Narendra

Second Life

Search on e-bay you will find land auctions (you can buy a whole island out of just few dollars), not for a real land but a virtual one, where you can create your own world as you wish. You can create buildings, roads, market-places, parks, you can create merchandising goods, you can sell them in your stores, can display your art.

What is Second Life: We are talking about a Internet-based virtual world ‘Second Life’ – a 3-D space where people could do whatever they want through their online avatars. Its creator is a California based company “Linden Research” (instauration in 2003) and the In-world currency in use Linden dollars comes from the name of the firm (approximately 250 Linden Dollar – L$ – equals to the US Dollar). The official Second Life Linden Dollar exchange is called Lindex.

What People do on Second Life: The millions of people who have bought ‘Second Life’ accounts engage in a range of activities from simply living a “Second life” to architecture, designing, gaming, doing serious business, education, brand promotion, and what not. The platform is so open (you can buy your own island and build a city on it – a city of your dream which you can visualize here. Find second life land pricing here) every kind of person finds something to do, no wonder why thousands are people are always online (living In-world). The technologically apt can use basic computer programming to create their own items in-world, ranging from clothing and accessories to furniture and utensils to buildings and even islands.

Given the site’s popularity, it’s no surprise that there has been a surfeit of books about “Second Life” lately. Wagner James Au, releases a comprehensive history of Second Life’s early days in his book “The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World” (HarperCollins, $25.95).

Is it just a Game: So is this just for fun or is there any serious business in it. As the population is rising, business and society around the “World” have started taking “In-world” seriously, where it will be headed in future is still not surefooted. At least three countries have opened embassy In-world.

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What I will do now?

Huh? A cool three and a half month break between two posts and here again I am writing second time in a day.

1 Mar went very well with the thought that I am no longer carrying any responsibility of a big students’ website. But What I will do now:

1. Why I am asking this question, I am having heavens lots of things to do, my to do list is too big, sometimes my to do list have first entries …to read to do list (its so big). I am as busy as a sardarji going back home in back gear.
2. I would concentrate more on my professional, Bhai roti kapda aur makan to suna hoga? Main Kapda bechta hoon… I can do my all home work.
3. I can find more time for myself. I can..this…that, I feel like spider man giving up his responsibility and going to watch her girl’s play.
4. I would start writing again on my personal website here and would tweak the Google ad-Sence to get paid in dollar, if this dream happens true, I would be in my present company forever (as its a village environment, its quite peaceful, also my company take cares us very well) and would retire from here when I would become really old.
5. I would leave office on time (No more overtime)
6. I would give more time for a new project (Yet to unrevealed) though its related with AIMK alumni only.
7. will make more to do lists.Will do follow up and maintain status.

What I will not do?

I will not do anything in aimk.org unless and until asked, even if its very serious. Thats not my job now.

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Why a VRS?

Often when I think of the retirement in our midst I think of an elderly people. Though I am not that old, but its hard to guess my age (Meri twacha se too meri umar ka pata hi nahi chalta)

Today I announced to take retirement from aimk.org web team, the decision is not sudden but the announcement. I have been thinking about this for long time, and the reasons are not too complicated, so this post is just a check list that I do have SOME reason for this VRS.

• Firth think first, I need to concentrate more on my career, I do have certain professional obligation, and fulfilling them doesn’t give me enough time to think about aimk.org (keeping in mind I do have my personal blog to maintain).
• And as now Rajesh Rana have started earning dollars I feel like concentrating more on my personal sites (being true)
• I have been working with aimk.org from June 2006, it have been long time and I think I am not moving anywhere with it as of now (bored enough).
• The present team of MBA 11 students is quite promising. I have confident upon them. Their news ideas would take this initiatives to new heights (Don’t forget my dreams about the site guys).
• After all its a students’ website and current batches have all the rights over it, so here is all the responsibilities also. Make it or break it, its just yours own!

Some of my close and old associates in this project advised me not to hand over it completely to new people, but I feel doing so will give them freedom, and with it responsibility. And this is nothing to do with Budget, I am not shocked I am still safe from tax fever.

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Orthodox is best

Only when you are talking about Tea; Orthodox Tea is the best kind of tea leafs produced anywhere in the world. It is the top two three leafs of the tea plant. This needs to be plucked by hand only.

Orthodox tea is consumed by European Union markets – especially Germany, the Middle East and the CIS bloc. Another kind of tea is CTC teas – It stands for Crush, Tear, and Curl and is a method of processing tea.

The process follows that of orthodox tea manufacture, but instead of the leaves being rolled, they are passed through a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of small sharp “teeth” that Crush, Tear, and Curl.

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Programmable Metallization Cell

PMC – A new technology for had disk storage, it stands for Programmable Metallization Cell. It is likely to hit the markets in the next 18 months, if successful, this will probably replace hard drives, flash memory and RAM used in PCs.

The technology uses nanowires created from copper atoms to record binary data. It stores information by rearranging atoms to form stable and extremely small memory cells. Each cell can potentially store multiple bits of information.

The memory could also prove easy to make. Recently, the Arizona group published work demonstrating that nano-ionic memory can be made from materials conventionally used in computer memory chips and microprocessors. That could make it easier to integrate with existing technologies, and it would mean less retooling at factories, which would appeal to manufacturers.

Still, nano-ionic memory may not be far behind. A few companies have licensed nano-ionic-memory technology developed at the University of Arizona. These include Qimonda, based in Germany; Micron Technologies, based in Boise, ID; and a Bay Area stealth-mode startup. The startup is well on the way to producing its first memory devices, which Kozicki says could be available within 18 months. These first chips, however, won’t rival hard drives in memory density, he says.

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