The Oresund bridge which connects Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden through the Oresund strait is a true piece of engineering (architects will think otherwise ). This bridge re-defines the meaning of the word "bridge" and actually goes underwater to let the big ships pass through it. The bridge also has two levels; the upper one for vehicles and the lower one for trains. A solid example of innovation and usability.

Came across something interesting and hence thought of sharing it here. These two displays are one of the biggest displays at The Times Square in NYC.

 

So here i am sitting, far away from civilisation and my loved ones, celebrating v-day and my b-day....well, if having a nap qualifies as a celebration. Never had I thought that I would ever land up somewhere in rural Nova Scotia. I still remember my earliest birthdays and the birthday parties at school and home. Sometimes, it all seems so unreal...all those years in Lucknow and Dehradun seem to be a distant haze now.

For those of you electrical engineers who want to work on the XBOX 360 team at Microsoft, they are hiring ! I so wish I had graduated by now so that I could apply for these dream jobs ! Also, another place to keep your eye is the JobsBlog. Kudos to Gretchen and her team for maintaing such a good blog !!

As spoken about earlier on other blogs, 30 Boxes has begun its beta. It is an online calendaring service and has a very simple and slick UI. Adding an event is very easy and one can associate an event with different tags. Events can be automatically identified by keywords present in them and they would be scheduled accordginly. For example if you enter "Julie's birthday 14 Feb", it will automatically add the event as a annual recurring event. Everything is cool, but I would have loved it if it had a Outlook sync facility

I recently received a forward from one of my buddies. Now, usully i find them quite a waste of time, but this time i chose to read it...found it pretty interesting. Say "I love you" in different languages. Note the american way

 

UPDATE: I just added Albanian support ! Thanks Joli ! 

Albanian: Të dua

Afrikaans ? Ek is lief vir jou

American ? Have a beer

Australian ? 'ave another

Arabic ? Ana Ahebak / Ana Bahibak     

Cantonese ? Ngo Oi Nei

Chinese ? Gnoy oy na

Danish ? Jeg eisker dig

Dutch ? Ik hou van jou

English ? I love you

Finnish ? Mina rakastan sinua

French ? Je t'aime / Je t'adore

German ? Ich liebe Dich

Greek ? S'agape

Hawaiian ? Aloha wau ia 'oe

Hebrew ? Ani ohevet ota

Indonesian ? Saya cinta padamu

Italian ? Ti amo

India? Mein tumse Pyar Karta Hoon

Japanese ? Anata wa, dai suki desu

Korean ? Sa Lang Hae / Na No Sa Lan Hei

Mandarin ? Wo Ai Ni

Norwegian ? Jeg eisker deg

Persian ? Tora Doost Darem

Romanian ? Te iubesc

Russian ? Ya tebya liubliu

Spanish ? Te quiero / Te amo / Yo amor tu

Swahili ? Naku panda

Swedish ? Jag alskar dig

Swiss German ? Ch-ha di garn

Tagolog ? Mahal kita / Inilbig kita

Turkish ? Seni seviyorum

Vietnamese ? Toi yeu em

I have been planning on building a new machine for a long time now and retire my trusty old DELL Inspiron 1100. I started buying all the individual parts by the end of december 2005 and January 2006. My last package comprising of the case and the CPU was delivered to my work yesterday. I could not wait to go home and assemble all the parts together and breathe life into the new machine. The specs are as follows:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 3200+ 2.0 Ghz
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-VM CSM
Hard Disk: Western Digital WD1600JD 160 GB SATA-2 drive
RAM: OCZ 1024 MB RAM
Optical Storage:  Pioneer DVR-110 16x +/- Dual Layer DVD Burner

TV Tuner card: Hauppage WinTV PVR-150
Case: Antec Aria

Operating Systen: Windows XP Media Center Edition

It took me about 2-3 hours to assemble everything in the MicroATX case. Getting everything in the MicroATX case is touger, but to do any kind of cable management in that case is even tougher ! I finally pressed the power switch and my machine whirred into life. Thereafter i installed the best OS;Windows XP Professional with SP2, and i was amazed at the fast performance. Today sometime i plan to dual/triple boot with Windows XP MCE. Windows Vista Build 5270 and Winodws XP x64 edition.

Today Nova Scotia is getting hit by a major snowstorm and everything is shut in Halifax, except ofcourse, Nautel ! So, here i am at work (walked it all the way in -18 celsius and 20 cms snow) and i have nothing to do since no one else in my team is here. But its essential to get paid, right ?