Yahoo! 360 - Want Invites??

Yahoo 360!! is live and gone public...

lemme know if ya need invites... send me a mail at satish.vijaykumar@gmail.com , I have a few invites left.

wots yahoo!! 360 .... check it out at http://360.yahoo.com/

Second Tsunami expected!!!

Tsunami alerts
follow 8.2 quake
near Sumatra
Quake is described
as aftershock
of December temblor

How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back

Om malik on how yahoo got its mojo running...
http://www.gigaom.com/2005/03/26/how-yahoo-got-its-mojo-back
Om Malik is senior writer with Business 2.0 magazine

Tech Buzz Game - Suspended for now :((

game is suspended.. only when I started making some fake money :))

this is wot it says
System Unavailable
Thank you for visiting the Tech Buzz Game. The game is temporarily suspended while we conduct system maintenance. Market discrepancies are presently being investigated. Trading will resume as soon as possible.

ye right... Nick leesons n parekh's of the world haven't spared the online world too.. shady...

Har Rang kuch kehta hai !!!

holi
Originally uploaded by mzsatish.

Though this year my holi was as colorful or mucky as previous years...
2001 was memorable ..holi wid team Myzus :))

Top 25: Innovations by CNN

Internet is definitely my favorite, I wish some one would compile the DESI 25 innovations.. or rather 25 changes of the last quater century. Remember da journey from 2 DD channels to 120 channels now.. we are still starved of quality TV :))


TOP INNOVATIONS
1. The Internet
2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio

Places in India I've been...

indiaihavetravelled
Originally uploaded by mzsatish.

Cant belive even after travelling so far n wide.. I still feel lost at times :))

check out http://sumeet.info/India/... to do India mapping urself

Happy Trading

Happy Trading
Originally uploaded by mzsatish.

How to think in the trade? .. I guess thsi holds ture for all the world markets.
Got it from a Yahoogroup.

Warren Buffet's Annual Shareholder Letter

Warren Buffet's Annual Shareholder Letter
Warren Buffett is the world second richest man... He hasnt done any rocket science way of making money, He juss made 20% each year, something that any college student or retired person can do... but the studdgiri is that he did that continously for 40 years :))

The 2004 annual report is out and the letter is available online.
It’s required reading for anyone running a company – for substance, organization, style, tone, and wit.
If you feel ambitious, you can (and should) read the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters going back to 1977.

Sigfood anyone!!

I've written a review on South Indian Concerns - a Mess in Matunga

http://www.sigfood.org/Mumbai/Dadar/South_Indian_Concerns

Add sigfood to your friends list NOW!
Click here to add!
And you can keep up with updates on the best food places in Bombay, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Taiwan!If you prefer an RSS Reader this is the RSS feed link.http://www.sigfood.org/node/feed

sigfood is da brainchild of my friend Cnb... more abt him at his Gheun Tak blog http://www.livejournal.com/users/freegeek/

Transparent Screens

Transparent Screens.
probably should try these in diffrent locations and places around da world :):)
Link

Fukt Mumbai Madhye!!!

photographs courtesy Philip Greenspun

How to do a startup - Paul Graham

Paul Graham – founder of Viaweb (bought by Yahoo! in the late 1990s) and author of Hackers & Painters – has two new excellent essays up.
How To Start A Startup. Paul thinks you need three things: (1) good people, (2) make stuff people want, and (3) spend as little money as possible. All the right stuff with fun examples, lots of Paul’s trademark bluntness, and plenty of provocative questions.
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage.
RSS feed up on his site so you can have his thoughts delivered directly to your computer.

link via Brad Feld

Unique stool ..really cool

I would love to have a few of these stoolsin my house :) would definitely customise it wid my own commands :):)
Wonder if the Dhabas on da highway would like to use em ... should be cool.

http://www.greatbigstuff.com/keystool.html

101 rules for extreme metal!

awesome stuff sent by my rocker friend hippy.


01. You must listen to (and name) at least 100 metal bands (power metal not included) before you are extreme.

02. Hair must be shoulder length, longer, or completely shaved off.

03. Drummers must weigh either under 60kg, or over 140kg - No in betweens.

04. Band logos must be totally undecipherable.

05. Song tempos are only allowed to register under 40bpm (extreme), or over 240bpm (extreme).

06. Thank-you list must comprise of every extreme metal band in existence (even if you have never met the band or heard their music).

07. The police picture of your ex-vocalist’s suicide must be used for the next album cover.

08. Drummer must be limited to blast beats and grind beats (even at 40bpm)

09. Profess the glory of Satan, especially if you are an atheist.

10. Sing about ancient cultures, and invent your own language to sing in.

11. Develop cancer or a tumor of some type.

12. Refer to 1

13. Wear every manner of injury inflicting clothing - manacles, bullet
belts, spiky shin pads etc.

14. Sing about the dark lord and/or gore on your first album, and then
onto politics and life on all proceeding albums, apparently you 'have matured'.

