Tag maadi

Keyolhubey tagged me in this fortnight ago, One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

1. What’s your latest addiction?

haha, linux commands


2. What are you listening to?

barking of neighbor's dog

3. How late did u stay up last night and why?

2:30 midnight, I was downloading secrets of the furious five and didn't want to get on bed befor watching it.


4. Who were you with last friday night?

my bro


5. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship 3 months from now?

naaa, don't think


6. When is the next time you’ll see your close friends?

in a week


7. what were you doing this morning at 7AM?

On the bed in a dream



8. What radio station do u listen to the most?

VOM I think, yaa yaa VOM, if there is a special football match, if not I don't listen any



9. What was the reason you last cried?

I don't keep the days I cry in my memory


10. Have you ever talked to someone when they were high?

donno


11. What’s the fifth text in your inbox say?

"kaloageya koba kihiney? enmen furee...mysore falhu veje mihaaru hehe..tc man jst thot of u"


12. Where was the last coffee shop you went to?

ginger coffee day


13. What’s your outfit right now?

shhhhhh, don't tell anyone that I am topless, only brown trouser and underwear is on


14. What were you doing at 11pm last night?

in facebook, FFS

15. Who was the last person you talked to last night before bed?

don't ask me :'(
it was no one, no one at home, I am mister lonely

16. Will you be driving in a year?

y not

17. Is there anything that you are craving for right now?

prison break season 4 episode 17 :S

18. When did your last hug take place?

day before yesterday


19. Have you ever started a sentence with “No offense, but…”?

i don't think so


20. Do you drink tea?

ya ya, little bit

21. Have you ever been arrested?

arrested... arrested... no no, can't call it an arrest so never


22. Have you rode in someone else’s car today?

car :| i don't even know how to, so how can I


23. Have you made a mistake this past week?

umpteen


24. Who was the last person you texted?

aunt

25. Are you happy with your life right now?

hmmm, very happy



26. In the past 72 hrs have you been under the influence of sleep?

ya ya

27. What’s the connection between you and the last person you texted?

my mom's sis

Mysore’s 1st hotel with smoking chambers

Even as most hotels are dragging their feet ever since the country-wide ban on public smoking from October, Parklane Hotel in Mysore has taken the lead in implementing it.Very few hotels in the City of Palaces have earmarked open spaces in their premises as smoking zones. But Parklane has gone a step ahead and set up a state-of-the-art smoking chambers.

There are two 10 ft x 8 ft chambers - one for men and the other for women - beside its restaurant on the second floor of its building. These air tight chambers have a fan which pumps in fresh air and a pipe fitted with suckers to pump
out smoke.

Each chamber can accommodate eight to ten persons and provides an electric lighter and a big ash tray. These chambers not only fulfill all the conditions of the smoking ban but also satisfy the customers.

“The exhaust pipe is fitted with two motors to suck all the smoke and goes 15 ft above the building to assure that the smoke will not create any health hazards to other customers or people in the vicinity,” says the Parklane’s managing partner N G Venkatesh.

Customer’s cooperate
“We don’t allow any person to smoke in our premises. We suggest them to smoke in the specially provided area only. As per norms we do not offer any services in the smoking area. Initially there was some resistance, however it is being accepted by most of them. Our regular customers have got adjusted to the new set up,” says K N Guptha, another managing partner of the hotel.

Smokers like Chandrashekhar are welcoming Parklane’s smoking chambers. He says, “It is good. In the beginning we felt it was unusual as we are used to enjoying a puff along with a drink.

However, we have become accustomed to the new setup.

We are happy that there is no need for other customers to suffer from our bad habit. I have not seen any other restaurant in the city providing such facility,” he says.

Though the smoking chambers have been around for some days in the hotel, they were formally inaugurated on Monday.

