(Have you seen recent advertisement of M/S SAINT GOBAIN GLASSES shown in TELEVISION'S? - Then you must have known about 2 Way mirror & is also shown in Hindi Movie HUMRAAZ) How to determine if a mirror is 2 way or not (Not a Joke!)
Not to scare you, but to make sure that you aware.
Many of the hotels and textile showrooms cheat the customers this way & watch privately.
HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms,changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, r actually a 2-way mirror i.e., they can see you, but you can't see them). There have been many cases of people installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms or bathroom or bedrooms. It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just
looking at it. So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty what type of mirror we are looking at?
CONDUCT THIS SIMPLE TEST:
Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, IT IS A 2-WAY MIRROR! (there is someone seeing you from the
other side). So remember, every time you see a mirror,do the "fingernail test." It doesn't cost you anything. It is simple to do. This is a really good thing to do. The reason there is a gap on a real mirror, is because the silver is on the back of the
mirror UNDER the glass. Whereas with a two-way mirror,the silver is on the Surface. Keep it in mind! Make sure and check every time you enter in hotel rooms.May be someone is making a film on you.
These photos were taken from a helicopter flying into one of the camps before they closed. It's a look into the dry vallies, as well as some emperor penguins at the ice edge hanging out with a leopard seal.
I'm going to take this time to answer a few questions from blog comments from during the week. I'm not going to go in any particular order but i'll do my best to answer most of them.
The auroras we see down here in this part of the world are Australis. They are not something we see every night. Usually we see them on clear nights when the wind is calm and you can look out and see nothing but stars and what looks like a lime green mist floating across the sky.
I've never read the book "Northern Lights".
Jobs down here in antarctica are available to just about everyone, Yes the town is set up like a military base as far as the housing quarters, which means you live with a roommate unless you have a partner. As far as coming down on a tour and visiting, i'm not sure what that entails or what the cost is, but as far as i'm concerned, I would much rather go somewhere and work and get to know the area and people than to pay to visit and then just leave. To me, getting to know people where you travel is the biggest part of the adventure.
One of the rising problem now a days is that, as both parents of a house go to work, it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to take care of their children. If the child happens to be a toddler, then the parents call for some maid to take care of the child. This is again a problem because, if the house maid isn't a trusted source, then there is every chance that she may kidnap the baby for ransom. This is again an important problem that is arising in India mainly. The rate of kidnapping babies has increased alarmingly in the past few years. So, it becomes very important that you take care of the baby and it is under a secure environment. Another problem with babies is that, they tend to innovate right from their childhood. They tend to always move here and there and since they don't know the seriousness of anything, they even tend to go down the streets. This is because of the lapse of concentration and lack of care on part of the parents. This can be curbed by using a Child GPS which can be used to track the child wherever it goes. This is similar to the one used in mobile technology. These Child gps are available at $400 to $1000 and they are worth the money spent on it as it is very important to safeguard the child. You can get these devices at http://www.brickhouse-childsafety.com/child-gps-tracking-device.html which is the best place for Child GPS and also available at special offer. So, keep in track of your child with this child GPS.
Today is Earth Day, and, accordingly, I've seen a few sites link to 1Up.com's "Gaming Green" article. Being a naive liberal, the environment is fairly high on my list of concerns, but I can appreciate that some well-meaning people sincerely believe that things like global warming are a plot dreamed up by Al Gore in order to enslave God-fearing Americans and create a wacked-out leftist dystopia. So let's sidestep the political considerations for a minute, and see if applying some of these lessons can help you in your daily life without forcing you to help turn America into a worker's paradise.
Even though each one draws little power by itself, multiplying all of them by 24 hours a day adds up. Then consider the living room, where the TV, DirecTV receiver, and DVD player are all doing the same thing. Add the cell phone, iPod, and laptop chargers that all pull down their own voltage, and suddenly you see how much power we're using for no real reason.When we're not watching anything in the living room, we turn that power strip off. All it took was the negligible initial investment in the power strips, and the presence of mind to switch them off when we leave the room. It's not hard.The result has been a reduction of as much as $30 to our monthly electric bill. That's $360 a year! In gaming terms, the energy savings could buy me six games. Or an Xbox 360 Pro. Or more than seven years of Xbox Live.
I only wish I'd started doing this sooner, and not just for the financial and environmental benefits. If you remember, the Wii had problems overheating when left in Connect24 mode for too long. Because I had it running in standby mode for several months at a stretch, I now get graphical artifacting. Had I been cutting the power completely during that time, it would still be working perfectly.
So if you don't want to do it for the environment, or if you're tempted to spite Al Gore and his nanny-state cohort, then do it for me.
Wait, that's not right. Do it for your wallet.
