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• the Self-destructing Hard Drives and the Highest Capacity Memory Card !

  

  Technology improvement dazzles ….. what sells most now-a-days is ‘memory cards’ - hundreds of manufacturers market thousands of memory cards and devices built t... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Landmarks of Chennai - Walltax Road (VOC Salai) - Padmanabha Theatre

  

  The other day, travelling on Walltax road – saw this old building – which looked like a religious place at first sight – it is not to be – and the whole area... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Read Receipt and the One That Was Deleted Without Being Read... !!

  Dear(s) In this beautiful ‘e-World’ – most of the correspondence is by e-mail. Another matter that modern day youngsters would spend their lives sending SMS, ms... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Warren M Anderson is No More .... Ghosts of Bhopal Haunt Still !!

  

  His death, which was not announced by his family, was confirmed from public records – that brings no tears miles away in India – for that ghastly incident that... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Game Changing 'vanishing Spray' Technology in Football

  

  Games certainly have changed from the way they have been played a century ago – though Sachin Tendulkar was dubbed as Modern Bradman – I have always felt that... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Tunnel to Bank Locker - the Precision Work of Small Group !!

  

  Part of Chennai moves on arterial Anna Salai (Mount Road) ~ the city has choked many a times whenever political agitation or a show of strength by any leader... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Central Zone Lifts Duleep; India Wins ............. and Misbah Ul Haq Scores...

  Do you follow Indian domestic Cricket ? At Delhi, the Duleep Trophy finals is on…… the Duleep Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Digging Tunnel to Bank Locker - Old Idea Still Works !!!

  

  Palavakkam is now a posh area – it is around 6 kms south of Adyar located on East Coast Road. Old timers would fondly recall the PC game ‘Digger’ – which was a... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 SOCIETY

• McDonald ... Stella Liebeck and ... Hot Coffee Liability ...

  

  Way back in January 1977, in a series otherwise marred by the ‘vaseline incident’ of John Lever – the 3rd test was played at Chepauk. Tony Greig, Bob Woolmer,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Primate Cognition .... Will Tommy the Chimp Be Recognised as a Person ?

  

  Tommy is 26. He lives alone behind a trailer sales park in upstate New York. His hobbies include watching cartoons ~ and he is involved in a court case, which... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Bharathi Salai in Triplicane .... the Pycrofts Road

  

  The man who was to become an iconoclastic freedom fighter was born in a small village called Ettayapuram. He, by his songs and concerted actions reached to the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Super Mario and the Pit of Despair - Chilean Mining Accident ...

  

  Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform video game internally developed by Nintendo EAD. Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise, created... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• When MS Dhoni Ushered at National Scene ~ Best Thing That Occurred

  

  Lankans are here - as replacement for West Indies who abandoned the tour. Yesterday, in the practice match, with Sri Lanka deciding to give all fifteen members... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• “Ouagadougou” - Capital of Burkina Faso in Turmoil...

  

  Before you mistake these three colours for something else – it is river – the Volta River, a stream primarily in Ghana that drains into the Gulf of Guinea and... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Google Doodle on Jonas Edward Salk's 100th Birthday ....

  

  I am one impressed by Google doodles ~ and post on them too… today saw one and tried keeping away ….in the closing hours of the day – seeing the doodle again –... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• the Most Powerful Women in Football !

  

  Angela Merkel, Janet Yellen, Melinda Gates, Dilma Rousseff, Christine Lagarde ……….the toppers of most powerful women list according to Forbes. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Aavin Hikes Milk Price - How Does It Compare with Neighbours !!!

  

  The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday announced a hike in Aavin (Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation) milk price by Rs.10/- per litre. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 SOCIETY

• 41 Year Old Saravanan Dies Electrocuted ... in Trying to Be a Good Samaritan !!!

  

  Saravanan, a 41 year old person passed away and that appears as a small news in TOI page 2 – that really makes a sad reading. The TOI news reads : A... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 SOCIETY

• the Much Touted First Post of Stephen Hawking on Facebook...

  

  Strange are the ways of people – many do not have time to walk around the streets, talk to thy neighbour or office colleague – but have ample time to bury... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Dr MAV Swami Mani Vizha Malar Veliyeedu ..

  

  At Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, sashtiapthapoorthi celebrations of Methavimani, Gambhira Vakvarshi, Dr Mandayam Ananthanpillai Venkatakrishnan Swami was... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 SOCIETY