Ferruccio Lamborghini was not satisfied with the handling of Ferrari and so was born the Lamborghini.
The Lamborghini cars are a status symbol perhaps even more than any other car, no wonder there are very few of them manufactured each year.
The Lamborghini Co. gifted a Gallardo to the Italian Police in honour of the exemplary work they do.
Unfortunately it seems the Italian police are not good drivers, so they are now left with a wrecked Lamborghini that is good only for the scrapyard.
Mama Mia.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Try Yoga to relax
Yoga is quite popular in USA and most of Europe. It has gained recognition quite recently and it is quite a crazy in these parts of the world.
Yoga is one of the ancient traditions of India which is still being followed by a sizeable population in India. People would have come across yoga in some way directly or indirectly in India. Since it is a tradition of India, people are used to hearing about yoga that it is not something which has got a mystic appeal unlike the rest of the world. So yoga is sometimes disregarded as a way to exercise the body and the mind and the benefits are rarely known among the masses.
Yoga has got elaborate postures or asanas ranging from simple to very complicated stances of the body. Certain asanas requires years of practise before it can be perfected. An important part of yoga in the breathing along with the asanas. The breathing has to be done correctly, the inhaling and exhaling at correct intervals and at the right postures, failing which might result in injury or pain.
There are also breathing exercises that are done to improve concentration and relaxing the mind.
There are a lot of instruction videos for yoga on the internet which give a detailed step by step account of the asanas.
It is a good all round exercise, if that is the correct word, for all round development of the body and mind.
Yoga is one of the ancient traditions of India which is still being followed by a sizeable population in India. People would have come across yoga in some way directly or indirectly in India. Since it is a tradition of India, people are used to hearing about yoga that it is not something which has got a mystic appeal unlike the rest of the world. So yoga is sometimes disregarded as a way to exercise the body and the mind and the benefits are rarely known among the masses.
Yoga has got elaborate postures or asanas ranging from simple to very complicated stances of the body. Certain asanas requires years of practise before it can be perfected. An important part of yoga in the breathing along with the asanas. The breathing has to be done correctly, the inhaling and exhaling at correct intervals and at the right postures, failing which might result in injury or pain.
There are also breathing exercises that are done to improve concentration and relaxing the mind.
There are a lot of instruction videos for yoga on the internet which give a detailed step by step account of the asanas.
It is a good all round exercise, if that is the correct word, for all round development of the body and mind.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Wii can exercise
Wii, is an odd name for a gaming console. It was quite amusing to watch people hold something their hands and motion them to mimic a movement. It was funny to watch the people do some crazy movements.
I had the opportunity to play a few games on the Wii, I was a bit apprehensive at first, but then I decided to give it a try.
The experience of playing a game on Wii is incomparable to any other game playing experience, the interactivity is like no other.
Gone are the days when playing a video game was just sitting in front of the TV or computer and moving just the fingers.
With a Wii you use the whole body. It is truly playing the game virtually. It is quite exhausting and tiring too. Playing on the Wii is a good exercise, especially boxing. People break into a sweat boxing on the Wii.
How much better it could get, parents would not longer be worried that their children are spending more time in front of the TV.
There is also something like a floor mat which can sense the feet. Wow, now that is a great idea. The applications are endless.
I think Nintendo have defined the future of future video games.
I had the opportunity to play a few games on the Wii, I was a bit apprehensive at first, but then I decided to give it a try.
The experience of playing a game on Wii is incomparable to any other game playing experience, the interactivity is like no other.
Gone are the days when playing a video game was just sitting in front of the TV or computer and moving just the fingers.
With a Wii you use the whole body. It is truly playing the game virtually. It is quite exhausting and tiring too. Playing on the Wii is a good exercise, especially boxing. People break into a sweat boxing on the Wii.
How much better it could get, parents would not longer be worried that their children are spending more time in front of the TV.
There is also something like a floor mat which can sense the feet. Wow, now that is a great idea. The applications are endless.
I think Nintendo have defined the future of future video games.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Free Software
How many of us cannot afford to buy the expensive word processor or the image editing software?
In this age of internet there is a solution for every digital problem.
Open Source Software - This a classification or license under with certain software are released. This means that the software is free to use and be developed further by anyone who is interested.
This means a lot to everyone, imagine the best word processing software on the market, now imagine a similar word processing software created by eager developers all over the world and released as open source. This open source word processor would keep getting better everyday, with ideas pouring from everyone who has a feature to be incorporated.
