedi Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02462409284127634786noreply@blogger.comBlogger891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733620.post-1091458543451466942004-08-02T14:53:00.000Z2004-08-02T14:55:43.450Z

Moving to new site.. Well i have been thinking of moving to the new site..for a while . since Jan believe it or not.. hehe well thats my organisational skills for u..!! So just to say will be movin over a few weeks completely to the new blogsite at www.20six.co.uk/sppadic .. I will try and come back to this occasionally.. well..lets see.. wanted to do a 100 posts before i leave this site..its

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Humanity....wheres it all gone?? After reading an article about a doctor's brave attempt to start up and finally manage to get an emergecny network up for accident victims, it has led me to question my own humanity.. The http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3934177.stm >article is about a brave and compassionate mans quest to make us Indians more humane... I am really sad that the state

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IBM's latest development - Chip Morphing .. Hey there folks.. some tech news now for all those techies and tech junkies out there.. IBM has introduced a Chip morphing technology for its latest line of chips . called e-Fuse . Its based on electromigration and enables the chip to monitor and adjust itself.. kind of self monitoring and healing.. wow!! The basic idea involves the design of

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India's Olympic dream Ahh its that time again..when athletes and sportsmen and women from all over the world compete for the most prestigious title - that of Olympic champion.. forget all the money and the fame,,... if u ask any sportsman,his one dream would be to first compete at the Olympics - represent his country and better still win a medal.. The 2004 Olympics are all set to begin in a

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Weaving Condoms... If the title strikes u as being weird and maybe funny well then it should come as a surprise to you too...Yes its true..and before i say any further..it can happen only in India!! Now to the story itself.. One of the holiest cities in India Varanasi, which is situated on the banks of the River Ganges, is getting through 600,000 condoms a day! No u didnt read it wrong ..

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The week so far...... hey there folks... well its been an up and down week so far ..well guess am gettin to the pace of it all after my return.. hmm the turbulent world of research..take it from me.. it can be frustrating as well as rewarding.. well still waiting for the rewardin bit..ehhehe (well actually not that bad.. perhaps its my impatience) Right enough of that pessimistic attitude..

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An experience to forget... Those who even read this blog of my thoughts do know that i tend to raise a few questions regarding the social problems back home and also do keep hammering about both the best and worst of Malu's (i.e. Keralites - thats what we are known as ...kinda hard for others to say Malayalis...:-))..We have a lot to be proud of being Indian and also because of the literacy

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Ritchie Rich... Found this an interesting read and thought that it would be helpful to those who are curious about the origins of Unix and C. Well its an article that appeared recently in the Economist talking about Dr Ritchie. the inventor of C and one of the founders of Unix... Read it here

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An inspirational story... Hey there folks.. I just had to put this up after reading through his wonderful story of the indomitable will and spirit of a certain 24 year old Mr Narayan- the same age as me.. It has forced me to think of how lucky we all are and of the tremendous struggle and pain that he has suffered and still does today. He suffers from autism but that hasnt stopped him from

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The journey home and back... Hey there to all my readers(probably 3 including myself hehe) Well its been a long hiatus and now am back and thought it was about time that i put down some thoughts..I was away for a three week break back home in Kerala,India. It was a truly wonderful experience as am sure many would feel when goin back home after a year or so.. So let me sum up my trip then..

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The Return of the Boso.. I just had to come out of my blog hibernation to say this.. Welcome back bro...and well done Boso on getting thru the Cisco Certified Network Associate exam.,..man that took its time to type out..can only imagine what it must have been like to sit thru...Anyways great news that one of my best buddies from the masters course that i did about three years ago is back...God

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A shameful day for all Indians.. I am a proud Indian..hell most of us Indians are.. inspite of all the problems that we as Indians encounter as regards poverty, corruption and all the rest of it.. theres still that indomitable will that provides hope and lets people move on and accomplish their dreams.. Hehhe ok got a bit sentimental there.. but the past few days will go down in history as one

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Political Change...For Better Or For Worse? The marathon elections in the worlds largest democracy came to an end only a couple of days ago. The elections were unique in that for the first time in Indias history.. all the voting booths made use of electronic voting machines..Simpler more robust and hence the results are out today.. well quicker than usual.. And India will have a new central

