Archive for November, 2009
Sachin Tendulkar – A Genius in Perennial Agony
“This little prick’s gonna get more runs than you, AB” said Merv Hughes to Allan Border. This happened when Border was only few runs short of 10,000 and sachin was in his teens. You can dissect this statement in two different ways.
1) Merv Hughes is an extraordinary visionary
2) The genius of Sachin was very evident.
I [...]
175 from 141 of Sachin – when solitude met Immortality.
What a knock? 175 from 141 balls, while chasing a mammoth total of 351. People have short term memory loss; this year sachin has scored 3 centuries (the highest by anyone this year) at a very good average better than most others. Yet people say he has grown old, and he should hang up his [...]
How to make the system (PC or Laptop) work faster
Whenever we buy a new computer (PC or laptop) we find the speed of the computer to be good. Over a period of time, the computer slows down. There are various reasons for this slowing down. The major factors are
1) Disk fragmentation
2) Spyware and malware
3) Registry errors
4) Start up errors
The major reason though is the [...]
Nuclear Warfare in Ancient India: the proofs beyond doubt
While researching Indus Valley Civilisation, I stumbled upon some articles regarding Nuclear Warfare in Ancient India.. I have posted it from various sources with some editing..
Julius Robert Oppenheimer is remembered as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”. During a college lecture, a student asked “‘Was the atomic test at Alamagordo the first nuclear blast?”
(The student [...]