15. Wear black. Always.

16. Drive a funeral car as transportation for the band.

17. Release an album, then a year later, re-release it with a bonus track
just to make people buy the album again.

18. Record twice as many songs as you plan to release, then ten year's later release the album as a collector's item.

19. Record a whole bunch of new songs, add a high frequency hiss, and cut the low frequencies, then release it as 'pre-band demo recordings'

20. Guitars must be shaped so that they may be used as a grievous weapon.

21. Never ever have the same band line up for any album or tour.

22. Feud with the band members that move on to other bands (good
publicity).

23. Pretend that you 'hail from Norway'.

24. Do as many side projects that are humanly possible in your extreme time budget. One band, at least, must feature a female singer (your wife, cause no one else is extreme enough).

25. Albums should either be less than thirty minutes, or exactly sixty six minutes and six seconds.

26. In summer, black clothing can be hand torn into singlets and shorts to deal with heat (NEVER use scissors)

27. Have a royal throne for a toilet seat/table seat/car seat etc.

28. Marry a girl with so many piercings, she has more metal in her than a Massey Fergusson tractor – and can never get through a metal detector at the airport.

29. Have 52 metal t-shirts - one for each week of the year.

30. Play only Jackson and/or B.C.Rich guitars.

31. The first letter of every album titles must start at A, and then progress through the alphabet. (Altars of Madness, Blessed Are the Sick, Covenant...)

32. Become a 'specialist producer' of extreme metal, and build your very own studio in the heart of the Norwegian forest (helps with Forest Metal).

33. Forest metal is running round a dark forest, with a $10 Casio Keyboard, and a $5 microphone, records your new 'extreme atmospheric project'

34. Sing about serial killers only after you've met one and formed a relationship with them.

35. Never play in key. Chromaticism is the only way.

36. Let keyboard players 'jump' from band to band (it’s the only jumping they're allowed to do).
37. Claim to have burnt down a church and gone to jail for it (even if you really haven't).

38. Say the word 'EXTREME' and cross your arms in a X shape when you shout it, as often as possible

39. Play the bass without a plectrum.

40. Play drums barefoot, or in white socks if feeling especially extreme.

41. Call everyone 'Sons of Satan' even if you are addressing a female.

42. Be involved in the porn industry in any way possible, preferably as an actor called 'Penetrator' or 'Frosty-Spire'

43. Play only Axis bass drum pedals.

44. Take speed to be the fastest band on earth.

45. Smoke weed to be the slowest band on earth.

46. Guitars must be tuned lower than Ab before they are considered extreme.

47. Guitar solos must not sound anything like Yngwie Malmsteen or blues – solos must be so fast that fingers bleed.

48. Resurrect shitty black metal bands, call yourself 'cult' and then release albums with the shittiest possible production (by referring to rule 33).

49. Television viewing media is restricted to 'The Simpsons' and 'Homicide'.

50. List 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' as your all time favourite movie, only after 'Debbie Does Dallas'.

51. Tour every country possible, but NEVER EVER New Zealand.

52. Support established extreme metal acts, become famous, and even bigger than these acts, then never have anything to do with them again.

53. Drummers: 3 bars of blast beats followed by 1 bar of drum fill. Repeat. Do not deviate from this pattern, failure to follow these instructions may make you less extreme.

54. Marshall amps suck - Mesa Boogie amps rule.

55. Never use your real name, claim your extreme parents gave you the name ‘Persecuter’ at birth.

56. Call your band 'The Next Generation in Extreme Metal' (don't forget to cross your arms) even if you sound like you came straight from the 80's.

57. Make sure your band name is the same as another band's name in
the other hemisphere.

58. Cite Darkthrone as a major influence (even if you have never heard them).

59. Have even more disturbing album artwork than the last 'yesterday' extreme band. Hire a professional uber-gore-meister-artist (primarily yourself - don't forget to change your name).

60. (a) Murder a person in another band to elevate you to extreme infamousness - publicity helps.

60. (b) Then write the rest of your albums from jail

61. Say that you've recorded at Morrisound Studios, Florida, USA, with Scott Burns as producer.

62. Organise tours with at least 9 bands on the bill - $6.66 tickets.

63. Have competitions on stage to see which of the nine bands can play the fastest.

64. Always have two (or more) bass drums.

65. Head band until you get told by the doctor that those headaches
indicate the possibility of serious brain damage. Carry on headbanging anyway because it is extreme.

66. When singing live, always do 'vocal bails' - do a low growl, because you know that when you go pussy high, you are going to fail it miserably.

67. Refer to 1.

68. Tell everyone that you are going to write all album material by yourself because the music and lyrics are headed in the wrong direction.

69. Join your wife's band.

70. Record an extreme metal video in ONLY ONE (1) of FOUR (4) possibly locations i) A Church, ii) A Graveyard, iii) A Forest, iv) A Castle.

71. If rule 70 ends up being too extensive, paint your band practice room black (it should be already, unless you are un-extreme), wear all black, and have different coloured instruments, so that viewers can only make out them, and your faces (which are white).