There is already Open Office, the open source office solution, which includes among other tools a word processor that is quite competitive to any commercial word processor. There is also GIMP, an open source image editing software. There are also operating systems, databases, media players, browsers, email clients, anti viruses and even games.
The open source ideology is well embraced by the software industry. As more an more open source alternatives are being made available for commercial software, what would be the state of the major software companies.
Checkout the huge list of open source software available on the internet, you might no longer need that expensive software that you use.
In this age of internet there is a solution for every digital problem.
Open Source Software - This a classification or license under with certain software are released. This means that the software is free to use and be developed further by anyone who is interested.
This means a lot to everyone, imagine the best word processing software on the market, now imagine a similar word processing software created by eager developers all over the world and released as open source. This open source word processor would keep getting better everyday, with ideas pouring from everyone who has a feature to be incorporated.
There is already Open Office, the open source office solution, which includes among other tools a word processor that is quite competitive to any commercial word processor. There is also GIMP, an open source image editing software. There are also operating systems, databases, media players, browsers, email clients, anti viruses and even games.
The open source ideology is well embraced by the software industry. As more an more open source alternatives are being made available for commercial software, what would be the state of the major software companies.
Checkout the huge list of open source software available on the internet, you might no longer need that expensive software that you use.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Wines
Recently I was at a wine factory. I went there on an organised tour to see the wine making process.
I was surprised at the whole modern way of wine making.
The wine making I have seen involved people stamping over grapes in a large wooden trough. The juice is then collected and stored in wooden barrels. I saw this in some village which produced home made wines.
So when I went to the factory, I was surprised at the huge steel cylinders and pipes connected to them. There were flies all around, attracted by the smell of grapes. The smell was not very inviting, it was infact very repulsive. The smell of rotting fruit to be exact, which is what wine making is all about. I did not really expect the flies.
Then we went to the bottling plant, they have a machine which bottles at the rate of 1500 one litre bottles per hour. That is a lot of wine. Adjacent to the bottling plant is the wine cellar with the huge casks.
The wine cellar was in a quite place, apparently silence produces better wine, not to mention the spices in the wine and the wood the cask is made of.
There were lots of bottles in the racks, each from a different year, the oldest wine dating back to 1999. The bottles are stacked on top of each other. The way the wine bottles are shaped ensures that the neck of the bottles are slightly tilted toward the ground. This ensures that the wine always touches the cork stopper, again for better quality wine.
Then finally for some wine tasting, different types of wine. Some were like vinegar, some where sweet and a few tasted excellent. There was a wine which had a very good fragrance and well was intoxicating.
So I returned home with a couple of bottles of that one.
Now as I am writing this blog, I take a sip to make me write better......
I was surprised at the whole modern way of wine making.
The wine making I have seen involved people stamping over grapes in a large wooden trough. The juice is then collected and stored in wooden barrels. I saw this in some village which produced home made wines.
So when I went to the factory, I was surprised at the huge steel cylinders and pipes connected to them. There were flies all around, attracted by the smell of grapes. The smell was not very inviting, it was infact very repulsive. The smell of rotting fruit to be exact, which is what wine making is all about. I did not really expect the flies.
Then we went to the bottling plant, they have a machine which bottles at the rate of 1500 one litre bottles per hour. That is a lot of wine. Adjacent to the bottling plant is the wine cellar with the huge casks.
The wine cellar was in a quite place, apparently silence produces better wine, not to mention the spices in the wine and the wood the cask is made of.
There were lots of bottles in the racks, each from a different year, the oldest wine dating back to 1999. The bottles are stacked on top of each other. The way the wine bottles are shaped ensures that the neck of the bottles are slightly tilted toward the ground. This ensures that the wine always touches the cork stopper, again for better quality wine.
Then finally for some wine tasting, different types of wine. Some were like vinegar, some where sweet and a few tasted excellent. There was a wine which had a very good fragrance and well was intoxicating.
So I returned home with a couple of bottles of that one.
Now as I am writing this blog, I take a sip to make me write better......
Saturday, November 28, 2009
People watching
Being in a mall is always an interesting time. First of all the place presents us with a lot of sights and sounds.
It is a visual treat for the eyes. The colourful displays everywhere, the lights in the shops are always inviting to the visitor.
