February 2006 – Page 2

Flying in your own plane

A few months ago, the India’s first aircraft showroom opened in Bangalore and they have sold few light aircrafts. Each aircrafts costs around 45-50 lakhs.

Time of India (TOI) reporting other costs of owing a light aircraft:

* Rs. 50,000 a year for maintenance
* Rs. 80,000 yearly insurance
* Rs. 2 lakh for a PPL training course (very high cost)
* Rs. 250 as airport landing charge
* Rs. 5-6 an hour for airport parking charge
* In an hour, in consumes 18 liters, cost you Rs.1200 and you can cover 190 km
Even Test flights cost you Rs.5000

Dam it is f*****g expensive. Only millionaires can own such aircraft.

Microsoft AntiSpyware Program Removes Norton Anti-Virus

Welcome to wild wild world of Microsoft. New beta Anti-Spyware program detect Norton Anti-Virus program as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it :/? It detects Symantec Antivirus files as PWS.Bancos.A

The lesson is simple do not install beta products in production environment. More information available at washingtonpost, Slashdot and Microsoft support forum.

Not wanted: Successful woman!

Time of India has new story. It reads “A recent book by New York Times columnist suggest that men are afraid of women who are successful and bright :/?”. Sure, the article sucks ;)

Wow, it may be because of power trouble issues or may be something else. All I can say it is not a good idea to afraid of Successful woman. If she is Ambitious, Independent, and Smart then men should appreciate that :)

My friend questioned me would you go and accept success women? I replied why not. You have to accept facts in life and this is one of them. Heh…

New Egyptian tomb discovered

Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since King Tutankhamun’s was found in 1922. The tomb was found only 5m away from King Tutankhamun’s.

This is really good and wonderful discovery. I hope lots of secretes information will be come out of it. We will learn more about ancient Egyptian culture and civilization.

According to BBC news “The tomb, the 63rd discovered since the valley was first mapped in the 18th century, was unexpectedly found only 5m away from King Tutankhamun’s, a member of the team told the BBC’s World Tonight. Patricia Podzorski, curator of Egyptian Art at the University of Memphis, said the team had not been looking for it.”

Read complete news at BBC. Images are courtesy to BBC news. Update: MSN has published more photo and detail information on this story.

Mixed Doubles Hindi movie

From movie trailers it looks like a comedy that looks differently at relationships. After all it cast include Naseeruddin Shah, Konkona Sen, Ranvir Shoery and others.

Sunil and Malti are a middleclass family couple who has married for ten years. They have a child. But they are getting boring with each other after 10 years (how the hell they spend 10 years together ;) ) of marriage. They are not happy at all. But one day something happens, Sunil suggests unacceptable idea to Malti? which result into funny stuff.

If possible I will go tonight or may be Sunday after noon .. I will update all of you later on movie

Rs.1 – Flat rate for STD phones

Finally, you will be able to pay a flat rate for STD calls. Rs. 1 per minute will be new rates for STD from March. No matter where, the hell you are in India you can call to any part of country with just Rs.1 pm. Both MTNL and BSNL – Government owned telecom companies planning to charge new rates from March with new reduced monthly rental. However, Reliance telecom (private firm) already announced such plans. This is yet another sign of booming economy. I just wish cost for broadband connection come down with high-speed Internet access for home users.

Nice photos by Scott Stulberg

I found excellent set of photos on taken by Scott Stulberg. All photos are shooting in Southeast Asia. It has different categories like the natural world, Serendipity, Mirror Mirror, Shades of Gray, Eye to Eye etc. Check it out yourself.

An extraordinary dinner that changed my life

Shaily Mishra has published very nice article in Times of India’s The Speaking Tree section titled as “An extraordinary dinner that changed my life”. From the article “One night God appeared in my dreams and asked me to have dinner with Him the following night. The venue was the restaurant not from my home and time was 9 pm I was confused. Should I go ahead and keep my dinner appointment with God or dismiss the invitation as a crazy dream?“. Read the full article online…

This story gives very nice message “you have to be honest with God everyday.” This is what happens most of time with me. I am only honest on holey days and other days I do not remain honest. I am still thinking on this one….

Sensex crossed 10000 marks

This is sign of booming Indian economy. Y’days jump made me little fortune too :). Around 3:30 pm my friend called me and gave me this nice news. He said it sensex is at 10003 mark. Many experts think it just represent the confidence of global institutional investors in our economy. Here is journey of sensex:

July-25-1990 : 1000
Jan-15-1992 : 2000
Mar-2-1992 : 3000
Mar-30-1992 : 4000
Dec-30-1999 : 5000
Jan-2-2004 : 6000
June-20-2005 : 7000
Sept-8-2005 : 8000
Nov-28-2005 : 9000
Feb-06-2006 : 10000

Our economy was open way back in 1990 to foreign investors. Online trading is also gaining popularity these days. At least over million+ Indians use this facility. The only question, “Is the market over-valued? Only time will tell… ;)