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LFC in crisis.. Yes i never thought i would say those words but its true,,.. by the high standards that Reds fan set for the team, this has been one of disappointing seasons for a while now... atleast before we had the excuse that we were on the way up and after continued progress, Mr Houllier seems to be bereft of ideas as to how to win a game.. But football is played on the pitch and the

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Shhushh! Big Brother's watching... Found this interesting if not disturbing article on rediff website.. - Indian students along with other 'red flagged' nationals in the U.K are being spied on... I wholly detest this and its a violation of the students privacy.. -all in the name of guarding against terrorism-- there s such a thing as going to the extremes...The other nationalities who are being

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A cynic... all the way! Hmm well have been away for a long while now... but had to break my silence now-the happenings of the past few days demanded it! The incident I am referring to is the current Bharat Uday Yatra that Mr Advani, the esteemed Deputy Prime Minister of India has embarked on. He was visiting Kerala over the past few days. What i find absolutely sickening is this... One of the

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Truly Open Source... Ok now I have heard it all...ok almost! This story once again just highlights the greedy world we live in today(especially the States) and actually reading this article just caused me to burst out laughing.. Basically a guy whos been teaching Yoga in the States for many years has just been sued. Yes sued over Yoga positions(asanas- thats the term for it) ! This definitely

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Love - A practical approach??.... Let me start by pointing out that am not keen on romance and love at first sight and all that sentimental stuff.... Why then u ask that i should bother to express my views on this annual ritual that is called Valentine's day... Well like they say maybe i can offer a different perspective ..one that is cynical and sceptical to say the least.... Well am sure i

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Top-up virginity?? Hello everyone out there... Right have been busy for the past few weeks but just had to put up this story on the BBC website... Interesting is hardly a word i would use for it ... A lesbian student at the University of Bristol has just sold her virginity online for £ 8400 quid.. Yup u read right -sold her virginity! For more read here Rosie Reid, 18, a social policy first

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The greatest comeback ever... Yup it has to be ... or atleast one of them ..I am referring to the astonishing and simply fabulous FA Cup football match that took place at White Hart Lane yesterday night between Manchester City and Tottenham Spurs. To put it into perspective , Kevin Keegan the City manager said "they will talk about that match for years to come -after we are all gone". And he s

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Kerala Politics - an absolute farce! I am not one for delving into politics and for that matter have been reminded many times by my friend that "you dont need to like it but you do need to know about it" his words exactly... And so here we go will try and explain some of my frustration at the current state of political affairs in the God's own country (a.k.a Kerala) There are two major

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Flavour of the month... Well firstly congrats to Nigeria for beating South Africa 4-0 saw the highlights good performance- though the goalie did help their cause,.. Am sure Boso s happy hehe . As for matters regarding LFC -it was yet another case of points dropped - the same old story - incessant pressure resulting in nothing - all well and good sayin that the performance was excellent but at

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Comments sorted... Yes after my friend Boso alerted me quite a while back to the disappearance of the commenting facility on the blog - I sorted it out today - it was caused as a result of the Blogspeak commenting stuff being moved over to Haloscan another commenting software if u could call it that ... So in short have sorted it all out .. So do feel free to air(comment ) ur views...

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FA cup draw ... The FA cup draw for 5th round has just been completed and it has thrown up some mouth-watering ties to say the least. The pick of the round is the tie between Arsenal and Chelsea - these two teams have met quite a few times over the past few years so will be a great game. Liverpool are facing Portsmouth at Anfield and Manchester United will face the winners of MAn City v

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An evening to remember ... Let me begin by saying we WON! ok now to calm down after all that excitement ...urs truly had gone to watch the FA cup 4th round match at Anfield between the Reds(a.k.a Liverpool FC) and Newcastle United. Liverpool won a good game 2-1 with Cheyrou scoring both the goals. It was billed as the tie of the round and it surely lived upto its billing. To say that the game

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Return to the Holy Grail.... Now before you jump up and get excited -no its not to do with the ancient relics which led to the Crusades... or something like that --no this is to do with the return of urs truly to ANFIELD- the home of the Reds.(also known as Liverpool Football Club). My first outing for this year and I hope it will be a joyful experience -(if the result goes our way). Tomorrow

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Linux in 2004 .... Hmm have been meaning to blog for a while but other things have always popped up -namely research and general lethargy..but now is as good a time as any to break my blog silence and put up some thoughts on Linux in the brand new year. As i was surfing through BBC website , I came across this article or should i say interview conducted recently by BBC tech correspondent

