Indian-American Kalpana Chawla was among those astronauts aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle, who were killed when the shuttle broke up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on February 1, 2003. Today, it was officially announced that NASA paid $26.6 million to the families of the seven astronauts of that fateful Space Flight. This settlement was [...]
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Posted 16 April 2007
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Corbis, started by Bill Gates in 1989, owns millions of images, some of them kept underground in a former limestone mine in rural Pennsylvania - reports in an article by New York Times. Mr. Gates started Corbis in 1989 with the idea that people would someday decorate their homes with a revolving display of digital [...]
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Posted 10 April 2007
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The limited James Bond Tuxedo edition is inspired by the prototype Daniel Craig wore in Casino Royale. It has a pistol holster in the lapel, a Velcro-sealed case in the sleeve lining - handy to store a knife - and other secrets.
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Posted 07 April 2007
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I was at the InOrbit Mall, Malad to buy vegetables, greens. We’ve seen this interactive projector photo sensitive tracking thingy and now they are running Hutch ads. Today, some reporter and photographers were covering a story about the ad for one of Outlook Magazine’s upcoming issue. Linda was lucky to be the chosen one by [...]
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Posted 29 March 2007
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It’s Women’s Day. And suddenly everybody is talking about celebrating womanhood. There are a lot of articles about women’s issues. Various programmes organised for women on television. There are a lot of schemes for women, discounts at various places and the likes. I like this concept of celebrating womanhood. But I have issues with one [...]
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Posted 08 March 2007
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Microsoft have finally decided to do away with the Clippy with new Microsoft Office 2007. Most users of Microsoft Office were not happy with clippy and nobody loved him. Born in 1997, Clippy will be rested in 2007. Office’s Group Program Manager, Jensen Harris, said “He’s sort of fallen out of disfavor, so this is [...]
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Posted 18 February 2007
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âBought your girlfriend flowers although you know sheâs allergic to them? Canât think of anything except chocolates even though sheâs on a diet? Log onto blah blah blah dot com and get innovative ideas for a Valentineâs day gift!â
When The Beatles sang âMoney Canât Buy Me Loveâ, they had no clue about Hallmark [...]
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Posted 14 February 2007
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As Flickr is one such popular site, people spend a lot of time on the site. Some organizations are known to block Flickr. Organizations don’t want their employees wasting time on social networking sites. If Flickr is blocked in your organization, the easy way to access it is though a different url.
For instance my original [...]
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Posted 29 January 2007
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Times of India, one of the most popular newspaper in India carries an article on Digg. So, beware, there might an Indian troll on Digg looming around the corner ready to pounce anytime.
The Indians are very patient, they can do repetitive and mundane task very effectively, they are quick to catch up with simple, quick [...]
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Posted 18 January 2007
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Articles promoted to the front page of Digg from my submissions hit the 100th mark with Get A Mac: surgery, sabotage, and tech support. My profile is currently ranked at 61 at the time of writing this article and is the 54th most popular on the Top Diggers List.
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Overall Ranking: 61
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Posted 17 January 2007
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