Texas Tech Vs OSU

                              An one sided game. No wonder people call Texas Tech offense as a machine. They score within a blink of the eye. 56  (TTU) vs 20(OSU) says what's this machine is capable of. Credit has to be given to TTU defense also. To be frank they took the revenge they were waiting for. Ruffnil, defense coordinator was pumped up, this defense is ready to go a long way. 

                             Mike Gundy is a man, and he is 41. On Monday, the papers will write about him as requested last year. Texas Tech and alabama are the only undefeated teams in the BCS. Not many are expecting Texas Tech to be there for the BCS championship and that's good as long as there is less expectations.

                          Go Tech Go!!!

                          Photos of Texas Tech Vs OSU

Want to be a Networking Geek?

                             Came across an article about networking on CNN website, thought of sharing it. In the age of recession, you need more ways to earn a job. What are those ways? The most prominent means that strikes my mind is Networking. Even to promote my blog, I need someone like google search, who learns about me and makes me reach you. Networking also does the same. More you are exposed, the more your doors will be knocked. I have always tried to network, but I was not sure were I stood in terms of the strategies I used to network.

                            An article from CNN made it easy for me to gauge my networking skills. Here is an article about networking and a Quiz to assess your Networking abilities.

Article about Networking                      

Networking :Self assessment Test

Cricinfo Live

Live Score, Cricket Live

Texas Vs Texas Tech : The clash of the Titans

I'm so proud to say that I was a part of the electrifying crowd to witness the victory of Texas Tech over the much hyped Longhorns. There was a battle within a battle, and that was the race for the Heisman trophy. Anyone can say that the battle between Harrel and Mccoy was easily won by Harrel. 4 sacks and a Interception in a game for a Heisman trophy runner, Hmm.. that's not great. Now, that makes 5 for Mccoy in the season and Harrel has 4. Harrel made a huge difference in the passing yards.

A drive which did'nt even last for 90 seconds and resulted in a touch down says what was Texas defence. The defense helped crabtree to score the final and match winning touch down with just a second left for the Longhorns to start forgetting about the National championships.

Throughout the match there was one thought in my mind, " Why crabtree has not made any plays yet?, Is he living upto the Expectation when it comes to the big matches?". He answered when whole of West Texas was hoping to not go down by a point. Big players make big palys during big games.

On a whole it was a memorable game for Texas Tech. This win will take Texas Tech forward in many ways. I'm happy to be a part of Texas Tech. Go Raiders Go!!!!

Top 10 Tech Flops by CNN

I'm surprised to see a few products here. One of them are "Spores" by EA. At first, it seemed to be a good concept, but later on,the consumers who are the heroes made EA to realize the gaming is more oriented towards action than talent, Which is more evident by the success of NFL. Apple saw a rare setback with Mac Book air. Something they have not tasted for a long time.
I don't know much about the camera's. Vista, the name can speak for itself. Why don't Microsoft think about developing on XP. At least then the consumers will have some hope on Microsoft. Now the cry for monopoly of Microsoft has come down and it's good for the market.


Top 9 Tech Flops

Dell's newly designed laptops

Dell has released their newly designed laptops. They are hopeful that the new designs will increase the sales of the their laptops. The designs were designed by a Nigerian designer Joseph Amédokpo. Have a look at the amazing dell designs.

Dell's newly Designed laptops

Allen Stanford's controversial on screen Flirting

                              Nothing great.A very good example of "How Money brings in all kinds of troubles?". Allen stanford was seen with 3 girls, one on the lap and two on the other side of him of a on screen flirting episode. You might ask "What's the big deal? He is a billionaire.". The deal is the girls are england players wife emily prior and girl friend of two other players. Surprisingly england players are upset about this issue and they have called up ECB expressing their discomfort over the behavior of Allan Stanford and timing of the tournament.

Hopefully, Nothing of this sort happens during IPL 2009. Have a look at the video of Allen stanford's on Screen flirting.

Android for $148 at walmart

T-Mobile is all set to launch Android 3G phone. Initial cost will be $179. But, reports indicate that Android will be available for $148 at walmart with a 2 year contract 0r as an upgrade. People are skeptical about 3G on T-Mobile. Since they are still rolling out the 3G and they have not established a comprehensive network so far. Apple will be facing stiff competition from google, If T-Mobile does it part. Already, Google have set a remarkable deal by bringing in Amazon MP3 on android.Amazon MP3 is better than ITunes because, the songs downloaded from Amazon can be played on any device, unlike ITunes store download. So Let's bang the doors of walmart!!

India Vs Australia 3rd Test, Delhi, Live Streaming Links

                                     India vs Australia 3rd Test, Delhi live on cric time website. It works well all the time. Will be updating more live links which are working as the match progresses (i.e After the match starts, 9:30 IST)

                                     
http://www.crictime.com/server1.htm

http://www.crictime.com/server2.htm
http://www.crictime.com/server3.htm

Flagship status several years away - News

Flagship status several years away - News: "omic impact is not the only positive impact the flagship title will have on the university.

'It's the recognition. It's the opportunity to accurately recognize Texas Tech as one of the leading universities in the world,' he said. 'The research that has already been accomplished here is world-class research.'

