http://www.svsportal.com/blog Vikram Sahai's Blog Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="245" caption="Source: www.powerballs.com"][/caption] I have just received my powerball from amazon.co.uk and i'm really excited about it. Well, it is just a device that helps you exercise the wrist in order to build hand and finger strength.  All you have to do is grab the powerball and start rotating your wrist clockwise or anti-clockwisely.  The faster you rotate your wrist the faster the ball spins(can reach up to 16000rpm) and the harder it gets for you.  So, if you want to build on more muscles, then faster spins is best for you, else maintaining the spins at a rhythm ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/powerball-gyroscopic-exercise-tool/ I still can't believe am in England.  Anyways, now that i'm here, let's blog about it. 17 Jan - 18 Jan The travel really tiring; a bit too much for me.  If there was something like a "Sonnet", i would surely have pressed it and got off the plane.  LOL.  Twelve "f***ing" hours in that plane was too much for me.  Apart from this, the food and service was fine on the Air Mauritius plane. At the Heathrow Airport, i was really pissed off because i didn't bring along my chest X-RAY report and i had to do the X-RAY on the spot ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/namasthe-london/ Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2009!!! Flashback 2008 has been so eventful. January - "First job at AVStel Ltee". February - AVStel Ltee moved to a new building at ST Georges Street. June - First evaluation and first salary increase. July - Elected President of Goodlands Evolution Sports Club. August - Sister ranked 1st in Computer Science (HSC) in Mauritius and in the world [50 countries]. September - Sister went to study Biomedical Engineering at City University, London. November - Seat for Master Degree Course at Metropolitan University confirmed. December - Registration of Goodlands Evolution Sports Club officially confirmed + VISA to UK confirmed. New Year ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/happy-new-year-2009/ Yesterday, I was browsing some of the websites that I usually visit once upon a time, and I found a very interesting article. Well, when you see "Google Earth" + "Tomb Raider" + "CHALLENGE" in an article's title it does attract considerable amount of attention. Right? What it's about? Atari has launched an online challenge in order to promote Lara Croft latest game, "Tomb Raider Underworld". The most fascinating part of the online challenge is that it uses Google Earth Plugin to play the game. How the game works? Everyday, a clue is made available of the website of the game. Something like this: "A ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/tomb-raider-challenge-google-earth/ At last, Mauritius Telecom realised that there was an error in my telephone bill. The funny thing is that MT has been making this error over and over for the past 9-10 months (ever since my subscription to ADSL 512). Anyway, this error is not something that i am angry about!!! But surely, I'm sad that they finally realised their error. How? Why? Let me explain. Initially, I have been using ADSL 128 for over a year and then switched to MyT 256 and again used it for over a year. Afterward, I started working and I thought that ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/adsl-512-saga-over/ At last, Phoning Manager V2 is finally ready for use. I have been on this .NET project for more than 4 month. What an experience that was!!! Learning VB.NET and developing at the same time was simply fantastic. Today, was the first "real" test of the application. A total of 3000 records was loaded into the database. Everything worked perfectly well, expect for the part where i had to explain (*in french*) to the girls how to use the application. After that came the worst part. Sitting for more than 2 hours by their side and monitoring their actions and taking ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/phoning-manager-beta-release/ Pheew... It has been a long time since i last blogged. Well, i was kind of busy with my work, projects, animes, manga and movies. Anyways, i am back to blogging again. Right now, i'm trying to re-design my website little by little. Err...I almost forgot. Please update all your bookmarks/links from http://www.blog.svsportal.info to http://www.svsportal.com/blog or http://www.svsportal.info to http://www.svsportal.com Enjoy http://www.svsportal.com/blog/svsportalcom-beta-release/ It has been one of the greatest finishes in the English Premiership. So much has happened during the season 07/08. Arsenal leading the race and then outpaced by Manchester United in the final lap. Chelsea, who many people thought to be out of the competition exerted tremendous pressure on United in the closing stages of the season. Liverpool, as expected, was not interested in the premiership challenge. Glory, luck, fame ultimately comes to the best!!!Ronaldo passed George Best's club record for goals scored in a season by a winger. Fate or not, Ryan Giggs leveled ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/manchester-united-championsagain/ I think all web developers will surely agree with me on this diagram... That's why...take this as an advice...STOP FUCKING USE INTERNET EXPLORER!!! And that IE 7, don't even think about it. http://www.svsportal.com/blog/modern-web-design/ The image is not so neat but at least you have an idea of my personal entertainment network at my place.So,What do you think is missing? A projector maybe...? or Better an HDTV!!!!Anyway, the interesting thing about this network is the 15m AV cable that i made myself. Apart from distributing Canal + signal from my room to the ground floor, it does another superb thing. Whenever i press play on windows media player or VLC player( on my PC of course), i can choose to have the image on my 29" TV on the ground ... http://www.svsportal.com/blog/my-personal-entertainment-network/