Archive for February, 2006

Tamil People, who we are!

Read this article on Wikipedia about Tamil People! Pretty interesting, tracing to the origins of Tamil and the journey through the ages! According to the free encyclopedia, there are an estimated 74 million Tamils around the world!!
Click here to go to the article.

Gway.. leaves no space for leeway…

Been quite busy all these days… Working for my College Computer Science Department’s function.. Gateway ‘06 Now I’m yet to complete the design for the website.. I get a sort of eerie feeling when I imagine the invitations hurtling down roads to thier destinations to be picked up early tomorrow afternoon… Have to complete the [...]

Adi Shamir points out holes in RFID tags

Shamir points out that “a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity”
He proved his point by using a directional antenna and digital oscilloscope to monitor power use by RFID tags while they were being read. Patterns in power use could be analyzed [...]

And the winner is…

The selected logo of Gateway’06!
And the poster!Click for larger previews!

Gateway 2006 Logo Design ‘Attempts’ :-)

Please follow the below link to view some of the designs.http://www.thiya.net/twinklers/2006/02/gateway-2006-logo-design-attempts.htm

A new payment system from Google!(?)

Paypal prepares for challenge from Google
At the rate at which Google is expanding, in a few years, there’ll be Google stuff offline too.. Like McDonalds or Starbucks! The Google Cafe perhaps!!

Wife / Marriage!

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the onlything in life!!–Anonymous
———————————————————————————————-Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should behappier than others.–Oscar Wilde
———————————————————————————————–Don’t marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.–Scottish Proverb
———————————————————————————————–I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.–Sam Kinison
———————————————————————————————–A psychiatrist is a [...]