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Places to visit around bangalore

There are lot of places to visit around Bangalore.There are a few one day trips and a few that can be done in 2-3 days.
One beauty of Bangalore is, you find hills all around Bangalore. 50-70 kms in any direction going out of Bangalore, you fill find hills.
On Tumkur road, you will find Devarayana Durga, Shivagange etc.
On Mysore road, you will find RamNagar
On Bellary road, you will find Nandi hills
On Hosur road, you will find KrishnaGiri.
On kanakpura road, you will find kabbal durga
On Magadi Road, you will find Savana Durga

There are a lot of pilgrimage spots to visit as well.

-----Place------Dist----Type
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Sri-Ram-Betta---50--Piligrim
Rangasthala-----60--Piligrim
Savana-Durga----60--Hill
Ghati-Subramanya70--Piligrim
Nandi-hills-----70--Hill-stn
Revanasiddesh-be70--Piligrim
Shiva-gange-----70--Piligrim
Antharagange----75--Piligrim
Chikka-Thirupath75--Piligrim
Kanva-reservoir-80--Dam
Mekedatu--------80--Ravine
Kaivara---------85--Piligrim
Sheebi----------90--Temple-Paint
Devarayana-durga100-Piligrim
Kokkare-Belluru-100-Birds-sanctu
Kudumalai-------100-Piligrim
Melukote--------100-Piligrim
Muththathhi-----100-River
Vidurashwatha---100-Piligrim
Sri-Rangapatna--120-Piligrim
Bheemeswari-----125-River
Karighatta------125-Piligrim
Shivasamudram---125-Water-fall
Ranganathittu---130-Birds-sanctu
Adi-chunchanagir140-Piligrim
Lepakshi--------140-Piligrim
Mahadevapura----140-River
Mysore----------140-Historical
Shravana-Belugol140-Piligrim
Hogenakal-------150-Water-fall
KRS,-Balamuri---150-Barrage
Mudukuthore-----150-Piligrim
Talakadu--------150-Piligrim
Chunchana-katte-160-Water-fall
Kadiri----------160-Piligrim
Nanjanagudu-----160-Piligrim
T.-Narasipur----170-Piligrim
Sathanur-dam----175-Dam
Somanathapur----175-Archeology
Hemagiri--------200-Water-fall
Ramanathapura---200-Piligrim
Tiruvannamalai--200-Piligrim
Halebeedu-------210-Archeology
B.-R-.-Hills----220-Hill-station
Bandipur--------220-Wild-life
Gopalaswamy-bett220-Piligrim
Harangi---------220-Landscape
Nisarga-Dhama---220-Land-scape
Kabini----------230-Wild-life
Nagarahole------230-Wild-life
Belur-----------240-Archeology
Mudumalai-------240-Wild-life
Yercaud---------240-Hill-station
Bababudangiri---250-Hill-station
Irpu------------250-Water-fall
Kemmannugundi---260-Hill-station
Kudrehabbe------260-Landscape
Talakaveri------260-Land-scape
Bhadra----------270-Wild-life
Manikyadhara----270-Water-fall
Muthodi---------270-Wild-life
Subramanya------275-Piligrim
M.-M.-Hills-----280-Piligrim
Bisle-----------300-Hill-station
Gajanur---------300-Barrage
Horanadu--------300-Piligrim
Mandagadde------300-Birds-sanctu
Shringeri-------350-Piligrim
Ulvi------------300-Birds-sanctu
Nagar-----------320-Archeology
Ooty------------320-Hill-station
Coonoor---------340-Hill-station
Ikkeri----------340-Archeology
Keladi----------340-Archeology
Dharmasthala----350-Piligrim
Hampi-----------350-Historical
Hampi-----------350-Archeology
Kudremukh-------350-Hill-station
Mantralaya------350-Piligrim
T.B.-Dam--------350-Dam
Varadahalli-----350-Landscape
Agumbe----------357-Hill-station
Moodabidiri-----360-Archeology
Gudavi----------375-Birds-sanctu
Humbucha--------380-Archeology
Jog-------------380-Water-fall
Karkala---------380-Archeology
Kaup------------380-Beach
St.-Mary's-Islan386-Landscape
Katil-----------387-Piligrim
Devarahole------400-River
Magodu-falls----400-Water-fall
Mrudeshwara-----400-Piligrim
Satodi-falls----400-Water-fall
Udupi-----------415-Piligrim
Honnavar--------425-Piligrim
Gokarna---------460-Piligrim
Maravanthe------467-Beach
Badami-&-Aihole-500-Caves
Kollur----------500-Piligrim
Kollur-forest---520-Wildlife
Yana------------580-Landscape
Gokak-falls---------Water-fall
Varaahi-------------Landscape
Koravangala-----200-Archeology
Ridge-----------250-Landscape
Mosale----------200-Archeology
Doddagadduvalli-200-Archeology
Munnar---------550--Hill-station

A BRIDGE TOO FAR

A BRIDGE TOO FAR ……Awesome…..!!!!!!!!!