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Microsoft worried... Found this article posted on the google news website about the desperate measures and the lengths that Microsoft are willing to go to inorder to continue their domination in the PC market. They are clearly concerned with the growing popularity of Linux among business enterprises and have released an ad campaign asking people to get onto a website titled 'Get the facts

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Microsoft worried... Found this article posted on the google news website about the desperate measures and the lengths that Microsoft are willing to go to inorder to continue their domination in the PC market. They are clearly concerned with the growing popularity of Linux among business enterprises and have released an ad campaign ahttp://news.com.com/2100-1012-5136214.html?tag=nlsking people

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Quote of the day... A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Sir Francis Bacon Hmm interesting wonder if all the bachelors will agree with that though.....

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A few tests to evaluate urself.... O well its a new year - guess nows as good a time as any to evaluate urself... well if ur the self-critical type or if ur just tired and want to try something different then these websites are for u... Was tired and wanted a break so did the usual googling and while googling the word psychological profile tests and came up with these very interesting websites .

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A belated Happy new year to all.... Yes urs truly is back -and Bunmi i sympathize bro sheesh had to work thru the xmas holidays .. as for me - took a break from the constant frustration that is research and headed down to London for the xmas season to catch up with a few friends who i hadnt seen for about a year or so..So that was gr8 fun and went around and saw sights of the famous city that

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A prank too far.... A prankster like urs truly came down to earth recently - well should i say indirectly. Here's how the story goes.... O and before i start - am not going to name any names... U know who u are... It all began with a mail that one of my workmates in the research group that i am part of got ... It looked quite genuine - warning him of serious action if he continued surfing

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We won! We won! Ok if that doesnt say it then maybe my attempt at describing the monumental and historic Indian win against the Aussies will do it... SO here we go ... This test match will go down in history for a number of reasons - but most importantly for an Indian cricket fan for the simple fact that we have beaten the world champions in their backyard after 22 years! Yes its been that

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Light stopped... Physicists say that they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way without losing any of its energy. This could be a quite powerful and remarkable acheivement which will further the research into use of light for computing purposes i.e. quantum computing. For a brief review read here

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Personality test.......... Was a bit tired and bored after reading a few conference papers and so found this while googling psychology test - have a look see here

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Tech corner --- Latest semiconductor news... Right folks - thought it was time that I put up a post about the semiconductor industry as there have been some breakthroughs recently.. Right lets get on with it then --- Multi-gate transistors - Motorola develops dual independent gate transistor First Motorola has announced that they have developed a transistor with two independent gates that

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Cricket- its a more mental game than u think Hurrah- India actually managed to draw the first test against the Aussies on their home turf. So far so good - but the fact that the Australian bowling attack was depleted should not be forgotten. Still it is the first time in 50 years that India has managed to start a series against the Aussies in Australia without a defeat- hence all the

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Biometrics - is it necessary? Was scouring through this interesting article which was linked from Slashdot site about Biometrics- It got me thinking about the present state of affairs and the inherent debate about the cost v security issue. Post September 11,the U.S has rightly been in a state of high alert and according to them the use of biometric technology is one of the key methods of

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India V Australia .. the passion Yes barely a couple of weeks after losing the Rugby world cup final to their arch nemesis England, the battle field has taken the shape of the cricket pitch with India and Australia squaring off against each other. To say that the Rugby defeat has hurt the sports psyche of the Australians would be putting it mildly especially a loss to England but they have had

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The return of me.... After a loong hiatus urs truly has returned to blogging again. Put simply was trying to get my head around the research that i am doing and partly the ol laziness syndrome was responsible as well. Was chatting to my friend Bosoand mentioned initially that i would start blogging only in the new year but had a change of heart. Theres just too much stuff going on and wanted to

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Owen commits to Liverpool ... So after a week and a half of speculation, Michael Owen has come out and stated his intentions clearly he wants to stay and win things at Liverpool FC. Hurrah - so finally can put aside all this rubbish and unwanted media hype and pressure - as Owen said in his press conference - and i agree whole heartedly- theres more to football than money - a commodity called

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Anfield Anguish.... Yes Reds fans its that sinking feeling again - I can honestly say that history has repeated itself - Dudek letting in two goals which according to the BBC website report could and should have been saved - and yes it pains me to say this but the Reds are out of the title race now and any chances of mounting a title challenge were snubbed by the worst possible team -

