A Perfect Repartee by Sachin Tendulkar

We all know about Sachin Tendulkar who is one of the best batsman in the cricket world. After India's biggest news paper asked the question: Tendulkar? or Endulkar?... He did not respond for this question. Instead, He simply concentrated on his game and responded with a bloody-minded-amazing century in ODI at Peshawar.

I guess the pacifist in him put an end to it with a repartee of amazing 100 runs. We heard about the quote "Action is Eloquence". Sachin proved it.

The little master is back to form now.

Space Elevator

How good If we travel in an elevator to go to space. Bremerton, WA, based company Liftport is working towards a goal of building a space elevator.

The purpose of this elevator would be for sending cargo and astronauts to the international space station.

Aamazing Mattingly drawing of what the future could look like.

Image Courtesy: http://www.liftport.com/

Act Upon Music in the Data Center

Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has created software that translates network and server activity into music. This means the data center operations team will listen to a steady flow of music and when they listen a sudden string of violin that means SPAM is flowing around. They call it as information music iSIC.

URLSource:http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060209/tc_cmp/179102057

VVSangam started blogging

VVSangam (Varutha Padaatha Vazhibar Sangam) is started blogging officially now. Login access information will be disseminated soon to all the members :-)

Take a look at the URL: http://freeyavidu.blogspot.com

Teeny-Tiny RFID µ-Chip

In this year's ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference) Hitachi is showcasing a 7.5 micron thick RFID chip. It will measure 0.15x0.15mm in dimension and will be 10 times thinner than a sheet of paper.

URLSource: http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=179100286

seen below is a 0.4x0.4mm chip.

A Nano Step For Knowing The Unknown

My home planet earth is part of a cluster of planets and orbits the sun.



The sun is part of a cluster of stars.




This cluster of stars orbits the milky way galaxy or spiral galaxy. The milky way is part of a cluster of galaxies.




This cluster of galaxies called the super galaxy.

The super galaxy is part of....... This is called the universe.

The creator of this universe created all these planets, stars and etc, etc, just for us (earthians)? Isn't it too much?

Thinking in this direction lit up the question "Are Aliens out there?". Who knows there may people be living in Andromeda Galaxy(2 million light years from earth) which is the nearest to us.

Finally, I ended up in Dr. Frank Drake's equation while trying to find out the information about (this unknown) life beyond earth.

Padithathil Pidithathu

Books

Books I have read so far

1. Wings of Fire - APJ Abdul Kalam
2. Kirukkalgal - R. Parthiban
3. Yavana Rani - Sandilyan
4. Mercury Pookal - Balakumaran
5. Karaiora Mudhalaigal - Balakumaran
6. Erentavathu Suriyan - Balakumaran
7. Vikram - Sujatha
8. Kadavul Irukirara - Sujatha
9. Oru Vingyana PaarvailIrundhu - Sujatha
10. Srirangathu Devathaigal - Sujatha
11. Thanneer Desam - Kavignar Vairamuthu
12. Biography of Swami vivekananda - (Forgot the author name)
13. Tell Me Your Dreams - Sidney Sheldon
14. If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon
15. The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon

Books I am waiting to get my hands on

1. Deception Point - Dan Brown
2. Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
3. The Broker - John Grisham

Let me know if you know any good books.

Reverse thinking

Normally, we(My friends and myself) use to play Minimum card game. One of my friends (Vinod Antony) came up with an idea of playing a game which is directly opposite to Minimum. We built some rules around it and started playing the game. We named it as Maximum. I do not want to get into the rules in-depth.

The point here is, I hope this game sparked of the neurons in the brain to think reverse too w/o our knowledge. I remember was playing Anti-chess for mastering in reverse thinking 4 years ago. I felt Maximum is similar to Anti-chess.