Scientists Create Live Frankenmice From Tissue Frozen For 16 Years

Teruhiko Wakayama and his colleagues at the Center for Developmental Biology in Japan report on 3rd of this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the successful cloning of mice using genetic material from bodies frozen for 16 years. Till then, cloning had been possible only with the use of live, intact cells.
Wakayama and his team used two methods of nuclear transfer to create these Frankenmice. In one case, nuclei from both brain and blood cells in the frozen mice were injected—still frozen—into female reproductive cells that had their nuclei removed. Those cells were than allowed to advance into the marula/blastocyst stages and the resulting embryonic stem cells were removed and used to create clones. In a another case, the reproductive cells were immediately placed in surrogate mice to be carried to term. Both methods produced live, healthy clones.

It has been more than a year since the cloned mice were created and although it is uncertain how long they will live, they are still spinning in their exercise wheels. Clones were made from genetic material that had been frozen for one week, one month, three months, and 16 years, and it looks like the length of time in the freezer has no effect on the success of the cloning.

It was previously thought that “most if not all” cells from mammals would be ruined if frozen, unprotected, but these new results open up the possibility for protecting endangered species through catalogs of frozen tissue to use in the future. Such “frozen zoos” are already in progress.

And while Wakayama can’t say for sure, it even raises the prospect of "resurrecting” extinct animals that have left frozen remains.

Beware of new Obama malware

It steals your passwords and other information and sends them to a server in Ukraine

It sounds like campaign propaganda, but President-elect Barack Obama is a Trojan horse.

Obama’s name and purported links to his Election Night acceptance speech have proliferated in malicious software spreading around the World Wide Web since 5th Nov, Internet security firms report.

One spam message, subject line “Obama Wouldn’t Be First Black President,” directs readers to a link said to show his Tuesday speech. To watch, the user has to download a "new" flash player, adobe_flash9.exe. F-Secure Weblog warns that the “player” is really a virus out to steal confidential information on your computer and upload it to a server in Ukraine.

The security firm Sunbelt Software has picked up the same Obama spam with different subject lines, among them: “Obama's Win Reshapes the Race,” “USA Election 2008 Results,” “Election Center 2008 - Election Results,” “Election 2008: Time lapse of U.S. counties,” “Obama win preferred in world poll,” “The new President's cabinet?” and “Can Obama win popular vote but lose election?”

Another email comes embedded with links to video that installs the file BarackObama.exe. Clicking the video may infect your computer, CNET reports.

The best way to avoid the virus: delete all suspicious emails without opening them. F-Secure chief security advisor Patrik Runald tells the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog that consumers should be on the lookout, because the hackers are successfully exploiting intense public interest in Obama and anti-virus software isn't catching all of the viruses. In a scan by Virustotal, only 14 of 36 anti-virus products picked up the malicious software.

"This is not a big surprise, but it was done relatively quickly [after the election]," Runald told Security Fix. "I'd say this will be fairly successful, given that a lot of people are interested in the election, obviously."

FINALLY, RESERVOIR DOGS

After long time there is a Kannada film that is not woven around either rowdyism no romance. Dinkar, in his second film has brought together seven of former screen villains including his brother Dharsan. The film is first Kannada remake of Quentin Tarantino's reservoir dogs that has been already remade thrice in Hindi. Seven men and two woman from various background team up to steal the centerpiece of Mysore Dasara; the golden howdah (ambari). As with the reservoir dogs, the film is more about what happens between the nine protagonists after the heist is committed.
The first half of the film is all about how the nine managed to steal the golden howdah weighing about 750kgs, from the Mysore palace for an antique collector. This part is also the most loose with Dinkar failing to create suspense or high tension. It is only in the second half that the film manages to hold one's attention. Here again, Sourav's character as the inspector turns out to be damp squib. One can only imagine what a kishore or Prakash Rai in this role would have contributed to the film. But some excellent stunt sequence by Ravivarma and camera work by Krishna Kumar make up for many of the other inadequacies.
A few inconsistencies have to be ignored, if you want to enjoy the film. Not all the seven sons are actors, and it shows. In spite of these, Navagratha is watchable just for how it breaks the monotony in Kannada films of late.
The film is also a tribute to the fathers with all seven being given screen names inspired by their father's famous characters.