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Here is an interesting photo with multiple exposures of total lunar eclipse that I took. I thought it came out well.

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So finally the cricket world cup is over, for Indian atleast it is. I feel so happy that I did not get sucked into joining the bandwagon of people who wanted to fly to Caribbeans or buy a 52″ plasma TV to watch the world cup or get a satellite connection.
Now what I fail the [...]

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You can’t help talking about cricket. So I again went to our trusty stats guru. How bad is really tendulkar. How bad is he compared to himself and how bad is he compared to his peers. The first chart is the life record of all the Indian players and here you can see that there [...]

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Here is one interesting story of a really stupid robber. He goes into an ATM and steams the CCTV camera while the camera records him.
The video recording showed the accused had entered the ATM twice, first for a recce and later to commit the crime. “We became suspicious when we saw the accused more interested [...]

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Here is an interesting Ad from Motorola that was launched today coinciding with the crucial world cup cricket game. I would say among the mobile phone ads, this one ranks pretty high.
Tell me how do you like it.

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Here is an interesting thing that I saw. Google had put-up a road show at the popular Bangalore mall (Forum) with a huge banner which said “We are hiring”. This is something new in India. Let’s see how people like it. Click on the photo to see a slightly better one.

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Rs 35,000 crores of wealth, 10 Swiss Bank accounts plus what’s still not known! Have the I-T and Enforcement Directorate sleuths bumped into who could possibly be one of the top five richest Indians or the fourth richest man in India?
He is probably just one of the many.
read more | digg story

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Here is interesting stuff, yahoo just copies stuff from somebody’s blog and then claims that it was done by their outsourcing organization.
read more | digg story

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Here is a stupid government, rather than worrying about making sure people get their share of food, water, housing etc, they think providing them with sports feeds is in public interest. Here is a country where hundreds of millions of people are finding it difficult to find enough money for two square meals but they [...]

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So here is an interesting news item that I saw.
A man in Mumbai claiming to be ‘god’ and wanting recognition of his ‘divine status’ failed to get the judicial endorsement he had sought.
The reason that court gave to reject the application was very interesting.

The Bombay High Court rejected 30-year-old Dharmendra Mishra’s application, saying it was [...]

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