Vaani

2009-02-09T12:24:00.001-05:00

One of the funniest Jay Leno...

2008-12-18T15:47:00.001-05:00

2008-10-03T12:29:00.004-05:00

Canon Rebel XTi/450D DSLR: My first impressions...

After lot of thinking, finally I decided to move from Canon Rebel XT (350D) to Canon Rebel XSi (450D), the canon new (low end, but latest) Digital SLR.
Why I changed/upgraded the system,

=> I am using Canon 350D from last 2+ years. I am very happy with system. I am using mostly (almost all) manual focus lenses. I heard the rave reviews of new view finder (bright) and Live View. People swear by accuracy in manual focusing with these two new upgrades.

Last week, I got the camera. And yes, there is a big difference from moving 350D to Rebel XSi. In last 2-3 days, I used the camera with Olympus 50mm f1.4, Zenitar 16mm f2.8, Leica 90mm f2.8, Takumar 50mm f4.0 and Leica 35mm f2.8, although for small amount of time....

My initial thoughts, (Not touching the normal features like mirror lock, Av compensation etc):

Pros:

+ Live View: Another great feature. Manual focusing will never be same. Although it will make (your) captures little slow. You cant miss focus with this feature (esp. for standing/fixed subjects). I am no totally gone to live view for tripod shots with 10x based manual focusing.

+ Viewfinder: This only can be deal breaker for manual focus lenses users. The viewfinder with OEM focusing screen is far superior and larger than older Rebel model viewfinders. This is something every manual focus lens aficionado will love. First time I didn’t even believe that I had stopped down the lens to f5.6. I am not sure, whether I should even go for split prism (I have focus confirmation chip based adapter which are non-sense and useless for wide open, although OK for stopped down). This alone is worth upgrade. When I mounted Industar 50mm f3.5 lens, initial thoughts were, "Did I put Canon 50mm f1.8..." ;). I am using Leica 90mm f2.8 at f4 most of the time now.

+ Film/ISO speed in the viewfinder.

+ The camera supports the OTG peer-to-peer USB data protocol, you don't have to take the card out of the camera when want to transfer the images to the portable storage photo hard drive. Just hook up the USB cable between the camera and drive, the configuration/protocol support will transfer images quickly and directly.

+ Camera allows you to set up a custom menu with your 7 or so most favorite functions for quick easy access so using mirror lockup, auto exposure bracketing or formatting card. These functions become easy as pressing the menu button once and jumping right to function on screen. No more having to scroll through multiple screens and menus to get to your commonly used functions. (Thanks to manual focus forum member, Sandeep, for this and above information)

+ Auto ISO is much needed feature, one thing less to think about when you don't have time to set the ISO. With quality at high ISO touches to new heights, I am using this mode more than any other in indoor captures.

+ Ergonomics: Light weight and great grip, mush better than 350D. (what a lightweight camera is this).

+ SD Card: Much better for me (than CF). Cheap (got 8G for less than $20) and interchangeable with my wife’s P&S camera. One less thing to worry about .

+ Live View: Another great feature. Manual focusing will never be same. Although it will make (your) captures little slow. You cant miss focus with this feature (esp for standing/fixed subjects). I am no totally gone to live view for tripod shots with 10x based manual focusing.

+ Great high ISO quality: Even ISO 1600 is usable in most situations. With little Noise remover/control software, you cant even guess the ISO.

Cons:

- Menu system is little confusing. -Software is buggy. It happened twice only (when I have to off the camera to reset), but I can tell, Canon put lot of things in a small machine. With software will eventually becoming key component and market pressure of launching new product in small interval of time, we are going to see this happening a lot.

- Live View is difficult to use in Manual (M) mode: Thats just really pain. The LCD screen is dark in manual focus mode. And that where (in Manual) mode, I was thinking of using the camera with Live view most. In low light situation, I usually keep shutter speed in reasonable limit to keep the (captured) shake to minimum, but now its really pain to focus in "A" (Aperture Priority mode) and move the knob to M mode and then capture. I am happing to capture the scene little underexposed and pulling the shadows with post-processing, then getting a shake.

-Software is buggy. It happened twice only (when I have to off the camera to reset), but I can tell, Canon put lot of things in a small machine. With software will eventually becoming key component and market pressure of launching new product in small interval of time, we are going to see this happening a lot.

-SD Card: To me, its not advisable to take the SD card out every time you want to download. The card cover and its mechanism (cover control) is little weak.

- Memory storage management: It may be mine setting, but the camera is not writing in normal file management system. The PC is not able to read any file (The error message was related to the format, that card contents were more like another hard drive). But if you create one dummy directory on the card, the camera writes with normal directory structure.

- Louder (Mirror movement sound): The camera is surely louder than 350D. I think the mirror is heavy/thick, and that may be coming form making the view finder more bright (more reflective). But I may be wrong e here. These are very initial thought. - Flash mechanism is totally screwed up with live view. This is my first impression. I was trying external Sigma flash.

- Quantum wireless flash system: Good Luck. Works some times, most of the time, you have to pull your hairs...

- B-bye old software: At least my copy of Rawshooter is not able to read 450D/XSi Raw files.

- Bigger battery charger (its a joke or not.. ;) )

Initial Thoughts on this investment: Worth it, for manual focus shutterbugs.

Sensor Cleaning is OK feature, Nothing big. Live View is of little use for Auto focus lenses and in manual focus mode.

The camera is very different in terms of your work flow needs, compatibilities (with third party accessories) and software needs. You need to be ready for some changes.

To me, Live View is critical decision maker. . I am not sure, its going to make any difference for Auto focus (the capture speed will be very slow with live view compare to normal viewfinder).

Everything else is secondary, after all 450D/XSi is a camera. And that where, its excels... no comparison with 350D, esp. at high ISO.

I will post the results in a day or two…..

2008-09-05T23:00:00.003-05:00

Google Chrome Hype:

Initially I didnt know that there is something like color management/profile support at browser. (Till someone told me at one photography forum) First Safari and then Firefox 3.xx came with a support of ICC profiles. With now Google Chrome hype is going on in full swing, I checked the color management feature with "eye" test. And now found out on internet that Chrome doesnt support ICC profile. This is the result of my simple eye test, The differences in colors, in Chrome and Firefox with Color management plugin installed & color vision created profile selected, are too huge to ignore,

Wow.. Google wnats to capture multimedia based internet traffic/industry, thats what they developed...

