Nilam In Chennai

Yesterday I went to the beach at 3:30pm. Cyclone Nilam was supposed to hit the coast between 4 and 6 pm.

Quite a lot of trees fallen on the ground. The waves were rough at Besant Nagar. But I hadn't heard of the ship which had gone aground, I read about it later. I didn't see it either.

See the waves and how windy it was.

Italian Funeral

This is about a dog.

Letter From Father To Son

Nice letter from father to son.

Divorce Letter

My friend sent me this story

Be careful what you say to your wife..

Kick A** Memory

A friend of mine used to say that I had a kick ass memory and she was right. i would remember small details someone mentioned for years I used to remember telephone numbers. Never had to write them down.

Of late I am finding that I cant remember things I read a few weeks back. And I have found myself to have written something where the grammar or spelling was wrong.

I still haven't found myself at a strange place and wondered how I happened to be there. Hmm wonder how that will feel.

Sachin Tendulkar Is Rescued From Playing Cricket

That's not cricket. 

Youtube's Architecture

Nice article on Youtube's architecture for scalability.

And this one and this throws some light on Google's.

On Google:

• http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/meet-the-man-whos-rewiring-google-from-the-inside-out/2/
• http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/4/
• http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use-back-of-the-envelope-calculations-to-choo.html
• http://highscalability.com/google-architecture

Who Are You

I read this article today. Very nice.

Convincing The Nun

A friend sent me this joke. I loved it.

Alaska Elephant

I used to have a book called Alaska which traced the origin of Alaska from 10,000 years back. Recently I read this article.

GDP Of India's Biggest Cities

Here is the GDP data.

And here is the list of top 20 cities in the world

Bondesses

Here is the list of James Bond women. 

Halle Berry looks like Chitrashi Rawat (Komal Chautala) of Chak De! India. Sophie seems to be a Romanian from her last name. But looking at her wiki, she doesn't seem to have had a parent or a spouse with that last name.

Famke Janssen resembles Sandra Bullock. And here is a slideshow.

Photos Of Mt Everest And Best Colleges And Roaming

Lovely photos of Mt Everest: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/kiss-the-sky-up-close-with-mount-everest-slideshow/

The best colleges here: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/the-best-colleges-for-the-best-jobs-1348224084-slideshow/: 9 out of the top 10 universities in US and UK.

Nationwide roaming in India from 2013: http://in.news.yahoo.com/no-roaming-charges-from-next-year--sibal.html. 

Oh Calcutta: http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/blogs/traveler/oh-calcutta-065317930.html

Orient Express!! A bus service from Kashmir to UK. Wowowow.

Fastest Growing Indian States

Here is the list of fastest growing states. Includes 3 out of 4 states in South India, (Kerala missed it).

Best Metro Rails

This article is on the best metros.

Being Accepting

This is a lovely article on being accepting.

Lying Increases With Time Pressure

As per an article in Times Of India (the original link doesn't work anymore), we lie more when we are under time pressure. 

What other factors could cause us to lie more?

Face Recognition

FBI launches a billion dollar face recognition project as per this article.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-russia/ (Russia's Findface: Findface.ru)

List Of Innovative Companies

Here is the Forbes list of most innovative companies.

WalMart started an initiative for customers to checkout their own items in order to speed up the checking out and payment process.

Beautiful Pictures From My Friend

A friend of mine shot the following pictures in Igatpuri. Lovely.