Mario’s World

For all you math lovers.

How long before we start seeing this in Kuwait? With all the construction going on here it can’t be that hard to find a spare bulldozer.

 
Professor Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard, punched in a few numbers, posited a couple of suppositions and declared that two Google searches generate as much CO2 as boiling a kettle.

You would, I hope, not expect me to spout the numbers at you, but apparently the fact that Google transmits every search inquiry to more than one server doesn’t help. And, worse, even though Google believes it is the most efficient of search organizations, our desperate and faintly pathetic need for speed means that by searching we are burning up the planet like Nicolas Cage in Gone In Sixty Seconds.

While he believes that looking at simple web page like this one throws up 0.2g of CO2 per second, the folks over at carbonfootprint.com (a site I try to avoid only because I care for my world) puts the deleterious generation at between 1g and 10g per second. Apparently, much depends on whether you have to turn your PC on first.

So we cannot merely depend on our ability to stomach hybrid cars that make golf carts look sexy. We have to limit our searches to only the things we really need to find. Not the latest speeches from Al Gore. Not the latest supposed topless shots of Elisha Cuthbert. Nor those meaningful updates on the latest couplings amongst the cast of Twilight.

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Guess this guy assumed he was in “neutral” instead of “park”. It happened a few times to me too. But no accidents luckily.

Seems the NSA has declared this PDA phone the most secure in the world… and it runs windows??? Which geni-ass reviewed this phone!!! Read on…

“General Dynamics’ Sectera Edge is a combination phone-PDA that’s been certified by the National Security Agency as being acceptable for Top Secret voice communications and Secret e-mail and Web sites. Through three separate interchangeable modules, it works with Wi-Fi, GSM, or CDMA networks, and is dust-proof, waterproof, and rugged enough to survive repeated 4-foot drops onto concrete. Physically, it’s a chunkier second cousin to the Palm Treo 750, though with an additional LCD display below the keyboard.

The price is $3,350 with a two-year warranty, a princely sum that’s reflected in the Pentagon-worthy price tags for accessories: a simple adapter for a lighter plug costs $100.

The Sectera runs a mobile version of Microsoft Windows, including versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Windows Media Player. The NSA claims that the installed versions of Internet Explorer, WordPad, and Windows Messenger are good enough for data that’s classified at a level of Secret.”

Looks like Microsoft releases special versions of windows that work well for the lucky few and buggy ones for the rest of the world!

An Ohio man used a friend’s cell phone to get back his car, cell phone, and cash, all of which were stolen in a car jacking, according to a local TV report. Alan Heuss was sitting in his running BMW in Columbus on Wednesday when an armed man opened a passenger door, stuck a gun in his face, and made off with his stuff.

After filing a police report, Heuss was meeting with some friends to drown his sorrows when one suggested that they try to contact the thieves by texting Heuss’ stolen cell phone.

“He said, ‘I’m going to text these guys, I’m going to blow some smoke their way,’” Heuss told the station. “He said, ‘I’m going to tell them I’ve got a bunch of hot chicks, as if I’m texting you, and that we’ve got some drugs, too.’”

The carjacking suspects fell for the ruse and went to an address sent to them by Heuss’ friend just seven hours after the carjacking. But instead of the “hot chick with drugs” they were expecting, they were met with by cops with cuffs.

And to make things easier for the officers, the suspects showed up in the stolen car.

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Relaxing …365 days a year!

These Chennai traffic cops got style! Check out the pose! Looks like he dancing. 

The thing about the traffic in Chennai is that everybody drives crazy and I mean real crazy, especially my sister-in-law. There are cars, bikes, rickshaws, trucks and even people all over the road and the most amazing thing is that in the one week I was there, not a single accident. No body really follows the traffic lights or lanes or stops for cops unless they pose in the middle of the road like above.

I was pretty impressed when we visited Citi Centre in Chennai. Quite posh. I never expected to see anything like this in Chennai. There is a “Landmark” which is like the Virgin stores at Marina and another store similar to Center Point in Kuwait. In fact I think its the same since it looked very much alike and had all the same brands, but cheaper. The food court on the top floor is nice but very cramped. Hope to see more of these malls soon.

Decided to try a mini-thali for breakfast while in Madras. Yummy! The amazing part is this mini coffee that you get. Its really small.