4th Time - Narayana Murthy most admired biz leader

For four consecutive years, Narayana Murthy is judged as "Most Admired Biz Leader" by students of 12 Management Institutes. Infosys and Tata Firms are ranked as most attractive to work.

Happy Valentine's day !!!

All things work together for your good when your heart is filled with love...

My heart is filled with love therefore I expect everything in my life to work together to create wondrous blessings for me this and every day.

In my mind's eye I experience the Divine love that dwells within my heart. I imagine that this love is growing larger and larger until it overflows into my body, mind, and world.

I see this love going before me creating joy, peace,prosperity, happiness, health, and success in my life. I imagine this love attracting to me every good and perfect gift that God has planned for me. In my mind's eye, I see myself going throughout my day radiating love to everyone I meet. People and situations are instantly transformed by the power of Divine Love and they respond to me in a loving manner. I am filled with joy and love all day long. I combine these images with joy and let them go, knowing that they will create the good things I am visualizing and thinking...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!...

LIVE ..LAUGH and LOVE-------Sethu

Welcome Dude !!!

[Pic: Kumudam.com]
Happy to read the current projects of A.R.Rehman in tamil films this year. He explains the reasons for his long wait and the time to score a good music for his films. He also talks about tsunami and remember about Kuran's words. Good accolades go to Udit Narayanan and Sadhana Sargam for their voices getting popular in Tamil. Also talks about the individual styles of Yuvan,Vidhya Sagar and Harris Jeyaraj.

2014 - EPIC, GoogleZon, Google Grid

If you have not watched it already, go ahead and watch it. The story is definitely "fascinating, amusing and unnerving". Have a look.

"In the year 2014,The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?"

The 'Evolving Personalized Information Construct' (EPIC) is a look at how the media industry might be like in 2014. It is an 8 minute flash presentation by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. Pick a random mirror.

It also talks about GoogleZon (the alliance of Google and Amazon in 2008) and the Google Grid.

Also read the article from News.com

My New Favorite Word

Dooced - Losing your job for something you wrote in your online blog, journal, website, etc. The thing that's funny to me is that this happens so frequently that there is an actual word to describe the event...

Finally Mark Jen talks about his termination from Google as he revealed the financial information and future products of search giant Google. One more of the same kind is published at Washington Post

VISA Credit Card Verification....

Neat move being enforced. A short while from now onwards, it appears that all 'Visa' credit card holders will mandatorily get and have to use username and passwords for online transactions. Hopefully this will reduce online credit card misuse/fraud.

Dear Member,

Please accept grateful thanks from www.irctc.co.in for your continued patronage and support for our services. As you know we have been continuously upgrading our services and making them more user friendly and secure, as a continuous on going effort. We now wish to familiarize you with the latest facility to ensure the security of your Visa Credit Cards.

The new programme is 'Verified by Visa' and covers the Visa Credit Cards issued by all the banks across the world. This facility is being just introduced in India and IRCTC is proud to be the only website in India to have this facility introduced.

The banks participating in 'Verified by Visa' Programme would be issuing secure passwords and / or user Ids to all their credit card holders. The card holder while transacting on our site would be required to give input of these additional passwords / user Ids by which it will be fully ensured that a particular credit card is being transacted on the site only by the person in whose name the card has been issued.

This facility is being introduced in our website on the ICICI Payment Gateway within the next couple of weeks and is expected to benefit a majority of credit card users on our website.

Booking Process :-

1) On selecting the ICICI PG option you will enter the normal particulars of the card such as Card No., type, Validity and the CVV 2 value.

2) You will be taken to a secured page of VISA where you will be asked to enter the VbV user id and password issued by your credit card issuing bank (please get in touch with the bank which has issued your Visa Credit Card for the user id and password).

3) Once the details are entered, your card will be authenticated and the necessary amount processed for crediting to IRCTC and your tickets subsequently booked.

Initially, for a transaction period the option to purchase your tickets with and without the VbV facility will be available to you for a short while. After the initial period VbV compliance process would be mandatory for all Visa Card holders.

This new facility is going to be of immense benefit to you as a customer and also to IRCTC since it will be ensuring that no unauthorized person would be able to use a Visa Card on our site.

For further details on this scheme please visit this Page.

