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Blackberrys to tame B'lore traffic

ChkOut the Video first : http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/41460/blackberrys-to-tame-blore-traffic.html
Bangalore: You've heard enough about the city's mad traffic snarls but the city is gearing up to make traffic control more sophisticated.
Now the Bangalore Traffic Police will be armed with hand-held Blackberrys to keep track of every traffic violation.
Another heated argument, another traffic violation – it's another day's work for sub-inspectors like Shantinath, who are waiting to put an end to long days of handing out challans.
But help is at hand. New sleek Blackberrys and wireless printers will be given away to 280 traffic sub-inspectors and inspectors on June 1.
Training is on to show how these machines can be used to track down repeated offenders and pin down violators.
“It’s very easy because its secure and we can trace past violators,” said Sub-Inspector Shantinath B P.
Fact is, the server that connects the machines will have a record of every offence. So once you key in a vehicle number, all the owner's past traffic sins come to light. And he would have to pay up then and there.
“We routinely send by post about 2,000 challans but only 25 per cent of the people pay up and its manually not possible to track all defaulters. The main idea is to start people believing that the law will catch up with them,” Additional Commissioner (Traffic) M N Reddi.
And in the coming months, there's going to be more gadgetry to tackle the city's unruly traffic, like intelligent transport systems, area traffic control, modern signal systems, surveillance camera and road signage.
It’s the first time in the country the traffic control will use hand-held computers.
So next time you want to rush that red signal because you're getting late, better watch out – your past will catch up with you as the blackberry won't even shut down its programme if you are repeated offender, until you pay up.

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well! I promised..long back to push some pictures... so finally i added one more ..

Creative .. isn't it..??

Creative .. isn't it..??, originally uploaded by Martin Selva.

Mumbai Meri Jaan

Mumbai Meri Jaan, originally uploaded by Martin Selva.

Tattoo -a brief history

, originally uploaded by divya babu.

the word tattoo is said to has two major derivations- from
the polynesian word ‘ta’ which means striking something
and the tahitian word ‘tatau’ which means ‘to mark something’.

the history of tattoo began over 5000 years ago and is as
diverse as the people who wear them.

tattoos are created by inserting colored materials beneath
the skins surface. the first tattoos probably were created
by accident. someone had a small wound, and rubbed it
with a hand that was dirty with soot and ashes from the fire.
once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark stayed
permanently.

despite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing,
and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves,
the practice has not left much of a historical record.

Days of Saankli

Read this lovely piece.. a few days back, reminded me of those school PT periods spent playing saankli and other games that I haven't played since :( Thought should share it with all of you..........

IF you know what I'm talking about when I use the word 'Saankli' then you're probably as old as I am. At least that's what I thought.
Until one day, about a week back, when my seven-year-old daughter took me to the dentist. She was babbling away in the backseat as is her genetic right. I wasn't paying too much attention because my daughter is not my wife and I am therefore under no constitutional obligation to hear (and remember) her every word.

Besides, I was going to the dentist. So my mind was on other trivial things. Like pain. Anyways somewhere mid-babble I picked up a once familiar, long forgotten word. Saankli.

Even through the waves of prospective pain the images came rushing back. Saankli. Also known as Chain Cook.

For the benefit of the unfamiliar and the terminally young allow me to explain: Once upon a time there was no TV. And children had to play games to entertain themselves. One such game was Saankli. The game started with one person being den. The den would try to catch the others. Every time the den caught someone that person would have to hold the den's hand and try and catch the next person who would then get added to the "chain" or "saankli". Get it?

Now admittedly this doesn't exactly sound like much competition to the XBox. But believe me it was fun. So much fun that we played it right up to the time we were teenagers. Though by then Saankli had a hidden agenda. Now the idea was you had to be den. Then you had to make absolutely sure that you first caught the cute girl who occupied your every waking (and sleeping) thought. So that you could hold her hand. Just that. Hold her hand.

How it made your heart ache (little boys are so silly, really) as you plotted and prayed that your plan would work. So Saankli, you can imagine, had a very special place in my time. Until of course we grew up and graduated to Dark Room (but that's another story and might not get told without an A certificate).

And so, as my daughter babbled on, my mind drifted into that happily anesthetic state of remembering. But too much remembering can be detrimental to mental well-being.Saankli… running around on warm sunny afternoons… nice… holding hands… so nice… pretty little girls in pretty little dresses… so, so nice… naughty little boys… suddenly I jerked to consciousness.

"Er… darling… who do you play Saankli with?" ("And have you ever heard of a game called Dark Room?" I almost blurted). "My friends, who else? Hanh, so as I was saying, if you get me a puppy dog…"

"Er, darling, I hate to interrupt you but what I meant is who, exactly who?"

There comes a certain time in life when fathers ask the Who question. And when they do that they mean name, address, telephone number, family morals, history of mental ill-health if any, drug usage if any (God forbid), number and nature of body piercings (Oh please, please God forbid) and other sundry critical details.

After all a father's worst nightmare is that his daughter will find a man. (And that man will be exactly like him).

"All my friends, daddy. Now listen, nah". I stopped the car. "Darling, this is important. Who, I mean, were there any…? Did you, like… were there any… Girls?"Daddys can be devious.

"Of course, daddy. Of course there were girls. Don't you know? We only play with girls. Boys are so so yuck! You know there's this boy in my class who digs his nose. And then he comes running after us to shake our hands. Yuck!"