The aftermath of the 8th sem exams and the holiday is a long long period of boredom,loneliness and an endless wait to make the transition to the next "phase" in life.It is one holiday I wish we never had,because there is no looking forward to anything,except the future which is hazy and I'm sure it does not hold as much fun as what the immediate past held...No more getting up late and rushing thru the morning routine,sometimes skipping breakfast and whizzing through the roads to make it to college at least by the end of the first hour.No more rule-breaking,kalaaichi-fying teachers,bunking,college day,symposium,class tests,bits,eating during class,canteen sappadu,parking lot conversations,coffee shop, last minute assignments,OB lab sessions,queuing up outside the principal's office,class trips,fights....too many to list! And,friends.
Every time someone wore a new dress(pudhu chokka :) ),there used be ooooohs and aaaahs all around class, and then, someone flashing a new mobile or a new cute baby ring tone...Dunno what reactions you would get at your future workplace(or grad school)if you did that;probably weird stares and a big disapproving glare from your boss.Anyhow,you can't keep the "i-dont-care-what-you-think" attitude anymore.
It's kinda weird to think that there are gonna be times when you can call your friend only when he is free,and meeting up becomes a once a while thing,a big event by itself.
Yeah,I know what people would say.Things gotta move on.Life is like that.Wake up to reality .It is this way for everybody...OK OK!! Fine. Accepted.Gimme some time..Let me just brood..Let me just dream about the past..Let me soak in those pure,unadulterated memories of college before I get dirtied by the murky life ahead,the responsibilities and the vagaries..
All these years through college, and post-Orkut/Gtalk/Yahoo messenger, there has almost been no day since I stayed offline for more than 12 hours(sometimes I even dreamt I was online :-D ) Semester exams, practical exams,important 'functions' at home, severe illness...nope, nothing deterred me from coming online, at least for 30 minutes;the sem exams never ever did! But now,the compulsive intenet addiction is slowly waning, especially in the past 2 months when I have been preparing for an important quest in life, and have been juggling multiple responsibilities.(!!)[For my college friends, this might sound totally zany, especially coming from me... please consider all that a slight exaggeration.] This period of utter concentration and focus reminds me of Shakespeare's famous soliloquy "All the world's a stage and all men and women merely players..." This goes on to say that every man(or woman) has seven roles(or stages) in life: starting from the infant to the rickety old man. It was weird to apply this to oneself, and try to figure out in which stage one is now in.I guess,for me,the closest one is the soldier, bearded like the pard, who seeks the bubble reputation. Seems weird(and funny).. but the good news is, this period of utter concentration would wane soon again for me,without any doubt. And I should be back to my irresponsible self soon. And what I was trying to imply in the title of this post was that me being the "soldier" is a humungous aberration, if you didn't guess it.
Today is Earth Day, and, accordingly, I've seen a few sites link to 1Up.com's "Gaming Green" article. Being a naive liberal, the environment is fairly high on my list of concerns, but I can appreciate that some well-meaning people sincerely believe that things like global warming are a plot dreamed up by Al Gore in order to enslave God-fearing Americans and create a wacked-out leftist dystopia. So let's sidestep the political considerations for a minute, and see if applying some of these lessons can help you in your daily life without forcing you to help turn America into a worker's paradise.
Even though each one draws little power by itself, multiplying all of them by 24 hours a day adds up. Then consider the living room, where the TV, DirecTV receiver, and DVD player are all doing the same thing. Add the cell phone, iPod, and laptop chargers that all pull down their own voltage, and suddenly you see how much power we're using for no real reason.When we're not watching anything in the living room, we turn that power strip off. All it took was the negligible initial investment in the power strips, and the presence of mind to switch them off when we leave the room. It's not hard.The result has been a reduction of as much as $30 to our monthly electric bill. That's $360 a year! In gaming terms, the energy savings could buy me six games. Or an Xbox 360 Pro. Or more than seven years of Xbox Live.
I only wish I'd started doing this sooner, and not just for the financial and environmental benefits. If you remember, the Wii had problems overheating when left in Connect24 mode for too long. Because I had it running in standby mode for several months at a stretch, I now get graphical artifacting. Had I been cutting the power completely during that time, it would still be working perfectly.
So if you don't want to do it for the environment, or if you're tempted to spite Al Gore and his nanny-state cohort, then do it for me.
Wait, that's not right. Do it for your wallet.
I happened to reinstall my OS once again. As usual as an ordinary-comp-user-of-India , I installed Windows - XP with SP2 ( Service Pack 2). SP2 is suppose to be the supplementary package accompanying Win XP so as to stabilize the internal functions of the OS including the registry and the Database operations.
I quickly established my net connection and I was left with IE to browse. I would rather eat my hat than browsing in IE. As a Mozilla fan, I just couldn't see the use of IE and at one point of time , i just wanted to uninstall the bleeding IE.
I was going thru my feeds and i got a glimpse of Apple's Safari 3.1 browser. Out of curiosity , i just downloaded Safari and it just didnt start ... Though the interface and the features were cool , it wasn't cool enough. Thought this would be the only competitor for Mozilla Firefox in the Web-Broswer section but looks like Safari is having hard time hunting down its bugs... Not a happy Safari for Apple i guess ...
