Check Your IQ !!!

This is an exceptional website that I found..i was waiting wiling away my time as I had nothing to do and wait alone for 4 hours as My conference call with US clients was supposed to be at Pacific time and not GMT!! So made the maximum use of it and learnt about My IQ score…might be flattering and totally inept..but hey I had not difficulty passing my time!! I guess u guys should check it out.!!! http://web.tickle.com/tests

Here are my results... :0B



Congratulations, Paras!Your IQ score is 142


This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results.

Gee I recovered..!!

hey ppl thanks for your concerns and sorry u guys had to e-mail me coz the stupid comment moderation was on..my project finally took off..and hey i wasn't as bad as it seemed from ur reactions...i was just too pissed at ppl procrastinating but no actions..!!but thts behind me now..wat a relief and a great way to start the weekend..:0)

cheers

Para

What a Waste..!!!

Hey all..
Am Mega pissed today...didnt have much work to do as people in the US of A decided they're gonna stuff some turkeys(sic!) and go out for a long weekend(read "Thanksgiving").. and so did the people in our own great country..The HR Manager,BD guys and IT Manager decided to take an early exit today and leave me lurking alone before my supposed Go live for my project tomorrow..!!!(YA tomorrow..!! it's not a typo..)..So no ownership,,no accountabilty...and 1 really really pissed project Manager(thats me if u're upbringing was in Planet Zion..)..i blew my top on everyone from the AC(airconditioning) Electrician to the Cafetria guy to the Transport MAnager...was really at my sarcastic best(victims read "worst"). And hey some heads are gonna roll when this long weekend gets done with..U bet these guys dont wanna see Monday.. If there ever was a contest for writing Stinker Emails.. I beat the crap out of the competetion today..hands down...thats how red-tape is..even in todays times...in Top level companies..with Fortune 100 clients,,sad :0( for ppl who feel they owe something to the company..maybe i'll walk to another shop to pay them back ;) ..maybe not.. maybe its just that i'm way too peeved right now to think straight...but thts wht i'm feeling at 1am ...just 3 words...

WHAT A WASTE..!!!!!!

pray i recover...


Para :0(

Nice one.....

Management : *8 Monkeys* ... ..*really** very interesting*
(This is based on an actual experiment conducted in U.K.)

Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading
to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.

Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed
with ice water, which makes them miserable.

Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the
other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him up.

Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to
climb the ladder.

One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in
the
room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other
monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to
climb
the ladder.
All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly. He has no idea why.

However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.
A second original monkey is removed and replaced.
The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other
monkeys hammer the crap out of him. This includes the previous new monkey,
who,
grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the
beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea
why he's attacking the
new monkey.
One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced.

Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed
by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will
enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea
why.
This is how any company's policies get Established

Test

This is a test Post..pls comment to help me figure out the problem with my blog template..

cheers..

Para

Google satellite photos worry President Kalam

1. Rashtrapati Bhavan
2. Indian Navy’s aircraft carrier
3. Yelahanka airport, Bangalore
Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed concern on Saturday about a free mapping program from Google Inc., warning it could help terrorists by providing satellite photos of potential targets.
Google Earth, an Internet site launched in June this year, allows users to access overlapping satellite photos. Although not all areas are highly detailed, some images are very high resolution, and some show sensitive locations in various countries.
At a meeting of top police officials in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that “developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen” for providing high resolution images of their sites.
The governments of South Korea and Thailand and lawmakers in the Netherlands have expressed similar concerns.
South Korean newspapers said Google Earth provides images of the presidential Blue House and military bases in the country, which remains technically at war with communist North Korea. The North’s main nuclear facility at Yongbyon is among sites in that country displayed on the service.
The Google site contains clear aerial photos of India’s parliament building, the president’s house and surrounding government offices in New Delhi. There are also some clear shots of Indian defense establishments.
Officials at Mountain View, Calif.-based Google did not immediately return a phone call and e-mail seeking comment.
Responding in August to the concerns of two Dutch lawmakers, Google spokeswoman Catherine Betts noted the software uses information already available from public sources and said its benefits “far outweigh any negatives from potential abuse.”
Kalam, a scientist who guided India’s missile program before becaming president, called for new laws to restrain dissemination of such material. He said existing laws in some countries regarding spatial observations of their territory and the United Nations’ recommendations on the practice are inadequate.

Did earthquake kill Osama?

Did Saturday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake destroy Osama bin Laden’s lair in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province? US government officials and terrorism experts obviously hope so, but say there’s no evidence to suggest so yet.
Laden has been rumoured to be hiding everywhere — from remote caves along the Afghan-Pakistani border to villages in western Pakistan’s tribal areas. Any of these hideouts could have been smashed by the quake.

Aussie's Super Champs..

