People & Things

These days... kids have so many electronic games, sometimes a room filled with various toys.

But I dont think that would make them happy like those days, when kids enter the house, throw the bag in one corner, couldnt wait for mom to give the snacks or change the dress, do everything quicker and ask mom to let go, play until dusk, or until mom finds them two streets away from home, playing merrily with bunch of kids, dresses covered with all dirt& mud, to remind them that its time for homework.

Inspired from this recent note which read:

Love people and use things ..
Not love things and use people.

Toll Roads & E-pass

About a year back, they changed the system of E-pass scans in Florida. The technology is unbeleivable. Vehicles with E-pass are no more required to slow down near toll booths. The scan is such effective that it identifies your device(transponder) and also takes pictures of vehicles which do not pay( or low on battery whatever)....All this happens ........when you drive through the tolls non-stop at 70+mph. Identifying the device, though the target is moving at such a high speed, is something acceptable, imagining a frequency matching technique. But I am still trying to figure out, how they manage to take pictures of the car tag, and how many pixels and bit rate would that be ??

For people who live in places like california...what you call freeway is called Toll road in FL. People in California pay freeways in form of state taxes, inspite of whether one uses them or not. Unlike CA, FL has tolls similar to that in India, where you pay only when you use it.

Money Matters- I : $42.59 Vs $2.48

I recently purchased a printer. When I opened the box, I understand why the price is low, there wasnt any USB cable. Well, another 5 bucks I thought.

Much to my surprise, the cables costed 39.99+tax, which I wasnt happy about, but at the same time, lazy to pack and return the printer, I bought the cable for 42.58. Later I want to compare my price and while googled found a cable online for $1.79+0.69 shipping = $2.48, which is less than the sales tax I paid on the other cable. The cable arrived, worked fine and I returned my 39.99+2.60 cable back.

No major stores like circuit city, Best Buy, Radio Shack etc, had USB cable for less than $40, when someone could sell the same online for $1.79 !!?!

amma nominated for Nobel Prize !!!!!!!!!!??!!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1449688.cms

Should I say any?

Govt. of India- Grievance Form

Check this out !!

Government of India has an online Grievance forum
http://darpg-grievance.nic.in/

Now, you can complaint about all the bad experiences you face at govt. offices, from Ration to Railways, and you can also follow up the status of the action on the grievance you filed.

E-governance ...I am loving it !!

New Use for Old Transistors

Looks like this blog is going to be a sunday post, until I settle with my new job. With little time to spare this week, I came up with these pictures. Hope to be back on track within few weeks.

The Vaiko twist !!

Everyone is raising flags against what Vaiko did. An unexpected twist, though he met karunanidhi only a week before meeting with JJ. Click here to see Jeevan's post & vatsan's post

Apart from all the arasiyal and people like us taking it easy as ," arasiyalla ithellam saatharanamappa!!"

Heres something I thought:

1. Vaiko cannot stand alone & cannot be a chief minister
2. His deciding on whether to join DMK or ADMK wouldnt bring him back the 19months he spent in Jail.
3. All things happened in the past are history and irreversable.
4. Growing vengeance and living for that is not humane, but forgiving and spreading love is ..
5. So, Vaiko wants to be humane, and decides to forgive JJ and spread his love to ADMK (lol..)

yaarappa..!! athukulla en address thedi adika kelambiteengala?? chumma oru thamasu thaan!!

...to put in short, why DMK & feel unwanted just to remember that sad pota days?
Instead be with the winning team & live some life !!

& Isnt 36 greater than 22 ??