These guys need more than geeks...

2008-06-06T09:44:00.004-05:00

Defense Budget: Pakistan press perspective

Nice discussions. Its in Urdu/Hindustani.

2008-04-15T12:08:00.002-05:00

Barking but on what???

In last few days, we saw 2 interesting, although unrelated by some, news stories.

Direct to the point, the stories are,

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8428&tag=nl.e550

2008-02-27T18:45:00.003-05:00

Rolleinar 55mm f1.4 lens and Home Cooking..

It is really a chilled cold outside, temp is subzero from last 2-3 weeks (max).
Storms are worst, and last to last week was not any different, but it gave me an opportunity to use my new lens.

I got the Rollei Mount Rolleinar-MC 55mm f1.4 lens. Although Rollei lenses are considered top notch, but Rolleinar was a kit range. Rollei gave the manufacturing cantract to Japanese comapnies and instead of using Rollei brand, came up with Rolleinar. Along with Rolleinar, even Voigtländer started its cheap range Voigtländer AR range to compete in kit lenses.

Rolleinar-MC 55mm f1.4 was manufactured by Tomioka, also sold in M42 mount with different names like Sears and Ricoh. Good thing is, Tomioka used to be great lens designer as well as manufcaturer. Tomioka also mage the (now) legendary 55mm f1.2 lens in few mounts (but I have seen in M42 mount only).
Same lens is also available in Voigtländer AR range as Voigtländer Color-Ultron 55mm f1.4, in Rollei mount (Same as Rolleinar).

Back to cooking... What can be the best place to test lens than the home cooking environment. Seema made the Pulav on that... hmmm... yum...
You can browse the whole set here,

http://flickr.com/photos/asbalyan/tags/indiandishrolleinar/

Few results,

Ready to eat, best with curd/yogurt and salad...

More latter...

2007-12-18T01:19:00.000-05:00

Some Captures with Jupiter-9 85mm f2:

(You can find more details about this lens in earlier post)

Family Pics:

Cityscape and architecture:
(Bank of America Building (Atlanta)

Ceiling of Ohio Theatre (Columbus, OH)

Seattle Downtown

Landscape:

Smoky Mountains

Will discuss about bokeh and sharpness at some other time...

2007-12-18T00:26:00.000-05:00

Jupiter-9: Real Jupiter in my lens arsenal

(Slide show of Jupiter-9 captures)

In more than last one year, I have collected or say accumulated 50+ manual focus lenses. These from as wide as Zenitar 16mm f2.8 to telephoto lens as unknown branded 400mm f6.3; from legendary Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.7 to fast Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 to Nikkor-P 180mm f2.8.
But out of these are real gems. Standing proud and tall in these gems is Jupiter-9 85mm f2. This lens is M42 mount which I am using on my Canon Rebel XT/350D with M42->EOS adapter. The M42 mount Jupiter-9 lenses are black, some very rare (early) are silver in finishing. But mine is very different, it used to be one of the earliest M39 (39mm) mount lens, converted to M42 mount by earlier owner (from Russia).
But lens has some limitation (from its old age). If I rotate the aperture, it rotates the focusing ring too (The blue lines). This is the modified lens,

But lens has its own class, little soft wide open.. horrible sharp stopped down...

Some resources on this lens,

http://m42.artlimited.net/lens_detail.php?lid=89
http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/russian_lens/jupiter/jupiter_9_85/
http://galactinus.net/vilva/retro/eos350d_jupiter-9.html

But all has details of black finished Jupiter-9 85mm f2.

Seems like, I am the only one with this lens

2007-11-21T12:28:00.000-05:00

Amazon Unbox: A dream went sour

Launch of Amazon Unbox was an exciting event for me, finally on demand (offline) digital content from non-operators (Read Cable). Although the pricing had already put me on the negative side. This is a text from Amazon Unbox site,

"our rental video can be stored on your PC or TiVo DVR for 30 days. Once you press play, you have 24 hours to watch the video before it expires."

What a foolishness. You are paying rental, but why there is difference in digital content and hard copies (DVD or HD-DVD or Blue Ray).

And Amazon is charging $3.99 (most of the new movies) for each rental.

I am speechless...

Next Blog: Will update about my views on Amazon Unbox "Out of Mind" viewers profiling (viewing habits) algorithms.

2007-10-25T22:58:00.000-05:00

Bonjour Web and netizens...

I was totaly out of blogging cycle from last 1 year, as I was putting some time to another hobby. That one is Photography, or should say "Retro Photography". You will find more details on this blog in new future about my experiments in photography (Optics).

2006-11-17T13:04:00.000-05:00

PS3 Craze:
Sony PS3 is finally in the market. Last night, I visited Best Buy, and was surprised finding almost 10+ tents outside the store. People were sitting/standing with their tents by sides, and it was raining evening with temp touching around 45F.
Worst is eBay prices. I was following few, and this one is just crazy.

This auction ended at $8000 plus. What the hell....
See the screen shots,

I dont have words...

2006-11-15T23:39:00.000-05:00

"Slide": Interesting (but another) site.

Slide got the latest funding from Venture world. This very interesting site, for creating slide show. You can directly upload the picture here, or it can connect to different photo hosting site like Flickr.
It provides the feature to stream that particular stream to blog or some other different site.

I am posting the slide show of Ice Hockey game (NHL), captures with Canon 350D and bunch of manual focus lenses.

worth using...

2006-10-23T10:43:00.000-05:00

Happy Deepawali

My wife, Seema, puts lot of efforts on festivals. We really had great fun last weekend.

More on this festival,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Bye for now...

2006-10-23T00:18:00.000-05:00

Fall and now winter...
Finally Fall is here and surprisingly very early winter.. Temperatures are about 20F below normal..

But still some good colors... I captured this with Canon 350D/Rebel XT and Manula focus Takumar 50mm/f1.4 lens.
Cheers...

Zune Phone

2006-09-15T14:23:00.000-05:00

I wrote a blog on Zune media Player by Microsoft. Seems like Microsoft is taking one more step in becoming (Multi) media Hardware vendor. There is very interesting statement,

In response to: The software giant’s Zune people at the event were asked whether that was any indication Microsoft might evolve its media player into a cell phone at some point.