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Whisky series- Part 2 .. Just the other day I had blogged about the different types of whisky and a brief description of the differences. Thus it came as a surprise that name of a whisky should be a bone of contention as this BBC report explains . The Cardhu whisky name is the cause of concern whereby recently the name has been changed from a signle malt to pure malt i.e. the malt is not

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Transistor breakthrough Intel has announced that it has made new breakthroughs in transistor materials being used. Transistors are the key elements of the computing world controlling the logic depending on the voltage set at the gate of the transistor. The need for faster processors has driven the research into smaller and thinner gate oxide layers which are the important part of the

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Whisky - the water of life ? Urs truly is a fan of whisky and have always wanted to know more about the origins of this wonderful spirit.Heheh ok am a social drinker and anyone will understand the reason for drinking in U.K - the weathers crap most of the time and the winters are even worse so what else to do than stroll down to the pub on a Friday with ur friends and enjoy a few drinks with

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Victory in London ,now time for Man U! A great victory at Loftus Road for Liverpool FC and its actually a great shock not that Liverpool won but that Mr Mark Lawrenson ( a former Red and current BBC pundit) actually for once predicted the right outcome as regards a Liverpool match!!And that too with the right score :-). Hehe right as for the match itself , the game was quite exciting according

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Victory in London... A great victory at Loftus Road for Liverpool FC and its actually a great shock not that Liverpool won but that Mr Mark Lawrenson ( a former Red and current BBC pundit) actually for once predicted the right outcome as regards a Liverpool match!!And that too with the right score :-). Hehe right as for the match itself , the game was quite exciting according to the reports

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100 % Literate - whats the use?? Kerala , one of only two states in India to achieve 100 % literacy the other being Bengal, never fails to surprise me. Being my home state am quite proud of the fact that we can all read and write but the news about the stigma faced by AIDS victims really compels me to ask is literacy worth anything?? Dont get me wrong.its a great thing that the people can read

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What a weekend .... Urs truly had a wonderful weekend -with a trip to Wales on Saturday and to top it all of - Liverpool wins (finally kept us waiting for three weeks!) and Man U lost!! Ok now to take a deep breath and put it all into perspective - heck yeah- Man U lost! and LFC won ..... Ok now for the wales trip -visited Chirk castle and also went to LLangollen (pronounced Clangothlin- damn

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LFC for the title?? Ok before anybody gets all excited and thinks that we are still alright - well got bad news for all u REds fans out there - I know the title is not won in October but unless we do a ( I hate to admit it) MAn U and go on one of those unbelievable runs - we might as well kiss the title goodbye. Well just thought should share some of my feelings being a life long Reds fan

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Gandhi's words...... Am putting an article written by M.K Gandhi here below - thought it was really good and he describes a bit about his vision of India - seems that he was misquoted recently - where by a newspaper said that Gandhi preached violence.. Was quite surprised to read it myself but then found that they had taken only part of the statement that he had made... Here is the article

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Quote of the day.. Hi there folks...... So havent blogged for a while - is going to be sporadic due to other things- namely some research, visa formailities and general stuff. So looks like the prodigal blogger is not going to be back the way he intended-- well atleast hes back ....:-). So anyway heres something everyone should think about -- "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the job" -

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A long sabbatical........... After two weeks urs truly has finally decided to break the silence - literally speaking. Found this interesting page on quotes by famous people and was really impressed. The link is given here Some really good ones - especially those of Gandhi and George Orwell.

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True secularism.. Yours truly was delighted to read about the initiative being taken in Gods Own Country(a.k.a Kerala State in India) to promote secularism on rediff website. A church and mosque are planning to initiate the children members of their respective communities into the world of letters and learning by conducting the ceremony of Vidhyarambham - which is a sacred Hindu tradition of

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The story of the Crusades .... President George Bush keeps referring in his speeches to the crusade that is being fought against the terrorists- but what were the original Crusades all about?? Found this interesting article about the Crusades and the reasons for it. Quite a fascinating read - must say though that it only covers the topic briefly but still provides a good brief idea of the

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Another poor result for LFC. Hmm frustrating is what I am sure all Reds fans feel after yesterday nights dismal performance. Now Gerrard Houllier said that it wasnt a good performance - probably the understatement of the season. But it is not all doom and gloom - THe Reds scored an away goal and that is always helpful -but who are we kidding - They should have won the match handsomely. Anyway

