Valentines Day Gift Ideas!

History :-

It is believed that Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. Under the
rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns.

Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military
leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their
loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in
Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and
Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind
deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who
condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered
martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270.

Valentine's Day Celebrations Today :-


Given the week financial status all around, one would expect
V-Day to be a regular affair, of a night out. But hold on!
Check out these facts :
=> Sales of Valentine's day gifts expected at $15 billion in US alone!
=> About $100 spent by average US consumer of Valentines Day gifts, cards
chocolate baskets, love toys and what have you
=> 90% married Americans to spend about $70 on their better halves!
=> Rest of the $30 goes to kids valentine gifts, friends, etc
=> About 200 million Valentines Day Cards to be sent on the given day!!

Ok, so heres the logic. Everyone wants or is already in love. Moreover
V-Day by nature is an auspicious day 2 put forward that proposal,
to your dream girl. Hence, no one wants to get off with a cheap
shot gift for getting the love of your life. I mean come on
there are standards.
Hence that single day, generates enough mileage, pumping in
romantic hearts, to loosen purses and let the better couples,
have a days enjoyment.

Valentines day gifts can be in a major range of gender, age etc:

Valentine's day gifts for Men :- Well surprise, surprise!!
Gifts for men.. and all you thought was a wee bit of skin,
and lacy lingerie would do the trick..
Well think again cuz even men like some materialistic gifts
once in a while.

Gift ranges can range from, exquisite perfumes,
Cameras, wristwatches and of course the range
of phones and computers.
There are those who also take a liking for chocolates
and such!

And yes of course the lacy happy ending!!

Valentines's day gifts for Women :-

If it were not for the fairer gender, what aim would a man have.
Like Billy Joel's song 'Always a women to me', we cant
live without / and with them.
For the earthly anything more than $30 is worth it.
For those whose feelings go deeper than the skin, you have
so many gifts, samll to big, to choose from.
A single rose or a bouque have a similar effect, a
teddy bear or a box of chocolates.
Find out some more Gift Ideas Here!

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New Years Best Wishes!

Well a lot has happened over the last year!
Perspectives have changed, economy has bombed, lifestyles ditched.
Govt. changed, peoples perceptions have gone for a toss, but one
thing that remains is the standing of the human spirit.
Even though faced with a tough coming year... life goes on.
Here's to a better future.
Cheers everyone!

Internet Explorer (IE) Exploit Patched ??!!!

Well, for those with a consistent headache concerning your IE problems,
the recently discovered problem with IE4+ data binding seems 2 have been
patched up!
Read here!
The fix is available here for the time being...As far as reports go,
problem was the bug was noticed by hackers, long before MS realized what,
was going on. But anyways latency time for being hcked, once u connect
an unprotected computer on the net, is a minute or so...IE is the least of
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First, for the newbies what is business network??
To quote Wiki :-
"Business networking is a marketing method by which business opportunities are created through networks of like-minded business people.
Many business people contend business networking is a more cost-effective method of generating new business than advertising or public relations efforts. "

It goes on to show, how in the new age internet scenario, social networking is gaining
prominence for this form of business network growth.
Notice 2 points of importance here:-
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b. Cost effective - advertising.
The summary of these to points itself should make you click the following link,
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Fact is for anyone looking out for some business, beyond the boundaries of his/her
visible area, you have to take recourse to some form of internet media. Lately,
social n/w ing sites like twitter etc has gained immense prominence in this field.
While most sites are dedicated to general socialization based on common interest.
Exclusive sites for business processing is also existent.
For example meetup.com or zaabiz.com.
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Short Review : The Day The Earth Stood Still!