“We’re definitely exploring the possibilities,” Chris Stephenson, general manager of global marketing for Zune, told reporters.

What what we need to find whether Zune will have softphone capability or full functional phone. What does this mean,

-> Softphone capability: A software client will provided, which can be sold through current or new telecom operators or MSN Live service can be used as platform to provide end to end communications. In this case. Zune will take advantage of in built WiFi capability to connect to network.

-> Full functional phone: Sold through wireless operators channels and will have all the air interface support. This will need change in basic Zune architecture, as in that case it will be phone first (regulatory commitments) and media device as add on features.

But every thing will come down to one thing, whats the OS of Zune. As I wrote earlier, I am hoping, it will not be Windows. But I may be wrong (I am hearing some version of Windows Mobile is coming as part of this player).

Hey, I am waiting for iPhone now and seems like Nokia Internet Tablet is getting tough competition (what competition.. to me Microsoft can create market.. and Nokia will sell its product.

Most interesting thing all are missing is changing landscape of personal computing devices. In 90's Apple took the approach of Hardware + Software, and Microsoft used the open Hardware architecture to sell its software. After making lot billionaires, Microsoft strategy is nose diving (check 5 years stock prices). Apple is finally showing new Mantra in this new world. (Although I still think, Apple will make more money in from its OS than selling cheap but fantastically designed media devices). Microsoft eventual entry in media device (Zune) and already presence in Gaming platform (XBOX) has again put in direct fight with Apple.

Deja vu..

Cheers...

technorati tags:Microsoft, Apple, Zune, Nokia

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Content 2.0

2006-09-14T23:58:00.000-05:00

Its like a fashion these days to add 2.0 anything related to web. It all started with AJAX/Community driven concepts/sharing/Mash up.

In between all this, Music (lets talk about audio content only) remained same go either Apple way (cool player, great user experiance with affordable price for content) or every one else (from Napster to go to illegal downloading). In between Sony did biggest blunders, first launching digital music player without MP3 support and finally flawed DRM implementation in Music CD.

Microsoft was sitting at the back trying to put power in almost all non-Apple devices (with DRM and PC based software). Finally Microsoft is in the ring, not for boxing showdown, but for Sumo wrestling.

Microsoft finally launched Zune, its first entry into audio content device (Microsoft is already in gaming, XBOX).

Zune is really making music and content 2.0 in terms of downloading and distribution. Main specs of Zune are,

WiFi, 30GB of HDD, built-in FM, a 3-inch screen and the basic music, pictures and video playback

To me these functionality are going to make it distinctive from me too (lets keep Apple out of picture, that has cult following),

-> WiFi connectivity: Its not just basic but peer-2-peer (P2P) support, which is key in future evolution. File sharing among communities, software updates to focussed services (catering audiophiles) will become key differentiators.

-> DRM control: Zune is taking mobile DRM approach (Distribution/Super distribution). Now the user can share the content to different parties, with/without using network. The receiver can use the content for 3 days, and after that can buy the usage licence online. This will fill the gap in the creating communities for music fans (we need to understand, biggest online communities are music focussed.. MySpace also started as rock band fans community, rest is history).

Thats why I am calling this: "Content 2.0" world...

Finally Microsoft is putting its home in order, I am hoping, Zune is not using Windows/DOS based OS. It will be shame, if they are using. Whatever people say, only other product Microsoft is able to seel (than Windows OS) is XBOX, and that is surely not Windows.

Next blog will touch this in more details...

Cheers...

technorati tags:MicroSoft, DRM, Web 2.0

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Where am I...

2006-09-11T21:14:00.000-05:00

I was out of sight (blogging, of course) for a long time. Reason, My future blogs will tell.

I was adding tons of glass in my photography equipment. I am not millionaire, so can't buy canon L lens (luxury or what.. dont know for what it stands for). But I found a way to add top class lens in my bag, old manual focus prime lens from '50s and '60.

I will write in details about these in future...

in the meantime, you can see some results on my flickr site,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asbalyan/tags/manual/

Cheers....

2006-07-12T15:05:00.000-05:00

New toy: Digital SLR

Finally after waiting for 2 years, I got my Digital SLR, Canon Rebel XT. This is a gift from my partner, friend.. oops.. why to use so many words, from my wife. There is nothing to say about this camera. Web is full of reviews and discussions regarding this. These are good review links...

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos350d/
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/xt-350d.shtml

I bought without any lense (just body) from Amazon.

This cool stuff for Photography enthusiast.

will keep the folks updated...
Bye for now.. (let me go a click few more pics).

Gates, Legacy and Historical Blunders

2006-06-19T23:39:00.000-05:00

Gates, Legacy and Historical Blunders

Media, chat sessions and Internet (publish) is full with news of Bill Gates exit from Microsoft. Its too early to say whether “Chairman” Bill Gates will act as “American corporate” chairman or “active” board leader.

My views,
In Hindi, there is a saying, “Der aye, Durast Aye”…  “Although the happening is late, but finally is here”.

I was strong proponent of Bill Gates exit and for making him a visionary who “was”. Microsoft did the historic blunder in keeping the company intact during anti trust case. The left over company could have kept its product evolutions without “super czar” sitting on the top.

The technology industry history is full of “Legendry” creating utter chaos in their dawn,

The gold medal for the blunder should go to Wang Industries. Does anyone now remember this company? Only mention on internet you can find is, John Chambers (Current Cisco President and CEO) was once executive of that company. You can write books on this company. I am pasting the Wikipedia link,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Laboratories

Father of innovation in manufacturing, Henry Ford, single handedly gave the #1 auto crown to general motors. Reason, he was thinking only he had vision and capabilities to make auto a mass product. He was right when he was thinking “he had” but was squarely wrong when he was thinking “only he had”.

Fast forward 80 years and you will have Déjà vu: Microsoft, Bill gates and Windows/Office/Explorer…   (Ford industries, H. Ford & Model T).