Tech System Chancellor Kent Hance said he believes the university already is considered a flagship when talking about top-tier research and teaching.
Continued..."

Biden angered by a Journalist : Video

Yes, Biden had a tough time answering the questions posted by the journalist. But, I feel the questions are well within the boundaries. Probably, Biden would have been surprised to see such a bright journalist.

Biden's response to the questions varied from "Are you Joking?" to " Who writes down all your question?". It was great to watch someone to be grilled like that.

Have a look at the video.

Will Kumble prove his critics wrong?

A long career of a legend is at the brink of an abrupt and disturbing end. 17 wickets in last 8 matches, not the figures the legend would have expected. Which prompted more media scrutiny and the critics to go berserk commenting. Now its time for the legend to send all the critics and doubts go out with the tail between the legs.

No one can doubt the commitment and loyalty the legend has shown towards the game and the country. Yes, he is little bit on the sloppy side when it comes to captaincy. But, the indian media and the people should learn little bit more loyalty and justification when it comes to treating the legends like Kumble, Ganguly, Dravid. The kind of loyalty people and board have shown towards Kumble is much less than what they have shown to Tendulkar.

People find it easier and more comfortable to find their heroes, and much more easier to dump them when they have a rough time.

Legend will show, Why I call him Legend.

Twitter Search Functionality is Down

I have been trying to add a few people whom I admire to my following list for couple of days. But, Twitter keeps giving me messages " Search is down, Please be patient while we are trying to restore it". Frustrating. Since I'm new to twitter I want to play around with it, but I feel there is a bad luck between me and twitter. :-(

India Vs Australia 3rd Test, Delhi, Live Streaming Links

         Will be posting the links 30 minutes before the start of the play. All the links will be live and working links.
            We have a great match ahead. Hopefully India will win. Ferozah Kotla being the lucky venue, the advantage is with India. Australia will be fielding in one spinner and In the case of India they are contemplating of playing three spinners. Australian players are going to have a tough time and lets see how Matthew Hayden's aggressive strategy against Zaheer works.

More Tech refresh will bring in more cricket for you.

Texas Tech Vs Kansas University

                              A lot has been said about the Texas Tech football ratings. A saturday game which was more entertaining during the first half and became a sheer dominance towards the end. Texas Tech beat kansas university 63-21. A wonderful offensive play which put Tech on Top. Now the Red Raiders look forward to the game versus Texas. The big game of my life. And at least now the TV anchors don't have a say about the Tech BCS ratings. Even if they say Leech summed it up in the right way "I don't care about the dumb BCS rating" . Well said Leech . Go Tech Go!!!

Apple Support's Gay Marriage

                            Quite Surprising!! Apple has launched an initiative to support the same sex marriage in california. Apple has helped the cause of same sex marriage by pledging $100000. This cause has also been supported by jeans maker Levi-Strauss.

Business week: Apple for a cause

Top 50 companies to Work for in US

I hope I can end up in any one of these companies. Google still remains at the top. No Doubt about that. The kind of innovations they embark can make any youth to aspire becoming a googler.
Top 50 Companies to work for in US

Something that I would like to do: Time Management

           Exactly the same problem that I face. I keep checking the mails, now and then. Not only mails, but lot of other stuff. I hope the solution provided here works for someone who suffer from similar kind of syndrome.

Business Week: Time Management Video

Zimbabwe : Something that I was Wondering

The value of dollar was going up again the rupee. So we were checking out the value of some other countries and became curious about zimbabwe. And, we asked our friend google and we were startled. I have never seen a 100 billion dollar as single currency. And zimbabwe has it. Something they can be proud about.

CNN article on Inflation in Zimbabwe

We had some funny thoughts about $1 (USD) is equal to almost 100 billion Zimbabwean dollar. So how about a trip to Zimbabwe with just $5? Buy a chopper and roam around? . This thought left us with another question. How much a chopper will cost.

The answer is kind of tricky.
1 loaf of bread = 1.6 trillion Zimbabwean dollar. so, how about,
1 chopper = ??????????????????

If you ever want to be a billionaire or trillionths or even more???

Visit Zimbabwe with a bread packet :)

Hope the Americans does not end up in such kind of situation.

Setting Environment Variables on Mac

I got a Mac and when I wanted to install Ant on it, I was posed with a question of How to set the environment variables on it so that I can install ant.

Things to do:

Have a X11 terminal. (If you don't have X11, get it from your Mac installation CD).

1)create .MacOSX directory in your Home directory.

mkdir .MacOSX.

2)create a new file called environment.plist

echo "" > .MacOSX/environment.plist

3) open environment.plist file in the property editor.

open .MacOSX/environment.plist

4)create a new child as ANT_HOME (It was ANT_HOME for my purpose). And set it as string.

The ANT_HOME variable should be set as the directory where the lib and bin of ANT installation is present.

In my case it was "/Users/acv/ant".

5)  save the environment.plist file and type ant in the terminal.

you will get a message as,

Build Failed.( Because we have not created the buld.xml file yet)

6) Type ant -version on the terminal. If you get the version details then Ant is successfully installed.

That's it! we have learnt how to set environment variable and install ant on Mac.

lets make mac more friendlier.