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Liverpool and Everton sharing grounds.. Havent blogged for a while but just had to say something about this Yes i know its hard to believe for all Reds fans out there but it might soon be a reality. Well let me be the first person to say that the rivalry that exists in Merseyside is relatively benign when compared to Glasgow. But having said that derby matches between the two are not dull

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Ayodhya all over again.... Its absolutely shambolic - reading about the acquittal of one Mr Lal Krishna Advani (at present India's deputy prime minister ) in the Ayodhya case is beyond comprehension. He was one of the main people involved in that infamous incident on December 12th when the whole horde of fanatical Hindus decided to go on and tear down a 400 year old mosque claiming that it stood

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Cell phone spread infections This article is just adding more credence to my feeling of ill health whenever i get near a hospital ..... Now a study done by a researcher in Israel has revealed that a form of bacterium can actually survive on cell phones and thrive for long time. Acinetobacter baumannii, a common source of in-hospital infections. was found to be presnet in more than 12 % of staff

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Digital Ink ? A new technology called Digital Ink has been used to illuminate Billboards . The fascinating thing about this techology is that the ads can be changed as required and do not require extra power consumption as is the case today. It is not a LCD screen nor does it use light emitting diodes and has the visual effect of a screensaver cycling through images on a desktop screen. How

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Wireless Keyboards & Mouse Apple has released new wireless keyboard and mouse which use Bluetooth technology enabling truly mobile desktop experience. It uses a adaptive frequency hopping technology to provide a range of over 30 feet and also uses 128 bit over the air encyrtion to ensure secure communication with the system. For more read on here

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A sour victory for LFC For all LFC fans out there- theres good news and bad news. First the good news - Liverpool beat Blackburn away 3-1.It was a good game in that we won got the three points and seems that finally Kewell and Diouf are settling in well. Now for the bad news- in the process of getting these three valuable points - Liverpool has lost the services of two very good players who

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India, USA and Israel - a new axis? A recent report on the BBC about the existence of a new axis among USA , India and Israel got me thinking. Its bad enough that America supports Israel openly though while trying to etch out a peace map leading to the creation of a separate Palestinian state. It is peace that everyone wants, but it will not be achieved as long as the Jewish and Palestinian

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Linux all the way - Malu style! I was over the moon when i discovered while reading this that the FreeSoftwareFoundation in India is based in Kerala- my state.Kudos to Mr Rajeev Srinivisan for providing such a good article explaining the Linux community and also the threats to it. The link to the FSF page can be found here. Have already signed up to their mailing list as any FSF follower would

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Linux v whats its name?? Linux v Windows - Its a no contest - Linux all the way! Right was chatting with my buddy Boso and he had this article on his blog about which was better. Right matey thought will give u andanyone else who's interested the whole nine yards about the lawsuit which let me say is absolutely preposterous! The whole history of the development of Unix and the current basis

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Tunnel mentioned in Bible verified It is rare that we ever hear about artifacts and places mentioned in the holy books being matched with the existing ones but geographer Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and two colleagues used radiocarbon and other radioactive isotope testing to establish that the Siloam tunnel under Jerusalem was indeed bulit around 700 B.C to prevent the

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Blogger's giving more ! My fellow bloggers Ivan and Bunmi will be extremely pleased to hear that Blogger owned by Google of last week has just announced that they are going to provide the previously Blogger Pro features for FREE. The Blogger co-founder Evan Williams issued a statement saying that as Google has far more computers and bandwidth , they can offer these services for free now. "

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Onam -Kerala's pride and joy - but has it lost its magic? At this point let me just say that urs truly is from Kerala - one of the sothern states in India. Along with being the first state in India to achieve complete literacy , one of the other great features of Kerala is the festival of Onam that is celebrated every year around August - September time. There are many tales but the most

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Bluetooth do u take USB ..... Found this interesting article about the marriage of USB with the Bluetooth technology and one of the main applications being touted is the ability to print using the Bluetooth connection thereby avoiding the use of the host PC. Two of the industry leaders namely CSR(Cambridge Silicon Radio - U.K) and Cypress ( U.S.A) in their respective fields have jointly

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IBM unveils new HOT technology to improve FET performance IBM has announced a new technology called Hybrid Orientation TEchnology that improves the hole mobility in PFET's. The basis of this new technology is the setting of the PFET area orientation on the silicon chip to 110 unlike the 100 orientation for the NFET regions. It has been shown to increase hole mobility and thus leading to a 65%