The list can go on and on….   But I want salute Bill Gates for his vision which he had 20 years back and which he had shown now by taking himself out of Microsoft daily routines. He should stick to his wording.
And he has time and money along with geeky brain; why not try to create another intellectual powerhouse. Software is one industry, and now he is free from shackles of this particular domain...  Go ahead…

2006-06-01T23:30:00.000-05:00

Infosys and China:

There is a nice blog written by Vinnie Mirchandani on the upcoming Software outsourcing firm and their bussiness model (on high level). There is small discussion in comments section between Vinnie and me.

http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2006/05/the_infosys_of_.html

Vinnie:
"......But Chinese firms will evolve very differently from Indian ones. They will borrow capital and aggressively make Western acquisitions. Indian firms in spite of huge valuations are still primarily organic in growth and self-funded till they go IPO (with exceptions like Patni which took capital from GA). China offers its firms a lot better infrastructure than India. The talent, at least for now, is cheaper than in India............"

My coments: (I corrected some spellings here, these are not changing any meanings)
"hmmm... 17% cranes.. its interesting that with 17% of occupancy, what these cranes are doing... (I don’t have any data... but I heard the occupancy rate is very low (it was high in original post)...
Another thing… you write lot of business processes and knowledge based industry... How come you have so much regard about "catching game". 10 years, new boom in other industry.. . Is country is right to invest every time to create this "forced" boom. I am of view, that most of industries moved to China in '70s because of geo-political situation. (Put fingure (was figure) on the political map of 70s and 80s, there were 4 types of countries: US and rich western allies, Dictatorships in third world countries supporting US and west but highly unstable political situation, USSR with its colonies and finally, democracies in third world countries but supporting USSR political ideology, making these countries politically stable but economically unviable. China was a gold mine with political stability and anti-USSR political thinking.
This can be a long discussion... in short, last 30 years can not be taken as base for future jobs migration and wealth creation. It’s anew world with new challenge.
Not easy to be Infosys or Wipro or Tata... New companies should try to focus on new gold mines... Remember gold crazy west, eventually become wild west…"

Vinnie:
" Avneesh, thanks for your comments. I said Chinese vendors will start to challenge Indian vendors in a few years not pass them. I also said their path, as they are in distant catch up mode, will be very different that what Indian vendors have used to get as big as they are.

Any discussion of China evokes political reaction. I have written about that elsewhere. China also has language, IP protection issues buyers worry about.

However, India is a victim of its own success. Some bank auditors are already concerned about risk concentartion around IT systems with Indian firms. I have written elsewhere about wage/rate inflation and staff turnover and infrastructure issues in India. You would be naive to think a competitor would not harp on these weaknesses.

The overwheleming advantage is firms like Infosys have done over 20,000 global delivery projects - Chinese firms barely in the hnudreds. That discipline counts for a lot. But the Chinese have shown they can compete in many different markets on price. I can see a market where Indian firms move to the middle band and the Chinese get more of the bottom."

I liked his points and over discussions... you can go read other posts by Vinnie...

Bye for now....

2006-04-11T10:00:00.001-05:00

Hottest Pepper and Scoville Heat Units (SHU)

Have you ever thought of the hottest pepper available? and what is the criteria? What the units, how calculates this etc....

I found out all these interesting facts,

The hottest pepper will be (hopefully), ‘Dorset Naga’ (from the family of Bangladesh ‘Naga Morich’).

".....pepper ‘Dorset Naga’ is. But exactly what is it? It is certainly a Capsicum chinense selected from the Banladeshi ‘Naga Morich’, but beyond that, we’re not quite sure what we have."

http://www.peppersbypost.biz/dorsetnaga/other_sightings.html

Seems like roots of this pepper are in North east Bangladesh and India. Naga is a tribe living in that region and large terrian is known as Nagaland/Tripura... And "Morich" is bangla word for Pepper (In northern India we call is Mirch).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Naga

And how hot is this pepper,

"Two laboratories in the USA tested a sample of Dorset Naga which measured 876,000 SHU and 970,000 SHU respectively."

The current record is of,

".......the Guinness world record for the hottest chilli is currently held by Red Savina, which was once measured at 577,000 SHU"
What is SHU?
The Scoville scale is a measure of the hotness of a chilli pepper. These fruits of the Capsicum genus contain capsaicin, a chemical compound
which stimulates thermoreceptor nerve endings in the tongue, and the number of Scoville heat units (SHU) indicates the amount of capsaicin
present. Many hot sauces use their Scoville rating in advertising as a selling point.

Interesting facts.. Seems like Science has more depth than the hype of Web/IT/Telecom/Computers...

Caio for now...

2006-03-22T12:51:00.000-05:00

Razors and Nanotech?

with every few years, we are seeing increase in the number of blades in razors. "The Economist" come up with good analysis on this razor war. Where this going to end,

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5624861

"........70 years after King Gillette invented the safety razor for someone to come up with the idea that twin blades might be—or, at least sell—better........"

The analysis provides few scenerios, and key finding...

"just like Moore's law—the observation that computer chips double in power every 18 months or so—it seems that technology as well as marketing determines the rate at which new blades are introduced."

One prediction is,
"..........the 14-bladed razor should arrive in 2100...."

My prediction:

"by 2100 nanotechnology will evolve and most of razor will have millions of tiny blades capable of shaving only... Lets see who will break Million blade in one razor mark"

Lets see, how good pundit I am...

bye for now..

2006-03-21T01:06:00.000-05:00

iPhone: Something is brewing

Apple, an icon for 2 digital age, is again brewing somthing in ots backyard. Seems like its really in backyard, in the silicon farms of Tiawan.

iLounge published the unconfirmed report but seems reliable,

"Apple is working on “an iPod with phone functions” and could use Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision to build the device, says Johnny Chan, a J.P. Morgan analyst.... ...............ho declined to be identified said Taiwan Green Point Enterprises, which makes plastic cases for the iPod, is in talks with Apple for a role in the phone..."

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/7368/

The market is full of rumor about iPhone. Although the domain of iPhone.com is not owned by Apple, but iPhone.org is.

This is the screen shot from Register.com.

(the screen shot is copyrighted material of Register.com)

Interesting fact: It's not that iPhone.org is owned by Apple, but Apple registered this domain in 1999. Seems they had a plan from late '90s.

Should I say, Thought Leadership. But why didnt they buy iPhone.com. OK, was not available at that time. But current owner bought just now. Am I missing something in thought leadership.

Question, when did Apple Launch iPod?
hmm.. October 2001.

http://lowendipod.com/ipod/1g.htm

And When did Apple registered the iPod.com domain?
Interestingly in October '98. (Date from Register.com)

2001 was really a watershed year in Apple history.. Check this link,

http://www.lowendmac.com/history/2001.shtml

bye for now...

