Monthly Archives: July 2008

Money – Pink Floyd

This is one of the best rock performances : Money by Pink Floyd @ Dark Side of the Moon.The USP of the song is a ecletic mix of instruments viz Lead Guitar,Sax,Bass Guitar(tell me if you know any other song played partly in just bass),Keyboards and ofcourse the background vocals by those lovely ladies.

July 31, 2008 – 10:21 | By sridharo | Posted in Music | Comments (1)

Quote

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”-Steve Jobs,Apple’s Chief Executive in an address to Standford graduates.

July 28, 2008 – 09:03 | By sridharo | Posted in Apple, quote | Comments (0)

Wallpapers!!!

Take a look at the landing site here,before concluding about the posts.The wallpapers are absolutely amazing,let me know if this site disappoints you.Thank you Vlad,YOU are an artist!

July 24, 2008 – 20:02 | By sridharo | Posted in Art | Comments (0)

Knol "Beta" is live!

Finally the ‘wiki-killer’ is launched.Click here to check out knol. First impressions :Clutter free UI ( no ads,thank you Goog),Looks reliable(!…author has a face here;-).Majority of the posts are on Medical related articles. There’s also an option to the author to get themselves “Verified”.

July 24, 2008 – 14:35 | By sridharo | Posted in Google, Knol | Comments (0)

Scouring the searches…

Further to my previous post w.r.t competition to Goog,here comes another another search tool,rather “The Social Search Engine” : Scour. The idea is appealing.All the top search engines aggregated on a single page and better still users can rank the results making the results supposedly better by the day. I don’t mind a social site …

July 23, 2008 – 13:18 | By sridharo | Posted in Launch, search, tech | Comments (0)

My decision to splurge has been justified!

More than a year ago,faced with a mobile with an erratic mind of its own,I decided and bought a Sony Ericsson K750i at a premium(according to me 14,000 for a gadget you spend maximum 1 hour a day is akin to spending over 2 lakhs for your laptop!).My choice is perfect.It is one of the …

July 22, 2008 – 20:58 | By sridharo | Posted in I, tech | Comments (0)

India @ 75

So we have heard about Vision 2020, Mr. C.K.Prahalad, another visionary believes in India @ 75.Here’s a brief on his address to the students of ISB,Hyderabad.I quote Mr Prahalad:“…India should have the right and the ability to “shake the emerging world order” – be it in the area of human rights, world trade, agri-policy, IP, …

July 21, 2008 – 13:21 | By sridharo | Posted in Entrepreneur, ISB, India, Leader | Comments (0)