Origin of Civilization in the world right from BigBang !

Courtesy:
Following pics are taken from from a website called http://www.hyperhistory.com/

Astronomical Scale !
















Big Bang !




















Earliest Civilizations !
Egyptian, Indian, greek and Chinese Civilizations

















Civilizations on TimeLine !

A peep into history of India !

I never used to love subject of History till I was in my school times may be because History exams were hard and contained of very long answers. And when i entered college that subject was also not there any more since i chose to take a different field all together. But I remember when I was gaining a better understanding of language and with the start of introspection like all others I also started thinking about the origin of the things and that quite again connected me with this subject. So I guess when you need the info and peep into history it becomes very interesting subject.

Recently I started searching about history of India. Following were some good info/videos i came across which gave some useful info to start with. Not the full account yet, but good place to start with.


Brief Past of India - 1


Brief Past of India - 2


History of World Religion in less than 2 minutes



Link to the 1/6 part of a documentary named
Origins of civilization - INDIA - The empire of spirit
(This also happens to be one of the amazing face of India)


2/6 :
3/6 :
4/6 :
5/6 :
6/6 :

Great Link on World history



This is part 1 of 6 series amazing BBC documentary "The story of India" on Indian history starting from the 1st migrations to India till the Independence Day and intro to present times (2007) Michael Wood

JAL CEO cuts his own salary in the given economic times !

NetBooks - New catagory between a full scale Laptop and Smart Phone !

EEE PC s101

In this past one year, they say netbooks are taking around 25% of computer sales.
lets listen more from Walt Mossberg. It all stated with ASUS's EEE PC and now there are many players for this under $500 NetBooks.

Tips from Jogging to Marathon !

How to Start Running for Beginners


How to Warm Up Before a Run


How to Warm Up Before a Run 2


Basic Running Tips : Correct Form For Running


Basic Running Tips : Correct Form For Jogging 2





Basic Running Tips : How to Breathe While Running


How to Breathe Correctly When Jogging



What to Eat Before Running


Choosing a Good Running Shoe


How to Build Running Speed


What to Eat Before a Marathon

Real reasons behind crumbling Economies in the world and how can we correct it ?

Came cross this wonderful video sent by my friend where an Indian born economist Dr. Ravi Batra starts the conversation with the reason behind the poverty in the world then moves towards oil crises, wage gap, imbalance in Supply and Demand and ultimately a crumbling economy. Mostly talks keeping the USA in perspective and how it is contagious to other part of the world. Prout philosophy is suggested as a solution.

Find out what lies as the root cause of all this Chaos and what can shorten the economic pain we are already in.

Why is there poverty in countries, even in developed countries.



Reality behind Oil Prices, Stocks, Companies, Gas Stations, Monopoly, Oil Companies Profits, Tension in Middle East, Anti-Monopoly Law, Anti-Merger Law, Official Corruption, Minimum wage



Rise in the Wage Gap : Relation between Worker productivity to its real wage.
Effects : Over production, LayOffs, DownSizing
New Debt, New Credit, Mortgage, Lifestyle, Imbalance in Supply Demand
Profits rise sharply, Stock Market rise bubble, Market Crash, Major Depression

How to Eradicate this Poverty and imbalance
Economic Democracy : End of Capitalism, beginning of prosperity and masses.
In large companies that exists, atleast 51 % are owned by employees, CEO is selected by them. As the profit rise, the wage will go proportionately. That is what PROUT all about.



Who will bring this Economic Democracy ?
Who will put an end to Monopoly Capitalism ?
There will be POUT base economy in the near future.



3 Reasons why New Age Economic Revolution is bound to happen
1. There is an unpopular war
2. Growing political corruption
3. Economic Chaos

This will result in a New Age Revolution and we will be the part of it.


P.S
Causes of Housing Bubble




How Housing Markets effect other Markets ?

History is created in The United States Of America !

Nov 4th, 2008
Barack obama is elected the first African President of the USA and history is created.

