Dams and Reservoirs filled, parts of Tamilnadu and southern India are flooded.
Chennai expects Thunderstorms
Flood in TamilNadu - Army in stand-by to assist
Orissa on high alert of possible cyclone
All India: Weather report
October 2005 Archives
Yes, its raining non-stop for weeks in chennai, and many parts of India. But coming to chennai, which is one of those cities having a ground water depletion problem, rains mean solution to water problems to some extent at least temporarily.
Many indian cities and villages now largely practise the idea of rain water harvesting.. thereby recycling rain water otherwise wasted as stagnant water in buildings, back to the source well or the ground if no well is present.
But is this enough?
Definitely a no. Rain water harvesting has to be insisted into road-laying, rail tracks, airports, drainage/sewage flow mechanisms, etc., to make use of 90% of that rain water flowing outside the buildings on the roads, and the ground.
The rains currently in chennai have had all present storage dams and reservoirs full which will help supply needs for another 3 months, but after that nothing.
Do we need to store more beyond this?
A definite yes, water being the major resource needed in many activities and even for developing the infrastructure to store water.
But, the Good news is,
For now, chennai is better off on its water crisis.
Related links:
msn.co.in : India weather
I am with this entry and comments testing an implementation of the CAPTCHA test called 'rndPlate' ..
---------------Update 1 ----21-oct-05
The test could not be done. This blog is hosted on a MovableType blogging platform, and studying its structure, and finding where to add my code to implement RND Plate for comments is a time consuming job. I tried one full day but whatever file in movabletype i change it didn't seem to effect the blog.
So, for now I am postponing the implementation on this blog. But as such, rndPlate service is hosted as a free-to-use service for web developers at, http://floresense.com/
Related Links:
Read about: What's CAPTCHA test, or What's RND Plate
Read about: How rndPlate will help your SPAM protect your webForms.
Its easy to express yourself writing books, or blogs, or having a web portal, and voicing your voice through a medium your company has.
But if you are a search engine company and you want to raise your views through this search engine how would you do it, that too without adding a new web link to the page or some inner page in the search engine.
Google has its way of expressing..
Linking keywords to the "I'm Feeling lucky" button.
For example, type the word "failure" in the search box and click the "I'm Feeling lucky" button, to see what google team feels as the topmost failure in the world.
Adding caricatures to the google brand image on the search engine website.
Suppose its christmas, your visit to google.com would be slightly different. In the interest of finding the search results many people miss this..
Google's logo on all the pages.
Yes the images look different from the normal google brand image just to imply the festivity or some occassion.. On a 'Christmas day' you could find a christmas tree part of the google logo.
What better, if you don't get the festivity linked with the caricature in the image, then right-click on the image and see its 'Properties'. The name of the image will have the occassion in it.
For example google logos with expression.. visit here.
Heard of the Tuvalu islands?.. (pronounced Too-va-loo)
No!.. ok.
Heard of costliest internet domain suffix .tv ?
Yes!.. Good. Like every nation has been given a suffix on the internet, like .in for india and .cc for canada, the tuvalu islands got the lucky .tv suffix which incidentally has brought the tiny tiny distant islands into perspective of the world. Hailed, as the fourth smallest country in the world tuvalu islands is making good money with the selling of .tv domains to such extent that it got enough money by 2000 to join the united nations given its small size, population and economy.
The executives at a company Idealabs Inc., in california were quick to estimate the potential of the domain suffix allocated to tuvalu islands, and took full exclusive license to sell .tv domain names to customers through the company dotTV (http://www.tv). Through the deal tuvalu islands would be paid a huge sum for every year in royalty and licences for a decade to come.
Tuvalu has around 10000 people in its country and only 27 square miles in size (should be approx 70 sqkm). It is the fourth smallest country in the world in terms of area - behind the Vatican City, Monaco and Nauru. In terms of the population it is the second smallest, with only the Vatican City having fewer people.
The country made big money through its jackpot with internet. Other than the .tv domains, the country earns steady revenue through its ISD code 688 which became popular because of the sequence (again lucky) through which lots of phoneSex calls are routed by various countries. The island though feels embarrased on this aspect.
Another core revenue earner for tuvalu is stamps.
Since achieving independence in 1978 from the british who ruled till then, much of Tuvalu's foreign earnings have come from the sale of its postage stamps.
Related links:
BBC Report: Tiny tuvalu joins UN
Tuvalu islands website
Tuvalu News: Tuvalu will be paid $50 million in royalties for .tv
wiki - on idealab
Idealab official website
I started another blog today to parallely write my various detailed veiws on topics.. (It gets too over loaded writing it alongwith normal stuff. )
This blog is 'Jas, Preet, Mark, Mano and Raj'. I call it JPMMR.
"Sounds good?"
Wondering how that name.. Visit the blog to find out.
Thanks for your visit.
Link: http://jpmmr.blogspot.com/
