Guru Prasath

Google SMS Channel - Trafficspot

2008-10-02T17:19:00.001+05:30

Google India Labs has recently launched a new service called SMS Channel. This service provides free SMS messages within a group. I have created a new SMS group called TrafficSpot. I would like everybody to join this group. Using this service one can get the latest traffic updates in your city. To subscribe use your mobile and type "ON trafficspot" and send it to 9870807070(it is a google mobile number). This will subscribe to this trafficspot channel. Once you are subscribed, you can send traffic alert messages to everyone(who subscribed) by typing "send trafficspot <your traffic alert message>" and send it to 9870807070.

Keep your traffic alert message in one of the following format.

<Road, Place, City> - traffic <very low/low/normal/high/very high/jam> - <spotted date & time>
<Latitude, Longitude> - traffic <very low/low/normal/high/very high/jam> - <spotted date & time>

For example,

Sholapur Highway, Hadapsar, Pune - Traffic Low - 2/10/08 5:10 PM
[18.500264,73.939404] - Traffic Jam - 2/10/08 8:00 PM

If you have any GPS enabled mobile phones, like the ones from Nokia you can spot the latitude/longitude of the place you wish. Hope my SMS channel will become a great and cool service to everyone.

For more info on the SMS service go to http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/help

Technorati Tags: sms,google,free,traffic,india

IPL - 1

2008-05-13T01:49:00.000+05:30

Why Michael Clarke was not selected for IPL? Did he reject the offer?

Technorati Tags: IPL,India,Cricket,T20

One paragraph that explains life

2008-01-23T18:44:00.000+05:30

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?To this Arthur Ashe replied:
"The world over -- 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'"

"Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong, Sorrow keeps you Human, Failure keeps you humble and Success keeps you glowing, but only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going..."

Technorati tags: sport, quote, tennis

Another Superman

2007-06-29T09:58:00.001+05:30

An Indian guy named “Anantharaman Subbaraman” arrived at the New York airport and ended up waiting for his visa for about 2 hours for the authorities to call his name. He got fed up and went to them and asked why they haven’t called his name yet.

They said that they have been calling him for the last 2 hours as “Anotherman Superman”

Technorati Tags: jokes, india

Guru Music - Mindless Rediff

2006-12-19T17:23:00.000+05:30

"No one but A R Rahman can compose the music for a Mani Ratnam film!"

I strongly condemn the above lines. Mr.Ilayaraja has done a greater job for Mani Ratnam's previous works. The reason why they parted their way is a different matter altogether.

GMail Firewall problem

2006-10-12T12:58:00.000+05:30

I got this problem recently when I was browsing Gmail. A link pointed to this site.

God Exists

2006-10-11T12:37:00.000+05:30

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with lon g, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long ! hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! " answered the barber. " What happens, is, people do not come to me. "

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. ! "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look forHim. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

Flickr

2006-07-05T23:23:00.000+05:30

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Google Trends

2006-05-11T23:44:00.000+05:30

Most of you by now will be knowing about Google Trends. With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Its a good tool for doing market research. Let us see some interesting trends.

India Vs Pakistan

We Indians are less concerned about ourselves and pakistanis, but Pakistanis are more concerned about themselves and about us.

Here is the another one, Tamil vs Hindi vs Marathi vs Telugu vs Kannada

Hindi leads the pack in India, UAE, Saudi, Canada and UK. While Tamil leads in Srilanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland an almost comes equal with Hindi in Kuwait.

Any guess which is most searched term in Google? ;)

Official with Indian cricket cap

2006-03-09T00:19:00.000+05:30

How can a board official(here its Kiran More, Chief of Selectors) wear an Indian cap as shown in this picture? Recently this issue was raised by Sunil Gavaskar on Gloster(Indian cricket team physio) wearing the official cap. Picture courtesy: Rediff.com

Google Doodle

2005-12-24T23:23:00.000+05:30

Time and again Google has celebrated several festive occasions by showing interesting Google Logo's, which they call it as Google Doodle. More Doodles you can find it at,

www.marsdencartoons.com is the master behind the Doodles.

Praying for rain

2005-12-03T01:05:00.000+05:30

Ganguly will be the only person praying for more rain in Chennai not because he didn’t want to face pace bowling under damp conditions, if the match is abandoned then he will be getting two more chances to prove himself. ;)

A nice collection of Tamil stories

2005-10-11T21:00:00.000+05:30

A nice collection of tamil stories told with good set of pictures. I would recommend to Fathers/Mothers who were struggling to find good stories to tell their kids at night. http://siruvarpoonga.blogspot.com/

2005-09-13T20:43:00.000+05:30

Google Katrina help page.