Bon Jovi - Lost highway

Video of the Song

Bon Jovi |MTV Music

Rolling Lyrics

bon jovi mp3 - bon jovi videos

Lyrics | Bon Jovi lyrics

Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over) from Eagles

All time classic

Eagles |MTV Music

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair,
Warm smell of Colitas [ 4 ] rising up through the air.
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
I had to stop for the night.
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell.
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell."
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way,
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say,

("Welcome to the Hotel California.)
Such a lovely place. (Such a lovely place.)
Such a lovely face.
There's plenty of room at the Hotel California.
Any time of year (any time of year),
You can find it here."

Her mind is Tiffany [ 5 ] -twisted,
She got the Mercedes-Benz [ 6 ] , ungh.
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys,
That she calls friends.
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.

So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine."
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here
Since nineteen sixty-nine."
((And still those voices are calling from far away,))
Wake you up in the middle of the night,
Just to hear them say,

("Welcome to the Hotel California.)
Such a lovely place. (Such a lovely place.)
Such a lovely face.
They're livin' it up at the Hotel California.
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise),
Bring your alibis."

Mirrors on the ceiling,
Pink champagne on ice.
And she said, "We are all just
Prisoners here, of our own device."
And in their master's chambers,
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/ar ]
They gathered for the feast.
They stab it with their steely [ 8 ] knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.

Last thing I remember,
I was running for the door.
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before.
"Relax," said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!"

[ Instrumental coda to end. ]


[ HOTEL CALIFORNIA [ 1 ]
[ Written by: Don Felder, Glenn Frey & Don Henley
Performed by: The Eagles [ 2 ] -1976 (Lead vocals: Don Henley)
Appears on: Hotel California (LP)-1976, Eagles Live-1980, The Legend of
Eagles-1988, Hell Freezes Over (CD-Live)-1994 [ 3 ] & (DVD-Live)-2000, The
Complete Greatest Hits (Warner-CD)-2003 & (Rhino-CD)-2006, The Very Best of
the Eagles (WSM-CD)-2003, (Warner-CD/DVD)-2003 & (Elecktra-CD)-2007, et al. ]

River Rafting at Nogami, north of Tokyo

Nogami is a small town in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. It takes around 1 hour 40 minutes from Omiya Station to reach this place via Kumagaya.

Came to know about this place via this link and some of my colleagues also told me about this place in Nagatoro region. This link has got all details about pricing, how to reach there and similar.

They asked us to bring with us:
1. Swim suits to wear inside the Wet Suit.
2. Towel
3. Flip Flops (rubber sleepers) to be used while Rafting.

They offer rafting session in morning half and afternoon halves. We opted for a afternoon one to avoid the hush-rush in the morning. So we woke up and started with filling Parathas and Cups of Tea which will keep us going for the day till dinner. We reached Nogami at 1:00 pm where we found our way to the Mont Bell Outdoor Challenge Club were we confirmed our reservations which we were lucky to get one day before the event. We were asked to wait for few minutes. After some time our main event trainer and guide instructed about how to get ready for the rafting. We didn't buy Flip Flops from where we started hence had to buy a pair of them for each one of us. It took 10 min to get ready and then we boarded the bus which would take us to the starting point of rafting.

We were greeted by our guide once again in the bus and he started giving us info about the place, event and river (Arakawa) we were going to start our rafting from which was pretty good i must say. He also shared that he went to India for their "HoneyMoon" and visited Darjelling, Delhi, Kolkota and Nepal during that visit. It took around 10 min to reach at the starting point.

We quickly reached at the banks of the river and seeing the boat and oars we were bit excited. Then our trainer gave us some very good information about this sport where he instructed us about simple tips and tricks about rafting, about the river flow, about rescuing each other among other things. At the end of the instructions we understood how to take our raft ahead, backwards, what to do when the waters are rough or when we are about to collide to a big stone, how to pull your companions in the boat if they fall in the water, how to swim in such shallow waters etc. We didn't take our cameras but our trainer took a quick group snaps before we begun (which we had to buy latter with 300 Yens each :) but was worth). Next time need to have some waterproof camera which is allowed in rafting.

