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Mutton Grilled Revisited

Oct 18th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

I was taking a look back at what I’ve accomplished this grilling season, and through all the fond memories came a horrifying reality: I had failed to cook any lamb! Though totally not intentional, I could not come to grips with this omission and began plotting to get lamb on the grill the next time [...]



Dosa, India’s favourite food

Sep 25th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles, Talks

Here is the recepie for India’s favourite food.
 (Serves 2)
 Preparation time: 20 minutes
 Ingredients
100 gm rice
50 gm boiled rice
50 gm urad dal (black gram/horsebean)
5 gm channa dal (bengal gram)
1 gm methi (fenugreek) seeds
20 gm sugar
25 gm salt
15 gm rice flour
50 gm suji (semolina)
Prepartion
Soak rice and dals for 2 hours.
Blend it to make the batter.
Mix sugar, salt, suji [...]



Onam meal in the Air

Sep 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks



Go Goa - only if you are upmarket and family

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

 by Rina Chandran
Goa, long a magnet for partying hippies, penurious college students and planeloads of foreign pensioners, now wants only “upmarket and responsible family tourists”, the Economic Times has quoted the state church as saying.
In a bid to restore some of the shine lost in the Scarlett Keeling case, the Goa church, which apparently [...]



Bose - the Indian behind the Big Bang experiment

Sep 12th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

Of the three main past and present physicists behind the landmark proton-smashing quantum physics experiment in Geneva on Wednesday, one has a Nobel Prize, the other is waiting to find out if he has one, and the third never got one. The third man is the Bose of the ‘Higgs boson’ experiment — Satyendra Nath [...]



Anyone wants a loan for $10,000,000.00

Sep 11th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

Yesterday, I recieved an email solicitation for a loan amount of $10,000,000.00. God knows that is too much money for me. 
I really don’t understand the logic here. The sender assumes that we are all born as donkeys and we are gona eat his mail trash and one day he/she will be billionare. Good luck who [...]



about: Google Chrome features

Sep 5th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

Here are some of the un-advertised features of Google Chrome.
about:cache

about:dns

about:histogram

about:network

about:plugins

about:stats

about:version

about:internets

about:memory
You have seen that I hope!!



Chrome vs. All browsers: The battle begins

Sep 4th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

Couple of days I heard about the Google browser on the net and I immediately googled and found a link to Google browser. However, when I downloaded and installed it was really Lynx, a text browser. I was kind of disappointed because I had higher expectation from google; more than wrapping an existing text browser [...]



Don’t Buy That iPhone Yet - Wait for HTC Touch Pro

Aug 31st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

Not sure about iPhone? Ok wait…you have many choices.
HTC Touch Pro is one of the choice !!

….dont know when this is supposed to hit the Indian market. But definetly worth a wait.



iPhone Vs. Nokia N96

Aug 30th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

 

Operating system
Mac OS X
Symbian S60 3rd Edition

3G
No
Yes (HSDPA-enhanced)

Camera resolution
2 megapixels
5 megapixels

Camera flash
No
Dual LED flash

Browser
Safari
Nokia Web Browser

E-mail
Displays HTML-rich; Push IMAP (Yahoo); IMAP/POP3
POP3/SMTP/IMAP

Music player
iTunes
RealPlayer / Nokia Media Player

DVB-H (Mobile TV)
No
Yes

GPS
No
Yes

Maps
Google Maps
Nokia Maps 2.0

Touchscreen
Yes (multi-touch sensors)
No

Screen
8.9cm (320×480 pixels)
7.2cm (240×320 pixels)

Weight
136g
125g

Storage
8GB/16GB
16GB

Processor speed
620MHz
Unknown

Expansion slot
None
microSD

Replaceable battery
No
Yes

Battery - talk time
8 hours
2.5 hours

Battery - audio playback
24 hours
14 hours

MMS (for sending pictures and video)
No
Yes

IM [...]