Wii

I gifted myself [:-)] a Nintendo Wii for the Christmas and New Year!  It is awesome.   I was fascinated by the innovation they had in it.  Wii is for everyone in the family.  Simply put you do not play Wii, you experience it.   It ships with a few games like Tennis, Golf, Bowling, Boxing and Baseball.  It also comes with one pair of controllers(Nunchuck and a remote) that you use to play with.  I got another pair so 2 people can play the games.  It is compact compared to XBox or Playstation.  When I experienced it, I was not surprised why people go berserk about it.   Wii has revolutionised gaming.  You have to try it out yourself.

YouTube

I just came across *playlists* feature in YouTube.  I feel it is a cool feature.  It is very easy to create playlists on the fly as and when you watch a video you like most.

I think the first video I saw in YouTube was Russell Peter's comedy show(a few years ago).  Then there is this ad from AirTel which will be liked by almost all.  The ads are really impressive and I searched for all these ads in YouTube and made it a playlist.  The first AirTel ad was done by world famous Indian musician AR Rahman.  The ads are awesome.  Click here to enjoy some of the AirTel ads.

RAB (Roamed Around Bogota)

Just coined that title for fun!  Me and some of my colleagues roamed around Bogota.  We all shared the same feeling that this is the only city that we have seen so far is so well decorated for Christmas!!

That's right.  The city was beautiful.  Lights all around, parks, museums, shopping malls and roads were all beautifully decorated.  Wondering how much they would be spending on electricity. 

We visited most popular parks (park el virrey and another park in calle 93).  Shopping mall like Andino and also visited Monsarratte just to have a view of the city during night.

My view of Bogota can be seen here

Ciclovia Nocturna

Yet another thing that I observed in Bogota is that every Sunday morning at 7AM they close some of the roads for vehicles except for the Cyclists (of course for walkers and joggers).  I like it.  It is called "Ciclovia"

Similarly couple of days back here they had something called "Ciclovia Nocturna".  This is similar to Ciclovia but it starts in the evening and goes on the whole night (I think so). 

The only inconvenience I had was that on my way back from work I had to walk a lot as some of the main roads were closed.  But that was ok for a day.

I went out with my Canon and started shooting after 11PM.  The city was awake and unusually active.  I could see happy faces riding cycles and people were standing on the road and watching the cyclists.  Small shops cropped up on the platform selling corn, winter hats and what not. 

I wanted to try out some tricks like motion blur and the like using my Canon and I think I achieved it to an extent.  You can view the fotos of Ciclovia nocturna by clicking here.

Exponential Times

Did you know, we are all living in exponential times? 

There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.  To whom were these questions addressed B.G (Before Google).  Are we going to call the time span as B.G and A.G (After Google)?  Perhaps.  Don't be surprised to see a term coined, BG and AG, atleast among those nerds who always try to find an answer for something that bogs their mind.

More than 3,000 new books are published daily.

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10¹⁸) of unique new information will be generated this year.  This is estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years.

Third generation fiber optics has recently been tested by NEC and Alcatel.  This is capable of pushing 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.  This is nothing but 1,900 CDs, or 150 million simultaneous phone calls, every second.

 

47 million laptops were shipped worldwide last year.

What does this all mean?  Shift happens.

Note: This is a compilation from the world wide web.