Slumdog Millionaire sweep Oscars!!

Good news!! Today "Slumdog Millionaire" - a story of poor boy's rise from slum dwelling to the victory in the game show has made it successfully at Oscars with 8 wins of 10 nominations. Below are the categories against which the movie made its fame.

Category                      Person
Best Picture                  Christian Colson(Producer) & film crew
Directing                     Danny Boyle
Music (Song)                  A R Rahman
Music (Score)                 A R Rahman
Film Editing                  Chris Dickens
Sound Mixing                  Resul Pookutty
Cinematography                Anthony Dod Mantle
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)  Simon Beaufoy

Though there are many questions raised with so many Oscar wins, the welcoming news is that it recognized the much overlooked Indian talent. For instance, though this was not Rahman's best music score, his well deserved win in a way has opened the International platform for him and others.

Photography - Few flicks

Evening Sun at Lumbini Garden.

One liners!

Few one liners which I thought of...

LIFE - Live In Fired Enigma Meaning this world is itself a puzzle. Something very difficult to understand and is a mystery. Our birth has fired or started our journey in this world where we live without understanding the mystery(birth) in a mystery(world). We go through different phases of life each having its own flavor. Choices and Decisions, Truths and Lies, Rights and Wrongs, Beliefs and Actions, and many other things we try to understand and keep correcting our definition as and when we move to higher stages. This underlines an old and well known adage "Change is the only Constant thing". In these stages, our actions are mainly based on what we find correct, but wait that's just only one view we see and what we perceive, whereas world is multi-dimensional. So the ultimate truth i.e., universe or world is a mystery and we are here living in this mystery.

Great Indian Developer Summit 2008!

Great Indian Developer Summit kickstarted very well this year at prestigious IISC Institute, Bangalore. The summit was a five days event starting May 19th till May 23th with three co-located conferences. Starting with Bleeding-edge .NET (2 days) and Rich Web (day) until Daring Java, it was fully power packed with more than 100 sessions from 60+ speakers and over 3000 technical enthusiasts as audience.

It was Icing on the cake by having speakers like Jesse James Garrett and others. The parallel sessions made the audience to hop between different halls all the time. The summit was a success as it offered incisive insight through keynotes, focused sessions, lightning talks, power panels, Birds of Feather (BoF) discussions, and hands-on workshops.

I am really happy to have attended the Rich Web and Daring Java conferences. The key notes were really impressive which fuelled the rest of the day sessions. Lastly we friends had some nicer fun moments at all the stalls along with the new learnings about the whos doing what...

The summit ended with the Great Indian Developer Awards and Java Teenage party held at impressive palace grounds, bangalore.

Big bang - scientific theory

To be done

What is 540thz.blogspot.com?

The visible spectrum (or sometimes called the optical spectrum) is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation in this range of wavelengths is called visible light or simply light. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths in air from about 380 to 750 nm.[1] The corresponding wavelengths in water and other media are reduced by a factor equal to the refractive index. In terms of frequency, this corresponds to a band in the vicinity of 400-790 terahertz. A light-adapted eye generally has its maximum sensitivity at around 555 nm (540 THz), in the green region of the optical spectrum.

"Light" is a vision to knowledge and eye has maximum sensitivity at 540THz! So is the URL...