Secret of Google's Power

2005-09-09T21:08:00.000+05:30

THE SECRET SOURCE OF GOOGLE'S POWER:
http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html

Email signatures - I

2005-08-12T22:11:00.000+05:30

I have started collecting interesting email signatures found on the net. This is the first part of the series.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learnt.
Only Dead Fish Swim Along The Stream
The most important early product on the way to developing a good product is an imperfect version.
Life is complex. It consists of real and imaginary parts.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
B+ve is not just a blood group.
Beauty is His footprint showing us where He has passed - Aurobindo

Ayuveda Basics

2005-07-25T17:38:00.000+05:30

Learn about Ayurveda here.

Many spellings but same person

2005-07-22T13:45:00.000+05:30

Want to see, in how many ways people are trying to get information about Britiney Spheres.

First flight

2005-07-03T02:28:00.000+05:30

Recently I had flown from Pune-Bangalore-Pune in a span of 5 days. This was my first flight experience. It was made possible by Spicejet. The cost was quite affordable. Even though two way charge was around RS.5100, I would have saved more than RS.1500 if I had booked a day before. My friends were threatening me about the flight company, since it is a new company and it cannot afford to fly at this rate, it can close at any time. Thanks to my faith, my first flight experience was without any trouble.

Here few moments in the flight were worth sharing. First the takeoff and the other one is of flying over the quiet and pleasant white clouds, which were simply awesome. I have planned to come by spicejet next time too. I decided to take few snaps of these clouds next time. The onboard crew staff were pleasant (looking). Till that time I have seen them only in films and in TV. They gave us cookies and 200ml water bottle which is acceptable considering the ticket price.

I think they would have a decent salary. I just wonder the cost structure of this newcomers in the aviation industry and how they are going to survive in this business. The flight which I travelled was 200 seater Boeing 737-800. The capacity of the flight is 192( 32 * 6) passengers. I felt like travelling in volvo bus. It was so close and short seating capacity, but still comfortable. Anyway we can't deny one thing , only because of them people like me can fly. Otherwise I have to wait till my company will sponsor.

2005-07-03T02:05:00.000+05:30

Bangalore at 15 miles above sea level
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2005-07-03T02:03:00.000+05:30

Chennai at 20 miles above sea level
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Can you count binary?

2005-06-22T18:13:00.000+05:30

There are 10 types of people..... those who can count in binary and those who cant!

Who are you?

Nasa christened Mars rocks based on Indian names

2005-06-15T03:50:00.000+05:30

NASA has christened a Martian rock Pongal (a tamil festival). More...

Vishwa Bharat or Akhand Bharat

2005-06-05T02:02:00.000+05:30

Some years ago, when i felt so patriotic (even still i feel), i was thinking of an idea of uniting countries which parted their way at some time before and after our country's independence. It also included countries which i felt were should be part of India, since because they were having similarities with our culture. The list goes like this, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Srilanka, etc., This might have similarities with RSS's akhand bharat concept. But the similarties ends there. Theirs is using military power to acquire the land, i suppose. Mine is to have free trade between these countries, common military, common currency, common law, free movement of people. One fine article i found which seems to be new idea. Though it seems to have lots of pros, one con which i found is it could lead to situations which happened in Fiji. When comes to problems like "Who is the original native of the land?", it doesn't have any answers. For the aritcle which i am talking, click this link.

Ransomware

2005-05-25T23:25:00.000+05:30

Heard of Ransomware. Sounds alien. Its new type of threat. Here crackers will exploit your system and encrypts the important files and ask for ransom to decipher it. More

Google personal homepage

2005-05-20T19:36:00.000+05:30

Check this link, Google personal homepage. The cool thing is you can easily customize the content block position with drag and drop.

Mumbai Express - Cinematography

2005-05-06T03:42:00.000+05:30

The reason behind bad cinematography is, it was done experimentally with digital movie camera. Kamal being an experimental one, tried digital version in this movie. I don't know whether he has expected this kind of result, only kamal can tell. It is the second film that was shot entirely in digital in India. The first being the other tamil film by ace cinematographer P.C.Sriram.

Good joke #1

2005-05-06T03:38:00.000+05:30

One day a man claims himself to a scientist in on his research. He took a cockroach and cut one of its legs and said jump. The cockroach hopped. He removed it's second and said jump.. The cockraoch hopped . Removed it's third leg and said jump. It hopped lightly. He removed all it's leg and said jump.. The cockroach couldn't jump..

Concluded his thesis.. Cockroach donot hear when it looses all its legs.

Herbert Dow, the Monopoly Breaker

2005-04-13T13:02:00.000+05:30

A story about a small chemical company owner, Herbert Dow, whose intelligent marketing broke the German monopoly.

Nice time for a change

2005-04-13T01:26:00.000+05:30

Gangulty was banned for 6 ODI. This is a nice time to think about the idea of having two captains. One for ODI(Dravid) and one for Test matches(Ganguly). This virtually rules out Ganguly playing ODIs. He then have to prove his worth to come into ODI side.This helps the team to groom other youngsters for the world cup.

I am not against Ganguly, he is a agressive player. He feels the pinch now and naturally he will come into the side in a more agressive manner. Thats what i am waiting for.

First Post

2005-04-04T05:27:00.000+05:30

Hi,
This is my first post.