72. Bite a dove's head off (or substitute for any form of fowl).

73. All band photos must involve you holding a gun or axe.

74. All band photos must feature naked women looking like your loyal slaves.

75. Get rid of your drummer because he is too slow - get a drum machine instead.

76. Sing in as many different bands as you can possibly whore yourself too, and be totally un-committed to any of them. Unreliable as f@ck = extreme.

77. Record a Slayer cover.

78. After a band 'calls it a day', attempt to contact Rob Halford to start a new band.

79. Or alternatively, Phil Anselmo to resurrect a dead band.

80. Rip off as many samples from horror movies as possible to use in your extreme album. Copyright is for pussies.

81. Triggered drums are the only way to go, even if your snare sounds like a 6" tom.

82. Experience a heroin overdose, live through it, and say that you had to come back because Satan told you that you must piss more people off.

83. Say that you are a Satanist and that you only listen to black metal.

84. Say 'Morbid Angel is the best f@cking death metal band in the world".

85. A toilet is the best place to keep beer and alcohol chilled.

86. Kill your offspring if they become house/trance DJ's.

87. Admit you used to air guitar to KISS and that Gene Simmons is your
God.

88. Listen and air drum to Motley Crue's 'Dr. FeelGood' album (yes its ok to do that).

89. Splatter as much fake blood on stage and your audience as stated in the rules of accordance in hiring your venue.

90. Wait, rules are for pussies.

91. Try to get your long hair stuck in as many people's mouths as possible in the audience.

92. Sing so brutal and low, so that people, who even know your lyrics, can't sing along, thus sound pussy in comparison to you. Exert your Extreme Dominance.

93 Recording a jam session in a blizzard on the snowy slopes of Norway is part of the pre-production for your new album.

94. Destroy as many hotel rooms as possible while on tour.

95. Beware of power metal album covers that look like black metal album covers - deception can be brutal.

96. Your middle name must be that of a weapon, succeeded by the word 'The'. eg. "John 'The Missle/Axe/Torpedo' Smith".

97. Wearing leather pants means they must be tight enough to show a dick print.

98. Corpse paint is compulsory when meeting the in-laws.

99. Lay down the smack on all people not as extreme as you, exert your dominance extremely.

100. Work/Live by a steel factory and claim that 'metal has been in my blood from a young age'.

101. The most important rule of extreme metal: “In order to create art of the most truest form, one must live it.” Kill yourself and die, and only then can you write and perform the most extreme of extreme metal possible.

abzolutley mad, cool, wacky ad by Idea Cellular

a spoof on da super hit mallu movie lajjvadi this is da ultimate thing one can do to physce anyone u know or at least drive them insane :):)
get up n dance like mohanlal or prabhu or rajni...

you can download the ad out here http://www.ideacellular.com/Images/Mpegs/DialerTones-Star.MPG

and do da ultimate dance steps...

Tech Buzz Game by Yahoo!

Really cool tech game ala mock stock ex, motive is to Predict Future Technology Trends.
Though the prizes are for US nationals only, I think its definitly worth playing minus da prizes.
I've been hooked onto it already :)
Here's my portfolio as of today...
My Portfolio
Quantity Value
GOOGAD 292 $2,774.51
VIRUS 211 $482.30
BLOGGER 1242 $676.78
FFOX 295 $1,234.07
GUTENBERG 54 $651.72
MOBTXT 113 $2,430.40
KAZAA 108 $614.08
SPURL 20 $9.82
ORKUT 1396 $845.61
FLICKRTG 34 $483.51


check it out at http://buzz.research.yahoo.com
Joint Research Project Enables Participants to Buy and Sell Virtual Shares of Technology Topics
Yahoo! Research Labs, Yahoo!'s organization for advanced research in science and technology, has teamed with O'Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies, to develop a joint research project called the Tech Buzz Game (http://buzz.research.yahoo.com), an online prediction market that allows consumers to forecast the popularity of technology concepts, products and trends.

DD.. no tnx!!!

If you might have watch the last match between India and Pakistan, I'm sure like millions of fans you also might have banged your head on da wall and cried in pain on the pathetic coverage of Doordarshan and the insane level of commercialization by DD.
3-4 ads between every over
ads start at any time even before the over gets over, in between the over,
exactly before any important timing of the match DD show infinite crappy ads
I think anything ..Sony, ESPN, ZEE, Star Sports should be fine but please no Doordarshan ... god have mercy on us.

DD rot in Hell!!!

coolest blog on the world of finance and investing

 

http://www.seekingalpha.com/2005/03/the_finance_blo.html

 

Seeking Alpha  The Finance Blog Resource Page: a list of the best economics, investing, venture capital and personal finance blogs.

 

One of the coolest ones on the world wide web, blog is managed by David Jackson. davidajackson@gmail.com

 

He is coming up wid a India specific blog,something on the lines of

www.ChinaStockBlog.com  more on that later.

 

p.s the link to David's blog was referred through Rajesh jain's blog :)

 

 

 

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