Bobby

Second time uncle!

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Became a second time uncle today! Dada (Tej – my elder brother) and Iteima (sis-in-law) Mona’s first child was born today at 10:38 AM IST (01:08 AM Eastern). It’s a baby boy and weighs 3 kg. His nickname is Buju.
Buju’s website is at www.maisnam.net/buju/ :). He does not have an email address yet ;).

01:02:03 04/05/06

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This time-date sequence (01:02:03 04/05/06) will only occur once (for each date format) during this millenium. The next one will be in the year 3006!
American Date Format
April 5 2006. 01:02:03 AM
01:02:03 04/05/06
British Date Format
May 4 2006. 01:02:03 AM
01:02:03 04/05/06
Via: email forwards from friends

Hibernate shortcut in Windows Xp

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Create a shorcut (Right click on Desktop > New > Shorcut) and point it to:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate
Tip: If you do not like the default icon, you can change it by
– right clicking on the icon
– choose “Properties”
– click “Change Icon”
– put the following value in the “Look for icons in this file” field:
%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
– click “Ok”
– choose desired icon
– click “Apply”

UT receives largest gift ever – $32.5M from the Haslam family

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“Community leaders Jim and Natalie Haslam and the Haslam Family Foundation have given the University of Tennessee $32.5 million, the largest gift ever to the university from individuals.”
04/06/2006: http://www.utk.edu/news/haslamgift.shtml
04/06/2006: http://pr.tennessee.edu/news/release.asp?id=2417
04/05/2006: KnoxNews
A very generous gift indeed. And in the true Volunteer spirit.

GoogleMail.com

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One of my friends in the UK sent me an email from his Gmail account and I noticed that he had a username@googlemail.com email address instead of a username@gmail.com one. I went to www.googlemail.com and saw that it redirected to Gmail.
At first I thought that a username@googlemail.com email address will be different from a username@gmail.com email address (for example, if username@yahoo.co.uk works, then username@yahoo.com will not work). But later I sent a test email to my own Gmail account using googlemail.com instead of gmail.com and it worked.
I googled a bit (of course :)) and found that Google has problems with the Gmail trademark in the UK and so they are using the googlemail.com address instead of the gmail.com one. More information about this is here and here (cached).
Maybe, this website (www.gmail.co.uk) is the one they are problems with???

Oscar Night

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Tonight is Oscar Night – the 78th Academy Awards.
Here are my votes 🙂
1. Best Picture: Munich
2. Best Director: Steven Spielberg, “Munich”
3. Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “Walk the Line”
4. Best Actress: Keira Knightley, “Pride & Prejudice”
5. Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney, “Syriana”
6. Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, “Capote”
I have not seen any of the films except “Munich” and my choices are based on my own views and so they will most probably not match the ones from the Oscar committee. But anyway here they are :).
Update (8:34 PM 3/5/2006): Here is the Winners list which is updated continously.
Update (11:32 PM 3/5/2006): Here is the final list:
1. Best Picture: Crash
2. Best Director: Ang Lee, “Brokeback Mountain”
3. Best Actor: Philip Hoffman, “Capote”
4. Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, “Walk The Line”
5. Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney, “Syriana”
6. Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, “The Constant Gardener”