So we started with taking the boat into the waters. When we started we started pretty slow but gradually our excitement got increased with intermittent "Boat Water Fights" with another group on a different boat with the help of our oars/paddles. The flow was not that strong but there were 3-4 places where we got to feel the excitement. We were also allowed to swim in between which we really enjoyed. Then there was something where we stood on the corners of the boat, hold our hands together with back facing the waters. We (all four of us) stood and were said to bloom like a flower leaning our back towards the water and ultimately leaving the hands and a big splash with our backs on the water surface and water gushing into ears and nose. Then we got back in the boats helping each other out and again start paddling the raft. Then the last excitement was that where trainer told to all of that get your legs touching the water sitting on the sides of the boat and relax. When we were relaxing he took us to our surprise and pushed us in the water again adding to the "water masti". Then as promised he took our water splashing group snap taking us at the end of our rafting event of the day.

Some of the pics:

The Route we took was as follows :

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After the water sport we got very hungry. After a quick change, buying our snaps from Mont Bell store and quick photographs here and there we started searching a good restaurant.
We were suggested to take our dinner at a restaurant 2 stations away from Nogami which we thought might be a Japanese restaurant. But when we reached that station we found a restaurant inside a very old Warehouse named "Kintaro".

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It turned out to be a pretty good Italian food place. A must go for all travelers. The best was the soft Pizza whose base was also prepared after the order. There was one more thing which was a bowl of cheese fried with all purpose flour around it and served attached with a longer toothpick kind of thing. It was yummy too. The restaurant had a Halloween theme.

Overall it was a complete fun in that one day trip.

The famous "Who moved my cheese ?" now in a small Cartoon series

[Courtesy : Youtube]
An Animation about changes in life and how to deal with it to success. A great tool to help people apply changes in their life.

Part 1/2 - 9:40 min


Part 2/2 - 2:56 min

Google Chrome !

A short intro to Chrome - The concept behind



A long story about Chrome - Design, Demo

Olympics !

History of Olympics




Logos in Olympics till 2008

Simple Technological ideas behind Inflight Internet !

Came across a simple demo of idea behind how the airplane passengers get internet while flying. The video is self explanatory.

Really, Nikko is Nippon !

From 12th Aug to 14th Aug ` 2008

Trip to Nikko - A lovely place with World Heritage "Toshogu shrine" with other attractions like Water Falls, Greenery, Lovely Resorts, in Rain (Now) seasons, magnificent colored autumn leaves in Autumn. We happen to visit this place just towards the end of rainy season. If you see the snaps it will remind you of hill station places in India like Mussouri, Dalhousie, and why not Chikhaldhara in Rainy Season. Its like you are a "Gulliver in the Lilliput Country"

Route We took:
Kita toda--> Omiya --> Kasukabe --> Shimo Imaichi -->Tobu Nikko Station
Took around 3 hours.

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Tobu World Square - It is a place near Nikko (around 45 min) and is famous for their exquisite reproductions to 1/25th of the original sizes of 102 historic relics and architectures in the world,
It is divided into
1. Modern Japan Zone
2. Old Japan Zone
3. America Zone
4. Egypt Zone
5. Europe Zone
6. Asia Zone

We liked Europe Zone and Old Japan Zone the most and discovered some amazing sculptures of the world.
In Europe France, Italy and Spain were the best places.
Route We took from Nikko
Tobu Nikko Station --> Shimo Imaichi --> Kosagoe

Cradle to Cradle Design Documentary ! (Waste = Food)

An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept of the chemist Michael Braungart and the architect William McDonough.
Talks about big companies like Ford, Nike and China government initiatives to save mother nature.
Watch till the end where these guys unveil how China is planning their industrial growth by controlling the migration from small cities to bigger cities and avoiding the creation of slums in the process. Amazing Story.

MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Mixi, Youtube, Digg, Wikipedia, Craiglist, iTunes, Napster and so on....

if (You Love Technology)
{
if (You would love Web/internet)
{
if (You might know Web 2.0)
{
if (You must know Napster/MySpace/FaceBook/Youtube/Digg/Wikipedia/Craiglist/iTunes)
{
then (you will love this video)
}
}
}
}
else
{
may be not your kind of video
}

Following is the wonderful documentary depicting the journey of internet so far. The True story of Internet on Dicovery Channel.

Money, Banking and Debt

Came across this lovely video explaining how banking started, what is actually a deposit in bank, how bank lend us money which do not exists and how is money created ?

