You are currently viewing the archives for June, 2007
Lately, I was thinking of taking a break from Delhi’s pre-monsoon humid weather, and head up-north to beat the heat a bit. Also to serve a quick retreat from work. So finally, I went to Dalhousie along with my family. Dalhousie is a less popular hill station for Delhiites, as compared to Shimla, Kulu, Manali etc., mainly due to its distance from the plains.
However, Dalhousie was surprisingly placid and scenic. Dalhousie was established in 1854 by the British Governor Lord Dalhousie. At an altitude of roughly 2000 meters, and clothed in stately groves of deodar & oak, Dalhousie has a unique blend of its colonial era and a veneer of Tibetan culture, making it a truely exotic destination.
» Read the rest of this entry «
There’s more customers per square mile across the entire USA than in Australia, by a factor of twenty or more. Extrapolate that, and it means (roughly) that every kilometer of copper or fibre laid down costs Oz customers twenty times as much. The reason Australia lacks unlimited Internet plans is an important aspect for metro/sub-urban customers atleast.
And while that might not change anytime soon, John Howard reckons that 99% of the Oz population will receive broadband by 2008. So are we talking about a PAYG style plan, Or maybe one that’s advertised as 128 Kbps broadband, delivering only about 15 Kbps downstream, and capped to 2 GB monthly?
In October 2006, Google launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. And In the last 24 hours, Google produced 9,900 kilowatt-hours of electricity from the sun, equivalent to 82,500 hours of flat screen TV watching. More …
How wonderful and exciting would be a world where we can look at a person who is not the same and see what we have in common instead of that which sets us apart.