Phew! I could relax. For a few more years at least. And dream about my dentist.

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Source : Salima (as a Forward)
URL : http://in.news.yahoo.com/070427/48/6f3hw.html

Back2Blogging : Martin Selva

Well!! It been really long i din't blogged... Anyways who cares if i dont..lol

I remember during my Hungama Days i use to blog each and everthng thing whch was happng in and arnd my Life.. be it Work or LIFE..

BUT ... after quitting hungama.. i really got tiedup with work which changed my habit of blogging frequently .. And After Joining Contests2win.. Ah! I just went off from my habit.. it was like FINGERS on YOUR LIPS.. LOL

I still recollect that moment whn my CTO Mr. Mahesh Khambadkone made a quick guess by saying "hey Martin.. i guess.. u must be writing a lot" for which i simply noded my head uttered "yeh! i love to" .... and a big silence...

Our meeting got over in couple of minutes.. But one Question poppedup inside my mind.. "Hey Dude..? I donn write much now.. do i..?" which followed with no reply :(

Still ... Even Today i use my keybrd a lot.. Ah! donn make a wrong guess.. its not blogging atall!! i use it to Script, Reply thz Official Mails..and during free time "Yes i use it for scrapping ..ORKUTingggg"

So Letz Quickly Blog some headlines (donn kill me if it runns into a para..lol)

June : Left Pictureal.com and joined Contests2win.com to work/be for/in Brand World ["Carlton
was..right.. lining-up brands under belt...is somethng that worth."]

July : Worked hard to get into c2w's work culture.. Ah! it was really hard to get into somethng which is Organized ...

Aug : Nothing Much happend... othr thn a much awaited game ..went Live on PEPSI..

Sep : we shifted to 2nd Floor Office after when mobile2win moved to a bigger Place. During Mid September after Exchaning some really FUNNY mails and some school ke Yadeeh.. met one of my school friend : Salima Poonawala.. this meet was not the so called meetup.. it was really really spl.. ok..let me tell u why.. 1. she made me trvl in Secd Class .. which i fear.. till date.. (always.. ) 2. She guided me to get into a Train whcih stopped in Bandra.. saying it was a slow local to Bandra.. AHHH!!!! Point One i hate to trvl by Mumbai locals.. Above it.. catching a next train was somthng impossible for me to do it.. So we both took a bus from bandra which finally dropped us at Malad.. [thank GOD .. my Mobile was not stolen.. nor my camera..whcih i usually carry with me..Daily]. From that day onwards.. we linkedup, we went to Murud on Bike.. we saw cpl of movies .. And yes.. how can i forgt.. SHE thz one..who belives that i'm a good Rider :) and an awesome Photographer.. Anyways.. its really great to have such a good friends..
Oct : Cant recollect.. :) anythng spl

Ah! let me move directly to April...

April : Went To Vipassana- Igatpuri.. (My 3rd 10 days Course) ..yes its the same place whr we have to meditate for 10 Full days and we shld refrain ourselfz for any communication : Writing:NO and Talking: NOT ATALL. Thanks to Dinesh (my Production head ) who approved my leave at one go..
Before i left for my meditation camp.. one of school friend asked me to organize a school Re-unioun..so after reaching mumbai i tried all my numbers ..sms'd ppl .. broadcasted some mails and FINALLY on 14th April ..we all (28 of em) meet at Sapna Restrarant [not a class one.. but some of my old memories whr attached to that place.. yeh!! pehla pya.. lai Jeevan mai bahar.. pehla pyar..!!.. ] Everthng went good.. We meet .. we shared some stories.. complimented a bit.. recollected some OLD school Mastees n some School Crushez n all... We exchanged our Email Idz and Our Phone numbers.. so that ...we all can be intch with eachother in some or othr way.. [Hey Thnks To ORKUT..!! cant for it..to thnk]
BUT BUT BUT.... the sadest thng happend whn it was not suppose to hppn.. :( Yes! my Camera conk'd down even before the meetup started.. So i missed the much awaited clicks.. yeh! i was planning to catch thz emotions : frm everyonez faces.. HAPPY and FULLY Charged !!!
Anyways.. POST the meetup.. we went out for a one day picnic.. Thanks to Tapasaya for managing everthng... I am still intouch with most of them n I'm Lovin it!!..the added ones are Nilesh, Tapasaya and Ritu..

MAY : Ah! MAY always sounds good to me.. may because i was born in MAY.. After 3 years i celebrated by birthday.. n this time i thght to hookup with school frnds rathr thn any other for a dinner..i rounded up on Sheesha.. coz of ROOF TOP.. (i simple love..).. but dude to some overloaded work and some dealines.. i failed to give a formal call to everybody..[i know its sad ..enf] I asked ppl to comedown at 9 but to the worst of my Luck.. i was thr in office till 8:45.. Ah!! i know how i reached thr @ 9:40 .. yucky! T-shirt .. soacked in sweat.. hmmmm Thumbs down as a birthday boy.. i cld have gone home and changed.. but on the other side.. make thm wait for some more time.. was wrong.. So jaisa hu ..waisa he thik.. Right??

Saw Metro Last wkend.. i liked it.. now donn ask me why..

Today is 26th May and m at home ..doin nothng... plans to shop somthng for monsoon.. coz riding a bike from Kandivli to Tardeo is a big challenge...

PS: I am sure .. thz must be tons of spelling mistakes ..coz i never took studies seriously ..so plz forgive me:)