Sunday, April 23, 2006
Goal!
A must watch for all the soccer fans. It’s a story of how a Mexican guy staying in LA makes it to Newcastle United. Minute details about English Premiere League issues have been portrayed: Inter and Intra team rivalry, endorsements, hatred for a player who has just been signed for 23 million pounds :) ... Last but not the least the movie has guest appearances by many European soccer starts notably Zidane, Beckham, Raul and Shearer...
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Splash !!
It all started at
800 : left for Rishikesh900 : halt at Ram Jhula for breakfast at the famous Choti wale Pandit ka Dhaba, took a nap on the river beach.
1230 : reached the Garhwal Himalayas office where we had to report. We had booked the Camping and rafting there.
1400 : Reached Shivpuri for just having fun in the river. It was basically decided on runtime since we had time to kill before we could enter our camp at 330 p.m. which was 30 minutes from this place. Felt like Jacuzzi… :D
1600 : Entered Camp, welcome drink served, checked in our tents, played beach volleyball, drooled at a firang babe whose guy was doing yoga on a cliff. A saffron clad babaji was making joints for them and another local friend of theirs was doing something to her which was a little difficult to find out even using our camera zoooms !!
1900 : Campfire, BBQ and drinks on the beach. We had 5 Beer bottles remaining with us adding to the Bacardi White Rum khamba and the Antiquity addha.
20XC%: sdjkhzzzzz..hic....hic...... :D
Next Day
0800 : Breakfast followed by a drive to Marine drive from where our rafting experience was to commence. The raft was meant for 10 people excluding the main guide but we had only the six of us on it.
Till 1'clock we experienced some amazing rapids in our 22 Km enroute to rishikesh. It would take pages if I start elaborating these 4-5 hours. Point to be noted is that no one fell outside the raft unwillingly.. lol ... yes we did some body surfing... but that was fun.. Lying with your back on the water with waves carrying us along.
Rapids have been given interesting names like Golf Course, Three Blind Mice, Daniel's Dip, Sweet Sixteen, Marine Drive, Cross Fire and Roller Coaster
Cliff diving was another breathtaking experience
... 2-3 seconds in thin air... but only two of us including me ;) had enough guts to plunge into the river from that height.
1430 : Lunch at camp. The firang was again there … :D .. 30 minutes lost again…
1530 : Leave for a temple(I forgot the name) about 20 kms from there.
1730 : On the way back, park our Qualis in the middle of the empty road and enjoy the White Rum with an amazing
2000 : Leave for
Friday, April 07, 2006
Gooooogle Up !!
Hail google, the best search engine as of today.
I was searching for something very specific last night and after 15 minutes of full fledged effort without success, I decided to invest some time on the basic searching techniques which aren’t that basic.. :)
I am listing some basic google search tips. Mind it; all the things written in this post are 'BASIC' techniques. We have some advanced searching techniques as well, which I definitely plan to post provided I understand them myself.
The following table summarizes how Google interprets your query.
| Search Behaviors | Descriptions |
| Implicit AND | Google returns pages that match all your search terms. Because you don't need to include the logical operator AND between your terms, this notation is called an implicit |
| Exact Matching | Google returns pages that match your search terms exactly. |
| Word Variation | Google returns pages that match variants of your search terms. |
| Common-Word Exclusion | Google ignores some common words called "stop words," e.g., the, on, where, and how. Stop words tend to slow down searches without improving results. |
| 32-Word Limit | Google limits queries to 32 words. |
| Term Proximity | Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms near each other. |
| Term Order | Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms in the same order as the query. |
| Case Insensitivity | Google is case-insensitive; it shows both upper- and lowercase results. |
| Ignoring Punctuation | Google ignores most punctuation and special characters including , . ; ? [ ] ( ) @ / * < > |
Now some fine tuning ...
| Notation | Find result | Example |
| with both term1 and term2 | [ carry-on luggage ] | |
| with either term1 or term2 or both | [ Tahiti OR Hawaii ] | |
| with term (The + operator is typically used in front of stop words that Google would otherwise ignore or when you want Google to return only pages that match your search terms exactly. However, the + operator can be used on any terms.) | [ +i spy ] | |
| without term | ||
| with term or one of its synonyms | [ google ~guide ] | |
| with a number in the specified range | ||
| with the exact phrase, a proper name, or a set of words in a specific order | [ "I have a dream" ] |