Given the amount of hype created around this movie, ud expect to be blown away.
And thats the basic problem with over promise and under delivery.
What this movie does it start of strong flounder all over the middle,
and end when the interest just starts building, leavin the IMAX experience,
wanting. The story revolves around Klaatu, an alien with human form, who drops
in on earth for earning against impending distruction. His companion, a mammoth
robot with equally alien powers, who provides the only eye candy in the movie. Wish
he played the lead role. Enter Jennifer Connelly as Helen Benson, the only support
for Klaatu on the doomed planet.
As much as the movie contains a lot of messages, on humane good will, the screw - up
with nature and other green topics, given the nature of the movie, it really gets
dragging. While the plot moves quite fast, the short duration of the movie, makes you
wonder if it was closed off abrutptly.. Finally you exit the hall wishing, a second part would,
show up to satisfy the expectations.

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The fireworks display and show with the ensemble of stars could have made it,
something out of a fairy tale. Well actually its just another addition to Dubai's, burgeoning skyscrapers and fantasy hotel resorts. The firework display was a 23km show lighting up the entire palm shaped islands. A specialty that sets it apart is the almost 10 million liter aquarium that has raised objections from quarters,
due to its inhabitants of exotic marine life.
Check out the opening video here!

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Quantum of Solace : Short Review.

To say the least what Casino Royale tried to do with the Bond franchise.. Quantum
of Solace, carried forth with aplomb. That is basically bond is now no more a
womanizer, with gadgets in every inner pocket.
Qantum of Solace, adds more action, fireworks, raw muscle and essential bond quick
wit to make one roller coaster ride. Daniel Craigs search for Vesper's(His Casino
Royale counterpart)killers, continues, as he single handedly uncovers plots covering nations.
The journey moves through some really exotic locales and high level action sequences. Bond seems to have exchanged his gizmos for whatever is available(aka Bourne style knife fights), the showpiece ladies with kick a** gals, and there’s a nice bit of parkour thrown in keeping with the last edition of free running.
Judie Dench as M, does her bit with class and seriousness, her talent though couldn’t fully be exploited given the limited scope of her character.
What you do get at the end of the movie is a lot of high octane action, a 1:45 hour almost, edge of the seat experience, and a lasting impression of Craigs, steel blue eyes. Definitely worth a watch.

Story synopsis at : hollywood.com

Barack Obama's Victory Speech : Yes We Can!

Though I aint very aware of the political scenario of USA,(I aint American),

I really felt a surge of adrenalin, waiting to see the outcome of the US elections.

Of course elections come an go, but for the one man elected, the expectations

are palpable, making you wonder, are you witnessing another legend in the making.

Well I might have to bite my words latter, but listening in to the Victory

speech on November 4th, it was really a speech to remember.

Digging in a bit more, the life line of Mr. Obama himself, clearly shows a hint

of selfless dedication to the common man.  Well only time can tell, if his

memory remains years from now, but for the time being, id rather listen in

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Listen in on his victory speech at Chicago 

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Cool Utiliy : Show Hide with JQuery!

Previously while working with javascript and div, it did get me very confused,
with code required to hide/show a paragraph. Well it seems jquery has the
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Here it is :-
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Diwali, Deepavali Greetings!

Diwali or Deepavali is one of the biggest festivals in India, and celebrated by
some of the major religions in the country, mainly Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism.
While each of the religions have their own reasons for celebration, what unites them
together is that Diwali, The Festival of Lights, signifies the victory of good over
evil. The day of Diwali celebration is on lunar Kartika month, about in October,
or November.



The word Deepavali in itself means a row of lamps. While in North India it is
called Diwali, in Southern India the original word Deepavali still remains.
Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Deepavali is the celebration
of this Inner Light, in particular the knowing of which outshines all darkness
(removes all obstacles and dispels all ignorance), awakening the individual,
to one's true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality. With the realization of the Atman comes universal compassion, love, and the awareness of the oneness of all things (higher knowledge). This brings Ananda (Inner Joy or Peace).

Diwali celebrates this through festive fireworks, lights, flowers, sharing of sweets, and worship. While the story behind Deepavali varies from region to region, the essence is the same - to rejoice in the Inner Light (Atman) or the underlying reality of all things (Brahman).