As pretty as a rose
as sweet as honey
reminds me of a
clown so funny
cheers me up
when i am sad
calms me down
when i am mad
i'll never have a
better best friend
we'll be together
until the end
and when i am
cold and lonely
who cheers me up
the one and only
You
My best
Our noses can quickly learn to link even subtle changes in smell with danger, claim scientists.
Volunteers who could not differentiate between two similar smells found they could do it easily after being given a mild electric shock alongside one.Brain scans confirmed the change in the "smelling" part of the brain.The US research, published in the journal Science, suggests our distant ancestors evolved the ability to keep us away from predators.
Earth Hour is an annual international event held on the last Saturday of March that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening. The event is promoted by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald.
The first Earth Hour was held on 31 March 2007 in Sydney, Australia between 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm. The 2007 Earth Hour is estimated to have cut Sydney's mains electricity consumption by between 2.1% and 10.2% for that hour, with as many as 2.2 million people taking part. Earth Hour 2008 was held internatioanlly on 29 March 2008 at 8 pm local time until 9 pm, marking the first anniversary of the event with many partner cities and individuals around the world participating. Earth Hour may also help reduce light pollution, and in 2008, coincides with the beginning of National Dark Sky Week in the USA. The 2009 Earth Hour will be held on March 28, 2009.
Earth Hour 2008
Strong backing from the City of Sydney and its Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, helped to make Earth Hour 2008 an international event.The official Earth Hour website has confirmed that over 286,000 people and over 20,000 businesses have signed up for the event as of 1pm GMT.
As of 30 March, over 11,900 businesses and nearly 300,000 individuals had registered to indicate their intention to participate.
Participants
Google
A web screenshot of Google's 'darkened' homepage on March 29, 2008.
Earth Hour has also received the backing of the Google corporation. From 12:00 AM on March 29, 2008 until the end of that day, the Google homepage in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the UK was turned to a black background. Their tagline is, "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn - Earth Hour." Also on their website, Google explained that everyone should turn their lights out from 8:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. in your specific local times. According to their website:
Google users in Canada [or Ireland, UK, US] will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display. However, you can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, Vladivostok, Cairo, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
Given our company's commitment to environmental awareness and energy efficiency, we strongly support the Earth Hour campaign, and have darkened our homepage today to help spread awareness of what we hope will be a highly successful global event.
If you follow the digital media space at all (and, because you signed up to receive the DivX News, I have to assume that you're at least somewhat interested in digital video), you know by now that the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD has finally ended and that Blu-ray has won. Now that the war is over, chances are a lot of you will be looking to upgrade your home theaters to get in on all that HD goodness. But before you run out and drop a wallet-full of cash on a new Blu-ray player, remember that not all Blu-ray players are created equal. While they'll all play the new HD Blu-ray discs, some of them are DivX Certified as well, meaning they'll also play your collection of DivX videos.
But let's back up a bit. What exactly is Blu-ray, how is it different than HD DVD and what does the end of the format war really mean? Blu-ray was developed by a team of technology companies and movie studios led by Sony, while HD DVD was the brainchild of a different set of companies and studios, led by Toshiba. Both HD DVD and Blu-ray players use a blue-laser to read information off a disc which looks identical to a standard CD or DVD. However, because the blue lasers used by the devices are more precise than the red lasers used in standard definition DVD players, the information on the disc can be written smaller so it takes up less space, allowing for more data to be stored on the disc. With a few exceptions, the user experience each of these formats offer is the same: higher resolution video and audio. For reasons that have a great deal more to do with business alliances than any real technological differences, Blu-ray won.
What then, does the end of the format war and the death of HD DVD really mean? In a nutshell, it means anyone who already purchased an HD DVD player just inherited a very bulky paperweight because after current catalogs run dry, no one will be releasing films on HD DVD compatible discs. But to understand the format war itself, the best way to get some perspective on this may actually be to look into the past. For those of us old enough to remember the 80s, there's a striking similarity here to an earlier format war waged between two videotape technologies, Beta and VHS. During the late 70s and early 80s, these two formats competed to become the standard format for home videotape decks. There was even a time when most video stores (if you're too young to remember video stores, think Netflix without the web) had two sections of tapes, one for Beta and one for VHS. So how'd it all end? Spoiler alert: VHS won the format war and all those Beta players (which actually offered superior video quality) were instantly rendered nearly useless. What's the lesson here? As a consumer, there's not much sense in fighting the tide of technology standards adoption. Pick the wrong one, and you're out of luck. But now that the format war is over, you can rest safe in the knowledge that a Blu-ray player you buy today will have plenty of content available from all the major studios ... until the next thing comes along, but that shouldn't be for another decade or so.
So what should you do if you already bought an HD DVD player? Put it in the closet next to your Beta player, and chalk it up to a learning experience. Sorry, those are just the early adopter breaks