Yesterday evening around 8:00 PM (EST), I saw my friend Avadhoot’s gmail status showing . I wondered what is this new thing??? Egzactly @ that moment, our Shashi pinged me and asked, did you check Gmail’s video and voice chat. I Googled it immediately and installed Gmail’s Video-Voice chat feature and started enjoying it!!! [...]
GMail Breaks Audio-Visual Barrier
ADITYA: An Indigenous Mission
The success of Chadrayaan - 1 has boosted the confidence of ISRO scientists and now they are looking beyond moon. Now they are targetting SUN.
ISRO has conceptually developed a sun mission and named it ADITYA, the first space based Solar Coronagraph intended to study corona.
As per ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, Aditya has been approved [...]
Round up - October Last Week
Its already the end of last week of the October month and many things had happened around the world!!!! Tuesday, 28th: We lit candles on the occasion of Laxmi Pooja, here in Rochester @ Teju’s place. Thanks to Nivideta for beautiful Diwali candles and Shammi’s mom for Diwali snacks. On this occasion of Diwali, Mr. [...]
Chandrayaan-I: The power behind the Reverse Brain-Drain
This was the 1st question raised in my mind, when I read in the news today that, several Indian origin scientists and good number of foreigners, from NASA are knocking the door of ISRO, looking for opportunity to work in India’s future space missions, following the success of Chandrayaan-1 launch. In one of the kannada [...]
CHANDRAYAAN - 1: India’s Mission to the Moon
On 15th August 2003, India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced “Our country is now ready to fly high in the field of science. I am pleased to announce that India will send her own spacecraft to the moon by 2008. It is being named Chandrayaan-1″.
Chandrayaan means Moon Craft, in Sanskrit.
Now, India is all set [...]
Missile Man of India celebrating his 77th birthday today
Missile Man of India, People’s President, Engineering Visionary, Bharat Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is celebrating his 77th birthday on this 15th October. On behalf of all my friends, I wish him a many many happy returns of the day.
Take some time to read some of the following messages to youth [...]
Watkins Glen Hiking Trip
RIT had arranged a hiking trip on this Saturday (11th October). Myself, Teju, Amith, Abhijit and Arunima had registered for the trip. We boarded the bus from Rustic village @ 9:30 AM. We reached RIT campus by 9:50 AM and piked up few more students. Thanks to Ms. Audra Dion from MCC, who arranged pick [...]
Mail Goggles: Google’s Solution for Drunk Emailing
Jon Perlow, Gmail Engineer @ Google labs, has developed a simple new feature for gmail users, which may stop them from sending mails, they might regret later. He calls it Mail Goggles. People are calling it Google’s solution for drunk e-mailing. Mail goggle, when enabled, asks the user to solve 5 simple maths problems before [...]
Congratulations Manoj!!!!
Hi all,
First of all, I thank my readers for the overwhelming response and comments and apologies if I am not up to the mark.
After my blog, Shashi launched his online radio and now one more good news for all you, Manoj Kotibhaskar urf Mannya or Manu urf ammaNNi paapu (that’s how I [...]
Radio Girmit
Cyber strikes on his Birthday with a bang!!! This time, with his online radio, exclusively for kannada music lovers!!! That too with catchy names and captions!!! He calls it Radio Girmit… Nimma achchu mechchina kannada radio.
Cyber and Deepya coined the name Radio Girmit and Naarya came up with cool caption, “Forget your hermit with Radio [...]