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Well ... this is me in the CERN parking lot with The Globe in the background .. There was no real need to post this picture here ... i was just experimenting with Flickr tools and one of them was direct blogging of an image ... coool tooool ....

I visited CERN this weekend (July 22nd) .... CERN - The world's largest particle physics laboratory ... where the web was born! Read more about CERN on their website - http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html CERN's Flagship Project: the LHC - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. The RING for this experiment has a 27 KM circumference extending across Switzerland and France ... Running 100 metres under the ground ... (You will find some pictures with a large circle indicated on a map) http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html Also, in the album, you will find some pictures of a Globe ... Details here - http://globe.web.cern.ch/globe/ It had been a long time since I saw something so massively scientific :-)

Hi All ... I had promised that I will post a blog on the various good news that i have received from people around me, my friends and all ... it is taking a bit to compile ... not because they are too many .. its just that my memory is revealing them one by one at its own snail pace ;-) Will post it soon ... till then enZoy these picture ... In continuation to my earlier Breathtaking blog post ... These pictures were shot a couple of days after the previous one ... Date - 30th October 2005 ... Time - 7 AM early morning (Swiss Time)... Place - On the banks of Lake Leman (Geneva Lake) Once again ... The early morning sun was just about to rise over the Swiss Alps ... I had just reached the lake side ... the first burst of sun rays was just appearing over the Swiss Alps ... You can see the effect :-)

Date - 26th October 2005 ... Time - 7 AM early morning (Swiss Time)... Occasion - My First International Flight ... Place - A couple of 1000 metres above sea level, inside an air plane, flying from Zurich to Geneva, Switzerland Doing what - Staring unbelievably out of the window What I saw .... The early morning sun was just about to rise over the Swiss Alps ... the plane had climbed just above the clouds ... the Swiss Alps visible in the distance as small hills standing on the vast expanses of cloud fields ... You can see the effect :-) btw ... I took this picture using a Canon Powershot SD200 digital camera ... belonging to my friend ... I did not have my own at that time at least ... ;-)

This is the age of World Wide Releases ... Yes .. I am talking about Movies ... Be it Bollywood (Indian) or Hollywood (American) Movies ; These days movies are released all over the world pretty simultaneously unlike the yester years when the movies took several months and sometimes a year or more to be to released over seas ... And with the Internet becoming omnipresent movies are also available on the web for download ... (of course illegally - pirated copies - camera prints and otherwise shot in theatres etc ...) Over the years I had observed the internet availablity of movies coming closer to the actual date of release of movies ... from months it shrunk to months and then to days ... in the past 6 months, i heard several people talk about movies being made available on the intenet for download almost after 2-3 days of release ... weekend upload after movie release on Friday ... I was almost shocked (or lets be more specific ... SURPRISED) to hear from a friend that a certain muc...