Sound of a Generation

Before I start with this post, let me just quickly bind the foreword by saying that these words are not a rant. It’s about the youth — they’ll lead my words! In year 1962 a certain recording company by the name Decca rejected the “sound” of a young band,…

Lunch at the world's best restaurant

The Fat Duck [http://www.fatduck.co.uk/] restaurant near London was voted the ‘ the best restaurant in the world [http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/may/29spec.htm] ‘ last year by an international panel of 600 chefs, food critics and restaurateurs, knocking from its perch the reigning grand dame…

Tiny USB Drive

[http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.solidalliance.com%2fpress%2fpress7.html#1101] After the smallest mp3 player [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/05/26/smallest-mp3-player-in-the-world/] in the world comes the tiny USB drive. iDisk Diamond [http://babelfish.altavista.com/…

Plastic Spastic

Women and beauty! Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? “Surface Beauty” is something no living woman can ever be: the one who never sweats, who never wrinkles, is always ready to be displayed and never gets tired of being judged. That pertains to mannequins in a fashion window…

Smallest mp3 player in the world

mobiBLU DAH-1500i [http://www.mobibluamerica.com/dah1500.html] is the worlds smallest full featured digital audio player. Slightly less than 1″ square, OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display, FM Radio, FM Recording, and Voice Recording, supports MP3, WMA and protected WMA (DRM) and much more at $100 (US) for the…

Ghost of what they were

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. The late Kaifi Azmi [http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/kaifiazmi.html] sahab, a renowned urdu poet, left behind a compelling thought in his poem ‘Intishar’ (divulging) [ mp3 excerpts [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/mbrs/master/salrp/…

100 Dollar Laptop

The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/] introduced by MIT as part of the One Laptop per Child [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/] (OLPC) non-profit association.…