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Flying with anti- aircraft systems BA (British Aiiways ) has announced that its talking to aircraft maufactuers about installing hi-tech systems to guard against surface to aircraft missiles.It is already in tlaks with Boeing and Airbus about the tchnology and insists that they are still in the exploratory phase.Isreali airlines are believed to have already installed an anti-missile systems. So

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Bacterial Battery Two researchers at UMASS have developed a fuel cell battery which uses bacterial decomposition of sugar and other sugar related products. The two researchers namely Swades Chaudhuri, an Indian, and Derek Lovley, an American say the battery's source is an underground bacterium that gobbles up sugar and converts its energy into electricity.Their prototype device ran flawlessly

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Half life returns! For all the hard core gamers out there - great news - HAlf Life 2 is all set to be released later this month and i know quite a few people who are absolutely nuts about it.The article on BBC site says the five year wait is worth it according to the developers who have created more realistic features using highly realistic physics engine. And to top it all of it the company

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Supersonic minus the boom NASA has conducted experiments showing the vast reduction in the sonic booms produced during supersonic flights. AN aircraft travelling thru air produces air pressure waves and when it reaches supersonic speeds , these pressure waves merge to form shock waves whic hcause the sonic boom experienced on the ground. The new idea involves changing the shape of the aircraft

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Armageddon in 2014.... An article has started making the rounds about the possibility of collision of the earth with an asteroid named 2003 QQ47 (God couldnt they think of better names??) in 2014. Heheh Dun rush have time still!. Not to worry though folks apparently the chances are one in 909,000. Read more here

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Hey Mr negativity! Here's an interesting article that i found on the BBC website endorsing positive attitude.Guess there's credence now when u r friends say cheer up or else u could actually fall ill! The link is here. So cheerio i guess then/

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The Reds are back First of all let me express my great joy and relief at the wonderful result over the weekend - Just in case you missed it - LiVERPOOL 3 EVERTON 0 at Goodison in the 169th derby between the two sides. So finally all is right and the Reds have hopefully kickstarted their season - hopefully being the keyword there. There were a lot of positives to take away from the match along

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Man U to face Rangers The Champions league groups have been drawn and already there are many mouth watering prospects lined up none more so than the Battle of Britain clash between Manchester United and Rangers. Arsenal have Inter Milan to contend with while Celtic are in the same group as Bayern Muncih. Big spending Chelsea are in the group with Lazio. For the whole group listing follow this

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Is it time to panic yet? Liverpool 0 - Tottenham Spurs 0 (Anfield) Yes that was the sad state of affairs after yesterday nights game at Anfield .Manager Gerrard Houllier still insists that team will turn things around - duh it cant get any worse than this - o well I suppose we could have lost! And to top it all off the crowd did boo the players after the match even though the manager denies

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For Pete's sake It has finally arrived the moment that i had dreaded no more Pete Sampras at Wimbledon or any other tennis tournament. Yes its true Pete Sampras has retired from tennis possibly one of the greats of all time if not the greatest player .He was a true sportsman and though many people thought he was boring on court - he truly let his racquet do the talking . 14 Grand Slam titles

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SCO - the whole story Am sure all Linux lovers already know about the outrageous claims of SCO(formerly Caldera) against IBM suing to the order of billions.Well found this great article that chronicles the rise of SCO and providing proof for Linux. The link is here. It is to be noted that this has been posted on the Halloween pages previously reserved for MIcrosoft and its problems - which is

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Linux the winner! A truly great moment for all Linux lovers out there - It has finally come down to this. As a recent convert from Microsoft to Linux I am ecstatic - it means can finally show to some of my Windows buddies that Linux is way cooler than Windows . This is a major endorsement for the FSF(Free Software Foundation ) and the Open Source Community that Microsoft is using Linux servers

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Houllier for the sack? To all fellow reds out there i feel and share the pain. There is increasing pressure on Mr Houllier to get it right and after failing to reach the Champions league last season things have not helped one bit with the slow start so far. I say slow - if we lose the match today it will be really bad. So just as every other red-blooded fan out there - i too hope that today

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Bye Bye binary! Read an interesting article about the move being considered by many semiconductor maufacturing leaders towards the use of multi-level logic . The potential increase in size is mind blowing and considering the shrinking sizes and incredible densities that are available at present - it comes as no surprise that we will eventually reach the limits which will lead to a break of

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