“No Safe Place” by Michael Crichton

Finally, was able to finish the book “Sate of Fear” written by Michael Crichton.
The first few chapters of the book the reader is led to believe that global warming is real and is a catastrophic disaster waiting in the wings, but as the books unveils itself the reader is provided with research data, graphs, papers, [...]

Violinist or Domestic Helper Robot? – ask Toyota

From car manufacturing to the Robot manufacturing – now, that’s what Toyota all about.
Toyota introduced 2 robots, which can assist humans in transportation, domestic duties and care taking. One robot will have the task of transporting people one place to another @ the speed of 3.7 miles per hour. The battery life can last up [...]

Eat it like Beckham!

So, does the name Beckham sells?
Okay – he is a star, but he has yet to provide any soccer spark in our Football nation! He has been plagued with his nagging injury since he landed in Los Angeles.
Beckham has not impressed me after coming to US. I saw his debut with LA Galaxy, and that was [...]

Microsoft kills “Kill Switch”

 Finally, Microsoft is going to get ride of “Kill Switch” feature of the operating system Vista. This feature will cease with the release of Service Pack 1 for Vista coming out in the early months of the year 2008. The current feature was where Microsoft would run Windows in a reduced functionality mode – denies [...]

Where is da Toilet?

In London, a student came up with the idea of texting – text to find a lavatory. Well, it is called “SatLav” – don’t confuse it with “SatNav” – SatNav is used by drivers to find directions.
On Nov 28th, 2007, the Westminster City Council launched the SatLav service, which will guide Londoners and tourists [...]

Did we see the last of BCS Ranking System?

What a pathetic roller-coaster BCS (Blatantly Comical Series) Bowl Series!
Finally, we hit the jackpot – OSU will play LSU for the National Championship. Cool. Hopefully, the ranking won’t change next weekend!! I know, I know -the regular series has finally come to an end, but you alway wonder…
I always wondered – what’s wrong with having [...]

Are you being “tagged”?

You are sitting on your computer and you searching for some information or a product and bam! You are presented with an advertisement of a company, which is selling the same information or same product or same whatever you are searching or have been looking for! Are you been watched? Targeted? Not really – this [...]