Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Fashion Bala With Beautiful Hot Models








Sunday, January 27, 2008

If Aamir Khan Did Not Make Taare Zameen Par

With Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par appealing the masses, the actor has surely made an impressive directorial debut. The sensitivity with which he has handled the subject is worth appreciating. However, one of the forwards related to the film being sent around on emails talks about what TZP would be like if the film was made by some other Bollywood filmmakers.

If Karan Johar made Taare Zameen Par!
Obvious starcast: Shah Rukh Khan as the arts teacher (duh duh duh!!), Aryan Khan as the dyslexic child (even if he could not act for nuts), Rani Mukerjee as the kid’s mom (assuming Kajol is unavailable), Abhishek Bachchan as the kid’s dad, Amitabh Bachchan as the school principal (who cares if the role is ultra minute, he can afford it). It would be shot in New York to appeal to the NRI audience. The story line would obviously be different. SRK would fall for the dyslexic kid’s mom. The last scene would have the mom running to the teacher rather than the kid. And again, like in so many other movies, SRK would get someone else’s girl. It would have one dance number. The film would be titled ‘Kuch Taare Zameen Par

If Sanjay Leela Bhansali made Taare Zameen Par!
Obvious starcast: Salman Khan as the teacher, Rani as the mother, Of course the whole film would be shot on elaborate sets. The school would be nothing short of Harvard University. An orchestra would play every time anyone cried. Slow motion, different camera angles for every scene. The school uniforms would match the classroom walls even though that does not make a feeling difference. The film would cost INR 60 crores.

If Farah Khan made Taare Zameen Par!
Obvious starcast: SRK as the teacher (yawn), In the original TZP, Aamir makes an entry at the interval point. In Farah’s version, SRK would be on screen on for 2.30 hrs out of the 2.45 hrs and would be introduced in the first scene itself. The story would be changed to make sure the above happened. The focus of the film would be a teacher who helps the kid fight dyslexia. To make it a complete entertainer, there would be a romantic angle, comedy, and action thrown in. Oh idea!! Nikumbh’s character likes another teacher and the kiddo helps him… throw in some comedy moments there and you have romance and comedy settled. For action… hmm.. lemme see.. Oh yah, the kid gets kidnapped and the teacher fights the baddies to save him. Wow!! I’m quite an imaginative writer. I can see how Farah can write a film from scratch in two weeks straight. The film posters would have a big SRK with the tiny image of the kid in the background.

If Rakesh Roshan made Taare Zameen Par!
Obvious starcast: Hrithik Roshan as the teacher, Since Rakesh Roshan cannot think beyond science fiction these days, this film would have that too. Instead of dyslexia, the kid would have alienositis or something, a condition induced due to him witnessing an alien abduction. Instead of Nikumbh being an arts teacher, he would be a physics teacher, and instead of asking kids to be creative, he would ask them to challenge the science we know. In the scene where Nikumbh asks the kids to open their minds and make whatever they want outdoors, the kid Ishaan, instead of making a boat, would end up making a working spaceship prototype. Nikumbh would cure the kids problem by making a full fledged version of the kid’s prototype, traveling to the alien planet, and asking them to give the kid his powers back. The film would have music by Rajesh Roshan ripped off from some world music. The film’s name would again start with a K probably ‘Kuch Aliens Taaron Se Zameen Par’. The director would make sure Hrithik gets to show all his abilities. This would mean a scene with Roshan Jr flexing his muscles and a dance competition in the end, instead of an arts competition.

If Priyadarshan made Taare Zameen Par!
Obvious starcast: Akshay Kumar as the teacher, Paresh Rawal as the kid’s dad. It would be a brainless comedy. The kid’s dyslexia would be made fun of. Half the times the parents will be running after the kid from one room to the other and that, in the director’s opinion, would be funny. The film will be full of sex jokes. So for example, when Akshay would come to the parents telling them that their son has dyslexia, the ignorant father would say something inappropriate like ‘iss umar mein? par kaise, woh to hamesha boys school mein padha hai!’. And yes, the director would think it is funny. In the climax of the film, all the characters in the film would run around in the amphitheater for no reason, spilling colors on each other. That’s where the film will end, without any logical conclusion. And of course, Paresh Rawal would emote like an epileptic himself, making us question the boy’s mental abilities anyway.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Top 10 Fountains of the World...Great

Abu-Dhubai (Rank10)


Las (Rank9)


Moscow (Rank8)


Saint Petersburg (Rank7)


Saint Petersburg (Rank7)


Geneva (Rank5)


Barcelona (Rank4)


Tivoli (Rank3)


Tivoli (Rank2)

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Facebook Faces Privacy Questions

Reference: BBC.CO.UK
Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office.
The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully delete their profile even after terminating their account. Currently, personal information remains on Facebook's servers even after a user deactivates an account. Facebook has said it believes its policy is in "full compliance with UK data protection law". "We take the concerns of the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office] and our user's privacy very seriously and are committed to working with the ICO to maintain a trusted environment for all Facebook users and ensure compliance with UK law," said a statement from the site.