The Lord surveyed the Ram Setu and said "Hanuman, how diligently and
strenuously you and your vanara sena had built this bridge several
centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of
the climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an
amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad
built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even
before they could stick the posters on its pillars."

Hanuman with all humility spoke "Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your
grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the
sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was
ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now."

Ram spoke "Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the
bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot
of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more
money on construction. "

Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case"

Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us
to submit age proof and we don't have either a birth certificate or
school leaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in
bullock carts and so we don't have a driving license either. As far as
the address proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is
itself under litigation for over half a century, If I go in a
traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize
me but Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer
a seat at IIT under the reserved category. Also, a God cannot walk in
dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival. It would make
even the devotees suspicious. So it is dilemma so to say."

"I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge."

"My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce
the lay-out plan, the project details, including financial outlay and
how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is
accepted without documentary evidence in India . You may cough but
unless a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present
himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has
to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that
complicated."

"Lord can't understand these historians. Over the years you have given
darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint
Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still
they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The only
option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government
records straight once for all."

Lord smiled "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may
look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama
Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was
in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on
earth as long as Salman Khan is around."

Jai Shree Ram


PS: Not sure who the original author of the post is. I got it as an email forward and posted it. I found a couple of links on the net posting the same article.

http://markets.moneycontrol.com/india/messageboardblog/16/51/message_thread/1922761/2222807
http://whimsicalmind.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/a-bridge-too-far/

Balle Balle - India won the T20 world cup

What a great day for Indian cricket. India won their first Twenty 20 world championship. What a great show by the players. They played as a team and held their nerve till the last. There were too many anxious moments in the match. The match was never over until the last over. I was thinking that Misbah almost pulled the match away from India. Thanks to some sensible bowling and fielding from Indians. Good catches were taken.
There was heavy traffic today evening after 4.30 p.m. Everyone trying to head back home to watch the match.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has achieved a one of the greatest success in his life and that too while serving his first series as a captain of Indian cricket team.

The team which won the world cup

G Gambhir
Yusuf Pathan
R Uthappa
Y Singh
MS Dhoni (captain)
R Sharma
I Pathan
J Sharma
Harbhajan Singh
S Sreesanth
RP Singh

Source of photos http://www.cricinfo.com/

Indian Idol 3

I am forced to watch some of these programs like Indian Idol, Nach Baliye etc. The TV gets hogged during these shows at home.
Yesterday, there was the finals of Indian Idol 3 program on Sony TV and we were all watching the show. The anchor said that people of India were voting to chose the winner of the contest. What surprised me was when he said that they had received more than 7 crore (70 million) SMS votes. First reaction would be - WOW.

But then, if you put your thinking caps on, what occurs is -

In a country of 100 crore, 70% leave in villages. So I don't think that they would vote.
That leaves 30 crore people to vote.
Of this 30 crore, I guess the whole of TN, Kerala and many of the other south Indian states would not be watching Hindi channels.
So, we can reduce another 5 crore of the urban crowd.
That leaves only 25 crore people to vote
Assume that most of the people from other states, would like to watch Tele serials in Hindi and their local language. And also assuming that there are many poeple who would watch other music, sports etc channels, I can conveniently reduce the audience watching sony TV to less than 10 crore - I find this number to be very big too ( Unfortunately, I don't have any live statistics or any TPC numbers - all these numbers are arrived by me by some guess and logic).
Now there are other similar programs (song and dance competition) on STAR TV and other channels which are telecast at the same time. These programs attract good number of audience as well.
Many of the remaining viewers are students on prepaid and other middle class folks with a lot of them on life time free incoming scheme (this scheme doesn't have any messaging or outgoing facility).
Now the voting crowd (in my opinion) is definitely reduced to less than 7 crore (which is the number of votes received). Now think, how many people out of this lot would have cell phones.
With the SMS charges to these programs costing between Rs 3 - 5, how many people would send SMS to make someone win a contest. Even if we go by the logic that some people (5 percent of voting crowd) vote multiple times, 7 crore votes can't be reached.

I think, the numbers are just built up by the TV channels to generate curiosity amongst the audience. 7 crore votes NO CHANCE.