The champagne flies as Australian captain Ricky Ponting (centre) holds the trophy after defeating the ICC World XI team in the third one-day match being played in Melbourne, on October 9, 2005. Batting first, Australia scored 293-5 from their 50 overs and in reply the ICC World XI was bowled out for 137 giving Australia a 156 run victory and a 3-0 clean sweep. (AFP Photo)

A NEW INDIA ..?? A mail sent by Dean IIT Madras, about a real Indian (Worth reading it)

Dear Friends,

Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride,which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time youput in reading it :"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a closefriend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid(remember "PL-480"?). For a food deficient India this threat wasserious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, PrimeMinister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds inDelhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every weekto answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined thosemillions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fasteven when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food.Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the USgovt, I had vowedto stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indianambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million tothe US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other reliefmaterials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast?With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrinavictims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India hascovered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"- Vijay Kranti.

Blog Of Exceptional Note...

Hey all..I was jst blog surfing when i found this blog of amazing quality.It's a travel blog and i know pictures always make a blog look good.But the Kind of Content this provides to ur Soul is amazing.It's About mridula's(the Publisher) Ladakh Trip and the blog also includes her other trips.She is an avid Traveller and a fast rising publisher having published 3(atleast 2) travel tales on GoNomad.com

An Ode to my Departed Ladakh Pictures

guys u need to go visit the blog...

It's Out of this world..

PHOTO Courtesy:- Travel Tales From India

Daily Dilbert to your desktop!

Download this fun tool to see Daily-Dilbert comic strip right from your Desktop! This Win-App uses the DailyDilbert Web Services developed for eSynaps!
Download it now!
PS: Runs only if you have .NET Framework V1.0 is installed on yor desktop.
cheers..!!

Cool..!!!

This is what i call a real Good Pat on the ... Head..!!!

Telugu actress Tamanna Bhatia as Tarannum Khan

Telugu actress Tamanna Bhatia as Tarannum Khan
Actress Tamanna Bhatia is considering legal action against cyber pranksters who have floated her pictures on the net claiming that she is Mumbai’s notorious dance bar girl Tarannum Khan. (more…)

Pixels For Sale..Amazing Concept

MillionDollarhomepage.com
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Hey.

I came across www.milliondollarhomepage.com

It Sells pixels on its page for advertisers and has about a total of 1,000,000 pixels for sale..already at last count 143,900 pixels had been sold @ $1 per pixel..

I was amazed.. at the amount of people that have bought 1 pixel .. lolz !!

its funny they have sold over 140,000 pixels allready !! :O


chees,
Para

A Billion Dollars?

A Billion Dollars?

The next time you hear a politician use the word
"billion," casually, think about whether you want the
politician spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one
advertising agency did a good job of putting that
figure into perspective in one of its releases.

a.. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
b.. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
c.. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in
the Stone Age.
d.. A billion days ago no-one walked on two feet on
earth.
e.. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20
minutes, at the
rate the U.S.government spends it...!!!!

Really interesting site Nov2.org

political and emotional expression in the virtual and real worlds
Courtesy : Lanya Shapiro on echoditto
September 17, 2004 - 12:45pm
Always one to use my person as a billboard, I rarely go without a political T-shirt. My latest favorite is my November 2 T-shirt, of which I own three.
I love watching the looks on people's faces as they rack their brains. Sometimes they ask me if I'm a scorpio. Typically though, they ask what happened on Nov 2, and I tell them that's the day we're going to take our country back. It's a great conversation starter -- much more so than a partisan shirt, I've found.
I'll soon be in very good company because apparently, Yahoo! made a NOVEMBER 2 t-shirt for their avatars to wear. (An avatar is an image that you can use to represent your online self in blog comments, IM formats, etc.)
Once just flat images, avatars are now becoming more customizable and even dynamic. I just learned a little more about the expressive capacity of avatars here.
Of course, you can get a T-shirt for your real-world self, or a set of iron-on transfers, at www.november2.org or click here.
I highly recommend it. You know what they say about scorpios, right?

The WTC Memorial -How it will Look..!!!

The Memorial: Reflecting Absence

To open in 2009, the Memorial consists of two voids that reside in the original footprints of the Twin Towers surrounded by a forest of oak trees. Each void holds a pool of water filled by waterfalls on all sides. Visitors will descend 30 feet to galleries underneath the waterfalls inscribed with the names of those who died. Designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, Reflecting Absence, was selected from more than 5000 entrants from 63 nations which itself was a testament to the universality of the loss.

The Memorial Museum

Adjacent to the two voids, the Memorial Museum will cover over 100,000 square feet underground and will retell the events of the day, display powerful artifacts, and celebrate the lives of those who died. Visitors will be able to touch bedrock and see the slurry wall that so vividly conveys the enormity of the buildings and the enormity of the loss.