Explained in the form of very simple animations. A 47 minute explanation on the basics of the thing which is driving this world - Money.

A short Clip on Volvo History - the "I Roll" company with a culture !

Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products.

The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August, 1926 when the SKF Sales Manager Assar Gabrielsson and Engineer Gustav Larson, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, set up the car-manufacturing business Volvo AB within SKF group. Volvo AB was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company.




As Time Goes By

The amazing Universal Energy in Human Body.

This is 100% life part of lifentechnology !


The videos below might be bit hard to comprehend for a person who is not aware of Asian philosophy of "God lies within". This philosophy talks about chakras (Wheels) in our body which show our different levels of consciousness within a human body starting from lower portion of your vertebral column till above your brain.

check out following 3 parts video to see this journey of awakening to the Cosmic Consciousness and discover how we travel in our life



1 Cosmic consciousness.
2. Beauty of inner World
3. Open our throats and songs
4. We have joined together in Love
5. Burn through inertia into fire
6. Dwelled into wanted of Duality
7. Found our way home to earth







We are the rainbow bridge between the worlds.

Web Guy vs Sales Guy

Rose Garden called UchiJuku !

25 minutes from Omiya`s New Shuttle line, there is a small town called UchiJuku and has a small rose flower garden. We happned to be there today and is worth visiting if you are into flowers thing.

Yes We Can ! Obamania !

If you do not believe in Obama, this post may not be appealing post for you. But if you know him already and heard some of his views and thoughts and believe in even a pinch of what he is promising in his US election campaigns, then you already know that he is someone who had rekindle the concept of "HOPE" in this world.

Following are some of his most famous speeches which moved lot of people in the States and proved turning point in his publicity as a eligible candidate in the Race for White House.

The famous motivating Barack Obama speech on New Hampshire in Feb 2008 when he lost there in Primary Elections.

Yes We Can - Highlights


Same above video - but in a musical way, amazing creativity


Obama-Mania


Yes We Can - Original Complete Speech


Our Moment is Now - On December 27, 2007, Barack gave this speech in Des Moines, Iowa.

Is iPhone reaching your country ? Atleast coming to mine now :)

Yes, now iPhone is expanding its reach from 6 countries to 70 covering almost all of North America, Central America, South America, most of the Europe and a part of Asia and Australia and that too at the half of the price the world paid till now.

Just $199 for 8GB and $299 for 16GB. For Japan, the carrier is Softbank and for India it would be Vodafone. Japan waits to get its treat from July 11th but no sure dates for India yet. But expect in this year only.

Past, Present and Future of Moble Phones !

1985 to Future

Tokyo Bicycle Parking tower

Look the following video for an amazingly fast, time and space efficient and economical way for getting your bicycle getting parked. Since as they say Tokyo cannot grow horizontally they are making best efforts to utilize the vertical apace.

Do It Yourself (DIY) MultiTouch Pad for your PC/MAC !

You must have certainly heard of Microsoft`s "Surface" and also you must have heard that they use a Camera to detect the finger movement and object kept on it.
Below are the two Videos describing MS "Surface" concept as a whole and second Video how you can make your own inexpensive Multitouch Pad with basic operation by using a web cam and couple of easily available objects at home. Have a look at the 2 videos.

Microsoft`s Surface behind the scenes, scenarios and technology


Till date there was no MAC version of this technology but , today a developer named Christian Moore came out with the framework for MAC.

How can you make your own inexpensive weekend project

Powered Paragliding in Amravati

Date : 2008/05/04
Place : Saturna, Amravati, Maharashtra, India

Take Off


Landing

Trip to Chikhaldhara !

Date: 2008/05/27
Place : Chikhaldhara, Amravati, Maharashtra, India
Season : Summer

Not just a Pen !

Can we eat Technology ?

Its really amazing to be in an era where technology is innovating like never before but at the same time this world is witnessing a unprecedented shortage of food around the world and sky rocketing prices of basic consumables like wheat and rice. They say that the developing countries like China and India are consuming more than in past hence this is causing a great imbalance in Demand and Supply for the basis food across the world.

