At one particular restaurant in Tamil Nadu, I came across a Viagara Milkshake listed on the menu under the "Ice Creams" section !

And no, I didn't order it !

My mom's friend went on an African Trip (Kenya and Tanzania) during the last 10 days of August. Just before she left for her journey, I told her about the infamous Battle at Kruger video that was first aired on YouTube a couple of months back (even though it was shot in 2004). [ YouTube Link ]

The chances of an incident like the Kruger Battle happening is like once in a 100 years - let alone capturing it on video. But then, in 10 yrs from now, Google would probably be recording everything happening on earth on every centimeter square ! Google for incidents !

I told my mom's friend to capture whatever and how much ever possible - to look for possible signs of attacks etc. Well...unfortunately nothing really happened, though there were times where something was about to happen but aborted sooner than later.

Anyway, here are some really nicely shot snaps of African Wildlife.

The 2 cheetahs are hunting for something else in front of the giraffe !






Zebra Crossing !


Definitely not hunting to be walking on the path of car tracks !



Even the Hippo's skin ain't think enough !


This is my favourite !
A strange blue-red chameleon (?) on the edge of a rock surrounded by big bones !


This is in a cage


Flamingos


Bambis




Excellent looking colourful bird. Wish I knew the name of the species.


No closeups of the cute little cubs !
Budget digicams have got to increase their zoom power to much more !

There are people who'll pay up tons for a nice short non-trade-marked domain name. Most people are under the impression that a very short domain name will fetch better results on a visitor stand-point-of-view.
But these days, this is not necessarily true since there are so many million worth visiting websites that it would impossible to remember the name of the website even if its based on a commonly used word. Thats the reason why social bookmarking sites are on the rise. Plus, with bookmarking features that have improved rapidly like synchronizing between FireFox's and Google's bookmarks, users have only become lazier to use the keyboard even if its a.com. And if they did use the keyboard, they'll do a search for the exact domain name and then click on the exact url link in the SERP - which they already 'unconsciencely' know ! This is very evident from the AOL data leak on August 4th, 2006 - for those of you who know what I'm talking about - others, do a simple search and you'll be enlightened.

Anyway, for those of you who think that a very long wierd looking domain name can never make it (visitor stand-point-of-view), check out this 63 character long domain (3 is the subdomain here)
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com !

Now, how many of that it's visitors could've entered it by typing it directly in the browser's address bar ? Either you got to be a Shakuntala Devi or you got be solid at vedic maths.

Boredom lead me to making this post today. Exactly 10 years ago, back in 1997 when I entered 10th grade we had an additional academic subject which was computer science. In early 1998 I submitted my 10th grade project called "Nitrogen" which was written in Microsoft's GW-BASIC for DOS. I did this somwhere in August/September of '97. Those days in our school, there wasn't any harddisk in the 80286 machines - we had to boot using our 1.44in floppy diskette that was formatted with MS-DOS - and run whatever we could that was loaded in our floppy disk. I think that that system may bubble back soon if a 100GB USB pen drive could be used to boot the PC directly. [ Strangely, I can't seem to get a screenshot of a DOS app with graphics in WinXP. I even tried graphics.com but in vain. The screenshot I got is one that I took long ago probably on a Win98 PC. ] The NITROGEN.BAS is the original GW-BASIC source code which required line number in increments of 10. The NTG files are the docs files and 3 of the 4 DAT files are the coordinates + colours information for the 3 animations in the program. GW-BASIC is an interpreter, the nitrogen.exe file was created using Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 which had a compiler as well. Download