The six days of Diwali :-
§ Vasu Baras
§ Dhanatrayodasi or Dhan teras
§ Naraka Chaturdashi
§ Lakshmi Puja
§ Govardhan Puja
§ Bhaiduj

o According to Ramayana, diwali :-
Ø Celebrates return of Lord Ram, from 14-years of exile. This after destroying Ravana the demon king. Legend has that the people of Ayodhya lit up the city with earthen diyas and fireworks to celebrate the return of the king.
Ø Rural areas celebrate this as the Harvest festival. As Diwali occurs at the end of the cropping season, it a cause for more joy and celebration. The prosperity felt at the end of Harvesting season, is celebrated with pomp and show, and offered praises to God for granting another year of good crops.
Ø In the Adi Parva of Mahabhart, the Pandavas returned from the forest during Diwali. This added to the overall mood of Diwali as well over time.
Ø Diwali is the same day when Lord Krishna destroyed Narakasur. The news of this great victory traveled far and fast, and another reason was thus added for a bigger celebration.
Ø According to the Skanda Purana, the goddess Shakti observed 21 days of austerity starting from ashtami of shukla paksha (eighth day of the waxing period of moon) to get half of the body of Lord Shiva. This vrata (austerity) is known as kedhara vrata. Deepavali is the completion day of this austerity. This is the day Lord Shiva accepted Shakti into the left half of the form and appeared as Ardhanarishvara. The ardent devotees observe this 21 days vrata by making a kalasha with 21 threads on it and 21 types of offerings for 35 days. The final day is celebrated as kedhara gauri vrata.


o Amoung follower of Jainism, Diwali can be called the Christmas of Jainism.
On this very day Lord Mahavira, the last of the Jain Tirthankaras, attained Nirvana
or Moksha(by some record on 15th October, 527 BCE).



According to tradition, the chief disciple of Mahavira, Ganadhara Gautam Swami also attained complete knowledge (Kevalgyana) on this day, thus making Diwali one of the most important Jain festivals.

o The significance of Diwali for Sikhs is the vicory of Sikh struggle for freedom.
The Mughal Emperor Jahangir had imprisoned Guru Hargobind and 52 other kings,
from the Gwalior Fort in 1619.
The Emperor was asked to release Guru Hargobind which he agreed to do. However, Guru Hargobind asked that the princes be released also. The Emperor agreed, but said only those who could hold onto his cloak tail would be allowed to leave the prison. This was in order to limit the number of prisoners who could leave.

However, Guru Hargobind had made a large cloak with 52 pieces of string and so each prince was able to hold onto one string and leave prison.
To celebrate this victory and his love for Sikhism, the townspeople lit the way,
to Harmandhir Sahib(or the Golden Temple), in his honor.
Sikhs celebrated the return of Guru Hargobind Ji by lighting the Golden Temple and this tradition continues today.

Notably in Bengal, Kali Puja is light-up night for Kolkata, corresponding to the festival of Diwali (pronounced Dipabali in Bengali), where people light candles in memory of the souls of departed ancestors. The Goddess Kali is worshipped at night on one night during this festival. This is also a night of fireworks, with local youth burning sparklers and crackers throughout the night. Kolkata had to pass legislature a few years back to ban fireworks which break the 65 decibel sound limit, as ambient noise levels were going up to 90 decibels or more in parts of the city.

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So How Did I learn Jquery? : Basics of Jquery!

So how did i learn up this elusive language ?

Searchin google .. simple as that...

but even when you do that u do get a host of stuff,

thrown at you, most of which either you dont need or specifically,

which you dont understand.

So as usual started looking for keywords basic, newbie, startup :)

First light at the end of the tunnel.. comes from http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials

 

A Complete list of required tutorial in the form of articles, to choose from.  I took off with, Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery (obviously!). 

Now remeber you need to have some knowleged of Javascrip and Dom both of which are available

at www.w3schools.com/ . Not exactly basic but it has an extensive tutorial + code samples +

API explanations.