Walking in a mall, one is sure to come across the smell of food wafting through the air. It would make anyone hungry instantly, especially with kids, you are definitely going to get a piece of that freshly baked pie.
It is a wonderful time for the children, they have lots of things to do, unlike at home where they are in front of the TV playing games. It is good to see children running around and screaming as they are supposed to do.
They also want their parents to buy everything that they see. Watching the parents parent their children is amusing. The things children do to convince their parents, and the things parents say to their children is definitely interesting. Sometimes, the parents win and then you also hear crying.
There are different kinds of people who visit a mall. Not everyone goes to shop!
The first kind of people are the ones who go to actually buy something. They have something in mind that they want to buy and go get it. Although they rarely return with just what they wanted. This is specially true for women.
Second, these are the people who just go to shop every weekend. They have no idea of what they want to buy, but they want to go shopping. These people are very good for businesses.
The third group of people are the ones who hang out with their friends. They are usually located in coffee shops. If this group consists of teenagers they just keep walking all around and are in no fixed place.
The fourth group is the ones who do not much to do and they decide that going to the mall would be the best thing to do. These people keep walking around, visit the shops, watch other people and just hang around. These people do not buy anything, but they are prospective customers.
Then there is always a bunch of children who tag along with their mother/aunts who go shopping.
Watch for these people the next time you visit a mall. It is interesting observing people anywhere.
It is a visual treat for the eyes. The colourful displays everywhere, the lights in the shops are always inviting to the visitor.
Walking in a mall, one is sure to come across the smell of food wafting through the air. It would make anyone hungry instantly, especially with kids, you are definitely going to get a piece of that freshly baked pie.
It is a wonderful time for the children, they have lots of things to do, unlike at home where they are in front of the TV playing games. It is good to see children running around and screaming as they are supposed to do.
They also want their parents to buy everything that they see. Watching the parents parent their children is amusing. The things children do to convince their parents, and the things parents say to their children is definitely interesting. Sometimes, the parents win and then you also hear crying.
There are different kinds of people who visit a mall. Not everyone goes to shop!
The first kind of people are the ones who go to actually buy something. They have something in mind that they want to buy and go get it. Although they rarely return with just what they wanted. This is specially true for women.
Second, these are the people who just go to shop every weekend. They have no idea of what they want to buy, but they want to go shopping. These people are very good for businesses.
The third group of people are the ones who hang out with their friends. They are usually located in coffee shops. If this group consists of teenagers they just keep walking all around and are in no fixed place.
The fourth group is the ones who do not much to do and they decide that going to the mall would be the best thing to do. These people keep walking around, visit the shops, watch other people and just hang around. These people do not buy anything, but they are prospective customers.
Then there is always a bunch of children who tag along with their mother/aunts who go shopping.
Watch for these people the next time you visit a mall. It is interesting observing people anywhere.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Goodbye torrents
Pirate bay is gone. Mininova has limited itself to legal torrents.
Millions of people all around the world have woken up to check if the torrent that they started download the previous night has been completely downloaded.
Be it movies, music, tv serials, software, games, you name it, there was some torrent site which had it. Unfortunately these were copyrighted, nevertheless people shared.
Axxo, Klaxxon became household names. Gone were the days when people used to wait for an Axxo update. Times were ominous after Axxo disappeared from the scene. What happened to him is still a mystery.
It is time to bid farewell to torrents as we know it. Soon the only content that anyone can download from the torrent sites are data in the public domains. How attractive this would be the masses is a question. That in turn would put a severe strain on the torrents sites without any patron.
It is still dark at the end of the tunnel for torrents. Only time can answer us if there will be a revival.
Till then goodbye torrents.
Millions of people all around the world have woken up to check if the torrent that they started download the previous night has been completely downloaded.
Be it movies, music, tv serials, software, games, you name it, there was some torrent site which had it. Unfortunately these were copyrighted, nevertheless people shared.
Axxo, Klaxxon became household names. Gone were the days when people used to wait for an Axxo update. Times were ominous after Axxo disappeared from the scene. What happened to him is still a mystery.
It is time to bid farewell to torrents as we know it. Soon the only content that anyone can download from the torrent sites are data in the public domains. How attractive this would be the masses is a question. That in turn would put a severe strain on the torrents sites without any patron.
It is still dark at the end of the tunnel for torrents. Only time can answer us if there will be a revival.
Till then goodbye torrents.
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