2006-03-20T15:12:00.000-05:00

Mozilla Fiefox 2.0 alpha-1: product from matured company(?)

Mozilla foundation provided the alpha version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0a1 (2.0 Alpha version, seems like pre alpha).

The link:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/?C=M;O=D

(Seems like it was 1.8 release)

Its really pre-production release. I am playing with this more than a day now. Before download, think twice:

No plug-ins from 1.5xx will work.
Its not going to resolve “infamous” memory leak issue with Firefox. So don’t open more than 4-5 tabs (With 7-8 tabs, I had to go for coffee just check where did I type my last characters)

But it is really fast compare to others (even 1.5x). It provides really smooth experience with web browsing. And you can manage your RSS feeds much better than earlier versions.
I am sticking to new one, although I am missing my 10+ plug-ins.

But I don’t have to go any Blogs and news sites. I am reading from toolbar folder (RSS feeds). (Again, why can’t we integrate our outlook into this)

Those who want to show themselves as geek (;) and dig into Firefox memory problem, check this link. Mozilla foundation has given a spin to this problem, showing its feature (seems like people are maturing within corporate environment),

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html

Ciao...

2006-03-14T21:03:00.000-05:00

Bubble is back or Brains are dead or Only I am crazy

I dont know why I wrote this line, but something is wrong somewhere. I didn't even hear this during the great mellinium gold rush.

Fox is acquiring a company which has not even started its beta service. The company was from the great web 2.0 domain. They are (rumors) are paying 10m, but not bad for small group of guys who hasn't even completed their html/http/javascript coding.

Fox is acquiring NewRoo:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/14/fox-to-acquire-startup-newroo/

So whats next after NewRoo...

even my 2 and half year old son can answer this: "NewKanga"....

Oh Lord.... Why didnt I watch "Winnie The Pooh" in my childhood... I am so out of corporate branding...

2006-03-13T23:23:00.000-05:00

Google, acquisition and Web2.0

Google is making lot of headlines, although not very nice product. But it gobble up a nice product from the market. I am hoping it will nicely integrate that into its portfolio.

Google bought Writely.
http://writely.blogspot.com/

I wrote about this in my January blog.
http://balyanpage.blogspot.com/2006/01/online-documentation-and-sharing-we.html

This deal highlights web2.0 acceptence in a market.

Whatever be the fate of this deal, but seems like web2.0 is maturing and geting the acceptance in the marketplace...

hoping its not a bubble of last decade...

2006-03-13T01:24:00.000-05:00

Hedging your investment: Mars "Google maps"

Google is wiered company. Not sure what those are thinking. To me, it seems like they just want to be in news. Dont have product, throw someone's hobby in the google domain. WHo cares, the services are not tied to revenues. Google jsut launched "Google Mars"

Try http://www.google.com/mars/

And its all XML, if you want to integrate this map with Mars Crime data, go ahead. Its easy...

Waiting for more to come from these guys..

2006-03-12T19:38:00.000-05:00

Interesting: miniaturization of Wireless technology

National Geography is tracking dragonfly with tiny (real tiny) transmitters. will try to find about the details of the device (and the manufacturer)

"The transmitters—which weigh 0.01 ounce (0.3 gram) and are about 0.4 inch (1 centimeter) long—are glued to the insects' undersides. A single wire antenna runs the length of the abdomen, and a tiny battery powers the device for up
to a week."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_dragonfly.html

bye for now...

2006-02-07T01:56:00.000-05:00

Korean Broadband Market (year old data):

I came across very interesting blog by rediff founder, Ajit Balakrishnan, on Korean market. He put together some facts, he found during his Korean trip (a year back),

-> 90%+ traffic is in Korean language (who says English is Internet langua franca)
-> 1.5Mbps is considered as Broadband (not 300K like in other part of world)
-> How Internet bandwidth is consumed: 40% is p2p traffic ( music, porn), 30% is video-on-demand ( people watching TV shows they missed), 10% is gaming and the balance is http traffic (according to his contact).

with 40% p2p traffic, I want to analyze how its impacting entertainment industry...

2006-02-06T16:44:00.000-05:00

No Free Lunches: Taxing WiFi

Finally some biggies are able to push through the legislative maneuvering what they were saying from last 2-3 years. White elephants are not able to innovate, so they are planning to kill the fast growing sectors.
The budget which is sent to congress (by the US President) has clause of imposing the tax on Unlicensed Spectrum (read WiFi). Why they didnt tax Ham Radio, and whats the urgency to tax WiFi.

The news item can be read here:

http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=25545

The Budget details can be accessed at this site:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/browse.html

Now you must be asking, how congress can kill this naive but exploding phenomenon,

If I am a lobbyist, I will put this clause in Telecommunications act '07,

the owner of Equipment shall pay a royalty of $xx amount for each channel and for each individual user accessing the spectrum on the spectrum, only if,

The user of channel(s) is not the owner equipment transmitted the airwaves in unlicensed band.

This small legislation will kill all the hotspots as well as the plan by municipalities for deploying WiFi.

Good Luck Silicon Valley..

2006-02-05T00:06:00.000-05:00

Back to Future: Bubble is back

This phrase has been so much that sometimes its just doesnt make sense to use. But sometimes you finds the things repeating and happening in a way, you cant stop.

Whats so great about this picture?

Some guy pasting all the little yellow "post me" all over the room. Either this guy is crazy or working in some Indie movie.
No, this guy works in Venture Capital firm.
His role: Go through the old articles (First dot com boom time) of the technology magazines like Red Herring, Wired...

Wired Magazine detailed about a Mayfield VC who's perfecting the art of refurbished ideas. Allen Morgan reached the heights of gold mining by hiring a 24-year-old to flip through old magazines for business ideas.
Morgan's researcher, Ankur Luthra (picture posted), reads through a stack of Red Herring, Industry Standard, and Wired issues and slaps post-it notes on stories of now-dead dot-coms.

The link to story is,

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/mayfield.html?pg=1&topic=mayfield&topic_set=

What should we call this.
Going back to past, or going back to Future.