 

So started crawling.  Observations on making the first file :-

Try not dividing into multiple folders just to seperate the js and html files.

Start off with one single shot.  The '{' and '(' are quite a pain to follow.

 

Result of first code from the mentioned page:-

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Online TV Schedule : India!

Hi friends, did you sometimes notice, how with all the
amenities around us we still seem to want something quicker and,
more effectively. As is said "Necessity is the mother of all Inventions!"

Point is, I was out looking for a simple way to view the TV schedule in
my country. Turns out even google gives wierd results in this case, half
of no use. But if you are looking for tv schedule in India, check out
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/ . Gives a decent view of what is available
online. Unfortunately many of the channels are missing.
Another site is http://www.indiantvschedule.com/ with a cool web 2.0 interface.
Unfortunately while trying it out, it returned a total blank schedule for some
wierd,(db error im guessing), reason. Anyways if anyone has some pointers,
put it through!

Babylon A.D. : Short Peek!

Well it took a long time coming. But its here never the less, considering
the USA release dates were in beginning September.
A minor part of me wanted to see Babylon A.D because of all the
hoopla about the action. The major part wanted to glimpse Vin Diesel,
in action again. What surprises me sometimes is how he manages to take
the movie forward without showing much of an iota of expression whatsoever.

Anyways the movie was trimmed down to about 95 mins, from the original 160 mins about.
Fortunately or unfortunately, for most in the theater the movie just seemed to start and end. To be more precise, there's just too much information to process,
about an apocalyptic future, coupled with religious fanaticism, degradation of society
etc. etc. The 3D was there with all the eye candy and what is required to
make for a good 95 mins. Its not exactly as spectacular as Transformers,
as deep as The Dark Knight, or as emotional as Children of Men.
But if you want to spend your money on some nice entertainment, Babylon A.D.
does work out!

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Just got the first look at chrome.
Knowing google and its simplicity, not surprising that I got a bit lost without the familiar,
Toolbars, and little icons all over the place.
Simply speaking Chrome is a stark contrast to it colleagues ( ie. I.E. and Firefox),
in terms of visual additions.

Starting from base, installation was a breeze, only complaint, did not notice
installation folder options. After that on opening the app., you get a view
of the cleanest browser you ever saw.



The tabs are something similar to
gmail including the colors in blue shades. The top level domain in the
address bar gets highlighted in black while rest in in gray. Than comes the
tabs which are pretty similar to the other browsers in functioning etc.

Now for the better part. A new option called Incognito clears you off the tedious
task of clearing cookies and browsing history for certain 'Specific Sites'.
In this mode your cookies and history are not recorder though, other functionalities,
for the site remain the same. Simply put browser monitored data is whipped clean.

Although add-ons are still not out, I guess it wont be long before google follows the
firefox way.
The developer tab has a javascript counsel and other inputs that make it
similar to firebug, though not exactly the same.

No point writing from scrap because I didn't get the time to go through all
the features, but get an inside scoop on the developer at IT-Eye.

Abiding time for playing around a bit more with Chrome.

Where is google chrome?

Ok by virtue of consistency, anything and everything by Google,
is supposed to create a small mass hysteria(kinda oxymoron).
And rightly so!
Each nifty tool they have come up with has created a small revolution,
with the waves generating major changes on the sea-shore.
Before I get too poetic, im all excited for the new browser coming
up from google called Google Chrome!

I did get on the bandwagon a bit late as I was stuck up with another sector
of online gizmo's, but hey its better late than never.
So the news is that Google is releasing Chrome in about a 100 countries
today!(Read report!)

But more specifically the Chrome team came up with a unique comic strip.
A promotion gimmick, ...maybe! But it does explain basic reasoning,
on the features of Chrome in simple manner. Get the comic here!

I haven't got my hands on the installer yet, but the screen shots look good,
Check em out here!.

Will update(if any) soon!

Plausible download site for Chrome click here!