Spiderman Ganesha

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Yuvraj 6 Sixes vs England Twenty20 World Cup Match

What a match it was between Indian and England. Yuvaraj Singh was at his best, scoring 6 sixes in an over. Thats a World T20 record. No one has done it before.
When Yuvi got out, commentator said, that Yuvi came like a Thunder and went like a lightning.










Watch the video ball by ball where yuvi scores 6 sixes



Hope India beats South Africa today and go over to the next round

Bangalore Rains

It has been raining continuously in the past few days in Bangalore. Rains are good signs, but can Bangalore handle so much rains. Infact Bangaloreans fear rains.
Rains brings Bad roads, overflowing drainages, pot holes, traffic jams, flooded roads, power cuts and lot more agonies. Bangalore is one of the world's most preferred destinations for IT, BPO and call centers. This city has created jobs for lakhs of people. There is money flowing everywhere. Govt is collecting a lot more taxes. But where is all the money going. Why is Bangalore infrastructure so bad. I won't talk about how Govt should wake up to improve infrastructure. This gets discussed every day in the media. I just hope that something will be done to address issue and we can enjoy the rains in the coming days. We used to enjoy the rain a lot when we were kids. I hope that our kids too enjoy the same. Bangalore should take cue from Mumbai which receives a lot more rains than Bangalore and that too for months.
Just a glimpse, of what happened to our roads last week.

Silk board junction

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Reenactment

New announcements from SUN

Today Sun Microsystems made a couple of annoucements. These two announcements will help SUN expand its business with customers where it doesn't have an account.

1. Sun and Microsoft have announced an expanded relationship including Sun becoming a Windows Server OEM Read more on this at
http://www.sun.com/software/windows/
Sun Streams Through Windows

2. Sun Acquire Assets of Cluster File Systems, Including the Lustre File System

About Cluster File Systems, Inc.

Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is a leader in high-performance, scalable cluster file system technology. Extensive experience, innovative insights, and proven engineering have enabled CFS to dramatically surpass the scalability limits of modern computing. The Company's premier Lustre File System currently powers clusters with ten of thousands of nodes and petabytes of data, delivering groundbreaking parallel I/O and metadata throughput on many of the world's largest Linux-based supercomputers. CFS provides technical support, training, and engineering services, and is actively working with storage and cluster vendors to develop the next generation of intelligent storage devices. The Lustre File System for Linux is open source software developed and maintained by CFS. For more information, visit www.clusterfs.com.

Read more on this on
Sun Microsystems Expands High Performance Computing Portfolio




Additionally, there were more announcements earlier
The technology landscape shifted again earlier, with another announcement between Sun and IBM - IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org community.

Get a life

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Sun Seeks 1-For-4 Reverse Stock Split

If the reverse stock split is approved by our stockholders, Sun will exchange one new share for every four outstanding shares. As a result, Sun would have one-fourth as many outstanding shares, but each share would be worth approximately four times as much. In general, a reverse stock split will not impact the market value of Sun as a whole

Read more on
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070905/sun_microsystems_stock.html?.v=3

How JAVA got its name

James Gosling the father of Java says, how it was named

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Begin forwarded message:

From: James Gosling
Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT
To: Jonathan Schwartz
Subject: How was Java named?

The story goes like this:

We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name.

Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could neither afford the price nor the time of a conventional product naming process. He agreed to do something rather odd, but effective and quick: he acted as a facilitator at a meeting where about a dozen of us locked ourselves in a room for an afternoon. He started asking us questions like "How does this thing make you feel?" (Excited!) "What else makes you feel that way?" (Java!) We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words. Then he put us through a sorting process where we ended up with a ranking of the names. We ended up with a dozen name candidates and sent them off to the lawyers: they worked down the list until they hit one that cleared their search. "Java" was the fourth name on the list. The first name on the list was "Silk", which I hated but everyone else liked. My favorite was "Lyric", the third one on the list, but it didn't pass the lawyers test. I don't remember what the other candidate names where.

So, who named Java? Marketing organized the meeting, the consultant ran it, and a whole pile of us did a lot of yelling out of random words. I'm honestly not real sure who said "Java" first, but I'm pretty sure it was Mark Opperman.

There certainly wasn't any brilliant marketing mind who went through a coherent thought process.

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Sun Ranks amongs Top IT Employers in India

Sun Microsystems with an employee base of about 1,000 made its entry into the Dataquest-IDC Best Employers listing at No, 10 largely driven by a high employee satisfaction score. It scores high on compensation and topped the rank on the new age priority, work-life balance.
Read more India's top IT employers http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=43817&lmn=1