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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
MY FIRST BOOK
You always have this question what next? after 2 months of writing blogs, this question did pop up in my mind and I wanted to take it to the next level. I decided to compile all my blogs and publish them as a real book after I get to 50. Now that I have reached 50, I wanted to make it happen and started compiling and formatting so that to make it as a book. more than a weeks effort (it wasn't as easy as i thought) and spending $80 for printing and binding it as a professional book, Now I am the author of my very own and first book "THE WAY I SEE". Even if I publish a biography or any books in the future, this sure is special, for being the first.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
50
Yes. My 50th blog. Its nice to be this far, so soon. When I started off writing blogs I didn't think I would get so involved in this. All I wanted was to shift my focus from TV to something else. well, it worked. Writing blogs was the easy part, everything just fell in. If at all I spent extra time, it would be for the images and widgets. As like the title, all my blogs were written based on the way I see things. I plan to continue the same way. Thanks to all, and for your comments keeping this blog lively. Just keep reading. Its been so far so good and I hope to keep this momentum going until I find something else more fascinating to relax!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Go Green
Everyone talks going green, well, here's few things that might help...
Ten Tips to Save Energy (and Money) in Your Home
A whopping 46 percent of home energy use is, umm, energy loss! In other words, no productive energy use at all! Here are simple ways of reversing this, mostly by changes of habit.
Thanks to climatecrisis.net and The Home Energy Diet (New Society Publishers, 2005), for many of the carbon savings figures.
1. Each degree you turn down the heat saves 3 percent of heating costs, while each degree you raise the temperature of your air conditioner saves 3-4 percent of cooling costs. By changing the temperature by 2 degrees all year, you can save about 2,000 pounds of C02 a year.
2. Cook with a slow cooker or a toaster oven (or even a solar oven!) to reduce electrical use from kitchen appliances. For a meal that requires one hour to cook in an electric oven, and which uses 2.7 pounds of C02, a crockpot uses 0.9 pounds of C02 for seven hours, a toaster oven takes 1.3 pounds of C02 for 50 minutes, and a microwave only 0.5 pounds of C02 for 15 minutes of cooking. A solar cooker requires NO C02!
3. Switch to a laptop instead of using a desktop computer and cut three-quarters off your electrical use. Turn off the laptop at the end of the day.
4. Switch to cold water washing and save 80 percent on energy used for laundry and save an estimated $60 a year. Hang dry your clothes instead of using the dryer and save 700 pounds of C02 a year.
5. Plug anything that can be powered by a remote control or that has a power cube transformer (little black box) into a power strip, and turn it off, and/or unplug, when not in use. (Power cubes are 60-80 percent inefficient.)
6. Turn off the lights when you aren’t using them and reduce your direct lighting energy use by 45 percent. Stop using heat-producing halogen lamps (they can also be fire hazards). Install occupancy or motion sensors on outdoor lights.
7. Switch to compact fluorescent from regular incandescent bulbs and use 60 percent less energy per bulb and save 300 pounds of C02 a year.
8. Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket and save 1,000 pounds of C02 a year. Insulate your hot water pipes.
9. Use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car (if you haven’t already).
10. Keep your tires inflated to improve gas mileage by 3 percent. Every gallon you save also saves 20 pounds of C02 emissions.
source: care2.com
Ten Tips to Save Energy (and Money) in Your Home
A whopping 46 percent of home energy use is, umm, energy loss! In other words, no productive energy use at all! Here are simple ways of reversing this, mostly by changes of habit.
Thanks to climatecrisis.net and The Home Energy Diet (New Society Publishers, 2005), for many of the carbon savings figures.
1. Each degree you turn down the heat saves 3 percent of heating costs, while each degree you raise the temperature of your air conditioner saves 3-4 percent of cooling costs. By changing the temperature by 2 degrees all year, you can save about 2,000 pounds of C02 a year.
2. Cook with a slow cooker or a toaster oven (or even a solar oven!) to reduce electrical use from kitchen appliances. For a meal that requires one hour to cook in an electric oven, and which uses 2.7 pounds of C02, a crockpot uses 0.9 pounds of C02 for seven hours, a toaster oven takes 1.3 pounds of C02 for 50 minutes, and a microwave only 0.5 pounds of C02 for 15 minutes of cooking. A solar cooker requires NO C02!
3. Switch to a laptop instead of using a desktop computer and cut three-quarters off your electrical use. Turn off the laptop at the end of the day.
4. Switch to cold water washing and save 80 percent on energy used for laundry and save an estimated $60 a year. Hang dry your clothes instead of using the dryer and save 700 pounds of C02 a year.
5. Plug anything that can be powered by a remote control or that has a power cube transformer (little black box) into a power strip, and turn it off, and/or unplug, when not in use. (Power cubes are 60-80 percent inefficient.)
6. Turn off the lights when you aren’t using them and reduce your direct lighting energy use by 45 percent. Stop using heat-producing halogen lamps (they can also be fire hazards). Install occupancy or motion sensors on outdoor lights.
7. Switch to compact fluorescent from regular incandescent bulbs and use 60 percent less energy per bulb and save 300 pounds of C02 a year.
8. Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket and save 1,000 pounds of C02 a year. Insulate your hot water pipes.
9. Use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car (if you haven’t already).
10. Keep your tires inflated to improve gas mileage by 3 percent. Every gallon you save also saves 20 pounds of C02 emissions.
source: care2.com
Drive One...Will you!
Ford made a profit of $100M this quarter. that's interesting. but more interesting is the recent ford tv ad "Drive One", which says ford equals toyota in quality!!!. check out this article forddriveone
Well, the question is, whether this will work. especially among us, indians and asians, for majority of whom, the term quality is synonymous to Japanese product. for most of asians, its either Honda, Toyota or Nissan, very few it's Mitsubishi... this new ad might work well with the American people, but to us and asians in general i don't think it would make a slightest difference to opt for ford and to Drive One...
Friday, April 25, 2008
around the world...
I wonder, why I was searching online, going crazy trying to download English songs, when my colleague sitting few cubicles away had more songs than i have heard of. All it required was an external hard drive and a USB cable. sometimes you learn again that things that you need might be in your proximity and all it need is to rise up and ask, but of course to the right people...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Super 5
There are few things I wish they would get rid off in tamil movies... (leave alone other languages, that list would take quite a while...)
5. Songs that pop from somewhere for no reason...
(except movies in which, only the song is good...)
4. Scenes, Dialogues that reflect 1960's
(old titles, remix songs, same old story... atleast come up with your own dialogues for crying out loud...)
3. Sentiments
(mother, sister, the latest father... wooo...that still leaves a lot of relations for these people....)
2. Punch dialogues
(intolerable... do they hear what they say.)
1. Storyless movie with a worst screenplay, combined with senseless scenes and worthless dialogues... like a full package
(man...I can't forget the movie "time")
5. Songs that pop from somewhere for no reason...
(except movies in which, only the song is good...)
4. Scenes, Dialogues that reflect 1960's
(old titles, remix songs, same old story... atleast come up with your own dialogues for crying out loud...)
3. Sentiments
(mother, sister, the latest father... wooo...that still leaves a lot of relations for these people....)
2. Punch dialogues
(intolerable... do they hear what they say.)
1. Storyless movie with a worst screenplay, combined with senseless scenes and worthless dialogues... like a full package
(man...I can't forget the movie "time")
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