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What a President!

The president of India does have a few things that many people are... "blessed with" (yeah sounds right).  Everyone had written off that Prathiba Patil was not a good choice to be the President of India specially when she said her biggest achievement in life was handling Indira Gandhi's kitchen when son Sanjay Gandhi passed away.

Well, here is something that will amaze you and make sure how wrong you all were!  Here is Prathiba Patil on speaking to a... Ghost!

twitter on sms by Airtel

twitter on sms has been a service now being offered by a lot of cell phone companies, but how well are they advertising them? I came across a bunch of them from Airtel

Best in the World

Today, came across a very interesting article (shared on twitter) written right after Sachin Tendulkar scored back to back centuries in Sharjah against Australia to qualify for the finals and to win the tournament respectively.
Here are a few excerpts from the article

Tendulkar told coach Anshuman Gaekwad in the dressing room: "Don't worry I'll be there in the end."

India has qualified for the final, but he paces the dressing room hissing, "I was not out."

Allan Border, Australian coach, a day later: "Hell, if he stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it."

Michael Kasprowicz is sort of speechless. In the first match, he hits Tendulkar on the pads, smirks, gets hit for two successive fours. This match it's two successive sixes. Now he swears, "Shit, I'm sick of this *$#%."

Border: It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him.

Ian Chappell: Yeah mate, but that's with all great players.

Border: Well yes, but imagine what he'll be like when he's 28. 

I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay." 

- Greg Chappell.

Mark Waugh says, "Sachin's better; Lara is more risky outside the off stump." Shane Warne adds, "Nothing affects Sachin, Brian lets things bother him." Steve Waugh then takes the debate to a higher plane with one statement, a grand canyon of a compliment actually: "In history Sachin will go down as second to Bradman." What he's saying is this: Tendulkar owns the present, and perhaps one day will surpass the past as well.

Gaekwad was stunned, for Tendulkar was running singles like a demon -- four 3s, fifteen 2s, thirty-five 1s - yet hitting sixes (five of them) in between. "The running tires you, yet he was never out of position for a shot."

Of that night some final stories remain. Chappell saying, "What would I want of his batting? Everything." And then finally, Ajay Jadeja, echoing us all: "I can't dream of an innings like that. He exists where we can't."

Read the complete article - Sachin Tendulkar - Best in the World

Google to include twitter in search results...!!!!

Came across an article today on my Google Read that read "Google strikes a deal with twitter to include tweets in search"

Can only imagine reading status updates of millions of people instead of concentrating on what I came to Google to search for!!!  I can also imagine search terms on Google to view twitter messages...

Applied for the Chief Photographers Job :)

Was talking to a friend of mine last week over a few photographs that I clicked for her and she pointed me to the Royal Challengers Bangalore's website which had a few interesting job applications :)

Over the weekend, applied for the post of the Chief Photographer post for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team.  Please register and vote for me at http://www.royalchallengers.com/application/vandy/

who's visiting my site?

I have been noticing cluster maps on a lot of blogs and the only thing I can see is dots... big huge red dots all over the world. Boy, people get a lot of visitors on their blogs...

So curious to know, I also put it on my blog and also put in Google Analytic just to make sure how much does the report match up.

Here's what cluster map show me from July 24th to August 24th - Boy I have got readers from a lot of place :)


On the other hand,Google Analytic showed me some thing different... Wonder which report I should trust ;)


Not sure what mechanism does cluster maps use to show this data. On the other hand Google Analytic has been used by numerous people and I have also been recommended that they are reliable when it comes to these kind of reports and websites.