Sunday, May 14, 2006

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Cracking the Da Vinci Code!!

I remember trying to crack this code last time and couldn't get head and tail out of it. Tonight i just wanted to crack the code; I had a feeling that even if I can’t, I will be very close.
But amazingly, I cracked it in less than 2 minutes. I looked at it for a minute, and like as if I understood everything, I started putting peaces together and that was it. I got it!!
The question that followed was weird and I couldn't understand which pic its referring to :p. Well the answer was right there on Google. "blade".

Barry Steroids Bonds??


San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds, who is under federal investigation over possible perjury over whether he used steroids, hit his 713th career home run on Sunday May 7th 2006, against the Philadelphia Phillies. Bringing him at par with Babe Ruth for second place in Major League Baseball's all-time homer list.
Bonds, 41, may now also set his sights on the all-time home run record of 755 held by Hank Aaron although many Phillies fans believe Bonds is not worthy of that honor.
A banner held up by some Phillies fans on Sunday said: "Ruth did it on hot dogs and beer, Aaron did it with class. How did you do it?" [extracts from http://tvnz.co.nz]
Personally i believe Barry Bond should go on trial, he should either come clean if he never did and should enjoy the respect and fame he deserves, or, like some of his critics wants his achievements to be ShiftDel from Baseball's books for ever. In either case i think, new generation, many of who wants to be like Barry, will have a lesson to learn.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Song i like the most - TIME

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
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Bhavishya Sharma: Thanks Dipthefal for ur commets,
I think that Pink Floyd under Syd Barret and Pink Floyd under Roger Waters have to be viewed as two very separarte entities playing to two different audiences. It was the late 60's when Barret had creative control, and there was a real Space-pyschadelia scene, which is reflected in a Saucerfull of Secrets. But, by the time Waters was in control of the band, times had changed and tastes had moved on, so it is little wonder the band's sound changes distinctly.

Cinco De Mayo !! - May 5th

Cinco De Mayo is a popular Maxican holiday and falls on 5th of May. On this day 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.













Pic Source : http://www.legrand.k12.ca.us/programs/cinco/

History [Source: Encyclopedia Encarta, Encyclopedia Britanica, Prescott's Mexico:1900, HistoryChannel.com, www.mexonline.com and other sources.]

The battle at Puebla in 1862 happened at a violent and chaotic time in Mexico's history. Mexico had finally gained independence from Spain in 1821 after a difficult and bloody struggle, and a number of internal political takeovers and wars, including the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Mexican Civil War of 1858, had ruined the national economy.

Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian

During this period of struggle Mexico had accumulated heavy debts to several nations, including Spain, England and France, who were demanding repayment. Similar debt to the U.S. was previously settled after the Mexican-American War. France was eager to add to its empire at that time, and used the debt issue to move forward with goals of establishing its own leadership in Mexico. Realizing France's intent of empire expansion, Spain and England withdrew their support. When Mexico finally stopped making any loan payments, France took action on it's own to install Napoleon's relative, Archduke Maximilian of Austria, as ruler of Mexico.Mexico Confronts The Invasion

Map showing Veracruz, site of the French invasion

France invaded at the gulf coast of Mexico along the state of Veracruz (see map) and began to march toward Mexico City, a distance today of less than 600 miles. Although American President Abraham Lincoln was sympathetic to Mexico's cause, and for which he is honored in Mexico, the U.S. was involved in its own Civil War at the time and was unable to provide any direct assistance.

Gen. Zaragoza

Marching on toward Mexico City, the French army encountered strong resistance at the Mexican forts of Loreto and Guadalupe. Lead by Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin, a small, poorly armed militia estimated at 4,500 men were able to stop and defeat a well outfitted French army of 6,500 soldiers, which stopped the invasion of the country. The victory was a glorious moment for Mexican patriots, which at the time helped to develop a needed sense of national unity, and is the cause for the historical date's celebration. Unfortunately, the victory was short lived. Upon hearing the bad news, Napoleon had found an excuse to send more troops overseas to try and invade Mexico again, even against the wishes of the French populace. 30,000 more troops and a full year later, the French were eventually able to depose the Mexican army, take over Mexico City and install Maximilian as the ruler of Mexico.Maximilian's rule of Mexico was also short lived, from 1864 to 1867. With the American Civil War now over, the U.S. began to provide more political and military assistance to Mexico to expel the French, after which Maximilian was executed by the Mexicans - today his bullet riddled shirt is on display in the museum at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. So despite the eventual French invasion of Mexico City, Cinco de Mayo honors the bravery and victory of General Zaragoza's small, outnumbered militia at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.