Thanking you and offering our best efforts in your services AS always.

Yahoo Toolbar embraces Firefox !!!

Yahoo today released a beta version if its Yahoo Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, bringing the toolbar's personalization features to the popular open source browser.

The Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox can be downloaded here. Currently the Toolbar is available for Windows only. The Anti-Spy security feature of the Yahoo Toolbar is not yet ready for Firefox but will be offered in a future update.

HP ousts CEO Carly Fiorina

The board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company has announced the dismissal of Carleton S Fiorina with immediate effect. She is judged as the world's most powerful woman in business for three years by Fortune magazine!! I am really surprised how HP can take such a dumb decission?
*Updated News!
HP to pay $21M severance package.

Google Updates...

Google India Code Jam 2005. Java and C++ geeks, get-set-go and face the challenge.

Google Maps [Beta] was out yesterday. For Google users in the US it's a huge welcome as Google maps is well integrated with Google Local. A very nice analysis of how Google Maps work.

Week end film tit bits !!

I bet no one can write a better review like Lazygeek Guru for BLACK. I am completely driven by his review. I wish his review to get published to a National News paper or any website. Rediff has showcased Black. MSN review on Black. Also read Ravi K Chandran's interview on working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Maniratnam at Vikatan.

February 14 - Kadal pirnathanal to be directed by Hosimin. Another director coming out from Shankar's team. Kadal by Balaji Sakthivel of S (Shankar) films is already making a big wave.

Kamal's assistant director Ashok is directing his debut film "Ayul Rekhai".

Raghuvaran a versatile actor speaks out from his inner mind. Yesudas and his wonderful thoughts behind Tsunami. Yuvan tunes for his life with sweet heart Suja to be released on March 20. Ace spinner Mutthiah Muralidharan is clean bold in his life by Mathi Malar and this match is scheduled for March 21.

Malayalam director Lokidha Das, who was behind every one to get awards from MohanLal to Meera Jasmine is entering into Tamil Industry for making his successful film "Kasthuri Maan", which was highly successful in Kerala.

The wait is over!. James Bond has found his next director!

Yahoo's Y!Q Contextual Search Beta

"Just days after Microsoft unvieled its new MSN search, Yahoo released a new search tool called Y!Q that allows users to search within the context of the web pages they are currently viewing. It's not the typical textbox input search, and you don't even have to leave the current page you're on to use it. The current release is only the beta version."

You can embed the Y!Q in your own page and I have it in my "Get Firefox 1.0" post below. You can also extend Firefox to use Y!Q.

Get FireFox 1.0

It's really encouraging to use Firefox. I really can't say enough about how great it is. I use Firefox exclusively for web browsing on both my PC and my Laptop. It's not even about not using Microsoft products; it's just a better browser.

For those of you who aren't using Firefox, kids, what are you thinking???

(If you're using Safari or something, I'll let you go.)

I have two words for you: tabbed browsing. I promise once you try it, you'll never be able to go back. It's hard to explain why it's better than having multiple Internet Explorer windows open, but it really, really is. Get Firefox and it has tons of cool extensions.

Technology Trendz - Job alerts on Mobile

Job seekers can register with RecruitGuru and receieve job alerts from Airtel. This service is currenly available in Mumbai and free till Feb 28th 2005.

Kollywood Kalakals

Vikram has bagged the best actor for Pithamagan and Meera Jasmine for best actress as their National Award for the year 2003.

Selvaraghavan gives a back up for Dhanush on a comback trail. Selvaraghavan - Dhanush - Sonia - Yuvan - Arvind Krishna join hands(again !) for Pudhupet [not Oru Naal Oru Kanavu], this could probably be Dhanush's ladyluck for 2005. All the best mappilla.

Cheran would probably change back his new flicks's name from Touring Talkies to Thavamai Thavam Irundhu. The movie is rolling in Kaaraikudi.

Also check out Raam. Trailer seems to be exciting and the music score is also good by Yuvan.

India gets a desi Schumacher

It's official now. Narain Karthikeyan, India's fastest driver, has finally steered into the fast lane of motorsport which is Formula 1. He will be driving for Team Jordan for the 2005 season, which comprises of a total of 19 races, starting in Australia on March 6 and concluding in China on October 16.