Today (May 19, 2008) when he was addressing at the Hungarian University, someone got really mad at him. He claims that Microsoft was stealing billions from Hungarian tax payers money and demanded that he paid back right away…. and started to throw *** eggs *** ( 3 of them) at him one after the other.

For someone who heads the worlds largest Software company and take things sportively was really surprising and personally I was shocked that he could do that. I guess being patient helps a lot. Steve goes “… That was a friendly interruption”

Here is the Video of situation.

President Bush has never been known for his eloquence, but his comment earlier this month that India’s growing middle class was demanding “better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up” was neither particularly mangled nor, at first flush, offensive. In the days since, though, India’s most nationalistic politicians, newspapers and television pundits have expressed outrage, calling Bush’s comment rude and insensitive because it suggests Indians are to blame for recent global food price increases and implies they should eat less. “U.S. Eats 5 Times More than India Per Capita” blared a headline in the Times of India above a typical story outlining the massive disparities between the amount of grains, meat and vegetables the average American and average Indian consumes. The message from many Indians over the past two weeks has been stark: Americans should stop blaming others and start eating less…

BTW: I’ve noticed that a lot of Indians (including me) have grown fatter after coming to the states…!

Read more at TIME »

It’s been more than 2 years since our last visit to India. It’s time, I’m planning a trip to India something late this year. As for Sneha and Jeffrey they are all set, taking off during the July 4th Weekend and coming back just in time to start school for Jeffrey.

Our last trip was pretty hectic. We choose the wrong time (April) and it was really HOT especially for Jeffrey who was just 6 months young. We hope this time would be a better one.

Every year we begin it with high hopes and ambitions of doing things that we thought we should do and most of the time coming to the sad realization that we don’t. This at least I wish you all a great and a happy year filled with success, happiness, peace and satisfaction.

Happy New Year, again.

I don’t know what hurts worse. Deleting a name from your best buddies list and putting them on the dearly beloved list. Or, adding to the list new names of victims of the “Stroke!” The blessing of this disease is that it has brought many good people together for a common cause. But,it ends there. This is a vile and mean heart attack. But, I praise God that Kumar no longer suffers the worldly issues and problems but am sure he is in peace and will be a spiritual mentor and guide for me.

My heart felt condolences to Kumar’s family.

Kumar Cunchala — A person whom I met after coming to the USA. Today he is no more, after knowing and living with him i felt so happy for him when he said He is going back home with support and be with his parents. I wished him all the best and was literally in tears and shock when I heard the news on the Sep 26, 2007. One thing for sure, people who have known him as a friend, buddy, pal, manager, son, brother and most of all a human — will agree with me for the fact that he lived his life with a virtue and has never hurt another living being.

I’ve had way too many arguments with him (as a friend) but he is one of my best friend I’ve had and I’ll miss him for ever. May his soul rest in peace.

People have waited in line for weeks, days, even traded $800 for the first in line without knowing much details and wanting spend $100,000 in iPhones. Even a Mayor and not to mention some celebrities like Whoopi Golberg waiting in line. I was lucky, walked straight in to the Apple store at Palo alto around 10:30PM on Friday and out in 10 minutes with an iPhone

I’m sure you must have read about it a lot, The internet is filled literally overflowing with details and review of the iPhone. This for the most part are things that are not clearly mentioned or clarified.

First for the good stuff. The product as such is just as expected from any Apple product. Great built quality, sleek and simple. The best part of the device is the User Experience. There has been mobile phones for decades now, but Apple has thought through the usage of a typical phone and a lot of User Experience is built around it making it one of the best for mobile phone. Though there are so many things that are great about the interface, there are few things that really sucks (atleast for me)

• It takes more taps than most of the phones to dial a number, or even call someone in you address book. This being a Phone, should have been a lot easier and straight.
• When you receive a call, you have to wonder what you should be doing to attend the call (if the phone is in locked mode) — yes you have to slide to unlock to attend the call. This sounds OK but surely not when you are driving (!). Now if you were using the device and you recieve a call then its easy with just a tap. (Confused of what I’m talking about — take a look)

Other than these two(making and recieving a call) issues which are really the most important features of the device, there are great things about it. Most of you would like the interface as a gadget.

15 Things you SHOULD know about the iPhone.

1. This is an ATT/cingular only, though it is a Quad band phone (not sure if it wrok worldwide)
2. The iPhone has to be activated otherwise its next to useless(even if you are an existing customer)
3. Activation requires a 2 years service agreement for NEW and EXISTING customers.
4. You need the latest version of iTunes to activate(Linux fanboys look for a Mac or a Windows PC)
5. You HAVE TO have choose a data plan to activate the iPhone (special cheaper data plans for iPhones only from ATT/Cingular & might work out to be cheaper if you already have a data plan)
6. The device has EDGE and no 3G Connectivity, it turns out to be OK since it has the built-in WiFi
7. Battery life is great — no complaints there!
8. The Bluetooth — forget it, this is only for the bluetooth headsets and thats it. Nothing else can be done with that
9. Though the device has a great browser and WiFi built in you can not buy songs from iTunes directly from the device!(atleast not now)
10. The iPhone headset jack is not the same as you think. This does NOT work with you existing headsets or any third part headsets (unless you go for a connector)
11. There is no Accidental or Theft Insurance on this device from ATT/cingular and comes standard with apple’s one year warranty.
12. There is no expansion slot of any kind, you can NOT expand the memory with any card other than what is has(4 or 8GB).
13. Not all iPod accessories will work with the iPhone.
14. iPhone is NOT supported on the 64bit Windows be it XP or Vista — details here
15. Beware its an iPhone, Use with caution and in secrecy, you might get mugged!

Technical Specifications:

Apple has published some details about this but not the CORE details. Here are the information that you might not be aware of. Source: engadget

• ARM1176JZF chip with TrustZone (enables trusted computing environment for media, apps, network, OS, etc. — very bad for hackers)
• Can vary in clock speed up to 700MHz or more, depending on implementation
• ARM Intelligent Energy Manager (claimed to reduce power consumption 25-50% in portables)
• 16K / 16K cache
• Features vector floating point coprocessor (”for embedded 3D-graphics”)
• ARM Jazelle enabled for embedded Java execution
• SIMD, high perf integer CPU (8-stage pipeline, 675 Dhrystone, 2.1 MIPS)
• 0.45 mW/MHz power draw (with cache)

What to expect and when?

Its been hardly days since its launch and the iPhone Restore image is now available on the internet [via engadget], it will not take long for those curious boys to hack it out.

• iChat on iPhone (anytime soon — might be just a Software update)
• 3G and Europe & Other country availability (sooner than we thought)
• More Capacity (12, 16 and may be 32Gigs — who knows)
• Support for 3rd part tools
• Skype for iPhone (never pay to call)

and even more. Oh by the way for people all over the world (it’s funny most of the US people think they are the world — that’s OK) it pays off, I’m sure you can use the iPhone with any carrier in no less than 3 months from now. Let the hacking begin

You might think everything is private! who knows. Sure enough you must have read about all those law suits that various companies are piling against people like you and me and going after those internet giants like google, yahoo, my space and sites that has your data (so called private).

Today i just landed on this video that talks all about “privacy & google”, take a look

Again, these are opinions and study done by specific groups or individuals, in any case they have a point. Let’s say search for any of your friend’s name  or yourself for that matter on google,you might be surprised at what you find online.

Not just the interiors, but take a look at the quality of the video, I was looking at it on my 24″ wide screen monitor and  even then the qualiy was just amazing.

Peep in [Airbus]