Only time will tell whether these guys are right or fooling themselves. But with Google stock touching all heights, Microsoft is moving "live" project like a new goldmine, braodcasting is moving to IP network, and people are again talking about e-community; these guys may be on right path.

Another thing, I am liking Microsoft "Live", although nothing special compare ot My Yahoo or personalized Google... but the first thing coming from Microsoft after a long time, which is good.. more on this later...

2006-01-28T22:16:00.000-05:00

Google: Advance search options

Lot of people always think (I used too), how to control google search results or how to make these focussed. I have no idea why google doesn't provide Advance Search link on this site.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Try yourself...

2006-01-24T20:37:00.000-05:00

Long Distance talker

Have you ever thought of, who are the most long distance talkers?
TeleGeography (a research division of PriMetrica, Inc.) came up with 2005 Global Communications Traffic Map.
You can decide yourself, who talk most on long distance or say, who are less social within their own community…

More is coming....

2006-01-22T23:33:00.000-05:00

"Rise of the Stupid Network": a futuristic vision or a simple truth

Some words, documents or saying become immortal in this world. There is one paper written by AT&T Labs engineer, David Isenberg (www.isen.com). Although the article as well the author was disowned by AT&T. But history is telling that the company is disowned by the market and customers both, and tragedy is, for the same reason the paper discussed.

The copy of paper is posted here:

http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html

This was really a drastic change in thinking in '98. I read that this was written in one weekend (I also read that Neitzche also wrote most of his classics in one week or weekend).

Anyone who works in corporate world (and esp communication industry), should read this.

Bye for now...

Test Blog from Blogger MS word plugin

2006-01-17T18:29:00.000-05:00

Test Blog from Blogger MS word plugin

2006-01-13T00:36:00.000-05:00

Online Documentation (and sharing)

We have seen so many technologies and applications coming up, reaching the new heights or fading in the oblivion. But there are some great things always coming. In last 3-4 days, I found these (really) interesting concepts maturing to products. The idea is very simple, online document sharing.

Try these 2 (& you don’t need to download and install anything)

http://tracker.jot.com/

http://www.writely.com/

In my opinion, these will be “must have” tools for mobile work force. Think of changing/updating the excel sheet from Palm Treo or Blackberry (no saving of big file or sending huge attachment). Or think of giving ownership on the based of sheet within one file so that multiple owner can update together.

Yes, Microsoft is big and will surely fight back. That will be best. I am hoping, my next to next computer will not have any memory hungry MS office tool..
Or as Charles De Gaulle once commented to his officer (on the greatness of some people in his administration): "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

Ciao

2006-01-11T01:39:00.000-05:00

Day is a short time (Truveo is AOL)

In this Internet bussiness "day" is short span/time. Yesterday, I found a really good video search engine (Truveo). I was about to put the post on blog. This is (was) great site, much better than google. (http://www.truveo.com/) And just today, AOL bought this company. Although AOL record with acquisition is terrible. Lets hope, this time, they use some brains...
(AOL si not telling, how much furtune is burned for this 12 employee company)
News about acquisition
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124327,00.asp

ciao...

2006-01-11T01:37:00.000-05:00

I am back to blog-ging

2005-11-25T14:20:00.000-05:00

Finally some hopes from Africa

After coming back from India, I am just busy with office work. Its carzy (going on).
Got this vacation (Thanksgiving vacation time), but still busy with some work.
Lot of things changed in Technical field, albeit with its own speed. Nothing drastic.

On political front, some watershed events happend. Although not much people might be looking towards Afrcis. A sort of revolution is going on there. (although I am not that revolutionary thinking guy, its all up and down for all ideology).
In Libera, a small "African country", a "woman" won the "free and fair election" and put the county on "democratic" path. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is first Africa's first elected female head of state.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4465992.stm

A good article is written by Fareed Zakaria on tis issue..

http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/112805.html

This is very interesting topic. I will keep writing on this...

Have a great vacation time...
Ballu

2005-11-24T00:50:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone...
I am not able to update my blogs/logs form a long time.. came back from India about 2 weeks back... and after that visited New Jersey on official visit for a week.... I will be updating this post frequently...

Cheers...

2005-11-01T12:30:00.000-05:00

India Trip

These days, I am on a month long trip to India. I am not able to update my blog. Will write in details once I will have internet connection available...

Cheers...

2005-09-30T09:04:00.000-05:00

"V" + "over" + "IP" = "Vodka"

Today I came across an interesting fact,

".......VoIP is a mystery to the mainstream (a recent Harris poll found that only 13 percent of the public knew what it was; 10 percent thought it was the name of a vodka)....."

(From the article of Newsweek)

Working in technology field, my company, environment (office), friends and I drink, eat and live by the Voice over IP (or Voice over Internet or cheap/free international calls). But seems like Vodka is also as important in the life... or we shoukd go ahead and start brewing Vodka with "VoIP" brand.. or change VoIP name to SKKY...

But one thing is clear, normal people are mor einnovative than techies... (you moght have got my point..)

-Ballu

2005-09-28T22:28:00.000-05:00

Mobile (Wireless phone) service in ANTARCTICA
____________________________
ANTARCTICA Viking Wireless

PLAN DETAILS
Voice Rate: $0.99
Internet Rate: $0.00
Frequency: 1800Mhz
Customer Care: No Map Available
_____________________________

On my service provider T-Mobile site, I found the list of countries where T-Mobile coustomers can roam (with roaming charges). I was surprised to find ANTARCTICA. Does any one has some details......

Once I will find more, I will surely post here...

2005-09-20T07:47:00.000-05:00

List of (celebrities) Vegetarians:

NNDB site has list of famous vegetarian,

http://www.nndb.com/lists/782/000064590/

NNDB is very interesting site. It has 15,000 profiles and you can browse from person's CV to the group where the person belong (a groups are created on the basis of either some characteristic related to behavior, orientation, habit, ideology etc.) Those people who have never heard about NNDB database, the site defines itself as,

"NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)

But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been hanging out with."

more is coming....

2005-09-17T16:26:00.000-05:00

Art Blog:
I found a blog site (on eBlogger only) dedicated to art news.

The link to the site,
http://www.artnewsblog.com/

Its interesting that Tehran (Iran) has modern art exhibition. There is a link to Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art:

http://www.tehranmoca.com/en/index.aspx

http://www.tehranmoca.com/collection/collection.htm

more later...

