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I received this thinking advertisement by mail from one of my school friend.

Nowadays, everywhere on net you will find discussion on Google page rank.The swinging nature of Google page rank has invited strong criticism of Google regarding their ads policies. But have you ever wondered which site has got page rank of 10. I googled this thing but didn't found any related clue.You can find numerous sites having Page rank 8 like Google.com, Msn.com, Atavista.com etc and few Page rank 9 sites like Yahoo.com. But Google page rank 10 is something that I am still searching. If you have any idea about this then do tell me.

Just look at this. It is world's only 7 star hotel in Dubai. I am sure you will also get mesmerized like me after viewing this video and some screenshots.

This month I have seen lot of improvement in my blog rankings. Starting with Google page rank which increases to 4 and now I have notice that for the first time Alexa rankings has come under 1 million (9,97,334 to be more precise) which was around 10 million last month.
And icing on the cake is that my Subscribers via mail has increased by 60 % as compared to last month.
I would like to thank all my blog visitors for sending feedbacks, comments & mail to improve my blog further !!!

To all my blog visitors,

My happy wishes to all of you on special occasion of Diwali . If you are not an Indian then please read this article : The story of Diwali to know the importance of this festival in Indian society. I always wait for this festival because of large number of sweets that my relatives bring and to certain extent the excitement of burning crackers with my friends..

I think this is one of the finest way adopted by WalMart to create a sense of guilty in mind of those who stole things from there outlet and to create awareness to prevent such incidents further.

I am a great surfer of Youtube videos. While browsing through many videos I found this awesome video of laser show in London. This remind me of Laser show that took place last year in my college's technical fest.

This is the new Google main page image. As usual this time also Google has produce original and attractive pic.

Yesterday I was searching on Rediff.com and I found this hilarious interview with Sagarika Ghatge (Preeti Sabarwal), one of the actress in Chak De India.
You can access full interview at http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/31preety.htm

nothing by sanjay on Aug 31, 2007 08:20 PM hi this is sanjay patel i would like to congragulate u for your acting in chak de. being a sporty person i liked your body language as a sports person; al the best for your future ,if time permits will meet bye take care,god bless you.
	RE:nothing by AR on Aug 31, 2007 11:58 PM What do u meen by body language plz be specific!! "if time permits will meet"who the heck do u think u r?? RE:nothing by lax on Sep 01, 2007 12:11 AM did u meet her on Aug28... rakshabandhan.. bhaiya mere.. rakhi ke bandhan ko nibhana.. RE:nothing by Raja Bhaiyya on Sep 01, 2007 01:21 PM @sangay kya be khajoor RE:nothing by andru blacet on Sep 02, 2007 04:04 AM isko maaf kar do bhai logon. patel hai na. thoda akkal se kamzor hai.

Preeti Best one
by nilesh machindra ugale on Sep 03, 2007 05:13 PM | Hide replies

Preeti Sabarwal is looking dam beauty

	Its official by Baburao on Sep 03, 2007 11:57 AM | Don't waste your time correcting the spelling,its official to spell proper nouns and Indian words as the South Indians would do. Few examples. Geetha for Geeta Muhurtham For Muhurt Elephant God For Ganesh or Ganapati(Ganapathi?)
	RE:Its official by Ameya Bhakay on Sep 03, 2007 12:37 PM You dumb ass... Sagarika is a Maharashtrian, not a South Indian. And the difference I am talking about is like, changing your name to Bagurao or Babugao... samjha? RE:Its official by Baburao on Sep 03, 2007 01:16 PM Aare Ghatya,Me Lihilele Jar Tula samajle aste tar prashnach navta.Me navachya spelling baddal bolalo tichya jaati baddal nahi. Samazle? RE:RE:Its official by Bobby on Sep 03, 2007 01:20 PM a gya ap ni au kat per RE:Its official by Ameya Bhakay on Sep 03, 2007 05:32 PM :-) Alas laiki var kutrya? Yedya, mi suddha jaati baddal bolat nahi yed zavya. Tuzha explaination svataah vaach adhi, ani mag bhoonk... kalla kutrya?

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart put its smoke ventilation machine to the test, on purpose made an over 9-story-high tornado. They created 144 air jets in a spiral edifice with 28 tons of air mass enough to create a tornado. This artificial tornado in Germany's Mercedes-Benz Museum was recognized last Monday by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest man-made twister.

These are the pics I got from mail by one of my friend. It shows one of the most luxurious bus in this world. You can see the all details of interior of bus. Definitely, if anyone has this kind of bus,then who will want to stay in home.

On October 4, 1957, the world's first man-made satellite zipped across the sky. Russia's 183-pound probe circled the Earth every 98 minutes, invisible to the naked eye, broadcasting it's rhythmic beeping to anyone with the equipment to listen.
Sputnik's launch 50 years ago marked the dawn of the space age, and the starting gun of a race to the stars between the United States and Russia.

"Blogging is all about how much passion you have
for it. If you don't have passion for it, you
probably can't blog for
a very long time."

I was just randomly googling when I came across this very interesting inventions by Inventables Concept Studio.

1. This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you're never surprised by toast that comes out too dark. This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology. Although the glass does not currently get hot enough to toast bread, the vendor explained with some R&D this application may be possible.
2.
Pocket Pal Mp3 Player:-This is a concept for a control interface using a magnetic knob on a MP3 player. The knob can be removed and placed outside your pocket to control the volume and skip to the next song. It can be implemented using hemispherical oriented magnets and existing magnetic field sensors.
3.
Rubber Umbrella:-The umbrella uses an elegant mechanism to create a canopy that would be more durable and easier to manufacture than a conventional umbrella. This is made possible using super-elastic plastic and nitinol wire.

4.
Whistle Stop Watch
This stop-watch starts and stops by blowing into the whistle. As amateur sports continue to increase in competitiveness, this concept helps to ensure more accurate timing.
and many more....

Here is an interesting video of ad campaign by Bunker Footwears.

I got this interesting information by mail from one of my friend.

Mercedes:

This was actually financier's daughter's name.


Adobe:

This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers:

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobbs.He was three months late for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 0'clock.

CISCO:

It is not an acronym as popuraily believed.Its short for San Francisco.

Compaq:

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel:

The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland Research Laboratory.

Google:

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Hotmail:

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard :

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel:

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) :

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of ranscendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft:

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola:

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE:

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.



Do you know why they named this project 'Oracle'?

ORACLE :One Real A**hole Called Larry Ellison


Sony:

It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN:

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Apache:

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy'server -- thus, the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache): A project constituted by SUN and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN and Apache took place.

Tomcat:

The servlet part of the Jakarta project. Tomcat was the code name for the JSDK 2.1 project inside SUN.

C:

Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).

C++:

Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

GNU:

A species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humor associated with its pronunciation and was also influenced by the children's song 'The Gnu Song' which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with 'GNU's Not Unix'.

Java:

Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

LG:

Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

Linux:

Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x).His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named himafter two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) .

Mozilla:

When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.

Red Hat:

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP:

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

SCO (UNIX):

From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.

UNIX:

When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS.It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System

by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

Xerox:

The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).The Greek root `xer' means dry.

Yahoo!:

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.