Protecting Principles:
At present, Facebook users who wish to remove their profile from the site are given the opportunity to deactivate their account. But once deactivated the information, though no longer accessible, remains on Facebook's computers. This is useful if you might reactivate your account later, but not the same as full deletion. Users who wish to completely delete their information must, according to the automated response from Facebook's Customer Service, “log in and delete all profile content".
For some users that can be a very laborious process and that concerns the ICO.
"One of the things that we're concerned about is that if the onus is entirely on the individual to delete their data," Dave Evans, Senior Data Protection Practice Manager at the ICO told BBC Radio 4's iPM programme. "An individual who has deactivated their account might not find themselves motivated enough to delete information that's about them maybe on their wall or other people's site." The over-riding data protection principle motivating the ICO is that organisations should only hold information as long as necessary. Facebook maintains it is in compliance with all data protection legislation and says it does not use information from deactivated accounts.

Network Problems:
Mr Evans said that he believed that Facebook were committed to being seen to do as much as possible to safeguard people's privacy. "We've agreed with Facebook to discuss with them issues around what they do with my information if I wish to deactivate my account".
In addition, he said that the ICO would look at Facebook's privacy policy, the rights to data the company asserts and the privacy implications of applications embedded in Facebook.
Although Facebook and many other social networks are based outside of the UK, Me Evans believes that UK law could still apply. "They are established in the UK for UK legislation to cover their activities." He said it was the clarity of information users receive on signing up with social networking sites that is the central concern of the ICO. "One of the things that we'll be working with the sites to achieve is to get better quality information to users to make it absolutely clear to people what exactly will happen to their information once it's posted."

Friday, January 18, 2008

Superb Dabboo Ratnani Calendar 2008

Dabboo Ratnani is a leading Indian model photographer mostly known for his annual calendar which has become a highly notable showbiz event in India since its first publication in 1999. And now it's that time of year again, when Dabboo Ratnani whips out his most stunning superstar pictures packaged in a special calendar! Dabboo Ratnani Calendar 2008 is out now...but with a difference. Unlike his previous calendar, this time it features only male stars instead of his usual male-female mashups. Dabboo Ratnani's 2007 Calendar had Water as theme, however, there is no theme this time.. just some great shots of masculine beauty!

January 2008 - Bobby Deol
February 2008 - Abhishek Bachchan March 2008 - Shiney Ahuja
April 2008 -Ajay Devgan
May 2008 - Vivek Obrai
June 2008 - Shahid Kapoor July 2008 - Sunjay Dutt August 2008 - Saif Ali Khan
September 2008 - Akshay Kumar
October 2008 - Amitabh Bachchan
November 2008 - Shah Rukh KhanDecember 2008 - Arjun Rampal

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Google Supplemental Index Re-Visited

Reference: Blogrepreneur.com
When Google announced to merge its indices in December 2007 a deep sigh of relieve filled cyberspace. And webmasters near and far, watched their web pages once again resurfacing from the crevices of hell, known also as the supplemental index. Introduced in 2003, the purpose of the supplemental index was to lighten the load on Google’s search engine by classifying web content. With supplemental tagging in place, much of the web was pushed into the supplemental index and matched only when a search phrase called for it. Further more, Page Rank scores, duplicate content, 404 errors among other factors, determined the fate of the crawled documents placing them accordingly. No more! After four years, indices merged, and now once again, Google calls upon its entire database to match queries with pertinent listings. Sounds good, yet after initially rejoicing, you may wonder how will the merging of the two indices affect your pages SERP (Search Engine Results Page) now that the competition has risen from the ashes, adding billions more pages? Perhaps Google doesn’t love us, after all. Probably so!

First and foremost, Google loves its’ users. Users comprise of businesses, students, shoppers, and families. They connect to the Internet via devices, and it is probably safe to say that 5.6k modems are becoming more of a novelty. Today, most users connect via high speed cable, satellite, and using mobile devices. They drive powerful machines (desktops, laptops) with plenty of RAM (Random Access Memory) and storage, measured in gigabytes. They interact with peers in real time and add their own content to the web with video, blogs, posts, music, and photos. They individually and collectively contribute to a moldable active web rather than staring at a static one.
Reason enough to challenge Google’s ever evolving new services, gadgets, and open source projects etc. Yes, even Google needs to expand and fine tune its services all the time. That’s why I am not surprised that Google terminating the superfluous index in favor to its entire database, enabling to collect and compare a world of information rather than just a sliver of it. Now let’s get to the question of how Google’s powerful new search capability affects web pages. I say, aside from eliminating the stigma of the supplemental index, not much has changed. Proportions have changed, that’s all - more pages more results. The good news is, RSS feeds don’t get indexed any longer, reducing duplicate content automatically for your websites or blogs. Yet as before, good pages will make it to the top of the Google index; others may end up on the SERP #365,000 or so. In summary, the problems that sunk pages into the supplemental index or hell, so to speak, still remain. Although, those low ranking pages are once again in the system, making it much easier for the webmaster to get them back on track to Google’s first page.

Oh well, wouldn’t you rather deal with the competition than trying to rescue pages out of a sand box never knowing all the little secrets on why they have gotten there in the first place? I would! What do you think?

For good Google SERPs do the following:
=> Keyword/keyword phrase research
=> Include keyword/phrase in title

Avoid duplicate content:
=> Publish original content
=> Redirect http://site.com – to http://www.site.com (* see WP plugIn)
=> Edit robots.txt file to pages you don’t want spidered and indexed (admin or about pages)