Peak Day Blues

With an area of 4.4 square metres, the A380 cockpit is far roomier than the flight deck of a conventional wide-bodied jet. It is equipped with an array of sophisticated technology. On the eight displays alone, pilots can see all the information needed for the flight and the technical monitoring of the aircraft. Check it out !! Link via: Prametha

For those of you waiting to see this past Saturday's JLT snaps, here's a ready reckoner - coming soon! :-) Btw, I've put 4Q07 JLT snaps in the sidebar which took place in December at Western Valley Club... just as a curtain raiser! Click here to watch it as a slideshow

After Bihari students were found to have outclassed their counterparts in other states in solving mathematical problems and reading English, Bihar government has launched an ambitious radio programme for the students of classes I and II in all state run primary schools in Bihar. The students would listen to the programme at a specific time during school hours. Fifty three episodes of the interactie radio instruction (IRI) programme have already been broadcast and 122 episodes would be aired four days a week from April 15. More PS: Be careful going forward to use Bihar as a worst case scenario example!

Arthur Benjamin makes numbers dance. In his day job, he's a professor of math at Harvey Mudd College; in his other day job, he's a "Mathemagician," taking the stage in his tuxedo to perform high-speed mental calculations, memorizations and other astounding math stunts. In a lively show, "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days. How does he do it? Click here to watch it ... Am sure your jaws will drop too as did mine after watching this video!! PS: Those who think they are good at math will have inferiority complex after watching this. Well, I didn't had any coz am anyways pretty bad in math :-)

Read this - highly recommended if you are a night shift BPO/IT guy... Trust me! New work culture, odd hours of work, a fast paced lifestyle – this is the trend of the present day. Tens of thousands of young Indians have converted day into night and night into day to meet the business requirements of American and European companies. These employees of the $1.5 billion call center industry are young and they consider working in the night as ‘cool’. While the BPO industry is a lucrative option for these English-speaking professionals, the entire work culture can wreak havoc on their body system. Long hours of work along with a hectic work schedule; have put an increasing number of young professionals burning the midnight oil at risk of major health disorders. Night work disturbs the circadian rhythm in the human body. This is an internal body clock that is synchronized to a 24-hour period. It regulates a number of physiological functions such as body temperature, hormone secretion, heart

ET reports that Reliance has decided to shut down all the petroleum retail outlets owned by it directly as surging crude prices and the absence of government subsidies have made operations unviable. At present, RIL sells petrol and diesel at between Rs 6 and Rs 14 more than PSUs. We remain committed to the petroleum sector and will not sell our retail operations. The lack of a level-playing field between the public and private sector remains an area of concern, and we look forward to the its restoration as soon as it is possible so we can to resume our retail petro operations This is big news according to me. Reliance Industries which is world famous for breaking monopolies in whichever industry they step into, is accepting defeat and withdrawing from a business, thanks to perks given to Oil PSUs by the Government. FYI, in Iran, a liter of petrol costs only Rs. 11. PS: I will miss their food outlets named A1 Restaurants, which were integrated along with their petrol pumps in highways.

Rs 1,200 crore-plus Bannari Amman Group plans to develop an IT SEZ over 78 acres at Kalapatty village.The Bannari Amman Techno Park, as the project is called, has got formal approvals for around 60 acres and the remaining process is likely to be completed in the next few months. The project would be on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis and would be located on land owned by the company. Along with other similar projects, this would give IT a big push in the textile city. "We are negotiating with some of the developers based in Bangalore and Chennai and are planning to lease it out to all IT companies on a long-term lease basis," Mr S V Balasubramaniam, group chairman, told. Bannari Amman is a diversified group with interests in sugar, textiles, education, food processing, granites, power generation, transportation, distillery and automobile distribution. It would appear that Coimbatore is on the threshold of becoming the next ideal IT destination in the state after Che

Well, well... it looks like the Australian media is complaining vociferously!! Read this piece in "The Australian", a newspaper at best described as the worst tabloid in the world. Pride & Prejudice fever grips gloating nation Mate , though we don't go "bananas" over our wins, our media writes with compassion! And yes, we maybe a 1.2billion cricket crazy nation who according to you might be "outpouring our national chauvinism and jingoism", but we gave your team what they deserve best, right up their ars*!! PS: It's good that you've removed your comments section from the website; Otherwise you would have realized our jingionism right up there! New job for Bret Lee - shaving a manki!

Well, what more can i say... who is the more civilized??

Seth's Blog : "Almost every time, the products and services that succeed wildly are the ones that everyone expected would fail." How true!! Guess that holds true for human beings also!