The world on one side is chasing a dream of making the world a global village by "WIRELESSing" everything around itself, on the same time, is constantly reminded of not to loose focus on the the very very basic thing to live. So even if we achieve everything we still need air to breathe, food to eat and home to live and thats why we need to wonder sometimes "Can we eat technology ?".

There can be lot of reasons behind this food shortage which can be anybody`s guess like
1. Increase in consumption of food in Developing nations.
2. Since there is a big migration of people from small towns who were farming in developing nations in search of other employment due to uncertain changing patterns of climate.
3. Use of BioFuels is growing in the developed nations.

Have a look at the following two Videos.

Wheat shortage around the world


ABC world news coverage on the Global Food Crisis in China, India, Indonesia, Egypt
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4628750

In a single breath we talk about "3G iPhone is arriving" and at the same time we listen/see "People are fighting for a loaf of bread". Unbelievable !

Sakura Blooms Again !

Date : 5th April 2008
Occasion : Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Place : Ueno Garden, T.G.I Friday
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During the week or two (3rd week to 4th week of march) for which the Sakura (National Flower) blooms to its best in Japan, japanese people flock to the gardens and hold places under the Sakura trees, bring up lot of stuff to eat and drink and party all day long. During these weeks, even on the working days too, lot of companies organize there "Ohanami" (Japanese for "to see flower") parties where the newest and the youngest in the office are given a task of securing the place and arranging the party. Just chill and enjoy the garden we went to which is called "Ueno Koen" with friends namely Sukhdev, Darren, Rajan, shraddha along with me n swapna.It had a long street with Sakura Trees on both the sides, a fountain, a shrine, some interesting food stalls, museum and very very crowded shopping street of "AmeyaYokocho" among other things.

So sit back and enjoy the photo tour.

Why Google`s "Street View" is not enough ?

This is the greatest time for Media related innovation happening throughout the world. When the companies like "Google" and "EarthMine" are coming up with option of static photography of the world, there arise one more innovative company who thinks static imagery is not enough. The company is "Immersive Media" who have started taking videos of the streets as a complete 360 degrees view(except the bottom of the camera), and a user can play it like a video and with the movement of the mouse can see through the video in that angle/he or she wants. Looks simple but just think about the possibilities of such a camera. Try it your self.
1. Play the video below.
2. Click and drag the mouse in a direction which you want to peep into.
3. And the focus will follow your mouse direction giving you a feeling as if you are turning your head while driving.



Take 1
Just imagine such a camera as a surveillance camera where it takes the 360 degrees of video and some mishap happens. The authorities can completely go through the video after the crime happened and find out what went wrong.

Take 2
Wandering in city and looking at all the tourist area as if we ourselves have shot it.

The possibilities are endless !

OLPC and Intel Classmate Laptops for Developing Nations !

How 6 degrees increase in atmospheric temperature can change our world ? (NG Special)

Part1


Part 2

Boom Shuffle - Create your own radio stream - Music Social !

Update on 2009/05/10 : Looks like boom shuffle service is not anymore.

If you love discovering/listening new music...go ahead

Following playlist was prepared on a site called
http://www.boomshuffle.com/
where you can go and select various artist , albums (some limitations there, since its in beta) and create your own playlist, share it with your fiends and on the top of it embed it somewhere like I have done below on your site. Also its very interesting to discover new playlist created by other people throughout the world and discover the new songs.

For now you also need to select at least songs from 15 different artist because they say
"In order to play full streams of the tracks in your mix, it must include a minimum of 15 tracks from 15 different artists. If it contains less than this number, you can only play back 30-second samples until you add more songs by different artists to your mix. This allows us to comply with requirements related to internet radio. The more tracks that you add from different artists, the better your playback experience will be."

So like orkut, facebook, myspace for your mesages.., youtube for videos...this is for your music..


check it out yourself, its fast and easy.

Chasing the snow !

Place : HanaKiKou Ryokan, KawaBa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Date : 2/1/2008 to 4/1/2008
How to reach : Omiya Satation(大宮駅) to Numata Station(沼田駅) through Limited Express Minakami 3(水上３号) by Train takes 1 hour 40 min.
From Numata Station(沼田駅) to Bessyou(別所) Bus Stop by Bus takes 47 min.