2005-09-10T14:39:00.000-05:00

1800 miles roadtrip:

(captured from google maps and edited with Picture Window Pro)

Last week, I went to Ottawa for my visa stamping (I am on working visa in US). Earlier I was thinking of going to Toronto, but because of appointment dates and what I heard that Toronto consulate sometimes take more than a day for stamping, I decided to drive to Ottawa, Canada.

6th Sept afternoon: I decided to drive to Ottawa. I started from Columbus, OH on 6th of September afternoon. Ottawa is 650miles from Columbus, OH.

7th Sept: I reached there (US embassy in Montreal), and got a shock, because of Fingerprinting, its rule now to return the passport next day only.

7th Sept afternoon: I had more than a day now. I had 2 options, either stay in Ottawa and do some photography, or drive to Montreal to meet friends (Gagan and Maneesh). I decided to drive to Montreal, another 150 miles. I reached there by 2:00PM (St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, suburb of Montreal). Logged in to company's network. Checked and replied to mails. Made few calls and updated my status to the office people.

7th Sept evening: We all went to old Montreal area. Its beautiful. Worth going there. So different from US cities. We had dinner at fine Italian place with live guitar in the background. Had big ice cream along the Saint Lawrence River.
The maps are available here for Old Montreal:
http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/eng/localia.htm

8th Sept: I started Montreal at 12, reached Ottawa to pick the passport, and after going thru the mess of traffic for about an hour, I started back to Columbus, OH around 4:00pm. Reached US border around 5:30pm. As this was first entry to US after new visa, I had to go through finger printing and photo session. . I crossed thousand Island area. That is so beautiful, I can’t tell. Surely going there next year. I got a glimpse of area when crossing the bi-national the Thousand Islands Bridge. Even the bridge is marvelous in architecture and structure. http://www.visit1000islands.com/Gallery-1000Islands/index.html

8-9th Sept night: I reached Buffalo at 10:00pm. In between I called India in between. What a change in life style and technology. Calling cards and wireless coverage have made the so much changes, I was feeling this... Was tired, so decided to stop at Buffalo for some time. Change of mind, and I decided to watch Niagara Falls at night. I drive to falls, and changed the mind again, and drove to Canada side. It was beautiful, but boring and not that attractive for a "temp" single guy. Decided to come back later again with Seema and Aryan, started from there. now the long night started. I kept calling friends. And esp. Chadhas, Alok and Geeta, were calling in between and keeping me up and driving. The phone died with discharged battery by the time I reached Cleveland, OH. I stopped by the side, connected my inverter (8V to 120V) and put the phone for charging.

I reached back to Columbus at around 4:30am on 9th Sept. Dialed Chadhas one ring and disconnected (a signal that I reached).

Now the time for checking the odometer reading, for this trip it was few miles above "1750 miles".

2005-09-04T18:39:00.000-05:00

Privacy and Technology:

We are living in ever evolving society, from social, legal, technological and ethical perspective. With times privacy definition changes, or atleast deviates. Technology impacts every facet of life. Personal info databases (Credit card...) , Internet, networked computers and "out of date" legal framework is making privacy as we see it today, a thing of past.

The new startup in search engine field, zabasearch.com, has literally stretched the limits. This is alarmingly accurate and horribly focused.

Go ahead, try it, to see if your "identity" is in there.

If you were thinking this was bad, the new feature is added, "Zabablog".

In his San Francisco Chronicle column on Friday, David Lazarus reported, "the company is planning to introduce a feature, ZabaBlog, that will allow people to write and post blogs about other individuals".

And I checked, its working and running. Although, you need to open an account.
Shall I open, no.. not at this point.

Think of scenario, when your neighbour will go go and put whatever you he/she will want. It's more like review of each person. Till now internet was full of review of shops and products, this site will make you a real commodity.

I am closely watching this new game....

2005-09-04T09:59:00.000-05:00

Internet Explorer History:

I found the interesting link on Microsoft site, "History of Internet Explorer". The most interesting thing is, snapshots of different evrsions as well as of next upcoming version (oh.. so much like Opera's initial version"). The link is,

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/historyofie.mspx

You can see how the GUI and menus changed, showing to evolution in GUI concepts and Internet Browsing/functionality in last decade....

Will try to find Netscape and Opera snapshots too (Mozilla is new in this world)...

2005-08-29T15:40:00.000-05:00

TV on the Desktop:

I was thinking of installing TV tuner card (or some other way) on my home desktop. After lot of discussions and confusion, I selected ATI Wonder Pro (whats Pro, I am not able to find.. may be just a upgrade from earlier version).

http://www.ati.com/products/tvwonderpro/features.html

But eventualy I ended up upgrading my graphics card too. I selected Radeon 9550SE 128Mb graphics card, ATi PowerSpec RADEON 9550SE.

http://ipsgproducts.com/products/video_cards/radeon9550se128mb_600726.html
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9550/

Yes, Its working although taking lot of resources of the computer. I think I may end up upgrading memory too. The TV quality is not that great. But I think few reasons are,

Image size: My desktop setting is 1024 x 780. And NTSC signal provides only 648 x 486 resolution. Either I need to decrease the resolution of monitor or watch in small wondow. I prefer small, and that the reason I installed this (to do multitasking). So its not an issue of clarity but the size.
Distance: We are used to work from small distance on desktop, may be 18-24 inch). But I think to watch low quality video, we need atleast 3 feet of distance. This is main reason for less than expected quality (again my reason).
And I think most important: Monitor quality: I have years old monitor. That really sucks.
Settings: Agian not related to quality, but to me, it looks like, either all the channels are over exposed or under exposed. This may be due to the default settings of channels feed. My monitor settings are according to the applications and OS I am running.
Whats about light in the room: Usually we watch motion picture in dark roombut the computer area is light-ed. Not sure this setting is also playing any role.

But I am happy with my new toy. I will put details later...

Ciao & Arrivederci...

2005-08-20T23:56:00.000-05:00

Renewable Energy:

Guardian Unlimited has realy nice page on renewable energy (a special report).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/renewable/0,2759,180749,00.html

There is one article, about how the life will be in 2020. It's scary to think what is projected. Things usually doesn't materialize as predicted, but all the events are practical. a must read,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1072526,00.html

I am reading lot about wind mills (power generation). Will post more on this...
cheers...

