Its time for a mobile camera phone

Have been missing lots of opportunities to take interesting pics everyday due to a lack of a camera in my phone...two such chances were

• Crows attacking an eagle nest near Victory grounds. Eagle Parents fought back in vain.
  

• COP messaging on a Blackberry!

Hope the nokia tube is priced well.

Insurance anyone?

Specialization seems to be the norm there days but this is really a bit too much!

“In satellite launches, the claims are either zero or 100% since the launch is either a success or a failure,” said Kamesh Goyal, country head of German insurer Allianz in India. Allianz's group company Spaceco based in France which specialises in satellite insurance and has participated in many space programs in the past. Insurance of space launches has been gaining importance because of the growing use of satellite communication in most businesses — ranging from stock exchanges, banks, television channels and telecom companies.

This piece from here.

Wonder how the career graph looks like, for a fresher in Spaceco.

Dumb Charade For Dummies

I spent 4 happy years playing DC in college, did pretty well. As i left DC with a sad note, i decided just as many seniors had helped me out in Debate and DC, i too should help my juniors. So i came up with the idea of a site that combines my superficial http knowledge with my deep and comprehensive knowledge of DC.

http://sites.google.com/site/dumbcharade

It will be useful for players and organizers with various resources put up which i have collected over the years. Hope people find it useful.

Ravi

how to find killer pics for blogs.

Going through some blogs online and even magazines that we read everyday, I’ve always wondered how they find those amazing photographs..like after every stock market crash it’s the pic of some guy near the stock exchange holding his head in his hands, or when Ganguly hits a century it’s a Bengal tiger among some trees…

Well I think I got how its done…this tool http://compfight.com/ is quite incredible. It lets you search flickr for photos. So if you’r writing a spiritually inclined article then you can easily do a search for “ganga” or “ganga sun” and get some really stunning professional looking photos…

Also for some reason most of see a lot of windmills in a lot of magazines and in indian love songs…windmills with flower fields and windmills with sunsets and so on…a simple search for windmill brings really stunning results…