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My 100 th post

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Combinational Experience

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Carole King

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Carole King The website is updated with some nice video clips! http://www.caroleking.com

Technology in my house

Refrigerator ** (50 kgs) Television ********* (15 kgs) Radio ** (5 kgs) Mobile phone ******* (200 gms) Computer(laptop) ************ (3 kgs) Boiler **** (5 kgs) Mixer * (3 kgs) Speakers **** (2 kgs) Electric bulb ********* Electric Switches *** Digital Camera ***** (300 gms) Ceiling Fan ******** DVD player **** (1 kg) Door Bell * External Hard Disk *** (100 gms) Electric cooker *** (1 kg) Micro Wave oven (3 kg) Regulator * Clocks * (400 gm) Wrist watch ******** (100 gm) Printer (400 gm) Iron box **(300 gm) All of the above are dependent on electricity. :-) All of them involve operations. Except the computer all of them have single task operation. In two years I have accumulated around 90 kgs of high-end technology! * indicate "frequent usage". 2007 AD I wonder how can 90 kgs of Technology will influence social development as the sellers claim!

Feature Mania!

Its funny how products are designed! Longtime ago products were mere tools to ease ones tasks or objects which are pleasing to look at. After industrial revolution they were expressions of technology. All products have technological features. ( 120cc, 4stroke, 8 valve, 4 chamber, metallic blue etc etc). Ironically they were also the real USP's - The features! So products come with cool technological features, the real feat of an organization and its R&D! The value of the product is proportional to its technological features and capability. Whats interesting though is that, modern products are attractively and efficiently powered with technological features. Technological features are important as they make us feel that well, this might work! as I haven't built it - an assurance! When these high powered features went into the hands of delicate,fragile,notorious,unpredictable, finicky, crazy, casual, uninterested, young, old, moody, cranky, emotional, conservative, forward et

Bombay is in south and bangalore in east!

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Few of my close friends from Bombay always called us South Indians as they stuck themselves to the west! So I decided to make them South Indians! :-) I like being an East Indian! So that I have sea on my north, east as well as South cool!

Feeling the existence

Ok this blog is serious! This is what I felt when I went to Nehru Planetarium yesterday. The feelings are very abstract and inhuman. So beware! I saw beautiful night sky in the middle of the afternoon in the dome theater. I realized few gyans. I started to strongly feel few things: Q) Before everything what existed? A) Space and only space and nothing else I will spend some time in simply opening my feelings to this "space" Space is like "nothing". Can you feel? Absolute nothing Its dark and everywhere I cannot comprehend it physically. I dont know whether its in the form of box of infinite nothingness. It is very much existent. We can see it. Its all around us. Imagine all the black space between all stars. All that is nothing but nothingness. It is the oldest thing of existence in time. Imagine all the time you have contact with the oldest possible thing ever existed. Its really large and incomprehensible, What I mean here is that you can sense it nicely but canno