To view the submissions for the Memorial competition, please visit:
http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/

Build the Memorial

Build the Memorial
posted by Larry Biddle on September 10, 2005 - 11:55am at echoditto
When I think about September 11, 2001, I remember how alone I felt that day. Two weeks before, I had moved to Portland, Maine for a new job. (I later learned those hijackers flew right over me on their way to the Boston airport.) Here I was in a strange place and didn’t know anyone. The world had turned upside down. The sense of doom and confusion took me back to when I was a kid in the ‘50s, growing up with the ever-present fear of bombs dropping from the sky. In school we practiced hiding under our desks to protect ourselves. Even then I suspected that was useless, since I knew a bomb would vaporize everything, including me.
I thought that dread had gone. It was only in remission, I guess.
This morning I awoke thinking about that terrible day, and about Katrina and what a mean-spirited, selfish and aggressive country we live in today. For a moment I was back in that same fearful and lonely place. That didn’t last long. Over many years, I have learned to look for the positive places. Today the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation officially launched its new website http://www.buildthememorial.org/. Regardless of how each of us experience and reflect on natural and manmade disasters, building the World Trade Center Memorial – directly on top of the bedrock footprints of those two towers – seems so right and important. It will be a beautiful place to remember, learn and resolve so much pain and loss – present and past. I am proud that EchoDitto helped empower this new internet destination where people will gather to share their 9/11 stories, see what the Memorial will look like, and together again – build it.
You are invited to tell your 9/11 story at http://www.buildthememorial.org/ (look for the "Build it" button near the top of the homepage).

Visit Larry Biddle's blog
Courtesy : echoditto

Katrina and Global Warming

Katrina and Global Warming
An Associated Press article entitled "Katrina Reignites Global Warming Debate" echoes what many of us are asking. How much of this catastrophe can be blamed on human activities?
As a scientist, my first thought is that a single datum does not make a theory. But there is no question that this storm adds support to the idea that global warming will be very costly indeed. The fact that the Gulf of Mexico was running about one degree Celsius (one to two degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal was clearly a factor in Katrina's remarkably fast and severe development. We may be in a natural cycle that makes severe storms more common, but it is reasonable to surmise that the warmer climate is exacerbating that effect.

Courtesy : Science Blog.com

How bodies and plants repair UV damaged DNA

How bodies and plants repair UV damaged DNA
For the first time, researchers have observed exactly how some cells are able to repair DNA damage caused by the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The study revealed how the enzyme photolyase uses energy from visible light to repair UV damage.

Courtesy :Science Blog.com

NY Times Report - 9/11 (The First 10 Days)

THE FIRST 10 DAYS
A look back at the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
NYTimes.com Front Pages: Sept. 11, 2001 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Archive Page (Sept. 11, 2002)

COURTESY :- NY TIMES.COM ==> 9/11 REPORT

8 Days in September 2001

8 Days in September
These pictures were taken between 9.11.2001 through 9.18.2001 in Manhattan.

That morning was like any other. I'd overslept and J was on the computer listening to music with his headphones on, messing around with a bridge building simulator. Dad called in the morning to see if we were okay. Of course we were, why wouldn't we be? We were in the dark still.

When he broke the news, I didn't believe him. I thought he was pulling my leg. I opened the window and the first thing I noticed was the smell. Something was burning. I walked out onto the fire escape and saw others on theirs. All eyes looked downtown at the plume of gray and black smoke. Saw the ppl on the street in disblief. I remember feeling shocked and dizzy. Tuesday morning and no downtown traffic, no cabbies clogging Lexington ave. Sound of Armory officers yelling out orders. It was unreal.

I came in and told J about it but he didn't believe me either. He thought I was playing a joke. I turned on the tv but all the channels were kaput excepts for channel 2. Pentagon was hit, it wasn't..was it? The rumors flews like there was no tomorrow. All the planes were accounted for except one. Which one, was it headed for new york too? California? No one knew. It was the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

I've never seen J like that, so quiet, so angry. He could not get a word out for about 5 minutes. I asked him if he was scared, but he said no. He said he wasn't afraid of death. I on the otherhand went through a myriad of emotions ranging from being scared, angry and bitter. I cried alot then.

These photos aren't earth shattering or anything like that. I was new to photography then. Just my record of my 45 photos during 8 day in September, 2001.

Photo Gallery

Blog posted courtesy Sophie :- polarprints.com

Katrina Relief - Donate

You can help the victims of the disaster that Hurricane Katrina has left behind.
Click Here to Donate and or Volunteer.

Human generated electricity

Biological researcher have found out that a human with a 20-20 kg backpack can generate atleast 7-8 watt of power as he/she walk. you know what can we do with it "we can simultaneously power an MP3 player, a PDA, night vision goggles (or 3 LED headlamp), a handheld GPS, a CMOS image decoder, a GSM terminal in talk mode, and Bluetooth". check this link for further details http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/8874/

OfficeGuns.com

Site: OfficeGuns.com

Want to know how to build an entire arsenal of guns. Using nothing but office supplies, then visit OfficeGuns.com

SpaceWeather.com

We’re all concerned about the weather down here on earth. Especially those of us who live in “hurricane central”. But have you ever considered the weather in the rest of the universe? For instance, did you know that today the solar wind speed is 372.9 kilometers per second (231.7 miles per second)? Did you know that on September 7, 2005 solar flares caused electronic communication problems for emergency personnel in hurricane-hit areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast? Check out SpaceWeather.com for some interesting facts and figures.

Parablogs

Parablogs

intro

hey all..
nice to introduce myself.. i am Para and thats how i'll be known and this blog is dedicated to YOU the People. post what you like ... how u like coz that's the whole idea behind blogging..

so Happy Bloggin

cheers..

Para