2005-08-11T08:50:00.000-05:00

Alone and growing...

On that day walking with little naughty guy, i saw the creeper. Alone but growing. It was saying, who needs the path, I can make myself...

Test blog with palm

2005-08-10T07:50:00.000-05:00

using AvantBlog
& Palm Tungsten E

2005-08-09T09:01:00.000-05:00

Hocking Hills Hiking:

Last weekend was hectic. Went to Hocking Hills state park. For little hiker, this was a "hike". He just liked that. Water is his weekness (till you tell him to drink at home). It seems the fresh air and the nature talk to us, every time we visit these places. We all are in love with hiking. Waiting for the day when the little one will be the part of backpacking trip.

Its a nice palce to visit. Link of the site:

Hocking Hills State Park

2005-08-03T23:42:00.000-05:00

Fall

I have seen so many fall, so many fell just in front of me... but what about me. Somewhere with no identity and forgotten, I have become the watcher of this fall and upcoming falls...

2005-08-03T23:34:00.000-05:00

Blogger picture....

(Macro shot.. captured last year..Slide, scanned and did minimal proceessing with Picture Window Pro)

2005-08-02T23:05:00.000-05:00

Toys worth wasting time....

Just like every other guy telling that "oh... I luv electronics gadget", I will also write about my experience with my toys...

PALM (Palmone) Tungsten E
Nokia 6600
and lot lot of cameras: Canon Rebel 2K, Elan II, Elan 7 (friend's), Canon Canonet G-III QL17, Digital P&Ss (2MP and 6MP), web cam (one at home and one in office), Camcorder and tons of lenses (mostly cheap one.. no pro grade)

These days I am hooked to Mobile Internet (GPRS on 6600). I just bought Opera browser..

My first take about Opera browser,

Believe me, Its worth buying..
Its fast, handy and shows the page "great"

I will put more details about Opera Browser experience on mobile phone.

Till then...

2005-08-01T12:11:00.000-05:00

Current TV: new phase of broadcasting

Today is the launch date for new TV network, Current TV. First about this network,

Brainchild of Al Gore (a real insider of Washington) and few of his Democratic buddies.
May be a liberal channel, but for insider, philosophy is not issue (name, fame and power are the pillars of life)
First broadcasting channel in last 10 years (last one was "O", Oxygen)
http://www.current.tv/

In my opinion this is first attempt to integrate the generation which is growing in Internet world. People are becoming used to getting little information from all spheres. Yes, its hippie-r and yes you can say it’s not serious, But what’s the issue with this. With decades, generation changes. There was first generation which watched Disney, first one to hook to CNN... things come, change the face of industry and eventually this change is for good.

Whether this channel will be another startup or will become some ground breaking, time will tell. If its digital only, I am not sure how many 18-25 generation has digital network in the hostels/Dorms?

Another key point is, consumers will be able to send their own videos. I am the guy who is pushing from long that the Internet should be used to tap "Global intellectual knowledge". Anyone who is able to tap this, will be big player.

The good details of this channel are provided here,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073101081.html

More to come.....

2005-07-29T15:32:00.000-05:00

Finally Ford Escape Ltd 4x2 '05 model

Finally, after marathon search and discussions, We bought new vehicle, and yes.. its again Ford. We were swearing 2 months back, not to go for Ford... Eventually after going thru all the things and what we wanted, we went for Ford Escape '05.
Seema drove the SUV to home....

And Little guy, Aryan had slept before reaching home... He is enjoying the high ride...

Few links to Ford Escape '05 Limited Edition 4x2 (Front Wheel Drive)...

http://www.edmunds.com/new/2005/ford/escape/100376001/researchlanding.html

http://www.fordvehicles.com/suvs/escape/

More about this new toy later....

2005-07-28T00:37:00.000-05:00

Milan Kundera, Nietzsche and Blogs...

I remember when I started reading Milan Kundera's "The unbearable Lightness of Being". The very first line was just a shot directly hitting the torpedo. The mention of Nietzsche is somewhat electrifying for me. But a novel strating with "eternal return", was interesting to me. The line(s)was,

"The idea of the eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?................................

Will the war between two African kingdoms in the fourteenth century itself be altered if it recurs again and again, in eternal return?

It will: it will become a solid mass, permanently protuberant, its inanity irreparable.

If the French Revolution were to recur eternally, French historians would be less proud of Robespierre. But because they .deal with something that will not return, the bloody years of the Revolution have turned into mere words, theories, and discussions, have become lighter than feathers, frightening no one. "

a..ah.. but how blog will come into this picture. Blog is evolution to some and sort of revolution to others. But is this like French revolution which will call for republic and democratic system with equality to all throught out the world.

May be.. Blogs are hit everywhere. The mainstream media (what main and from where its media) is jumping on blogs. Instead of comments you can blog the news. Everyone is jumping the bandwagon. Every journalist has blog and every other person who can type is writing how much his cat is eating these days.

a.. l.. la... Deja Vu... Is this a French revolution in the making or war of small kingdom who are fighting from last some years without getting the solid mass.

Do we all bloggers bear no weight or consequence to our actions in the grand scheme of things of technological innovation.

Are we just like herd who were jumping on NASDAQ in late 90's, then became doomsayer of technology based industry, and now bloggers. and in between we acted like Security expert too.

Are we just waiting to jump on the new bandwagon like Podcasting, or video blogging or something more weird.

This is interesting topic.. will write more later... till then..

2005-07-27T22:04:00.000-05:00

Salute to the world..

A salute from new blogger to this world. I will try to keep updating my online dairy at least on weekly basis. As the blog says, I will just tell about my life, my thinking and the surrounding around us. I am working in the telecommunications industry, enjoying the happy family life with lovely wife Seema and cutie but really naughty son Aryan. Sometimes uses my camera but still not comfortable with digitals (please don’t want to enter into good, better & best discourse). Luv running (one day will complete marathon... may be just a day dream). Read books, some time Nietzche, sometimes Milan Kundera to Telecommunication blogs. You are going to read lot about my socio-political thinking and my views on telecom industry and Internet future. Movies are something never able to attract me, but like watching sometimes. After all life is full of contradictions and simplicity will never take someone to anywhere. Complexities and contradictions are not just need but way of life.
More is coming......